Regional

Nassau County commissioners Klynt Farmer wants to consider changing the county’s alcohol ordinance to be less restrictive on the west side of the county.

Should county revisit alcohol sales laws on west side?

News Staff
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Nassau County Commissioner Klynt Farmer wants to change the county’s alcohol sales ordinance to decrease restrictions on the western portion of the county. In Nassau County, I-95 is the dividing line restricting the time bars and liquor stores can sell alcoholic beverages on Sundays. An...
Ophelia Jones Morgan Judson spent her life in Callahan. She worked as a certified nursing assistant and also prepared cafeteria meals at Pine Forest Community School for many years. Judson attended Greater Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church for most of her life. She died May 17.

‘A MOUNTAIN OF WISDOM’

News Staff
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Ophelia Jones Morgan Judson leaves a legacy of wise counsel and care for many in the community. She died in her Callahan home May 17.  The town of Callahan honored Judson on her 100th birthday with a mayoral proclamation in 2014.
Memorial Day Observance Ceremony

HONORING THE FALLEN

News Staff
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
The Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 1088, hosted a Memorial Day Observance Ceremony on Monday at the Veterans Monument in downtown Fernandina Beach. The ceremony included an invocation, posting of the colors, songs, a recitation of the fallen, folding of the flag and the laying of a wreath...
Stephen Beckman

Golf course GM, building official leaving city

News Staff
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
The city of Fernandina Beach is losing its embattled building official and the general manager of the Fernandina Beach Golf Club, increasing the total of department leaders the city has lost in the past 30 days to three. Parks and Recreation Director Nan Voit’s career with the city ends this...
Edgar Meyer

CLOSING NUMBER

News Staff
Friday, May 28, 2021
The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival will host classical bassist, Edgar Meyer, and the Dover Quartet at Amelia Baptist Church with a live, socially-distanced audience at 3 and 7 p.m. Thursday, June 3. The concert is part of the festival’s commitment to bring the world’s greatest musical...
This spot just south of the boat ramp could become the home of Atlantic Seafood. The city of Fernandina Beach is working with a potential leaseholder to move a North Front Street building to the city-owned parcel.

New deal possible for building relocation

News Staff
Friday, May 28, 2021
The time for saving a 95-year-old building on the Amelia River waterfront is ticking down, while the city of Fernandina Beach works to find a way move the building to city property. The wooden structure at 231 N. Front St. was built in 1926, It is a 42-foot-by-40-foot building that began life as...
Taco Pope

County leader: City should fund its parks program

News Staff
Friday, May 28, 2021
One Nassau County official says the city of Fernandina Beach should raise fees and consider raising taxes, as the county has, instead of asking the county to share the financial burden of maintaining Parks and Recreation facilities used by city and county residents. At a joint planning meeting...
A major project came to fruition Tuesday with a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of two Marriott hotels on Atlantic Avenue. Holding the scissors in the middle of the photo is primary owner Greg Grove and Jason Nicholason, vice president of hotel operations at Innisfree Hotels.

ROOMS APLENTY

News Staff
Friday, May 28, 2021
Amelia Island has 239 more hotels rooms with the opening of Courtyard by Marriott Amelia Island and SpringHill Suites by Marriott Amelia Island located on Atlantic Avenue near Main Beach. A ribbon cutting was held Tuesday with representatives from the Amelia Island Tourist Development Council and...
Nassau County Board of County Commissioners

County commissioners approve Westside Regional Park plan

News Staff
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
The Westside Regional Park master plan was approved Monday at the Nassau County Board of County Commissioners meeting. Vice President Shawn Bliss of Prosser Inc. presented the Westside Regional Park master plan to the board. The $13 million, 107.65-acre park is located on U.S. 1 between Hilliard...
Justin Taylor

Former county commissioner tapped to lead hotel’s sales, marketing

News Staff
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Former Nassau County Commissioner Justin Taylor has joined the Residence Inn by Marriott team on Amelia Island as their new director of sales and marketing. Taylor brings more than 15 years of sales and public relations experience, having worked in both private industry and government agencies....