Neighborhood News

All the latest news from the neighborhoods in our coverage areas.

Historic tree gets TLC from its PCP

After 25 years of annual and biennial checkups, Early Piety could be considered the primary care physician for the 250-year-old live oak tree known as Treaty Oak. Over the years Piety and his company, Specialty Tree Surgeons, has removed deadwood, ensured that no infrastructural changes or improvements to the Jessie Ball duPont Park interfere with […]

SMPS spring meeting hosted at Aardwolf Brewery

Nine receive awards and recognitions Immediate past president Diane Martin opened the spring meeting of the San Marco Preservation Society with the comment, “Now I know what it takes to raise the attendance at these meetings!” Aardwolf Brewery was a packed house on May 20 for the annual beautification awards and election of officers. Historian […]

Study recommended for Metro Park event alternatives

Concert promoters not interested in other venues By Lara Patangan Resident Community News Ongoing discussions involving the future of mega concert events at Metropolitan Park appear to be on their own version of a summer road trip, with ideas traveling west from Cecil Commerce Center, to a potential new facility on the Northside, south to […]

Councilwoman Boyer keeping finger on pulse of San Marco

Looking forward to checking off completed projects By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News District 5 Councilwoman Lori Boyer is a very busy woman. As chair of the Land Use & Zoning Committee (LUZ), she’s keeping her eye on the development, building and remodeling that’s heating up again after five long years of stasis. In […]

Local companies help create prosthetic lab in Haiti

By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News Haiti continues to be a challenge, with hurricanes, mudslides and cholera, according to Dr. John Lovejoy, a retired orthopedic surgeon who lives in St. Nicholas. But due to the support (to the tune of more than $250,000) from local companies such as Atlantic Marine, Suddath Van Lines, Jack […]

Sweet reality show set in historic Springfield

Jacksonville, more specifically, historic Springfield, has a new celebrity in town. From Peter and Allison Behringer, the folks who brought you sea salt caramels and other delectable organic candies, comes a new reality show, Sweet Pete’s The Show. According to Behringer’s publicist Chris Sams, Sweet Pete’s The Show is visually stunning programming with a full […]

Agencies and businesses work together to save homeless pets

By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News Nancy Williams of The Haskell Group, who is also a volunteer with Friends of Jacksonville Animals, recently invited Riverside area businesses to a luncheon for the purpose of getting information out about Animal Care and Protective Services (ACPS) and what the area businesses can do to help in […]

Jessie Ball duPont Fund to repurpose the Haydon Burns Library

Downtown building to provide green home for nonprofit, philanthropic organizations By Nancy Lee Bethea Resident Community News The Haydon Burns Library, located at the corner of Downtown’s Ocean and Adams streets, housed books, periodicals, music and more for four decades. Now it holds collective memories of generations who grew up watching puppet shows or fingering […]