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DILLON BASSE / For the News-Leader At 50, Amy Petroy had her midlife crisis. For 27 years prior, her job in computers allowed her to travel the world, marry the love of her life, and live a comfortable lifestyle doing so. Even with all Petroy had accomplished, she still felt like there was...

Fernandina Beach Main Street – the mission of which is promoting economic vitality of downtown businesses – found itself in a damage control position recently due to a social media comment by one of its board members about downtown businesses that display signs supporting President Donald Trump...

Concerned Friends of Fernandina held a forum Friday to give the candidates for the Fernandina Beach City Commission a chance to answer questions about some major issues facing the city. The candidates for the commission’s Group 1 seat are Bradley Bean and Marian Phillips; Group 2, Alexandra...

New Zion Missionary Baptist Church is one of the oldest churches on Amelia Island. New Zion was established in 1870 under the leadership of Reverend Lewis Cook, a pioneer of the Gospel, with 69 followers. These 69 Christians, ably supported by Father Cook, as he was sometimes called, erected the...

The Nassau County Code Enforcement Board met Sept. 8 to consider three code violations, one of which received a lot of attention from the residents on Fern Parke Way in the Flora Parke community. On Aug. 12, construction vehicles began clearing trees and brush from the cul-de-sac area, which alarmed...

Dr. Eugenia Ngo-Seidel, director of the county health department, started back-to-back meetings of the Nassau County Board of County Commissioners Wednesday by providing an update on the county’s coronavirus pandemic statistics as of that morning. “Unfortunately, we’ve had 15 additional...