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RIVERSIDE | AVONDALE | ORTEGA | MURRAY HILL FIERCELY LOCAL NEWS ... FIERCELY LOYAL READERS | RESIDENTNEWS.NET | AUGUST 2024 | VOL. 17, ISSUE 8
‘Too dangerous to attempt’ Deborah Wesley with Michele McManamon
Coalition of Black Republican Americans welcomes Lt. Col. Allen West READ MORE ON PAGE 22
Fishweir parents Valerie and John Boote, with their children Avery and Oscar, contemplate the roundabout traffic and railroad crossing children would have to navigate at Edgewood Avenue South near Roosevelt Boulevard on the walk to and from Ruth N. Upson Elementary School.
Hank and Mary Coxe to serve as honorary chairs of DESC Defenders gala
Traffic, transportation issues concern families facing possible school closures By Michele Leivas When Laura Bearl and her husband moved their family to the Fishweir neighborhood, it was specifically so their children would have just a five-minute walk to the highly rated elementary school.
Under Duval County Public Schools’ (DCPS) current Master Facility Plan proposal, however, that 5-minute walk would become roughly 40 minutes if Fishweir Elementary School were to close and its student population consolidated into Ruth N. Upson Elementary School. “I have this grand notion of maybe riding my bike with a little chariot beside it [for my younger children], but I certainly couldn’t do that for my elementary school-aged child,” Bearl said. “She would have to ride her bike, and then I would have to figure out how to get her bike home.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 25
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DCPS reassigns principals amid ongoing concerns for student safety Koek to lead Riverside High By Jennifer Logue
Robert E. Lee Class of 1954 to host 70th reunion PRSRT STD
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Students returning to Riverside High School Aug. 12 will be greeted by a new principal this year, as the Duval County Public Schools shifts administrators among schools amid a renewed focus on student safety. Former Mayport Middle School Principal Chris Koek has assumed leadership of Riverside High, succeeding Timothy Feagins, who has assumed the principal’s role at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. That school’s principal – Tina Wilson – transitioned to the administrative position of supervisor of exceptional education services for the Duval County Public Schools. Wilson stepped down as principal of Douglas Anderson CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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