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New Southside Farmers Market Launches Friday

Jacksonville’s newest Farmers Market kicks off on Friday.  The St. Johns Town Center Farmers Market will be open every Friday, rain or shine, all year round, from 3pm to 8pm.  It is set to be located behind Dick’s Sporting Goods store and facing JTB. Organizers promise that the market will offer patrons fresh, locally grown produce, [...]

Review: A Sweet, Funny Eddie Murphy Film?

Fans of Eddie Murphy’s previous gigs as an overworked professional who rediscovers his family through supernatural intervention will find nothing unfamiliar as the comic Dr. Doolittles his way through “Imagine That.” The film opens this Friday. This time, Murphy low-keys it as Evan Danielson, a financial exec who learns that when his daughter’s imaginary friends [...]

UNF Plans to Host Logistics Career Workshop

With our area’s high unemployment rate, jobs in the growing logistics field are in serious demand. That’s why the Division of Continuing Education at the University of North Florida will be hosting a “Careers in Logistics Workshop” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, at the University Center on campus. The free [...]

Crist Signs Alonzo Mourning’s Kidney Disease Bill

Gov. Charlie Crist signed legislation Wednesday that will allow end stage renal disease patients under 65 to have Medigap coverage, as he promised he would when former basketball star Alonzo Mourning came to the Capitol in April to lobby for the measure. And as Mourning, who suffered from kidney disease himself, promised then, he was [...]