Residents question progress on over-budget, incomplete project
Residents living near Willow Branch Creek would like to wrap up a nearly three-year-long bridge project before further damage is done. The rainy spring and summer which plagued most of the Riverside Avenue/Willow Branch Creek bridge project during 2013 promises to be a matter of déjà vu this year and fears of flooding are […]
Blood Centers Announce Merger
Two of Florida’s independent, not-for-profit blood centers, OneBlood, Inc., and The Blood Alliance, Inc., will merge effective July 31st. The newly formed organization will distribute more than one million blood products annually, serve over 210 hospitals throughout most of Florida, parts of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina and employ more than 2,400 people. “The landscape […]
Armed Robbery Suspect Sought
On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 7:17 p.m. an armed robbery occurred at JAX Convenience Food Store located at 3467 Lake Shore Boulevard. The suspect entered the store and asked the clerk for a watermelon flavored Arizona beverage. The clerk assisted him, handed him the drink and returned behind the counter. The suspect then displayed […]
Choreographer, dance educator takes final bow
The marquee at the Florida Theatre was ablaze with the message “Thank you Miss Beth” for Beth Marks, artistic director of Ballet Arts Centre in St. Nicholas, who took her final bow on June 13. Following Marks’ spring concert “Fantasia,” alumnae and current dancers joined her onstage for an encore, performing her jazz warm-up routine. […]
Reflections project overlays time and place
Fans of internationally acclaimed sculpture artist David Engdahl are in for a surprise when they visit The Cummer Museum of Art & Garden’s Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River exhibit. Engdahl, who has worked with wood laminates for nearly 45 years, was assigned to interpret Herman Herzog’s Figure in a River Landscape, […]
60-year-old Baptist hospital building to get $5.6 million facelift
In order to better reflect its cutting-edge facilities, Baptist Medical Center is giving a $5.6 million facelift to the outer façade of its main building at 800 Prudential Drive. The project involves removing the brick on the outside of the five-story structure, which was originally opened in 1955. The façade will be repaired and the […]
Neighbors rally around river access, form nonprofit
Eyesore, crime being addressed The threat of losing a century of easy access to the St. Johns River was all it took to galvanize the residents near Richmond Street and Little Van Wert. Within a month, a nonprofit organization, Friends of Van Wert Park (FVWP), was formalized and already more than two dozen members had […]
Ski club more than just a turn on the water
Enduring friendships a lasting treasure It started, perhaps, because one woman loved to waterski and couldn’t get a regular commitment for a “puller.” On the suggestion of her husband Johnny, Peggy Sue Williams asked fellow “ballet mom” Margie Fox if she was up for a weekly ski run on McGirts Creek. “Our daughters were in […]
