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Raven paints on-site at the Arts Market. Submitted photo

Raven paints on-site at the Arts Market. Submitted photo

Celebrate National Farmers Market Week

Guest Columnist
Thursday, August 10, 2023
The Fernandina Beach Market Place farmers market joins markets across the country in celebrating National Farmers Market Week from August 6-12, 2023.

Nobody asked me but…

Howard Pines
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Jimmy Cannon time again. Jimmy was a favorite columnist who wrote “Nobody asked me but ….” He died in 1973 and when I have enough material, I try to replicate his column. Love it.  NY Mets spend the most money in baseball and have one of the worst records.
Saturday morning scrimmage for Pirates. Photo by Beth Jones/News-Leader

Saturday morning scrimmage for Pirates. Photo by Beth Jones/News-Leader

In pictures: Saturday morning scrimmage for Pirates

Beth Jones
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
The Fernandina Beach High School football team scrimmaged Saturday morning as the Pirates prepare for the kickoff of the 2023 season. FBHS hosts Hilliard Aug. 18 in a preseason Kickoff Classic. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. The regular season kicks off Aug. 25 at home with Providence.

The landscape’s Fairy Rings

Taylor Clem
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Puck, a servant to Oberon (King of the Fairies) meets a fairy at the beginning of Act II, Scene One of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is speaking with the fairy when she states, “And I serve the Fairy Queen (Titania), to dew her orbs upon the green.

Search firm presents city manager candidate list

Julia Roberts
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Colin Baenziger, the executive search firm hired by the city of Fernandina Beach to recruit candidates to serve as city manager, sent its list of candidates the firm believes are the top contenders for the position to the city.

FBI Operation Cross Country leads to local rescues, arrests

Holly Dorman
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
The FBI Jacksonville Division announced the outcome of Operation Cross Country XIII on Monday. Operation Cross Country is the FBI-led initiative aimed at locating and rescuing victims of human trafficking and carrying out investigations to arrest and charge those responsible.
Patrick McDowell. Photo courtesy of Nassau County Sheriffs Office

Patrick McDowell. Photo courtesy of Nassau County Sheriffs Office

McDowell’s sentencing moves to April

Kathie Sciullo
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Patrick McDowell’s sentencing trial in the 2021 shooting death of Nassau County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Moyers will be pushed back to April 2024.  The Jacksonville man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the Nassau County Courthouse March 10.