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THE LONGBOARD CLASSIC Results
19-July-08
JACKSONVILLE BEACH PIER

NOSE RIDE
1.JOE PULIDO
2. ZACH WEINERT
3. ASHER KING
4. STEVEN MCCLEAN

OPEN
1. JOE PULIDO
2. ASHER KING
3. JASON MOTES
4. RYAN SMOLKA

MENEHUNE
1. MIKE JOHNSON
2. LOGAN RAULERS
3. STEVEN MCCLEAN
4. JOSH MOTES

JUNIORS
1. ASHER KING
2. STEVEN MCCLEAN
3. COOPER NEIL
4. STEVEN MCCLEAN

LEGENDS
1. MITCH KAUFMANN
2. JIM WILLIAMS
3. JIM COX
4. BYRON COLLEY

2007 - 2008 FCAT grades were released today. Here is a look at how some area schools fared. For a complete database of FCAT grades, click here

Bartram Trail High - A

Fletcher High - A

Nease High - A

Workers from the St. Johns County school district remove spray paint from a satellite dish at Nease.

By Christina Abel 

Nease High School officials arrived at work Thursday to find someone had spray painted words and drawings throughout the school on hallways, windows, the courtyard, the football stadium and on sculptures.

Most of the spray painted messages featured the letters “BTHS” and the word “bears,” leading Principal Linda Thomson and other school officials to think that Bartram Trail High School students were responsible.

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Mark Middlebrook, 23, of Ponte Vedra Beach returned with his platoon, 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne, from Baghdad in November after 15 months in Iraq stretched over 2 deployments. While there, the platoon made this fun music video, Baghdaddy Beat. Mark is a 2003 graduate of Nease High School.

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Nease high school boys won 3 to 1 in the Class 4A Boys Final Championship soccer game against Bishop Moore High at home on Friday, February 8, 2008.

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Dozens of people have signed petitions opposing a state transportation agency's plans to move a traffic light at Florida A1A and 36th Avenue South in Jacksonville Beach.

The light is part of a complicated $10 million project on the heavily traveled A1A that the Florida Department of Transportation will begin this summer. Work on the Jacksonville Beach segment of A1A is expected to begin by September.

Opponents said moving the traffic light from 36th to 37th Avenue South will endanger and inconvenience people.

The project also includes the installation of a new traffic light at Osceola Avenue and A1A, rebuilding 25th Avenue South directly across A1A from Osceola and removing parking along its southern border so it looks more like a through street and removing the light at 22nd Avenue South to reduce accidents caused because it sits back-to-back with another light at 23rd Avenue.

The Fletcher High School Dance Department will present its Winter Dance Concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13, in the Fletcher Auditorium off Seagate Avenue in Neptune Beach. The students in all six dance classes at Fletcher will perform ballet, jazz, and modern dance. The Dance Department finale will include the new stage mirrors that were installed over the summer. Admission to the “Winter Dance Concert” is $5 at the door. For more information, call 241-1356.