It’s down to eight in the battle for gastronomical glory among downtown Jacksonville restaurants.
The Munch Madness contest started March 1 with 16 restaurants featuring a signature item each and paired off against another restaurant. Voting ended Sunday in the first round and now the Elite 8 will go head to head through this Sunday.
Following the success and positive feedback from the first Downtown Celebration this year, Jacksonville Main Street is moving forward with the second — and possibly annual — event.
Jacksonville Main Street is hoping to bring a new fixture downtown by returning a historic Civil War cannon to its former location in Central Park.
A 10-foot-long, nearly two-ton fixture is now on the grounds of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post at 903 E. Morton Ave. It is one of three similar Civil War cannons in the city.
When Allyson Clay learned there was going to be a Halloween costume contest Friday night during Jacksonville Main Street’s Pumpkin Festival, she begged her mom to take her home so she could put her costume on.
The extra trip earned her a trophy in the contest with more than 100 children vying in four age groups.
A fine art fair is returning to the Jacksonville square after more than a decade-long break.
The Jacksonville Main Street Fine Art Festival will give artists the chance to display and sell their work from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 9 and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 10 in Central Park.
The 1858 U.S. Senate race between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas and an anti-slavery speech by Lincoln are the subjects of two new historical markers in Jacksonville’s Central Park.
Jacksonville’s Looking for Lincoln Committee will dedicate the two markers in separate public ceremonies in the park.
