Sydney Boles
Newsletter Editor/Community Engagement EditorSydney manages community engagement programs like WJCT News' Coronavirus Texting Service. Originally from the mountains of upstate New York, she relocated to Jacksonville from Kentucky, where she reported on Appalachia's coal industry.
Follow Sydney Boles on Twitter: @sydneyboles.
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The 2022 legislative session begins today, and Northeast Florida lawmakers will play a role on both sides of the aisle. -
Jacksonville city leaders on Tuesday voted 5-13 against repealing a 6-cent gas tax increase that will pay for improvements to parks, mass transit, dangerous intersections and resilience efforts to protect against flooding. -
City Council approved a plan Tuesday that allows Duval Schools to sell a shuttered school in Jacksonville’s Northside to affordable housing developer Ability Housing in a 6-10 vote after more than an hour of debate. -
The school, which had been called High School III in the absence of a name, will be called Beachside High, after it beat the name St. Johns High School in a vote. -
Jacksonville City Councilman Michael Boylan says he’s stepping down as vice chair of the Safer Together workshops because of residents who made disparaging comments about police at the meetings. -
WJCT News Coronavirus Texting Service is answering your questions about Biden's vaccine mandate -
The nation’s eyes were on California this week as that state voted down an effort to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. California is one of 20 states… -
WJCT News is answering your questions about the COVID-19 pandemic with our Coronavirus Texting Line. -
A group of Duval County high school students is planning a protest over the district’s dress code, saying it asks girls to sacrifice their comfort so boys… -
As some utility companies ask residents to conserve water because liquid oxygen is being diverted to local hospitals, JEA says it’s not at risk of running…
