Mich. man drowns at Jacksonville Beach hours before father's ...
by: Brittney Donovan Updated: Apr 18, 2016 - 5:48 AM JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. รข€” The Michigan father who drowned after he saved his young daughter from the ocean at Jacksonville Beach was in town for his father's memorial service, family said. Police said 28-year-old William Moritz went into the water to rescue his 6-year-old daughter at 8th Street North before noon on Saturday. A gofundme page for Moritz, who goes by Bill, said he dove into the rough surf to rescue his daughter aft..>> view original4 Jacksonville teachers win $15000 awards
Four Duval County teachers are $15,000 richer today after being honored for achievements in the classroom. The winners of the 2016 Gladys Prior Awards for Career Teaching were visited in their classrooms Monday and Tuesday with a contingent of University of North Florida educators congratulating them on behalf of Gilchrist Berg, a Jacksonville area businessman who created and funds the awards. Susan Harper, a kindergarten teacher at Tiger Academy; Scott Sowell, a science teacher at Darnell-Cook..>> view originalHandsOn Jacksonville celebrates city's volunteers
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - HandsOn Jacksonville held a celebration dinner Monday night to honor this year's HandsOn and Pinnacle award recipients.HandsOn is the region's leader in coordinating and equipping volunteers. The event was held at the downtown library and included a social hour, dinner and music. The "Celebrate Good" dinner honored volunteers who have made the biggest impact in the community. It comes as a wrap-up to National Volunteer Week and along with Jacksonville and the state of Flor..>> view originalBosnian artist Amer Kobaslija travels world but calls Jacksonville ...
Amer Kobaslija arrived in Jacksonville in 1997, a man without a country. Born in Banja Luka, a city in what was then Yugoslavia and is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, he had enjoyed an idyllic childhood as the son of two schoolteachers. But civil war broke out in Bosnia in 1992. Bosnian Muslims, such as Kobaslija’s family, came under attack from Serbians in a bloody, genocidal war. In 1993 his parents managed to get the 17 year old Kobaslija and his younger sister out of Bosnia to a refugee camp in..>> view originalMark Woods: Starting my walk across Jacksonville
Shortly after 9 a.m. Monday, I crossed the bridge over the Nassau River and began walking in the wet grass alongside U.S. 17. By the end of my first day of a walk across Jacksonville, I had made it only about 2 miles south of the Duval-Nassau county line. To get there and back to my car, parked in the dirt lot at Reni’s Redneck Yacht Club, I ended up walking about 9 miles. Some of that was by design, a detour that involved a walk in the woods. Some of it was because I couldn’t find a way into t..>> view originalSHARKS 2016 HOME OPENER; Jacksonville Hosts Orlando ...
About This Slideshow: The Jacksonville Sharks hosted the Orlando Predators in Arena Football League action at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida Monday, April 18, 2016 for the Sharks first home game of the season. See also: Monday night was Redneck Night at the Veterans Memorial Arena as the Jacksonville Sharks took on the Orlando Predators in Arena football on April 18, 2016. Even as Joe Dirt cheered with all of his twin cousins, the Sharks got bit, 63 - 56 b..>> view originalNun who taught in Jacksonville among those killed in Ecuadorian ...
A nun killed in an earthquake that struck Ecuador had served at Assumption Catholic School in Jacksonville, the parish pastor said. Sister Clare Crockett, 33, was at the school for five or six years and was among the four who came to the school to establish a convent in 2006, said the Rev. Fred Parke. “Last night she was missing, this morning she was gone,” Parke said Monday. The sister was at a convent in Playa Prieta, Ecuador, when the earthquake struck. “She was probably the superstar among ..>> view originalHome and Garden calendar
SATURDAY Jacksonville Farmers Market, dawn to dusk daily year round, 1810 W. Beaver St. Features local, organic, ethnic and specialty produce, along with other foods and agricultural products. (904) 354-2821 or jaxfarmersmarket.com. Ixia Field Trip to the Sawmill Slough Preserve at the University of North Florida, 9 a.m., gather at Lot 100, UNF campus. Trip led by Chuch Hubbuch, assistant director of physical facilities, landscape and grounds and curator of the Preserve, will follow trails thro..>> view originalCoast Guard Jacksonville issues new emergency number
There is a new telephone number to report marine emergencies to the Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville command center - (904) 714-7558. The new Coast Guard search-and-rescue emergency telephone number comes after the agency’s move to a new facility. And it is only to be used by boaters who believe that they are in danger or their situation could worsen, according to Lt. Christina Erapalli, Chief of the Sector Jacksonville command center. “Anyone who willfully places a hoax call is guilty of a felo..>> view originalJacksonville cornerback thinks the Jaguars will be the next Panthers
Last year's Carolina Panthers were not exactly expected to be one of the best teams in the NFL. They were predicted to make the playoffs by only two of our eight-person preseason panel and five out of 13 on NFL.com. Nobody at CBS Sports, NFL.com, or ESPN picked Carolina to make the Super Bowl, either. FiveThirtyEight's predictions tool gave the Panthers only a 55 percent chance of making the playoffs and a projected total of 9.2 wins.Of course, the Panthers then went out and blew away expectati..>> view original
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