Miles Harvey, journalist and best-selling author of Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the first European Artist in North America and The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, will be the keynote speaker at Mapping Our Past, an all-day affair at the Main Library Jan. 26. 

JAXPORT invites all Northeast Florida small businesses to participate in the port’s inaugural Small and Emerging Business Appreciation Day event on Tuesday, Feb. 5 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will be held at the JAXPORT Cruise Terminal in North Jacksonville.

K9s For Warriors of Northeast Florida was awarded a $2M grant investment from the Petco Foundation to support its lifesaving program that trains and pairs service dogs with military veterans suffering from PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury and/or Military Sexual Trauma.