Chance to shoot old schoolhouse brings out volunteers
[su_slider source=”media: 38607,38606,38605,38604,38603″ link=”lightbox” width=”620″ height=”420″][su_slider source=”media: 36751,36754,36755,36753″ link=”lightbox” width=”620″ height=”420″] [/su_slider] Public School No. 4, also known as Annie Lytle Elementary School in Riverside, has long held an attraction for artists…graffiti artists, primarily, but local photographers were invited to the site to legally shoot photos inside and out…after first volunteering two hours of clean-up […]
Local man thrives as Special Olympic athlete, mentor to others
As the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, kick off this month, local athletes are returning from Special Olympics state competitions in Orlando, Florida. One Westside young man, Greg Myers, has been a Special Olympics athlete for the past eight years and plays point guard on the Duval County Special Olympics basketball team. […]
Neighborhood café celebrates major milestone, family business
In May 1998, Tony Jarvis opened the Cool Moose Café with the goal to deliver friendly service, excellent food and coffee to the Riverside neighborhood, and to share his love for the Red Sox and iconic moose (the namesake) throughout the café by way of décor and collectibles. Two decades later, the family-run business has […]
Conservation nonprofit gains land, wins federal funds
After ending 2017 with donations of hundreds of acres, the North Florida Land Trust ushered in the new year with the announcement it had been chosen for $3.56 million in federal funding. Following year-end acquisitions of nearly 1,000 acres from generous donors, the Land Trust was chosen to receive the Regional Conservation Partnership Program award […]
Two bills under consideration affect parking, sidewalks
Two proposed ordinances currently before City Council’s Transportation, Energy and Utilities Committee would affect parking spaces for bikes, motorcycles and cars, and the size of sidewalks. Under Ordinance 2017-806, on-street parking spaces for motorcycles would be required to be 7-feet long and 4-feet wide (the current rule is 5 x 10 feet). On-street parallel parking […]
Patrons robbed at gunpoint at Avondale restaurant
An armed robbery took place again at The Brick, a restaurant in The Shoppes of Avondale. The first robbery, Oct. 17, 2017, targeted two employees who were leaving the restaurant after it closed. A little more than three months later, after exiting the restaurant Jan. 24, patrons were accosted by a gun-toting purse snatcher. While […]
Avondale resident pushes back against Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission
It’s tough to make changes to buildings in a historic neighborhood, as Avondale resident Virginia Harris well knows. In November 2017, Harris was turned down by the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission (JHPC) when she submitted an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) to build a two-story addition onto her 1909 one-story home on the […]
For the love of children
There’s no doubt Tanya and Andy Hardaker love children. Their hearts are big enough, in fact, to open them to double the size of their biological family (one son and two daughters) with another son and two more daughters – a sibling set of three. If six youngsters were not enough to love, the Fishweir […]
Initial project snafu teaches Eagle Scout big lesson
Although an unexpected hitch derailed his first final project, San Marco’s Parker Joyce was able to begin again, learning valuable business lessons on his way to becoming an Eagle Scout. Prior to his 18th birthday, Joyce, a senior at the Episcopal School of Jacksonville, earned the Boy Scouts’ coveted Eagle Scout rank and admission into […]
