• If you’re planning a trip to Huguenot Park on Heckscher Drive during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the City is asking you to call ahead to make sure the beach is open. Periods of high tide or impacts related to beach erosion may result in temporary access restrictions during daytime hours. The National Weather Service predicts high tide at 11:30 a.m. Friday, 12:10 p.m. Saturday, 12:35 p.m. Sunday and 1:39 p.m. Monday. The midday tides will result in a 4.5-foot or higher rise in water levels along the beach, minimizing the area of navigable shoreline. Check conditions by calling 251-3335 or visit www.jaxparks.com.
• Important notice on the Tax Collector’s Web site: “For questions regarding your city storm water fee or solid waste fee bill, please call 630-CITY (2489). Please do not call the Tax Collector’s office as we do not have any information about the details of these bills. You may visit the city’s fee Web site at: http://www.coj.net/Departments/CityFees/default.htm.”
• In a recent letter to Mayor John Peyton, FMC Corporation’s Michael King announced the chemical company’s decision to close its Jacksonville manufacturing facility effective Aug. 31. The Talleyrand facility has 29 employees. King cited the decline of solvent based formulations, global competition and low cost generic producers as factors in the facility’s closure.
• Friday may be the last day for chair massages at the Hemming Plaza Farmer’s Market. Massage therapist Janna Guerrant said it simply gets too hot during the summer and she’s not sure she’ll be back in the fall. Guerrant charges $1 a minute and stays busy from the time she sets up.
• Speaking of massages by the minute, A Cut Above Salon in the Modis Building now has a massage therapist Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Same price — buck a minute.
• Bad news for Jacksonville resident Valerie Cobb. Library Director Barbara Gubbin cosigned a letter to Cobb explaining the Library’s Technology Committee and Board of Trustees decided to uphold Cobb’s $737.09 fine. Cobb claims her library card was stolen and materials were checked out and never returned. Cobb has been given two choices: replace the materials and the Library will remove the $5 per item processing fee or set up a payment plan. Gubbin said the Library will create a customer education plan to help explain what to do in the event a card is lost or stolen.
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