• According to representatives from the W.A. Knight Building, all of the apartment lofts have been leased. To date, only one of the first floor commercial spaces remains available.
• Our most durable athlete, 81-year-old Rogers “Tiger” Holmes, is best known for his swimming prowess but golf is his game, too, and he did what all aspire to do — live long enough to shoot a score equal to his age. But the pool is still his main arena and he’s going to the national senior championships next month in New Jersey where he’ll compete in six events. His chances? “Not good,” he said. “It’s by age group and there are guys two years younger than me in my races.”
• No, she isn’t gearing up for a run next time. The new phone book still lists a number for “Soud Ginger Campaign for Mayor.” The line’s disconnected, though.
• It’s rarer than you think to have father-son president combos in the same Rotary Club. There are two this year — Hobart Joost at South Jacksonville and Bob Steeg at Riverside are sons of past presidents — and there may have been no more than five in the history of all our clubs combined. Others would have been Leo and Tommy Grimes, Lawrence and B.W. Hirsig and Michael and Michael Corrigan.
• Radio personality Andy Johnson is leaving AM-1320. No word on why or where he might turn up next.
• Mayor John Peyton has joined Jacksonville Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver and PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem as an honorary co-chair of the Super Bowl Host Committee.
• Though he had to miss the first City Council meeting last week because of a conflict in North Carolina, Council member Kevin Hyde did return with a newspaper clipping from the local paper there that addressed the problems of ineffective leadership with concerns to municipal, county and state officials. He distributed it to the other Council members Tuesday and asked them to contact him with any questions.
• Mayor Peyton has reappointed Ed Hall as deputy director of Public Works; John Pappas as the department’s engineering chief; Jeff Beck as chief of streets and drainage; and Bill Watson as chief of landscape maintenance.
• The Lounge at The Mossfire Grill is now open. The new bar, located on the second floor of the building at 1537 Margaret St., serves liquor and features 35 different tequilas.
• There’s a new service in town to help attorneys. CasePost opened recently on the Southside and will help pre-screen clients so attorneys can match their practice with the case.
• Barnhill Buffet has opened in Neptune Beach at the site of the old Ryan’s Steakhouse.