As the summer heat ramps up, Action News Jax has learned nearly half of the public pools in Jacksonville are closed. Of the 33 public pools in the city, 16 haven’t opened because of staffing and maintenance issues.
The last remaining piece of a 125-year-old Confederate monument in the heart of downtown Jacksonville was removed over the weekend from James Weldon Johnson Park across the street from Jacksonville’s City Hall, as first reported by the Florida Times-Union.