San Marco by Design: Residents complete neighborhood planning vision
By Susanna P. Barton San Marco by Design, an intensive one-year focus group study and visioning strategy for San Marco’s commercial and residential core, is now complete and ready the action phase. Organizers hope the packaged study will help better define community planning parameters, design and potential projects as the neighborhood looks toward its […]
Gators to meet Hoyas in Navy-Marine Corps Classic
This year’s Navy-Marine Corps Classic men’s college basketball game will feature the University of Florida and Georgetown University on Friday, Nov. 9 at Naval Station Mayport. Navy Region Southeast Commander Rear Admiral Jack Scorby (left), Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Jacksonville Jaguars President Mark Lamping were on hand for the […]
The Way We Were: Joyce Thomas Jones — Part I
By Laura Jane Pittman Once upon a time, there was an area of Jacksonville called Southside. Now, dear reader, this is not the same Southside we think of today. It was located in the area of South Main Street and what was then Miami Road — in the vicinity of today’s bb’s and Reddi […]
The Way We Were: Malcolm and Kathryn Fortson
By Victoria Register-Freeman Malcolm Fortson took the Biblical command “Love thy neighbor,” literally. Growing up next door to Kathryn Register, he would often see her playing records on the family porch. Her sister, Beverly — known to everyone as Wookie — would occasionally repeat the well-known Biblical phrase. As Kathryn recalls, “He was a year […]
Go-Giver: Melissa Bartley
By Julie Kerns Garmendia Volunteers commit to charities for a variety of reasons. In Melissa Bartley’s case, it was her grandfather. Henry Solomon’s rapid diagnosis and death from brain cancer led Bartley to the Northeast Florida American Cancer Society. After a difficult experience with hospice and Bartley’s personal feelings of loss and grief, she […]
Go-Giver: Lanelle Phillmon
By Julie Kerns Garmendia American Cancer Society volunteer Lanelle Phillmon credits the U.S. Navy’s volunteer service program — and her mother’s example — for setting her on a course of helping nonprofit organizations. Chief Phillmon, who just completed a 27-year naval career, retired to the San Jose area in November 2010 and jumped right […]