Arts Notes: Jacksonville playwright's 'Cotten Alley' now at Players by ...
Local playwright Olivia Gowan’s new play “Cotton Alley” is now being performed on the studio stage at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jacksonville Beach. Shows are at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through Jan. 30 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24. Tickets are $23, $20 for seniors, students and military. They can be purchased at playersbythesea.org/ or by calling (904) 249-0289.Holiday Charity Concert is TuesdayThe Jacksonville Beaches Kiwanis Club will present its third annual Holiday Charity Conce..>> view originalOne Spark festival credited with boosting Jacksonville's startup image
Three years, hundreds of thousands of visitors, and millions of dollars later, the days of One Spark as an annual crowdfunding festival seem over.“We lost a lot of money … and we can’t keep doing that,” One Spark Chairman Peter Rummell said during a Monday luncheon at which he announced One Spark Ventures, a more sustained and less costly mechanism for bringing together budding businesses and potential backers.While not a financial success, the One Spark festival’s symbolic impact has been unden..>> view originalSunday Business Notebook: Hanania Group to add Audi dealership ...
The Hanania Auto Group is adding yet another dealership. The company just bought 6 acres on Atlantic Boulevard just west of Kernan Boulevard.There, Jack Hanania said, he will put an Audi dealership. It will be a full dealership: new and used cars and a service department with a 40,000-plus-square-foot building.Land clearing is expected to start in the next 90 days with opening early next year.Hanania has 13 dealerships, including Audi of Jacksonville on Blanding Boulevard. He bought the property..>> view originalFirst Gun show in Jacksonville since the president's executive...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- Gun merchants are expecting record sales this weekend during the North Florida Gun Show.Promoters say they even cut a lot of the advertising, saying that the recent gun control debate has put a huge spotlight on the firearms industry.Channel 4's Crystal Moyer spoke to the director of marketing of the gun show, who says the retailers were not concerned about how much money they were going to make. In fact, after President Barack Obama made the executive orders on gun control,..>> view originalFirefighters fighting facial-hair ban in Jacksonville
Associated Press4:13 p.m. EST January 16, 2016American Firefighter(Photo: Library of Congres)JACKSONVILLE - A new city mandate requiring Jacksonville firefighters to be clean shaven is drawing criticism.Those who don’t comply were told this week they would be placed on a temporary, limited duty, non-firefighting role.City spokeswoman Tia Ford said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration prohibits firefighters from having hair that could come between the face and the breathing apparatus..>> view originalJacksonville debates human rights ordinance
All Gender Restroom(Photo: Keitha Nelson)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In Florida there are more than a dozen cities that have adopted a human rights ordinance that includes non-discrimination protections for the LGBT community. It's a heated battle underway in Jacksonville. Those for and against expanding the city's current ordinance are speaking out in many ways including on social meeting, blogs and in public forums.A recent confession at a city council meeting by Jacksonville resident, Roy Bay has s..>> view originalJacksonville , black firefighters group disagree over ban on beards ...
A new city directive mandating that Jacksonville’s firefighters be clean-shaven has drawn criticism from a firefighter organization and promises of grievances with the city and complaints to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The director of the city’s Employee Services Department sent a memo to uniformed firefighters Tuesday stating the Office of General Counsel had been asked to review whether firefighters, some of whom had received exemptions for medical reasons, “must be cle..>> view originalFrank Denton: Entrepreneur excels beyond his years
Jacksonville’s adoption of, or by, Dane Grey almost didn’t happen.The son of a Jamaican family which had immigrated to Fort Lauderdale when he was 11, Dane graduated from high school then came to Jacksonville University to study aviation because he liked jets.But after a couple of months, he called his mother and told her he wanted to go home. “I was very homesick, I was really homesick. I just wanted to leave. My dad got on the phone and said don’t you dare come home, you stay there, you finish..>> view originalNew drug, weapons charges for troubled Jacksonville businessman
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —A troubled Jacksonville business owner bonded out of jail Tuesday after raids at his businesses and home resulted in several charges against him.William "Shep" Ellison, 69, is charged with trafficking in hydrocodone while armed with a firearm and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.He was arrested Jan. 5 after agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found two guns at his home.Agents questioned Ellison about keys on his keyring, which he admitted belong t..>> view originalBlue-Grey All American Bowl game puts Jacksonville talent in spotlight
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —Our nation’s top high school football talent will go head to head at EverBank Field Saturday for the Blue-Grey All-American Bowl game.It’s the first time the game is played in Jacksonville bringing yet another sporting event to the area that is sure put the spotlight on Jacksonville.Friday afternoon the players were seen warming up on the Jaguars' practice field.Jamauri Wakefield, who is a senior running back at Providence School of Jacksonville, said he was excited to learn..>> view original
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