While 80 percent of all health care visits nationally are for musculoskeletal injuries, there are precautions people can take to avoid fractures, sprains and similar injuries.
To spend any amount of time at the 10th Street beach access in Atlantic Beach is to unknowingly, and for most unwillingly, participate in a vehicular game of chicken.
Q: How many "do-it-yourself" buffs does it take to change a light bulb? A: Only one, but it takes him two weekends and three trips to the hardware store.
Jacksonville City Councilman Bill Gulliford secured $100,000 for park improvements within his district, and approximately $30,000 of those funds will go to Pablo Historical Park at the Beaches Musuem in Jacksonville Beach.
As Mary Pratt adds shades of green to the trees in her painting, foliage behind the two children - a frowning little girl in a blue dress and an excited brown-haired boy - begins to take shape on her canvas.
In 1966, Beaches residents had to drive downtown to see any kind of theatre in Jacksonville.
It drove Ellie Samson, Deborah Lucas and four others to start Players by the Sea in their living rooms.
For the first time in seven years of competing in the Mathcounts Northeast Florida Chapter Competition, Fletcher Middle School’s team of mathletes is heading to Orlando on April 1 to compete in the 2016 Florida Mathcounts Competition, hosted by the Florida Engineering Society.
FMS was one of 60 schools with 520 mathletes competing at the competition put on by the Northeast Florida Engineering Society and held at the University Center at University of North Florida on last month for the coveted six top spots that would take them to the state competition....
My time as a Beaches' columnist began in 1982 as the running writer for a weekly newspaper.
I had run all of the Winter Beaches 10-milers since the first in 1977 and was maintaining a streak in the Summer 5-miler since 1974.
At Billy's Boathouse Grill, restaurant owner and manager Bill Cissel says their grits are so popular on the menu, and used in such a variety of recipes, that they usually sell out of them at the end of each Saturday and Sunday night.
