• Lunch patrons found the London Bridge Pub in disarray after a disgruntled employee went on a rampage Monday morning. The employee allegedly had a dispute with the owner over $20, and when she wasn’t paid, she started breaking things inside the popular downtown restaurant. After she was forced outside, she picked up a chair and threw it through a window before leaving in a taxi.
• Former mayor Ed Austin may be gearing up for another political race. No, he’s not thinking about running for office, but his wife, Connie Green, is exploring a run for the Neptune Beach City Council.
• Riverside Avondale Preservation has requested a meeting with Council members Reggie Fullwood and Michael Corrigan about a park project they would like to see near Park Street. Funding options and designs are just a couple of the items on the agenda for the Sept. 30 meeting.
• The Willie Gary Classic football game didn’t quite have the attendance they expected, nor what they announced. The organizers of the game two weeks ago at Alltel Stadium between Edward Waters and Shaw University actually had a little over 4,000 attend, not the 11,000-plus that was announced.
• The D.W. Perkins Bar Association will host its Scholarship Awards Banquet Oct. 23 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. Civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray is the speaker. Proceeds from the banquet will help fund a scholarship for minority students at Florida Coastal School of Law. Tickets are $60 per person and are available by calling Tammy Butler at (904) 301-1265, or by e-mail at [email protected].
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