Jacksonville-based radio show goes on - but needs help
With seven employees and an office in Riverside, Al Letson says he's begun to feel "like a small-business owner." That's not something the 38-year-old Orange Park High School graduate ever expected. But then, before he entered a National Public Radio nationwide talent search in 2007, Letson never expected to be host and executive producer of a nationally distributed radio program. Letson won ... |
Anniston to commemorate the Freedom Riders
The Spirit of Anniston announced the culmination of a two-year effort to lay the groundwork for a Civil Rights Heritage Trail commemorating the civil rights movement in the area. |
Freedom riders remembered in Anniston
ANNISTON,AL (WBRC) - It's one of Anniston's darkest days ever, and area officials have big plans to remember it. 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the May 14, 1961 bus burning, Anniston's part of the Freedom Rides. |
Forget Jenny Craig: Hit the drive-thru
Can eating fast food help you lose weight? Christine Dougherty, a 27-year-old business consultant in Pensacola, Fla., thinks so. ``I don't like to cook, and I wanted to be realistic without changing my lifestyle too much,'' Dougherty said. |
Starting and Building a Career in the Nonprofit World
College students preparing to graduate this spring are facing extraordinary uncertainty about their career prospects. |
Council accepts bid for fire department software
In addition to discussing annexation, the Jacksonville City Council heard other business Thursday evening. |
Other counties around the state are seeking revenue
Eleven N.C. counties will ask voters in November to let them impose a new, quarter-cent sales tax. The N.C. legislature in 2007 gave counties blanket permission to add the tax if county voters OK'd it. In a 12th county, Watauga voters [this week] rejected the idea, apparently with some help from the John Locke Foundation. |
Mac Frampton concert-dinner to benefit local library
Pianist Mac Frampton will perform Oct. 2 at a dinner and show to benefit the Tifton-Tift County Public Library Foundation. Contributed photo |
New day center for homeless in the works; city wants loiterers off downtown streets
Despite tight budgets for nonprofit agencies, plans are inching forward to help clear out the homeless from downtown streets during the day. Mayor John Peyton said the concept of a daytime center, designed to entice drifters from the streets and give them access to basic job-hunting tools like telephones and Internet, is a crucial component to revitalize the city’s urban core. The idea is to try ... |
What's News for Sept. 2, 2010
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