• Craig Airport is one of four general aviation airports in the state selected to participate in a Florida Department of Transportation pilot program that will evaluate and test new technologies involving airport operations and safety. The technology being tested at Craig Airport, Integrated General Aviation Airport Security System, uses infrared sensors to continuously detect and record flight operations for better planning, forecasting and security.
• BroadBased Communications ended 2007 by signing some new clients. The agency will be developing Web sites for regional CPA and consulting firm The LBA Group as well as Manson Construction, a 102-year-old marine construction company that recently opened an office in Jacksonville. BroadBased’s new public relations division also added a pair of new clients, ICS Logistics and Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center.
• Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Principal Jackie Cornelius is moonlighting. In addition to running the school, Cornelius is also the executive director of integrated arts for Duval County Public Schools.
• The Museum of Science & History is doing its part to go “green.” Its monthly newsletter is on-line only. To access the newsletter, go to www.mosh.org. The username is “moshmember” and the password is “mymoshnews1.”
• The southern comedy, “Dearly Departed,” will open Jan. 11 at Theatre Jacksonville’s Harold K. Smith Playhouse in San Marco. Performances are scheduled for Jan. 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 8 p.m., Jan. 17 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 13 and 20 at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for seniors, students military personnel (Thursday evenings and Sunday matinees only). For more information or to make reservations, call 396-4425 or visit www.theatrejax.com.
“The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson