City seeks input about new website

City seeks input about new website

  The City of Jacksonville wants your comments about its new website design and the site’s overall functionality. Launched in late February, www.beta.coj.net has a fresh design, streamlined navigation and a variety of new features that make it more user friendly for computers, tablets and mobile devices. “I invite visitors to explore the beta site […]

Bakery dispute leaves Rykalskys exhausted

Bakery dispute leaves Rykalskys exhausted

By Greg Walsh Resident Community News A months-long legal battle over ownership of the Edgewood Bakery is taking its toll on the current operators Tom and Carol Rykalsky, their attorney says. “They are exhausted,” attorney Jack Webb said following a Feb. 20 hearing at the Duval County Courthouse. “They are trying to keep the business […]

Garden Club hosts “Who dun it?” mystery dinner

Garden Club hosts “Who dun it?” mystery dinner

The stormy evening just added to the mystery taking place at the Garden Club of Jacksonville on Jan. 23. Till Death Do Us Part was the theme of the Garden Club’s mystery night fundraiser where nearly 150 guests had the time of their life at a wedding reception until one was – gasp! – murdered! […]

‘Disaster’ takes students on musical adventure

‘Disaster’ takes students on musical adventure

Riverside Presbyterian Day School has implemented many new programs involving integrative curricular studies emphasizing design and creativity. One such project was the 4th Grade Musical Adventure. To introduce the project, a group of teachers created a short video depicting the music room destroyed by a natural event and the teacher appealing for help in creating […]

Talented teens get extra credit for Resident challenge

Talented teens get extra credit for Resident challenge

As you page through this issue, by now you’ve probably perceived our theme: the people, places and things we love. We wanted to see how our Junior Residents would artistically depict “love” and sent out the challenge to high school art students. Here are 10 unique views of the things that speak love to students […]

For the love of Annie

For the love of Annie

Enormous persistence for enormous task For the love of historical preservation, a small but dedicated group of people from all over Jacksonville meet nearly every Saturday, rain or shine, to haul trash from an abandoned school in Riverside. Using limited tools and gloved hands, the Annie Lytle Preservation Group (ALPG) are painstakingly removing decades of […]

Hearing set for proposed Yesterday’s replacement

Avondale residents will get their chance early in February to sound off about proposed plans to replace local favorite Yesterday’s Bar with an upscale eatery. The Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a Feb. 5 hearing on the proposal from JPM Avondale Inc. to demolish the long-standing bar that closed last year at Park and […]

Hearing for Yesterday’s Demolition Delayed

Hearing for Yesterday’s Demolition Delayed

Contrary to what was published, the Duval County Planning Commission will not hear a proposal at its Feb. 5 meeting for a new restaurant in the former Yesterday’s Bar in Avondale. In our February issue we quoted Riverside architect Jeff Lane as saying the plans for South Kitchen and Spirits at Park and Dancy streets would […]

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