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Supervisor of Elections Office returns $666,480.93 to BOCC

News Staff

Thursday, November 2, 2023

The 2022-23 fiscal year ended on Sept. 30, 2023. Supervisor of Elections Janet H. Adkins returned $666,480.93 of the previous year’s budget to the Board of County Commissioners. “We are committed to allocating our resources to improve the voting process for Nassau County Voters,” said Janet H.

East Nassau Community Planning Area, known as Wildlight, is 24,000 acres in total.

East Nassau Community Planning Area: The next chapter

Tracy Dishman

Thursday, November 2, 2023

As part of its Vision 2023 initiative, Nassau County reached out to Rayonier, a timberland real estate investment trust headquartered in Yulee, in 2007 to head a planning effort that would help the county get ahead of the population growth it was foreseeing.

Representative Black. Photo by Julia Roberts/News-Leader

Legislators hear from constituents

News Staff

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Legislators representing Nassau County in Florida defended the state’s school voucher program, which allows roughly $8,000 to pay tuition at private schools if a student does not attend public, state-funded schools.

Yulee Royalty. Photo by Beth Jones/News-Leader

Yulee Royalty

Beth Jones

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Yulee High School held its homecoming festivities at halftime of the football game on Friday. Brynleigh Hall as crowned queen and quarterback Nikao Smith was crowned king.

Hurricane Idalia snapped off trees in Taylor County. File photo

Long hot summer

Sean Rosenthal

Friday, October 27, 2023

This past September was the hottest on global record, and Florida had its warmest January to September on record. It was the United States’ seventh hottest September ever recorded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A 54-foot, $1.2 million boat sinks after a collision that killed an endangered North Atlantic right whale calf and severely injured its mother in 2021 near St. Augustine. Photos courtesy Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Cruising for conservation

Sean Rosenthal

Friday, October 27, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is proposing changes to its vessel speed rules designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The changes would broaden the boundaries and timing of seasonal speed restriction areas along the U.S.

Path of the multi-use Amelia Island Parkway Trail, connecting South Fletcher Avenue to South 8th Street. Submitted photo

County “leading the way” on infrastructure

Sean Rosenthal

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Over the next few years Nassau County will explore widening SR 200 from CR 17 to Amelia Island Parkway, a William Burgess Boulevard extension from US 17 to Miner Road, two rebuilt fire stations and sleeping quarters added to Fire Station 20, a new road from Hendricks Road to Amelia Concourse and...

Nassau County’s newest Planning and Zoning Board member Ashley Spicer (left) and Omni Resort Manager and now AITDC member Joshua Summers. Submitted photos

County appoints two board members, health administrator

Sean Rosenthal

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Nassau County has a new Florida Department of Health Administrator, Amelia Island Tourism Development Council member and Planning and Zoning Board member.

Right Whale Festival

Right Whale Festival returns bigger than ever

News Staff

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The annual Right Whale Festival will return to Amelia Island and will be bigger than ever with more than 100 exhibitors and many new fun and educational events. The festival will be held Nov. 4-5 at Main Beach Park in Fernandina Beach, beginning at 10 a.m.

Animals at the fair. Photo by Katherine Dudley Hoehn

All about the animals at the Northeast Florida Fair

Guest Columnist

Friday, October 20, 2023

The short drive to Callahan from Amelia Island is well worth it for a genuine county fair experience. My friend, Lori, and I escaped for an afternoon that took us worlds away in a short span of time. We wanted to see the animals.