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Once upon a time, teenage girls in Duval County learned how to make fluffy biscuits, layer a casserole, thread a machine and sew a straight seam in mandatory home economics classes. Now those classes — colloquially called stitching and stirring — have almost disappeared, the victims of budget cuts and legislative changes.

Once upon a time, extension homemaker clubs, featuring programs on how to take better care of home and family, flourished across Jacksonville.

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ORANGE PARK | Most of the Somer Thompson story is sad.

But town leaders here hope the latest chapter will bring a little sunshine.

They are inviting the community to come out Saturday to help put finishing touches on Somer’s Sunshine Park — a 1-acre parcel near where the 7-year-old was kidnapped and killed in 2009.

The grassy triangle at the intersection of DeBarry and Gano avenues already was public property. But the Somer Thompson Foundation asked the city last fall to make it an official memorial to Somer.

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Four Jacksonville homeowners showed their holiday spirit as they welcomed about 400 guests this weekend. Christmas trees, vintage ornaments and sparkling lights greeted visitors on the 28th annual Pilot Club of Jacksonville Holiday Home Tour and Tea.

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Drop-in guests are no strangers to gopher tortoises. Certain snakes and frogs are routine roommates for the threatened species once common in Florida. Gopher tortoises calling the University of North Florida campus home, however, are being visited by a critter the likes of which they’ve never seen before.

Created by two UNF students and their professors, a subterranean robot camera mounted on miniature caterpillar tracks offers researchers a real-time view of the burrow’s occupants.

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Two-story town home at Lake Ridge North in Fleming Island, Florida. Water park at entrance of condo development.

Price: $189,877
Type: Single-Family Home
Beds: 5
Baths: 2.50
Square Ft: 3012


Address:
1988 Wages WAY South
Jacksonville, FL 32218

Price: $195,900
Type: Single-Family Home
Beds: 4
Baths: 3.00
Square Ft: 2463


Address:
12385 DEWHURST
Jacksonville, FL 32218

Price: $159,900
Type: Single-Family Home
Beds: 3
Baths: 2.00
Square Ft: 1594


Address:
859 BUCKS HARBOR DR West
Jacksonville, FL 32225

Price: $42,000
Type: Single-Family Home
Beds: 3
Baths: 1.50
Square Ft: 1242


Address:
3655 STANLEY
Jacksonville, FL 32207