Author Archives: Anne H. Oman

Fernandina’s Shrimping Industry: Storied Past, Uncertain Future – A Look Back

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large May 8, 2022 April 3, 2019 10:30 a.m. Editor’s Note: [...]

Needed: A Bird Rehab Facility in Nassau County

By Anne H Oman Reporter-at-Large April 25, 2022 In the back of Terri Oliver’s gray, [...]

Local residents helped fund protesting truckers

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large “Fernandina ranked fifth among the U.S. communities that contributed to [...]

Remembering Dr. Britton

By Anne H. Oman Reporter At Large October 25, 2021 Now that abortion is once [...]

A look back – An interview with Jacques Pepin, chef and snowbird extraordinaire

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large July 3, 2021 Originally posted March 17, 2019 Editor’s Note:  [...]

Lofty condos will provide opportunities for downtown living

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large May 21, 2021 Some 33 years ago, Robbie Young came [...]

Island voices, speaking in poetry

By Anne H. Oman May 10, 2021 ‘I’ve been writing poetry since I was a [...]

Midori: Making Music, Building Connections

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large March 25, 2021 When she was a toddler in Osaka, [...]

The vaccine roll out: reaching out to the African-American community

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large February 26, 2021 “This is personal to me – I [...]

Despite COVID and competition from Amazon, Fernandina’s Bookstores are doing fine

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large November 2, 2020 “We keep urging people to shop local, [...]

Fernandina marchers call for justice, equality

By Anne H. Oman Reporter-At-Large October 18, 2020 Masked and socially distancing, more than a [...]

“We are some of the lucky ones,” say local couple who recovered from COVID-19

By Anne H Oman Reporter-At-Large April 13, 2020 At press time, Nassau County counted 34 [...]