• The PGA Tour will officially dedicate the new clubhouse at the Stadium Course during an invite-only, black-tie affair May 8. Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem is hosting the event that will honor the Players Championship’s past championships as lifetime achievement recipients.
• Some of the country’s top site consultants will be in the area the last week of March. Cornerstone, the economic development arm of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce, is hosting the group that will stay at Amelia Island Plantation.
• Duval County Sheriff candidate Dale Carson, spoke briefly on Friday at the Downtown Council of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce meeting at River City Brewing Company. Carson, who once worked with the FBI, as a police officer, and is now a defense attorney, said there are about 82,000 outstanding arrest warrants in the county and Jacksonville’s Intelligence Unit is undermanned.
• Attorney P. Michael Leahy has joined the law firm of Moseley, Prichard, Parrish, Knight & Jones. Attorneys Shea Michael Moser and Caroline Klancke have become associates with the West Bay Street firm.
• According to Main Branch, LLC partner and Burrito Gallery owner Tony Allegretti, his group will close on the Haydon Burns Library April 9. When asked when to expect construction to begin, Allegretti said, without hesitation, “April 10.”
• If you want to learn everything about the rules that govern City Council, you’ll soon be able to from your living room or office. An ordinance sponsored by Council member Lad Daniels would require the rules be posted on the Council’s Web site. Copies would also be available in the Office of Legislative Services.
• Fire Station No. 41 in Mayport may be getting a little sprucing up. Council member Warren Alvarez has introduced a bill that appropriates $6,950 from the City’s Tree Protection and Related Expenses Trust Fund for the purchase of five Washingtonia palms at $900 each and $2,450 worth of irrigation work. The personnel at the station will oversee the work.
“The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.”
– Irving R. Kaufman, Judge, US Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit