Good news, bad news for arts and arts education funding

For students and teachers of art, music and physical education teaching positions in Duval County Public Schools, the best back-to-school gift was news of a change in funding. The new superintendent, Dr. Diana Greene, advocated for a strategy which would balance the budget with a commitment to arts, music and physical education. The funding will […]

City budget debates begin

Late last month Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry presented to City Council his fourth budget since taking office in 2015. The budget proposed for fiscal year 2018-2019, which begins Oct. 1, is just over $1.2 billion, an increase over last fiscal year of almost $33 million, according to Curry. Curry is proposing to increase funds for […]

Restored century-old Harley-Davidson makes goodwill tour

Restored century-old Harley-Davidson makes goodwill tour

On June 30, 1564, French Huguenot Captain Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere founded Fort Caroline on the banks of the St. Johns River. He probably didn’t imagine that four and a half centuries later his direct descendent, Christophe de Goulaine, would tour the fort at Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. The visit was just one item […]

Eagle Scout installs fencing for HAB Community Garden

Eagle Scout installs fencing for HAB Community Garden

Thanks to the efforts of Mason Lane Hicks and his team, the fruits and vegetables growing in the community garden at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church are no longer at risk of being trampled during baseball season. Hicks, a rising freshman in the International Baccalaureate program at Samuel Wolfson School for Advanced Studies, was awarded his […]

Teen creates celebrity recipes cookbook to fight breast cancer

Teen creates celebrity recipes cookbook to fight breast cancer

To wonder if cooking is in the genes for Miss River City Outstanding Teen Brookie Brown is like asking “Does icing go on cake?” Along with the rest of her talents, Brown’s recently-published 136-page cookbook, “Recipes to Celebrate the Finish,” is a sweet topping for her many successes this year as she promotes and advocates […]

Then and now, preschool classmates reconnect with teachers

Then and now, preschool classmates reconnect with teachers

A few couldn’t make it, some couldn’t be located, but for the five young men and women who got together at the Klavon family’s Ortega Forest home July 8 it was a time to reconnect with each other and with their preschool teachers. In 2006, 11 students – seven boys and four girls – graduated […]

Stockton students rewarded for servant leadership with trip to Washington, D.C.

Stockton students rewarded for servant leadership with trip to Washington, D.C.

Two long days of travel bracketed four days touring 11 memorials and monuments, four museums, one cemetery, one cathedral, one famous house and one theme park. For 25 fifth-grade students at John Stockton Elementary School, the trip to Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg, Virginia, was reward for a job well done as members of the school […]

Way We Were: Lee Beger

Way We Were: Lee Beger

Lee Beger, Ph.D., is convinced she got her creative genes from her father. Directing is in her blood, history shows. When her mother, Pearl Lee Lowery from Georgia met her father, Arthur Stewart from Alabama, they had both recently moved to Jacksonville. Pearl worked for a linen company. Arthur had been moved to Jacksonville by […]

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