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Wood working by Mike’s Makings. Multi-media art of pelicans by Our Glass Creations will be at the Fernandina Beach Art’s market tomorrow. Submitted photos

Wood working by Mike’s Makings. Multi-media art of pelicans by Our Glass Creations will be at the Fernandina Beach Art’s market tomorrow. Submitted photos

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Only two more markets before the Shrimp Festival

Guest Columnist
Thursday, April 20, 2023
The farmers markets close just one day a year and that is the Saturday of the Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival. The downtown Fernandina Beach Market Place farmers market will be open two more times before the Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival; there is no market on May 6.

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Call me quirky

Guest Columnist
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Have you ever been dubbed “quirky”? I have. A great many times since adolescence. Perhaps it was the fact that I drank coffee at age 8. Maybe it had something to do with my adoration for Whoopi Goldberg at age 10.
John Muir, circa 1896, was the first president of the Sierra Club and started the preservationist movement in the United States. Part of his journeys across the United States brought him to Fernandina, through Callahan, toward Waldo and ending in Cedar Key. Along his way, he journaled about Florida’s flora and fauna. Submitted photo

John Muir, circa 1896, was the first president of the Sierra Club and started the preservationist movement in the United States. Part of his journeys across the United States brought him to Fernandina, through Callahan, toward Waldo and ending in Cedar Key. Along his way, he journaled about Florida’s flora and fauna. Submitted photo

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A traveler’s memoir: A celebration of Earth Day

Taylor Clem
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Globally, we come together on Earth Day to celebrate our home and raise awareness of environmental protection.
Photo courtesy of UF/IFAS Photo Big Cypress National Preserve houses more than 30 orchid species, including the Ghost Orchid. Usually blooming in the peak of summer, the Sphinx Moth visits the orchid at night, using its long proboscis to collect nectar, which ends up spreading pollen to other Ghost Orchids. It was believed that only the Giant Sphinx Moth pollenated the Ghost Orchid until 2019, when researchers photographed a PawPaw Sphinx Moth feeding from a Ghost Orchid.

Photo courtesy of UF/IFAS Photo Big Cypress National Preserve houses more than 30 orchid species, including the Ghost Orchid. Usually blooming in the peak of summer, the Sphinx Moth visits the orchid at night, using its long proboscis to collect nectar, which ends up spreading pollen to other Ghost Orchids. It was believed that only the Giant Sphinx Moth pollenated the Ghost Orchid until 2019, when researchers photographed a PawPaw Sphinx Moth feeding from a Ghost Orchid.

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Marvelous adaptations – the orchid

Taylor Clem
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Recently we explored the world’s largest plant family – the Asteraceae family, better known as the Daisy Family. It contains more than 32,000 species of plants. Our second largest plant family looks rather different and is surprising to many – the Orchid Family or Orchidaceae.

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Songs make the best stories

News Staff
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
When was the last time you really listened to a song and clearly heard the words? Those words were crafted by songwriters with a gift for telling a story in a few short minutes.

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My view: Our next city manager

Foy Maloy
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Misinformation is swirling in our town like a tropical storm surrounding the city manager selection process. It certainly appears to be a sloppy process, at best. With a new city commission appointing a citizens city manager search committee with additional layers of advisors.

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Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Cara Curtin
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
The 248th anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride is coming up, and I thought it might be a good time for a quick refresher about that night. Most of what I thought I knew comes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.

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Though troubles come, they cannot last

Guest Columnist
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Troubles can only be measured by the people who are experiencing them. However, God’s solution is the same for everyone; His word, acceptance of His Son and obedience to the leading of His spirit. Trouble does not come to defeat us because the devil knows that is impossible.

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Enjoy God and know the peace that follows

Guest Columnist
Thursday, March 23, 2023
The point and purpose of being human, says the Westminster Shorter Catechism, is “to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” From much of what’s been written lately, it seems as though we’ve got the first part down.

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Award-winning author comes to Fernandina Beach

Guest Columnist
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Unless you have missed the library’s newspaper column the past month or two, you have heard me talk about our One Book, One Community (1B1C) initiative. The mission of this  year-long program is to promote literacy by encouraging community-wide discussions about one selected book.