Mayo, St. Vincent’s cancer collaboration not the first
New plan brings Mayo Clinic programs to Riverside When Mayo Clinic and St. Vincent’s HealthCare announced early in October a collaboration to bring Mayo Clinic’s nationally ranked cancer services to patients in a newly built medical suite on the campus of St. Vincent’s Riverside, it was not the first time the two health care giants […]
Arts center celebrates 10 years serving community’s children
Residents with long memories will recall A Little Walk Through the Woods, a locally written and produced play with a new twist on an old theme. Ten years ago, Little Red Riding Hood took a brave journey to raise funds for a new community program. The play, written by Jeff Hess and starring his wife […]
Hogans Creek, Confederate Park cleanup a daunting task
Groundwork Jacksonville engages youth for revitalization Although Confederate Park was the first Jacksonville city park to include a playground, it’s not a place where children can enjoy the outdoors today. Situated along Hogans Creek, the park desperately needs tender loving care. When garbage was used to fill in Hogans Creek’s marsh areas in preparation for […]
TPO plan offers solutions for safer roads
Consultants rode every route for study Members of the city’s Bicycle-Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) had only one day to provide consultants hired by the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) with feedback after hearing the results of a study of inexpensive solutions to make Jacksonville a safer city for walkers and cyclists. The meeting was […]
Merchants, JSO discuss safety measures in Park and King corridor
Three weeks after the murder of Daniel Rowe, a busboy at the Blind Rabbit restaurant on King Street, area merchants had the chance to sit down with eight members of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and discuss crime in the Park and King retail corridor, as well as the measures being taken by the JSO to […]
Chicken ordinance may have been passed in haste
Avondale man in three-year battle over loose chickens Three months after the Jacksonville City Council passed an ordinance expanding a backyard hen pilot program, the City now finds itself moving quickly to establish a protocol for dealing with residents’ complaints about nuisance chickens and roosters. In July, The Resident reported on the Jacksonville City Council’s […]
Artwork mysteriously appears on Orsay’s building
When an old painted advertisement was revealed earlier this summer on the side of Restaurant Orsay, it generated a bit of local excitement. Now, some neighborhood residents are not amused at the recent addition. Early in August after the debris was cleared from the demolition site of the former Yesterday’s restaurant and bar, a mysterious […]
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. […]
