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San Marco lions celebrate 21 years

There was music, adult beverages, free commemorative photos, and, of course, cake as San Marco residents celebrated the 21st anniversary of the installation of the Lions’ Fountain in Balis Park Oct. 13. The fabulous felines, who dress up for every occasion, donned blue and white

Road diet pain is worth the gain

After many years of hearing talk from the City of Jacksonville about its plans to make the busy road outside their high-rise condo and apartment buildings pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly, Southbank residents are finally seeing the Riverplace Boulevard Road Diet project come to fruition. “I have

Residents take legal aim against developer

Even though fences are supposed to make good neighbors, the new wooden barrier recently erected along the property line between San Jose Estates and adjacent homes in the Christiana Forest subdivision has not helped to quiet tensions between the developers and their abutting homeowners. On

Courthouse run goes big in Freed to Run 2.0

Jacksonville attorney Mike Freed’s passion for helping others is contagious. Last year, Freed launched Freed to Run, six marathons in six days from the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee to the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville. After years of doing pro bono work with the…

Two of area’s oldest civic organizations use decades-old golf tournament to benefit others

On the cusp of celebrating its centennial anniversary next year, the Meninak Club of Jacksonville engaged in an annual decades-old friendly rivalry with the Rotary Club of Jacksonville – a charity golf tournament that harkens back to 1965, with roots going back 12 years earlier.

Digging up history in Memorial Park

Nearly 94 years ago on Christmas Day, a Jacksonville Citizens Committee put a parchment scroll, onto which 1,220 names of Florida men and women who died serving in World War I had been beautifully inscribed in India ink, into a lead box. They soldered the