Geocaching a high-tech game of hide-and-seek in Historic Districts

Geocaching a high-tech game of hide-and-seek in Historic Districts

Jacklyn Cogburn of 5 Points remembers her first “find” in the parking lot of the Golden Corral on Normandy Boulevard. She and her fiancé Beau had just started dating. He’s a serious geocacher with over 500 finds. “We went to breakfast and he said there’s one in the parking lot, and we went out and […]

Parishioners preserve ‘saintly’ windows at local Catholic church

Parishioners preserve ‘saintly’ windows at local Catholic church

The four Gospel writers – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – together with Saints Peter, Paul, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, and Gregory are depicted beautifully in a series of stained glass windows – donated in 1941 by the Lester W. Foley family – at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Riverside. After three-quarters of a century, the […]

Murray Hill resident, artist makes her mark on neighborhood

Murray Hill resident, artist makes her mark on neighborhood

Murals and mosaics seem to be taking over Murray Hill. Between efforts by the Murray Hill Preservation Association and RouxArt, 15 buildings in the 100-year-old community are host to one type of art or the other, inside or outdoors. About the time MHPA board member Jason Tetlak threw out the first call-for-artist for Mural No. […]

Florida Blue supports Y’s Safety Around Water program with grant

Florida Blue supports Y’s Safety Around Water program with grant

YMCA of Florida’s First Coast was one of four statewide YMCA associations to receive a grant which will support the critical need of swim safety and drown prevention. Jacksonville-based Florida Blue donated $310,000 to provide free swim lessons and mobile aquatics programs for more than 5,000 children and families through the Y’s Safety Around Water […]

Riverside-based nonprofit to move downtown

The North Florida Land Trust, currently headquartered in a 101-year-old house on Gilmore Street, was given approval by the Downtown Investment Authority to make the historic Brewster Hospital on West Monroe Street its new headquarters. The land conservation nonprofit has run out of space in its 1,224-square-foot converted house in Riverside and seeks to lease […]

JTA cancels Riverside/Avondale Night Trolley

A year ago, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority’s board of directors agreed to give the Riverside Avondale Weekend Night Trolley a six-month extension, beginning Sept. 1, 2016. Eleven months later, the JTA has finally pulled the plug on the service which ran on the first Friday and Saturday of the month from 6 p.m. to 2 […]

Million dollar Lakeside bridge replacement out for bid

Million dollar Lakeside bridge replacement out for bid

Nearly two years ago, The Resident reported the bridge over an Ortega River inlet behind the Roosevelt Square Mall would be replaced beginning in early 2016. The cost at that time was estimated to be $700,000, an appropriation approved by City Council in May 2015. During the design process, the Public Works Department discovered the […]

Spark District loses One Spark festival to Sports District

The fifth annual One Spark Innovation Festival will be held at a new venue and during a new season this year. Traditionally a Downtown Jacksonville event held in the spring in what was named the Spark District, this year the festival will be held Oct. 6-7 at the U.S. Assure Club West at EverBank Field. […]

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