No advance registration is required for Saturday’s cleanup. Site captains will be on hand at each location with gloves and trash bags. Participants must be 18 or older, or accompanied by an adult, and students can receive community service hour certificates from site captains.
The inaugural Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25 at the American Legion Ocean Beaches Post 129, located at 1151 S. Fourth
Jacksonville Beach, the DAR's Jean Ribault and Ponte Vedra chapters, and community groups across the Beaches will mark Constitution Day with a free public celebration Sept. 17 at
BEAM celebrated 40 years of service to Beaches families and surprised Mary Ellen Waugh with the 2026 Beam’s Shining Light award and a new truck for her community garden work at the nonprofit's 2026 BEAM of Light Beach Ball.
No advance registration is required for Saturday’s cleanup. Site captains will be on hand at each location with gloves and trash bags. Participants must be 18 or older, or accompanied by an adult, and students can receive community service hour certificates from site captains.
The effort is designed to be "educational, direct, and highly local," explaining the value of city services "without telling residents how to vote or what conclusion to reach about property-tax policy."
"Managing invasive species in the dune system is critical with respect to providing native species such as sea oats and railroad vine the ability to flourish," said Atlantic Beach engineer Steve Swann. "This, in turn, provides excellent coastal habitat while reducing storm risk impacts to the city."
