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First Coast Connect

On Friday’s show: First Coast Week in Review

Stacey Bennett
Jack Webb, attorney and former Jacksonville City Council president; Aaron Farrar, weekend anchor and reporter at News4Jax; Nate Monroe, executive editor at The Tributary.

Each Friday, our media roundtable dives into the biggest stories of the week. Among our topics:

  • Doctors’ version of a recent jail death differs from JSO’s.
  • Bears are in the crosshairs after Florida’s first-ever fatal attack on a human.
  • The state attorney is investigating an allegedly illegal city gun registry.
  • School officials police social media for teachers, but spare themselves similar scrutiny. 
  • Jax Beach joins its coastal neighbors in banning all types of smoking.

To discuss it all, we’re joined by:

  • Nate Monroe, executive editor at The Tributary.
  • Jack Webb, attorney and former Jacksonville City Council president. 
  • Aaron Farrar, weekend anchor and reporter at News4Jax.

Then, Apex Theatre is holding its inaugural playwrights festival, presenting new works by rising (and established) local talents. The Red Moon New Works Festival features readings and workshop productions created by professional playwrights, teaching artists and student writers at the Black Box theater in World Golf Village from May 16 to 18. The performance is free.

Guests:

  • Ian Mairs, director, playwright at Apex since 2013 and author of Family, Friends and Neighbors: A Year in the Life of an Urban Church Food Pantry.
  • Deidra, writing program student at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.
  • Peyton, student at Apex Theatre Studio.
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Anne Schindler joined WJCT News 89.9 as host of First Coast Connect in October 2023, after nearly three decades in Jacksonville print and television. Anne has worked in the Jacksonville media market since 1995, first as a reporter for the original Folio Weekly, then as the publication’s editor-in-chief from 2002 until her departure. In 2012, Anne transitioned to television as executive producer of special projects for First Coast News, Northeast Florida’s NBC and ABC affiliates. You can reach Anne at aschindler@wjct.org.