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 […]
Creating memories on the Bahamian waters
By Nathan & Ted Miller With summer here, and family vacations in full swing, I wanted to share a summer vacation our family recently took. Many months ago, we began planning this trip with my wife’s parents and brothers and all the nieces and nephews and cousins. It was to be 17 people total, but […]
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 […]
Mary Beth Ridderman
By Julie Kerns Garmendia Resident Community News Mary Beth Ridderman spends many hours each week as a volunteer at Hubbard House domestic violence shelter, works fulltime and will complete her second Master’s degree (in mental health counseling) at the University of North Florida in Spring 2014. Her first Master’s, also from UNF, was in sociology. […]
Neil Presser – Avondale Liquor & Wine Family Business
By Julie Kerns Garmendia Resident Community News Jacksonville and its beaches have always drawn Northerners eager to leave the cold behind for sunshine and better opportunities. That was exactly what motivated the first of Neil Presser’s relatives to relocate to Jacksonville during the Great Depression. “My late mother, Lillian Fink Presser, had two brothers, Ben […]
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 […]
Bicycling in Jacksonville not for faint of heart
Avid cyclists want safe, dedicated bike lanes By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News For a city that has one of the nation’s most eclectic neighborhoods with environmentally-friendly residents and those who can be considered minimalists when it comes to bicycling over driving, Jacksonville has a terrible reputation. In fact, it has been rated the […]
