By Linda Hart Green I don’t like to admit I was a know-it-all in school. I wore thick glasses and sat in the front and always raised my hand. My teachers would say, “Linda, we need to give …

STATE OF THE CITY – By Chip Ross 10 October 2023 Last week all the City Commissioners received an e-mail from the new City Manager – Ty Ross. It stated in part: “As I prepare to begin my new …

By Mike Lednovich At Tuesday night's city commission meeting, Fernandina Beach Mayor Bradley Bean's unvarnished criticism of local media outlets as "fake news" brings to the forefront a debate about …

By Linda Hart Green I grew up with “sand between my toes,” as my parents used to say. The New Jersey shore was my second home. My mother told me that on my first car ride to the shore as a tiny …

Dear Sir, I’ve been reading about you. I do that a lot: reading about people who have changed their cities and towns for the better – or, like Einstein, changed the world. You might not be up …

By Linda Hart Green My jeweler/watchmaker father earned a nickname in the community where his business was located. In fact, the headline of the feature article written about him at his death at age …

By Mike Lednovich Twice in eight days the Fernandina Beach City Commission told residents your opinions don't matter on three of the most important decisions in the city. First was the commission …

By Linda Hart Green I had a different topic chosen for this commentary. I couldn’t write about it. The racially motivated murders in Jacksonville on August 26, 2023 weighed too heavily on my heart. …

By April L. Bogle My father was a pious young man who attended a Bible college, but he gave up on God while serving in World War II. Instead of seeking a savior, he turned to seeking truth based on …

By Linda Hart Green I took a photo of a mishmash of wiring out of a cab window in San Jose, Costa Rica. We had just come to a breathless stop as my experienced driver navigated the crisscross of …

By Wally Moran Having stopped in Fernandina Beach by boat more than 50 times myself, and having led 10 boating rallies that have stopped here, I feel I need to comment on your marina fee issue. …

By Samuel Jefferson Kennard I am shocked and dismayed to hear that Amelia Baptist Church wants to become a property developer. There seems to be no limit to poorly conceived and egregious …

My first church fight scared the pants off me. I was only five and unprepared for a bunch of adult Southern Baptists screaming at each other, stomping up and down the aisles, leaving the sanctuary …

The cost of the city commission's 50% pay raise that’s under discussion is $30,000. It’s easy to say it’s “just” $30,000, a drop in the bucket of the Fernandina Beach budget that’s moving …

On Friday, July 14, 2023, former Fernandina Beach City Manager Dale Martin was hired on a unanimous vote of 6-0 to be the next city manager of Flagler Beach, a coastal Atlantic city located between …

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The Fernandina Beach City Commission (FBCC) sticks its head in the sand as infrastructure and city facilities deteriorate. All in order to keep taxes at the rollback …

By Lauri deGaris Recently, a good friend of almost 40 years gifted me an LP album entitled “Southern Grassroots Music Tour -- Oh, What a Time,” produced in 1980. Yes, I still have an LP record …

By Linda Hart Green Linda Hart Green “Why don’t they get it?” It’s the question public theologian and prolific author Dr. Brian McLaren has heard a lot while crisscrossing the country doing …

By Mike Phillips So here we go again. Yet another well-respected engineering firm has told Fernandina Beach that the substructure under Brett’s Waterway Cafe, a popular tourist destination in the …

By Melissa A. Moss Recent history shows there are a lot of thoughtful folks in our community who care deeply about people, government policies and issues in a way that transcends party affiliation. …