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Wild-caught shrimp featured at weekend market

Find your favorite, locally produced products Saturday in Nassau County. Whether you find it convenient to Fernandina Beach or Yulee, the Market Place family of markets will have two markets Saturday to make shopping local convenient for you.

Votes for women: A portrait in persistence

The Friends of the Fernandina Beach Library are bringing a wonderful exhibit to the Fernandina Beach Branch Library entitled "Votes for Women: A Portrait in Persistence," from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling SITES program. This captivating exhibit will be on display from Sept. 21 to Dec.

Goodness and truth are always revealed in God’s beauty

Plato and Aristotle both believed that truth, goodness, and beauty conveyed divine meaning to the human soul. Truth, they believed, defined reality. Goodness described that which fulfilled its purpose. And beauty expressed “whatever is lovely.

Just when a mother thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother

Just when a mother thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. We celebrate Grandparents Day in September. As we celebrate, it is not the same. Grandparents are young, too, so how can they teach the younger parents how to be parents?

The most common scams we see day to day

We see common scams every day in our increasingly digital world, making it vial to stay vigilant about the variety of online threats that can compromise our security.

Bioethanol chemical manufacturing plant: The risk

I want to talk again about the proposed RYAM 2G bioethanol chemical manufacturing plant a bit more. Specifically, the risk. In a small town just north of here, a horrible tragedy occurred 53 years ago.

The rules that free us to live better lives

In today’s culture, the Ten Commandments don’t carry the kind of weight as they used to. Should our non-believing friends think of them at all, they likely think about a set of old-fashioned rules, better suited to another time.

Campaign cash sparks doubts about local government

There is a belief that I have heard regarding local governments and has been mentioned every now and then about our own government: Commissioners, and others, are on the take. They are willing to approve developments or grant variances because they are being paid off.

Quack!

RYAM’s Sr. Director of Project Management, Mark Homans, at a recent city commissioners meeting was posed one simple question: “Is the manufacturing of bioethanol a chemical manufacturing process?” Homans replied, “It is not.

Pimento cheese: Share the love

Today I made a large batch of pimento cheese. My family and I have a love relationship with this “Southern Caviar.