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Small town wisdom

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Since moving to Fernandina and becoming a first-time homeowner, I always look forward to hosting houseguests – especially my parents. Naturally, I delight in catching up and quality time.

Let’s rethink ‘New Year, New You’

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Now that another new year has started, we are inundated with ads and messages offering to help us become a “new you” this year. The problem with those messages is that the current you is amazing.

Now and Then

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One thing we have desired of the Lord that we will seek after is that we may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our lives, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.

Grateful for our abundant energy

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It’s been icy cold outside so far this winter in Northeast Florida. But it’s warm inside.

We should be grateful for our abundant energy here. Other places aren’t as fortunate.

James Thomas: A true American hero

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In 1998, Tom Brokaw, then the sole anchor of NBC Nightly News, authored a book entitled “The Greatest Generation.” The book’s title was derived from his experiences while visiting

A calculated risk

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Sometime ago, I read about a woman who had endured a tragic year. She lost loved ones, both to divorce and to death.

City mismanagement

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Fiscally conservative cities are easily outperforming those with the chaotic liberal policies of Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.

   

New ACLU leader points to ‘urgency of now’

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Saying the country is at a “deeply, deeply disturbing” juncture, Bacardi Jackson — a veteran litigator whose civil-rights advocacy is literally in her genes — is taking the mantle as executive dire

Decades-old cases dusted off in Warren fight

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As suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren runs in November to try to regain his job, a legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis continues playing out at a federal appeals court.