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New football coach Clint Smith speaks at the board meeting, Smith is shown here with wife Ashley and son Jamon Reed. Photo: Anita Kilgore/The Jacksonville News
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It was a tall order to fill when Jacksonville High School’s principal Mike Newell received the list of what the search committee was looking for in a new football coach.
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One thing for sure: most people in Mason Hall’s February 3 audience have never heard before the type of upcoming piano recital.
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The Jacksonville News police blotter for January 31, 2012.
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“To finally get to come back, it is just awesome really,” said Ben Tomlinson. “Yeah, it’s great.” It has been almost nine months since Sgt. Tomlinson was severely injured from a gunshot in Afghanistan while serving in a Marine Recon Unit that left him paralyzed from his chest down.
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Jacksonville resident Jerry Wayne Garmon has been in the trucking business for more than 20 years. During that time, he has always parked his tractor-tractor truck in front of his home.
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Although the city’s former airport property has been selected as the location of the new public safety building, where it will be placed and how it will look, is still being decided on the drawing board.
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In the predawn hours of Monday, severe weather swept through the Calhoun County area. As the tornado-warning siren sounded, residents of Stadium Tower at Jacksonville State University were quick to shelter-in-place on the lowest level of the building.
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When the Jacksonville Police Department went live with CrimeReports.com last year, many browsed to the site to see just what is going on in their neighborhoods. (At the website, anyone can click to see an interactive map of the city and see where in Jacksonville crime has happening.)
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