Community comes together to help WWII vet achieve a goal
San Marco resident Rufus McClure was a paratrooper who served during WWII in a special division that was trained to invade Japan. “I was in Europe when President Harry Truman gave the orders to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After that, the war was over. Instead of getting shipped to Japan to possibly […]
Neighbors await demo news eight months after destructive fire
Caroline Kendall woke to smoke and flames outside her bedroom window about 3 a.m. on August 3, 2021. She and her husband Mark Kendall still live with a charred, two-story house next door at 1829 Powell Pl. that looks like the remnants of a bombed-out home. The Jacksonville Fire-Rescue Department found the historic 2608-square-foot two-story […]
Baseball comes indoors during first annual Walkers vs. Hoses competition
It was “root, root, root for the home team” March 22 at Riverside Presbyterian Home when a team from Jacksonville Fire & Rescue Engine Company and EMTs from Station 5 joined RPH residents in the First Annual Walkers vs. Hoses cornhole baseball competition. As a crowd of residents, complete with face paint and pompoms, cheered […]
