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From our partners at Jaxtoday   by Will Brown Loretta Barfield and William Batts have been neighbors for nearly 50 years. They individually purchased property in Christobel, a Northwest Jacksonville neighborhood, during the 1970s on […]

A federal judge has ruled that the government cannot prevent recipients of the nation’s largest food assistance program from using benefits to purchase candy, soda and other sugary drinks. The ruling affects the Supplemental Nutrition […]

A.L. Lewis Fund members and grantees celebrated its recent grantmaking at the Jessie Ball duPont Center. Photo credit: Jasmine Brown.   The A.L. Lewis Fund, a collective giving initiative of The Community Foundation for Northeast […]

The Friends of the Brentwood Public Library, Inc. celebrated the 2026 James Weldon Johnson Young Writers Festival, a four-day literary and arts experience that empowered students in grades 3–12 through creative expression, cultural education and […]

  The nation’s oldest established city is poised to make history with the election of its first Black mayor. St. Augustine City Commissioner Cynthia Garris will become the city’s next mayor after emerging as the […]