Nocatee News

Ponte Vedra/Palm Valley Elementary School, which already had 30 orange trees growing on its campus, recently got 30 more from MDI Holdings, a health-care technology company based in Nocatee.

With the Nocatee development expected to eventually have 30,000 residents, Guana Reserve officials are targeting northeast St.

Photos provided by Jill Kapron Maj. Stephen Petzold shows his love of Christmas aboard a camel.

Call 845-7501 or e-mail dayspring06@ windstream.net. A list of one or more residents will be sent for "adoption." Wrap a gift and have it back to the facility before Dec.

Kids eat free at Applebee's until closing plus there will be clowns, cotton candy machines, bounce house, raffles and turkey bowling on Thursday at the Applebees shopping center, at 8635 Blanding Blvd., Jacksonville.

It's the kickoff for a brand new event in the fight against breast cancer. Through the tree-lined streets of Nocatee, it's the first-ever Bike 26.2 with Donna.

Editor: Staff writer Jennifer Edwards article about impact fees in Sunday's Record, "Fees, image stunt job creation," was an interesting piece.

Ricard Willich, President and CEO of MDI Holdings, poses in front of his companyOs 100,000-square-foot headquarters in Nocatee on Friday, November 13, 2009.

After years of unsuccessful attempts to end crime in the Guana Reserve parking lots, it's time to put the burden on state lawmakers, community leaders said this week.

A Nocatee businessman who couldn't get permission to keep an outdoor gun range on his company's property has gotten permission to cut down slash pines from a designated wetland there and create a bird park.

Halloween fun abounds around the area in coming weeks. * A HOWL'oween Dogs in Disguise costume contest to benefit SAFE Pet Rescue of St.

Provided by Clockwork Marketing Services The first phase of Nocatee's 78-acre Community Park is complete, developers said this week.

The DeSoto County Sheriff's Office is investigating a man's suspicious death. According to Sheriff William Wise, a relative of Christopher Smith, 18, discovered his body around noon Thursday in a mobile home on Terrell Street and called 911.

Photos by MAGGIE FITZROY/Staff Macy Mackiewitz, 6, makes a peanut butter pine cone bird feeder at the Nocatee Farmers Market last weekend.

For the first time in two years, a case of the West Nile Virus -- a mosquito-borne virus that can be, but rarely is, fatal -- was found in St.

JOHN PEMBERTON/Staff Naomi Wilkinson, with help from a firearms instructor, shoots at a target at last weeks Leaded Tea Party in Nocatee.

Provided by PARC Group Fountains and brick paving are features of Nocatee's planned Town Center, with shops, restaurants and stores next to the community's new Publix supermarket, water park, community center and fitness center, now under construction.

Already faced with permitting challenges for an outdoor gun range at his Nocatee business property, Richard Willich is having difficulty getting approval for another project there - a boardwalk for a bird park and preserve.

A young Sebring man was killed Friday when his car veered off the road south of Arcadia and struck a tree.

Larry West, far right, and his wife Jamie, right, farmers from Illinois, talk with Tim Tassin, far left, president of Design Build of Naples, and Jim Bennett, vice president of construction, after taking a tour of their 1930s era home which was a former railway depot on August 7, 2009.