Jacksonville, Florida
City Of Jacksonville Senior Services Division have released their event schedule for 2024. From safety seminars to health & wellness events, there are so many opportunities to get you, or a senior you know engaged and having a great time. Go to https://www.jacksonville.gov/…/par…/senior-services.aspx or call 904-255-5667 Read More …
Every Saturday morning at 10am, beginning on January 20th, join a park naturalist at Tillie K. Fowler Regional Park to help with the stream restoration and litter removal. This is a partnership with UNF students and St. Johns Riverkeeper to help preserve this parkland, preserve Read More …
In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the following City government offices and facilities will be closed on Monday, January 15, 2024. Closures include: • City Hall at St. James, 117 W. Duval St. • Ed Ball Building, 214 N. Hogan St. • Jake Read More …
Brought to you by partners: The Downtown Investment Authority, Downtown Vision, the Downtown Dwellers, NextUp Jax, St Johns River Keeper and 904 Happy Hour. Please join in for a cleanup of Downtown Jacksonville’s historic Cathedral Hill neighborhood from 9 AM until 11 AM on Saturday, Read More …
The City of Jacksonville operates a variety of accounts on several different platforms to connect with. This page provides links to the different accounts and profiles. Terms of Service City of Jacksonville’s Social Media Terms of Service Facebook City of Jacksonville, Florida – Government Mayor Donna Read More …
Brilliant pianist Conrad Tao returns to the Jacksonville Symphony, for the 100th Birthday of Gershwin’s jazzy masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue. Tao will also play Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto, a rich and sweeping soundscape full of the composer’s hallmark virtuosity. Rounding out this blockbuster program are Read More …
New Voter ID cards have been mailed out to registered voters in Duval County, and yours might list a new voting precinct. A lawsuit last year claimed voters in Duval didn’t have equal access, as the number of precincts in each City Council district ranged Read More …
Presented by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Sheriffs Association Parents and Guardians, are you concerned about your teenager’s safety while driving? Sign your teen up for the FREE Teen Driver Challenge Class. Topics include Teen Crash Facts; Knowing Your Vehicle; Using Your Senses; Vehicle Dynamics; Drug and Read More …
Everyone in Jacksonville plays a role in improving the safety of our roadways. From bicyclists and pedestrians, to motorcyclists and drivers, we all share a responsibility to contribute to a safer community. Help make every street in Jacksonville a safe place to walk, ride or Read More …
JEA customers who need some help paying bills have a few options. The utility offers multiple arrangements to give you more time. JEA also offers a pay-as-you-go option and another that takes the average of your bills and spreads the cost out evenly across each month, eliminating the Read More …
James Beard Award-winning author Adrian Miller shares his family recipe for the New Year’s Day staple. On New Year’s Day, millions of people will dutifully eat some amount of black-eyed peas with the hope that it will lead to prosperity throughout next year. This superstition Read More …
Three … two … one … Happy New Year! Every December 31, the planet prepares to put up a fresh calendar and roll into a new year. And for more than 100 years, a key component of New Year’s Eve traditions has been watching the “ball drop” Read More …
Mayor Donna Deegan announced that the Confederate statues are being removed from Springfield Park today. This memorial was erected during the peak of early 20th century Confederate monument-building, part of a widespread campaign to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South and intimidate Read More …
Thanksgiving’s turkeys have been gobbled, elves are on shelves, and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Although December 25 is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ (whose birthday might actually be in the spring), to many children, Christmas means one thing: a Read More …
Ruth Wakefield was no cookie-cutter baker. In fact, she is widely credited with developing the world’s first recipe for chocolate chip cookies. In 1937, Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, owned the popular Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. While mulling new desserts to serve at the inn’s restaurant, she Read More …
Move over twinkling fir trees and wreaths, eggnog, stockings and the office secret Santa — there’s a new kid in town. Over the last decade the ugly Christmas sweater has firmly embedded itself in yuletide culture. You know the one. It’s a wooly pullover, usually Read More …
A man was seriously injured after colliding with an Amtrack train in Northwest Jacksonville this morning. The train was headed south, on the track along Moncrief Dinsmore Road when the man drove around the railroad crossing arms on Dunn Avenue. Traveling at normal speed, 78 Read More …
If you’ve been, you know: One of the most spectacular holiday installations in the southeastern United States shines in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore, George Vanderbilt’s 8,000-acre estate, puts on a show for Christmas like no other. Lizzie Whitcher, Biltmore House’s Floral Manager and the architect Read More …