Murray and Janet Husney
Family and the Jewish faith are important to Murray and Janet Husney of San Jose. This is evident from colorful framed art and needlework depicting Jewish blessings and the Hand of God, which line the dining room walls of their San Jose home. Elaborately framed heirloom portraits of the couple’s beautifully coiffed and gowned parents […]
Doug Hutchins
As a young Lakeshore teen, Doug Hutchins never dreamed that riding a bus every day with Jacksonville Mayor John T. Alsop was the beginning of what would be lifelong ties to city government. Hutchins, 89, may be the only person still living to have had unique professional and personal relationships with Florida governor Cecil Farris […]
Baptist Health rolls out renderings of new cancer center
Nearly a year after announcing a partnership with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baptist Health officials have rolled out renderings for a towering new cancer center to be built in North San Marco, which they say will offer patients the best state-of-the-art cancer care in the country. In a public meeting sponsored […]
Cummer board votes to demolish Woman’s Club of Jacksonville building
Despite every effort to save an historic Riverside building, the board of trustees of the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens made the difficult decision in March to halt renovation of the old Woman’s Club of Jacksonville building and have it tagged for demolition. Although the exterior is brick, the wood trusses and walls were […]
City applies Band-Aid to holes in Riverfront Park
No longer do visitors or fishermen have to worry about being swallowed up by a deep crevice as they stroll along the bulkhead in Riverfront Park. The Jacksonville Public Works Department put a Band-Aid on the problem of its crumbling bulkhead when it used heavy equipment in late March to fill several holes along the […]
Muralist hired to beautify Inwood Terrace bulkhead
In an effort to combat graffiti and make the bulkhead near the St. Johns River at the end of their street beautiful, residents of Inwood Terrace have engaged an artist to paint several murals on the city right-of-way. Nicole Holderbaum, an accomplished muralist who has painted other wall scenes throughout the city, has been selected […]
St. Vincent’s 100th anniversary
Nearly 400 years have passed since an aristocratic widow and a priest joined forces for good in France, but their original mission lives on worldwide. Now celebrating its 100th anniversary in Jacksonville, St. Vincent’s HealthCare would not be where it is today had it not been for the care and fortitude of the Daughters of […]
City Council approves new Boone Park playground
Jacksonville City Council approved the appropriation of $255,000 from three sources for contribution towards the installation of a new playscape in Boone Park South (located at the corner of St. Johns and Van Wert Avenues). District 14 Councilman Jim Love allocated $90,000 from District 14 Bond Funds, $75,000 will come from the Countywide Parks – […]
Mother Nature plays dominoes with trees in Old Ortega
A ferocious thunderstorm with a three-minute microburst knocked out power lines, snapped giant oaks and scattered limbs, branches and Spanish moss in Old Ortega at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 22. Skipping down a four-block-wide path during the lightening, thunder and blinding rain, the powerful gust felled trees and utility poles like dominoes in Cortez, Columbus […]
