Matt Soergel is a journalist based in Jacksonville, Florida. He writes for The Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville.com, covering local news and human interest stories. His work has also been featured on Yahoo News and WJCT Public Media.
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When working on this story about the St. Augustine Lighthouse, I turned to historian David Nolan, who's delved deeply into the old city he's called home since 1977.
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Funeral services are set for Tuesday and the time-honored tradition of a paddle-out will be on Nov. 23 to pay tribute to surfing legend Joe Roland.
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In the book "Beyond Triathlon" made into a documentary and featured on today's front page, Dottie Dorion describes her first Ironman competition in Hawaii, in which she at age 51 swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles and ran a 26.2-mile marathon. Here are excerpts from that story:
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H.J. grew up in Jacksonville without a lot of money and went to Andrew Jackson High School. He joined the Navy in 1936.
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It's been more than three years since David Green set out from Jacksonville Beach on a run across America with his "canine soulmate," the amazing running dog Lucky. Four months and 3,400 miles later, Green stepped into the Pacific Ocean north of San Francisco, exhausted and triumphant — and still grieving for Lucky.
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