• City Council member Warren Alvarez is creating a bit of a stir with his legislation that would, if passed, revoke much of the Interlocal Agreement between the City of Jacksonville and the three beach towns and Baldwin. Former Council member and current Property Appraiser Jim Overton said the issue took years and several lawsuits to resolve while he was on the Council. “It’s lunacy to poke a stick in this beehive,” was Overton’s assessment of the legislation.
• The Edgewood Bakery — home of perhaps the best doughnut in town — has moved. Don’t panic. Just next door.
• The Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women has selected five Young Women of vision to honor at its 20th anniversary Women’s History Month Breakfast. Christina Joan Gregson, Lauren M. Grissett, Leslie Nicole Lowe, Tatiana Melnik and Emily Kathryn Michael will be recognized at the event to be held March 8 from 7:30-9:15 a.m. in the University of North Florida University Center.
• This year’s Greater Jacksonville Prayer Breakfast will feature some heavy hitters. U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw and State Sen. Tony Hill will serve as Patrons and the March 21 event at the Hyatt will be chaired by attorney Doug Milne and developer Carleton Jones.
• Jacksonville will host a conference for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies beginning March 22. The events, to take place at the Hyatt, will offer training workshops, exhibitors and Town Hall meetings.
• The University of North Florida has been selected by the Gandhi Memorial Society as the sight for a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. The Society is still raising funds for the statue which is slated to be unveiled Oct. 2, the 137th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth.
• One more from UNF: The Wachovia Foundation donated $300,000 to the College of Education, establishing The Wachovia Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships for students majoring in teacher education. Wachovia will contribute a total of $300,000 to UNF over a three-year period and the State of Florida will match the gift at 50 percent with $150,000.