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It’s full steam ahead for former San Marco Train Station By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News After four years of hard negotiating with the City of Jacksonville, the JEA and area residents and businesses over parking and other requirements, property developer Ed Ash is ready to move. On the San Marco Train Station project, […]

Allergy season worse than ever

OTC and homeopathic remedies may help By Caren Burmeister Resident Community News There’s a crust of yellow green powder on your windshield. The person behind you in the grocery line is sneezing and wiping bleary eyes. You’re on the phone and notice an unusual wheezing. It’s allergy season and all those moss covered oaks, stately […]

Riverside Baptist turns 100

Riverside Baptist turns 100

By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News From canvas to cathedral. Such is the course of the 100-year history of the Riverside Baptist Church. Five years after that initial tent meeting was held in 1908, the present site on the corner of Park and King Streets was acquired and a frame building erected. This August […]

Honoring family leads to annual philanthropy

Backyard BBQ Championships in 5th year By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News Humble beginnings and a lot of hard work describes both the Daniel Foundation and Cole Pepper’s Blackjack’s BBQ Sauce. Although those beginnings are separated by 120 years, the two organizations have now been intertwined for the past five years. Jacksonville residents know […]

Attendance down for third JAX2025 event

But downtown & neighborhoods a lively topic By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News Perhaps it was the balmy weeknight that resulted in less than 1,000 people who were there to develop the indicators for measuring the success of the vision in 12 years. Or maybe interest is waning in the months-long process of determining […]

Riverside Avenue water project flowing smoothly

By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News Despite the nearly non-existent turnout by area residents at the JEA’s Feb. 28 informational town meeting, construction began on Mar. 13 at Barrs Street and Riverside Avenue. Due to the low attendance, where project officials outnumbered residents two to one, the JEA sent out a second mailing the […]

Boyer speaks against another Mobility Fee moratorium

What does it mean for taxpayers? By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News For the hundred or so citizens who deigned to attend the Mar. 11 joint committee meeting of the City Council’s Rules, Finance and TEU committees, the two-and-a-half hour session on Mobility Fees didn’t get interesting until nearly the end. That’s when District […]

Patrons “mad” about Murray Hill Library invited to fundraiser

Fundraising and advocacy can be fun, as friends of the Murray Hill Library will find out at 8 p.m. on Apr. 7 at Blue Fish Restaurant in Avondale. A watch party of the Season 6 premiere of AMC’s popular Mad Men series will be hosted by Friends of the Murray Hill Library (FMHL) to raise […]