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PAB fails to approve LDC changes

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The Fernandina Beach Planning Advisory Board is not ready to approve changes to the city’s Land Development Code crafted by the city’s Conservation and Planning Department; members said they want t

School bus driver hailed a hero

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Nassau County School District school bus driver Jennifer Ramsey was honored by the Nassau County School Board last Thursday for her quick thinking that saved a child’s life. 

City Commission advancing bond

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The Fernandina Beach City Commission has hired a firm to help the city prepare to put a measure on the ballot asking voters to approve a bond to pay for protection from flooding on the Amelia River

Ross questions city waiving fees

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Fernandina Beach City Commissioner Chip Ross says being fiscally conservative means the city should not waive slip fees for working shrimp boats that dock at the city-owned Fernandina Harbor Marina

Breathing with the Bostons

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On rare, wonderful occasions, we have the good fortune of encountering irrefutably extraordinary individuals. These special someones possess a seemingly magical ability to motivate others.

   

New ACLU leader points to ‘urgency of now’

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Saying the country is at a “deeply, deeply disturbing” juncture, Bacardi Jackson — a veteran litigator whose civil-rights advocacy is literally in her genes — is taking the mantle as executive dire