Posted on July 5, 2019
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Neighborhood News, Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill
Bolles alumnus currently based in Corpus Christi Six years ago, a young Ortega man committed to the United States Naval Academy during the Bolles School’s annual college athletic commitment ceremony. A member of the Bolles boys’ crew team, Michael Pentaleri said he would also row for the men’s crew at the USNA. Now the […]
Posted on July 5, 2019
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Junior Residents, Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill
Lee students to present in Brazil When 20 male freshmen began a leadership class at Robert E. Lee High School in 2015, one of Amy Donofrio’s first lessons to the class was on Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” The class embraced the lesson and thus began EVAC, which is “cave” spelled backwards, to signify their […]
Posted on July 5, 2019
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Junior Residents, San Jose, San Marco, St. Nicholas
A tortoise, a bearded dragon and an American Miniature Horse were just a few of the pets that took part in Mike and Sharon Leonard’s annual neighborhood pet show May 18. More than 100 friends and neighbors gathered in the front yard of the Leonards’ Colonial Manor home to show off their pets in what […]
Posted on July 3, 2019
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Articles, Neighborhood News, San Jose, San Marco, St. Nicholas, Top Stories
If you live in San Marco, it is now possible to make your way anywhere from River Oaks Road to the Southbank without taking your car out of your garage. Beach Buggies–San Marco, an offshoot of Beachside Buggies, the transportation company that provides free rides throughout the Jacksonville beaches, has arrived. The service officially started […]
Posted on July 3, 2019
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Articles, Neighborhood News, San Jose, San Marco, St. Nicholas, Top Stories
A painter with international fame has used the exterior wall of Grape and Grain as his canvas to bring life and color to San Marco Square. Remi Rough, a street and gallery artist from South London, was commissioned by Grape and Grain owner Jonathan Davis and Art Republic Co-Founders Jessica Santiago and George Georgallis, to […]
Posted on July 2, 2019
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Articles, Neighborhood News, San Jose, San Marco, St. Nicholas, Top Stories
San Marco Crossing, Chance Partners’ newest Jacksonville development, will begin construction on its two-building, 486-unit housing community in July. The approximately $86 million project is being developed jointly by EJF Capital LLC and Chance Partners on nearly nine acres of land that was formerly home to Southside Assemblies of God church in San Marco. The […]
Posted on July 2, 2019
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Articles, Neighborhood News, Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill, Top Stories
Just 13 months after St. Vincent’s HealthCare broke ground on the site for what will become the Delores Barr Weaver Heart and Vascular Pavilion, a topping out ceremony was held June 17 in front of the construction site on St. Vincent’s Riverside campus. Attending the event were many donors, including Delores Barr Weaver, who provided […]
Posted on July 2, 2019
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Articles, Brooklyn, Downtown, Springfield, Neighborhood News, San Jose, San Marco, St. Nicholas, Top Stories
Twelve buildings are on the Jacksonville Historical Society’s 2019 Endangered Properties list, which includes two new structures. New to the list are Snyder Memorial Methodist Church, 226 N. Laura St., built in 1903 and a refuge in the early 1960s for victims of the Axe Handle Saturday attack on civil rights demonstrators; and Genovars Hall, […]