• It’s adios for the United States Postal Service in the old federal courthouse. The last day is Saturday. A contract station in Ziba Salon on North Hogan will take the post office boxes and handle basic mailing services, starting next Monday at 8:30 a.m.
• Workers began replacing several palm trees at the new United States Courthouse at Jacksonville last week. Six of the eight palms died after being transplanted, as did a large oak tree. It’s gone, too.
• A ground breaking for the I.M. Sulzbacher Center’s new children’s facility is scheduled for June 16, though fund raising efforts will continue until the $3.5 million goal has been met. The center has raised just over $2.5 million.
• Sweet offer: Wachovia Bank is enticing potential customers with Payday candy bars while they read the financial institution’s literature.
• Little known fact: Michael Corrigan, Dist. 14 Council-elect member, and Matt Corrigan, UNF political science professor and oft-quoted analyst, are cousins.
• Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. will release the results of its latest study — Public Education Reform: Assessing Progress — June 25 from 8-9:15 a.m. at the Marriott Southpoint. For more info e-mail: [email protected].
• Greenscape of Jacksonville, Inc. will hold its annual meeting and luncheon June 19 at noon at The River Club. Interesting program this time: The Delaney Legacy and The Peyton Future. Both Mayor John Delaney and Mayor-elect John Peyton will be on hand. Invite only.
• The mayor’s office recently got an interesting public records request. Someone wants to know exactly how many shredders are in City Hall.
• The City’s May/June Neighborhoods magazine is out and it focuses primarily on Mayor John Delaney and his eight years in office. There’s an interesting piece on advice from five former mayors — Ed Austin, Tommy Hazouri, Jake Godbold, Hans Tanzler and Lou Ritter — to Mayor-elect John Peyton.
• Former State Sen. Bill Bankhead has been appointed secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice by Gov. Jeb Bush.
• Coffman, Coleman, Andrews & Grogan is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new LaVilla office Tuesday, beginning at 5:15 p.m.
• The Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association’s Judicial Reception is set for Thursday at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art.
• Peter Bragan Jr. is the scheduled speaker at today’s Rotary Club of Jacksonville meeting. It’s at the Omni, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
• The Salvation Army’s Rick LaShamb was recently honored as Director of the Year. LaShamb, a misdemeanor probation director who has been with the organization for 18 years, was in competition with directors from the 35 other Florida counties.