• Big track convention coming to town. The 27th annual meeting of USA Track and Field will bring 1,200-1,500 runners to town Nov. 30-Dec. 4.
• Couple of beach notes. Word is the Publix in Atlantic Beach is looking to move into the old Food Lion space in Neptune Beach and partner with Barnes & Noble. Also, we hear Bailey’s Gym on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach is looking to move or expand to a second beach location — either next to the old Neptune Theater or a site in South Jax Beach.
• Call the Jacksonville Suns these days and you get a new greeting. It reminds you they are the 2005 Southern League champions.
• At least one Super Bowl bill is still floating around. EventQuest out of New York did work on behalf of the City during Super Bowl and $149,000 worth of change orders accumulated. The City has agreed to $90,000 of these charges, but $59,000 is still in dispute. Oh yeah, interest is piling up at 1.5 percent a month and totals about $14,310 to date.
• Three Kohl’s department stores will open in Jacksonville next Thursday with seven others scattered across the state. The store plans to hire 450 people locally and about 1,500 statewide. The stores are on West Parkway in Fleming Island, St. Augustine Road and Atlantic Boulevard near Kernan Road.
• Apologies to Tony Hill. We misidentified him as a State Representative in a City Note last week. Hill is a State Senator.
• It’s not very often a high school student is the guest speaker at the Rotary Club, not that will be the case next Monday when Nease High All-American quarterback Tim Tebow addresses the group.