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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.

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Taylor Clem: A garden’s pest

Taylor Clem
Thursday, July 28, 2022
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.

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Julie Cannavino: Connect with other readers

News Staff
Friday, July 22, 2022
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.

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Rick Keffer: Local women to be admired

Rick Keffer
Friday, July 22, 2022
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.

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Phil Hudgins: 'Elvis' movie is good but not perfect

News Staff
Friday, July 22, 2022
The new movie “Elvis” is on our to-watch list, but before I fork out $21 for two tickets, I want a rating from a real person, not some reviewer’s paid-for hype. I called Joni Mabe in Cornelia, Georgia.

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Dale Martin: Budget proposal for fiscal 2023 of Fernandina Beach

Dale Martin
Friday, July 22, 2022
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.

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Dale Martin: Progress report on the seawall/riverwalk city project

Dale Martin
Friday, July 15, 2022
As I work with staff to complete the draft budget for next year, which will be presented to the City Commission at Tuesday’s meeting, let me offer a progress report on the most significant project as directed by the City Commission and included in this year’s budget: the seawall effort at the...