Library friends landscape for 50th anniversary in 2018
The Friends of the Murray Hill Library are helping the Edgewood Avenue-based branch put its best face forward by beautifying the façade with landscaping. Led by gardening expert Hella Shull, much care went into the selection of the plants, which include Texas sage, variegated flax lilies, Aztec grass, gold and orange lantana, and foxtail and […]
Stockton Street ramp closure forces alternative routes
Westside residents who routinely use the Stockton Street exit from I-95 southbound will need to learn which of two detours will work best for the next year. The project which the Florida Department of Transportation is calling “Your10and95 operational improvements project” implemented a long-term closure of the ramp from Interstate 95 southbound to Stockton Street […]
God had other plans for actor wannabe
The Very Reverend Katherine B. Moorehead, 47, serves as the 10th Dean of St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral. She is the first female dean in the Diocese of Florida and the only female dean in Province IV, the Province of Sewanee, one of nine ecclesiastical provinces of the Episcopal Church in the U.S., but don’t let […]
San Marco area students win Hispanic Heritage awards
Two students from the San Marco area were the winners in the Duval County Public Schools Hispanic Heritage Essay contest. San Marco’s Andrew Lopez, a sophomore at Stanton College Preparatory School, won the high school competition, while Carlos Hernandez of Dupont Middle School was the middle school winner. A recognition ceremony was held Nov. 3 […]
New basketball club positive addition to neighborhood
Champions Basketball Club’s newest location at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in San Marco is a very positive addition to the community, according to parents whose children are enrolled in the club. Led by Coach Phillip Hobbs, founder of Champions Basketball Club and head boys basketball coach for St. Johns Country Day School, the club focuses […]
Local residents feature in LaVilla fall musical
The masterminds behind the LaVilla School of the Arts fall musical, “Shrek Jr.,” reads as a Who’s Who from the historic districts. Guests at the show’s two November performances may have recognized familiar names, including Riverside resident Amber Amerson, the head of the school’s theatre department and musical director; Assistant Director Chelsea Virta-Steel of Avondale, […]
The Way We Were: Bryan Hickox
When he was in seventh grade in Manhasset, Long Island, his teacher patiently informed Bryan Hickox that there were only a few avenues for inexhaustible blowhards. Choosing one of those avenues, Hickox became a national debater and, later, after graduating from Occidental College, he ran radio and television stations in California and Arizona. In the […]
The Way We Were: Philip Stockton May
In the late afternoon of January 1944, 19-year-old Philip Stockton May was close to the Rhine River in Germany as part of the 87th Infantry Division of the US Army. He described what happened next. “Our commander decided that we were too close to the road and could be too easily spotted by the Germans. […]
North San Marco Businesses bounce back after Irma
Like most of the business owners on San Marco Boulevard, Beth Handline, owner of Dance Trance, had a thriving enterprise on that road until Hurricane Irma came calling. The savagery of the hurricane’s winds and the St. Johns River’s resulting storm surge took the city by surprise, especially when it pushed an epic amount of […]
