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San Marco children enjoy new playground in Landon Park

Dozens of neighborhood children flocked to San Marco’s Landon Park Nov. 16 to enjoy the new state-of-the-art Kompan equipment recently installed by the City of Jacksonville. “It’s been fantastic to have this here, and I like that it only took them two weeks to put…

Riverkeeper urges community to make sea-level rise a priority

Unless City elected officials move quickly to take precautions against sea-level rise and do comprehensive mitigation to counter the Jaxport dredging project, flooding of the kind experienced in downtown Jacksonville and its historic districts during Hurricane Irma – or worse – is likely to happen

Baptist Health friends and family gather for time capsule opening

On Nov. 5, 2018, when top brass at Baptist Health and Wolfson Children’s Hospital opened a time capsule that had been buried during the dedication of the pediatric hospital’s patient care tower a quarter of a century ago, it was as much as celebration of

Murray Hill Library to celebrate 50 years of community service

On the heels of celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jacksonville’s city-county government consolidation Oct. 1, 1968, the Murray Hill Library will celebrate its own 50th anniversary Dec. 15. The Murray Hill Library was the last branch library approved to be built in Jacksonville before consolidation.

Murray Hill Heights neighborhood finally gets new playground

Sarah, Sean and Sawyer Collins live just a couple of blocks from Four Corners Park in Murray Hill. On Nov. 3, they took a stroll up to the Murray Hill Library to participate in early voting, then wandered down to the park to spend time

Groundwork Jacksonville receives grant for McCoys Creek restoration

Groundwork Jacksonville and the City of Jacksonville are working on a plan to restore McCoys Creek to a natural resource. To share those plans with communities along the creek, Groundwork Jax hosted the McCoys Creek Fest Nov. 10. Shortly after the creekside festival, Groundwork Jacksonville