Military’s ‘lost’ honored with new chapel, plans for memorial museum
The Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial will begin taking shape in the coming months with the restoration and dedication of the chapel, a static display of aircraft and a museum. That’s just Phase 1 of the project that Executive Director Mike Cassata hopes will become the national memorial and museum that will tell the story of […]
San Marco residents still grappling with hurricane aftermath
In the first 22 days of the recovery effort after Hurricane Irma, the City of Jacksonville collected 900 cubic yards of tree debris. That is more than all of what was collected after Hurricane Matthew came through in October 2016, said District 5 Councilwoman Lori Boyer. And the collection efforts continue. The city is still […]
Library Foundation to celebrate state award
Contrary to “digital” belief, libraries are not dead. Nor are their supporters. Long before the Jacksonville Public Library Foundation was founded in 1986, the nonprofit Friends of the Jacksonville Library was established in June 1955. And even before that, in 1902 Andrew Carnegie granted the City of Jacksonville $55,000 to build a library at 101 […]
Memorial park statue honored by WWI Centennial Commission
The bronze sculpture, “Spiritualized Life,” located in Memorial Park has been officially designated as a “World War I Centennial Memorial” by The United States World War One Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library through 100 Cites/100 Memorials program, according to the Memorial Park Association. “Spiritualized Life is arguably the most iconic structure […]
Groundbreaking celebrated at Hope Lodge, Mayo Clinic Campus
With the ceremonial lift of the shovel, the American Cancer Society broke ground Oct. 23 for the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Hope Lodge, a $19.6 million facility which will offer free lodging for patients seeking cancer treatment in the Jacksonville medical community. The groundbreaking ceremony took place at the construction site, located at Mayo […]
Brooklyn Road Diet recommendations include roundabout
Consultants working on a plan to make Riverside Avenue through the Brooklyn area more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly gave their final recommendations to the Downtown Investment Authority Board of Directors Sept. 21. With the goal of reducing accidents, increasing walking and bicycling, and enhancing economic development in that neighborhood, the consultants tweaked their initial recommendations after […]
