Lauren Debolt is Callahan Middle School's spotlighted teacher.
GreenPointe Developers, LLC, in partnership with the Nassau County Board of Commissioners, recently celebrated the groundbreaking of Tributary Park, a new regional park within a developing 3,200-home community.
Adrienne Burke, ACIP, Esq., has resigned as director of the county’s Planning & Economic Opportunity Department to accept a planning position in Miami. Assistant Director Valerie Feinberg began serving as interim PEO director as of March 1. SUBMITTED
The cover of the Evaluation and Appraisal Report for the city of Fernandina Beach's Comprehensive Plan. CITY OF FERNANDINA BEACH
Cousins Dixie Conekin and Aliya Works volunteer at the Be the Change Northeast Florida, Inc. clothing giveaway Saturday. The duo assists at the non-profit’s events often.
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The area lined in blue is the location of a proposed gas-powered turbine that would supply steam and hot water to the Fernandina Beach WestRock paper mill. GT Stack stands for “gas turbine.” HRSG Stack stands for “heat recovery steam generator.” An application for an air construction permit for the facility has been submitted to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. WestRock officials have not commented on the project. AMELIA ISLAND ENERGY
Kimberly Kessler is facing a first-degree murder charge in the case of Joleen Cummings, a Nassau County hairdresser with whom Kessler worked. A competency hearing was held last week, the results of which will be determined next month. JULIA ROBERTS/NEWS-LEADER
A marker on the Fort San Carlos Plaza in Old Town Fernandina notes the story of the slave ship Guerrero, which hit a reef off of Key Largo in 1827 while on its way to Cuba carrying 561 enslaved Africans. Three hundred and ninety-eight surviving captives were sold as slaves. Two years later, 100 of the remaining people who survived the ordeal were taken from Fernandina to Africa by the U.S. government. PEG DAVIS/NEWS-LEADER
Jerry Decker, the newest member of the city’s Marina Advisory Board, offered a new idea to help pay off the marina’s debt – using the city’s Land Conservation Trust Fund – for an effort he called “Conserve the Marina.” JULIA ROBERTS/NEWS-LEADER