• Apparently one of the Law League’s sports teams has picked up a little extra help on its bench. Ex-Jaguars tight end Damon “Big Sofa” Jones reportedly joined the Public Defender’s Office’s basketball team for a recent Law League game, vastly improving their skill set and final score. Rumor has it that other teams in the league are in an uproar and are making claims that Jones is an ineligible player. No law suits have been filed as of yet.
• The Downtown Development Authority has selected Dave Auchter as chairman and Roland Udenze as vice chair. As vice chair, Udenze, an architect with The Haskell Company, will also serve as chairman of the Design Review Committee.
• Technology upgrades at the Tax Collector’s Office. Customers will start taking numbers that will correspond with numbers on small electronic screens above the cashiers and customer service reps. An employee of the office said it should speed up the process and clarify exactly which cashiers are open.
• England-Thims & Miller, Inc. recently picked up three state awards for local landscape architect projects. Their Castaway Island Reserve and St. Augustine Road/I-95 interchange projects picked up Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects awards and their Camp Milton project won a Historic Preservation Award.
• The Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art is expanding two floors of gallery wall space to accommodate larger art exhibitions.The museum is adding more than 300 linear feet of exhibition walls to increase the museum’s ability to bring more works of art to the community. JMOMA also will be reconfiguring its featured exhibition gallery in order to present multiple exhibitions simultaneously.
• Blame it on the heat wave: only about a dozen of the Hemming Plaza Farmers’ Market’s usual 20 vendors had set up shop by 10:30 a.m. on Friday, a half-hour into the market, which runs until 2 p.m.
• If you’ve put off the Museum of Science and History’s Evening Cosmic Concerts, which combine rockin’ music with a laser show, know that you’re running low on opportunities. The shows end this weekend. The lineup includes “Eighties at Eight,” 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; “Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits,” 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and “Pink Floyd: The Wall,” 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission is $6 per person for the 8 and 9 p.m. shows and $8 for the 10 p.m. show. MOSH is located at 1025 Museum Circle on the Southbank.