Posted on July 4, 2022
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Top Stories
Padraic E. “Pat” Mulvihill, a 42-year Jacksonville resident, is a former infantry officer and paratrooper with the United States Army Reserve. He served our country in the 19th and 20th Special Forces Groups, and he continues to serve well our community. Mulvihill, an advisor to the National POW/MIA Memorial & Museum at Cecil Field, has […]
Posted on October 2, 2021
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Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill, Top Stories
Kyle Coon, who grew up in Ortega Forest, represented the United States in the recent Tokyo 2020 Games, completing the Para Triathlon. Alongside his guide, Andy Potts, Coon swam .47 miles, biked 12.4 miles, and ran 3.1 miles. “My first @paralympics were certainly an experience. The result wasn’t indicative of my capabilities but we learned […]
Posted on June 1, 2021
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Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill, Top Stories
Nearly 100 years after the Rotary Club of Jacksonville put forth a proposal for a memorial to honor Floridians who died in service during World War I, the list of Florida Fallen continues to grow. In 1924, when Memorial Park was dedicated on Christmas Day, the Life Scrolls – as they have come to be […]
Posted on February 2, 2020
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In Memoriam
May 20, 1928 to January 2, 2020 Bob Shircliff, the man known for saying, “there is no right way to do the wrong thing,” peacefully passed away January 2 at age 91, leaving Jacksonville without one of its greatest philanthropists and civic leaders. “Others have said it and I concur, Bob Shircliff really was Jacksonville’s […]