Progress in San Marco Square, a community readies for completion
A photo of the San Marco Square reveals the progress of not only commemorative bricks being laid, but the planting of six new oak trees, several crape myrtles and new palms in the corridor. The afternoon of installations brought out Al Thigpen of Al Thigpen Landscaping, one of many contractors responsible for the recent progress. […]
McCoys Creek clean-up crew collects tons of trash
Sarah Nan has spent countless hours helping to clean up Jacksonville’s polluted waterways, but even someone with her experience has a difficult time comprehending what people have done to McCoys Creek. “People don’t understand how damaging trash can be to the ecosystem,” said Nan, a Riverside resident and member of the Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Commission. […]
Otto – an orphaned otter’s odyssey
Resident News reporter uncovers the end of the journey “Chirp. Chirp. CHIRP!” It was March 2011 when Nick Sharrow of Jacksonville’s Sharrow Tree Service traced the disturbing high-pitched, penetrating distress call to an abandoned river otter pup in a client’s Riverside yard. “It was hard to ignore,” he said. The otter was so young its […]
News Update: Detours galore through Avondale and Riverside
Navigating St. Johns and Riverside avenues is a lesson in patience these days. Residents find that project detours for the Willowbranch and Riverside roadwork are colliding with detours for the JEA’s water main improvement project at Cherry Street. Drivers must also proceed with caution over the narrow temporary “bridges” over streets, such as Bayard, while […]
