Jacksonville’s former City Manager, Kristoff Bauer, was fired in a 4-2 (Jerome Willingham, Reva Sullivan, Alva Williams and Randy Thomas for, Michael Lazzara and Fannie Coleman against, Sammy Phillips, as Mayor, only votes in ties) vote on June 9th.
After the firing, there was quite the bit of backlash from city employees and residents.
City Employees [...]
The next meeting of the Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission will be Monday, March 16th beginning at 6pm. The meeting will be held at the Jacksonville Commons Senior Center’s Community Room at the Jacksonville Commons Recreation Complex.
The agenda is below:
CALL TO ORDER –
REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES – December 15th meeting
PRESENTATION – Chris [...]
The following is a message (stolen from the Onslow Outdoor Painters Society blog) regarding an opportunity for artists from the Jacksonville/Onslow Habitat for Humanity.
There are approximately 1600 homeless people living in Onslow County. As of August 26, 2008, there are 166 homeless children enrolled in the Onslow County School system (statistics from Onslow County Schools). [...]
May is National Bike Month. It’s also Bike to Work/School Month and is home to Bike to Work Week (May 12th to 16th) and Bike to Work Day (May 16th). All of which are sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists.
In celebration, I will be riding my bike to work every day that I can (May 8th [...]
Today’s Jacksonville Daily News, serves up an article and an editorial about the rising skyrocketing fuel prices.
In the article “Fueling motorists’ frustrations“, writer Jeff Golden (a new JDNewser? He’s not on the staff page…) spoke with two highly frustrated Jacksonvillians about the cost of fuel in Onslow County. Ms. Cheryl Uppington complains that filling up her Mazda 6 is [...]
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