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Three key ingredients to retirement

Q: I am a 59-year-old male about to retire from a 30-year state job I loved. I never had any outside interests other than supporting my family and raising the kids. I don't think I would be good at retirement. Any suggestions?

Turning the page to 2023

Thank you to those that joined me at the Open Table Dinner on Christmas Day at the Nassau County Council on Aging. About forty-fifty people, most of them unfamiliar with the others except for a spouse or companion, celebrated the bounty of this community: fellowship, food, and spirit.

Records search updates mean News-Leader updates

The website where the News-Leader newsroom gathers arrest reports and follows court cases is going through an update. Some search features we use to compile the list of weekly arrests that you, our reader, have requested are unavailable.

Loving our lonely neighbors at Christmas

For most of us, this is the season that overflows with joy and goodwill. But we know that’s not the case for everyone.

His covenant with us

When we shout out loud in the midst of seeming disaster, God immediately hears and comes on the scene to confirm His covenant with us.

The season of giving

Nassau County Public Library hosted another Cat Café in conjunction with Nassau County Animal Services last weekend to coincide with the always popular Dickens on Centre.

Three markets open for last-minute shopping

There are five Saturdays in December, so the Fernandina Beach Market Place farmers market and the Fernandina Beach Arts Market will be open on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, but Dec. 17 will be the final Wildlight Market Place for 2022.

Success can be finding trees to cut, the family nearby

It was seven days before Christmas. Beulah Thompson and I were driving about 20 miles to a North Georgia county to visit with a family she wanted me to meet.

A poker hand with four aces and a wild card

Florida prides itself on being a place where wokeness goes to die. And Fernandina Beach is now another graveyard for woke policies, big government and wasteful spending. The woke, radical agenda has died another day.

And you are now the leaders

With the city commission election completed this week, let me first offer congratulations to Dr. James Antun (Seat 4) and Darron Ayscue (Seat 5) for their successful election effort.