Charlie Patton
The Ledger
Jacksonville, FL, United States
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Mayo Clinic will add two more buildings at cost of $144 million
Over the last three years, the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville has invested nearly $500 million in major construction projects, in the process more than doubling its space with 520,000 square feet of new facilities. → Read More
LOL Film Festival bringing 15 short comedies by local filmmakers to Sun-Ray
Adam and Monique Madrid were attending a horror film festival at Sun-Ray Cinema in Five Points in October 2016 when Monique turned to her husband and asked the question: “Think we can create a comedy film festival?”The question wasn’t far-fetched. The Madrids have been to many film festivals over the years. Adam and three friends started a production company, Argyle Forest Films, while they were… → Read More
Arts Notes: Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival will have three superstar performers in 2019
The 2019 season of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival looks as if it will have the strongest lineup of artists in the festival’s 18-year → Read More
Hospitals in Northeast Florida keep construction contractors busy
On July 26 the Dorothy J. and Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Building, a five-story, 190,000-square-foot structure that will expand the Mayo Clinic’s → Read More
Arts Notes: MOCA Shop will close, become a Generation Us
The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville will close its MOCA Shop July 14. The space will then become a second location for Generation Us, whose first → Read More
Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra Beach is looking to build a new home
The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach is making plans to build a new 15,000-square-foot center. The St. Johns County commissioners recently voted unanimously to rezone 2.1 acres adjacent to the Oak Bridge Golf Course. The Cultural Center is hoping acquire that property to build the new center on the west side of A1A, said Julio Gomez, who is acting as a marketing consultant on the project.… → Read More
Health Notes: Mayo Clinic is considered the place to work according to YouGov BrandIndex
Mayo Clinic, which has campuses in Jacksonville, Arizona and Rochester, Minn., ranked first out of more than 1,600 brands in the 2018 Reputation Rankings → Read More
New procedure center gives Mayo caregivers chance to train using cadavers
When the 9,600-square-foot J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center opened in 2013 on the Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville campus, most of the training physicians and other caregivers received would involve working with mannequins or with standardized patients, employees who would simulate various medical conditions.The center wasn’t designed for a lot of cadaver work, either on animal or… → Read More
Playing Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' is great fun, Dylis Croman says
Growing up, Dylis Croman didn’t know she would become a successful musical theater actress. Croman, who will play Roxie Hart in the touring production of “Chicago” that comes to the Mora Theater for six performance beginning Thursday, loved performing. “I was a bit of a ham growing up,” she said. But the young Croman, who grew up in Dallas, was a dancer in those days. What helped change her mind… → Read More
Arts Notes: Anonymous donor will match gifts to the Jacksonville Symphony through June 30
An anonymous donor has pledged to match any donations made to the Jacksonville Symphony through June 30 up to $100,000. Go to www.jaxsymphony.org/double- → Read More
Arts Notes: Garden Conservancy give $20,000 to Cummer
The Garden Conservancy, a national organization that held an Open Day visit to four private gardens in Jacksonville Saturday, announced Saturday night → Read More
Review: Excellent 'Beautiful' depicts Carole King's hit-filled early songwriting career
The cast of the touring “Beautiful” is very good, with excellent performances from Sarah Bockel as King, Andrew Brewer as Goffin, Sarah Goeke as Weil and James Clow as their producer, Don Kirshner. Jacob Heimer almost steals the show with his winningly neurotic work as Barry Mann. → Read More
Health Notes: Wade Barnes named Advocate of the Year
The Office of the Attorney General has named Jacksonville physician Wade Barnes, volunteer medical director for the Women’s Center of Jacksonville, as Advocate of the Year for the State of Florida. Barnes joined the Women’s Center of Jacksonville in 2014 as the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam program transitioned from the city of Jacksonville to the Women’s Center of Jacksonville. Barnes… → Read More
Mozart's opera 'Don Giovanni' highlights Jacksonville Symphony 2018-2019 season
The Jacksonville Symphony on Wednesday announced a 2018-2019 season that includes an opening concert featuring Branford Marsalis and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, will feature a Gala with guest cellist Alisa Weilerstein and will be highlighted by Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.” Music director Courtney Lewis called the opera "the most ambitious thing we’ve tried so far.” Another highlight will be… → Read More
Health Notes: More than 6,000 successful organ transplants have been performed at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville
Surgeons at Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville campus completed their first solid organ transplant — a liver transplant — on Feb. → Read More
Baptist South expanding to 407 beds
Baptist Medical Center South, which opened as a 92-bed hospital in 2005, continues to rapidly grow. Work is near completion on a new eight-story, 152,000- → Read More
Health notes: UF Health North’s women’s services floor has opened
20-bed UF hospital women’s floor opens The 20-bed women’s services floor of UF Health North’s 92-bed hospital, which includes 12 labor rooms and eight other rooms for women, will open next Tuesday. The five-story hospital at 15255 Max Leggett Parkway on Jacksonville’s Northside admitted its first patient in late May. The opening of the women’s services floor means the 168,000-square-foot… → Read More
Jacksonville’s Mayo Clinic ranked best hospital in Florida by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report ranked the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville as the best hospital in Florida. → Read More
One of Us: Har Shaing and his family operate the Taungzalat Asian Market
For Har Shaing, America is a place where he can live his life the way he wants. → Read More
Arts Notes: ‘The Art of Susan Schuenke’ will open Tuesday in the Rotunda area of the St. Johns County Administration building
There will be an opening reception from 8:15-9 a.m. Tuesday for “The Art of Susan Schuenke” in the Rotunda area of the St. Johns County Administration building, 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, prior to the regularly scheduled St. Johns County Commission meeting. The exhibit will be available for viewing 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Schuenke, a native of Germany who now lives in St.… → Read More