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More Capital Improvement Plan projects identified

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Monday’s Board of County Commissioners meeting saw County Manager Taco Pope advocate for multiple new prospects to join the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), a list of countywide infrastructure projects that provides a “fiscal forecast” for cost estimates and identifies funding sources.

Driver arrested after multi-vehicle crash

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A 43-year-old man from Newport News, Va., is facing a slew of charges in connection to a multi-vehicle crash that left four dead and eight injured July 1 on the southbound side of I-95 near Georgia

City will pay for insurance to docks

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The Fernandina Beach City Commission agreed to renew its insurance on the City-owned Fernandina Harbor Marina’s docks, as a request for a waiver for that insurance has not been granted.

   

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