Columns

Rick Keffer: A historic eye opener

About six months ago, Donna Paz Kaufman passed on a book to me. Unlike my wife and kids, I am historically not a book reader. However, I digested it bit by bit and learned about Black American history. The book is titled The 1619 Project by Nikole Ahnnah-Jones.
Pesticides manage garden pests, but our beneficial organisms usually manage many of our garden pests. Misuse of pesticides may affect our beneficial insect population, leading to pesticide dependence. This is an adult female milkweed assassin bug feeding on a cornsilk fly. The cornsilk fly can spread disease. Submitted photo.

Pesticides manage garden pests, but our beneficial organisms usually manage many of our garden pests. Misuse of pesticides may affect our beneficial insect population, leading to pesticide dependence. This is an adult female milkweed assassin bug feeding on a cornsilk fly. The cornsilk fly can spread disease. Submitted photo.

Taylor Clem: A garden’s pest

It is inevitable – any can attest. Look closely and you will see a garden and its pest. But what is a pest? Usually when we think of the term “pest,” we may think of insect pests. Pests also include pathogens, microbes, nematodes or weeds.

Julie Cannavino: Connect with other readers

Do you know that feeling of reading and loving a great book and wanting to be able to talk about it with others? If you are like me, you tell your spouse and friends about it until they politely tell you they have heard enough.

Rick Keffer: Local women to be admired

Picking a topic every week is not easy. I sat down for a half-hour with one of these women this week and an idea arose. Why not share some women I admire with this column.  As always, my list or mentions are front of mind. These women were the ones that struck me first.

Dale Martin: Budget proposal for fiscal 2023 of Fernandina Beach

Honorable City Commissioners, residents and staff of the city of Fernandina Beach, please find following this memorandum of the proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget for the city of Fernandina Beach. The proposed budget reflects total revenues and expenditures in the amount of $195,278,427.