Author Archives: Kathy Blacklock
Pat’s Wildways: Searching for Seahorses
By Pat Foster-Turley December 9, 2022 The sun woke me up early in southern Belize [...]
Dec
Pat’s Wildways: Bosque Bello Cemetery
By Pat Foster-Turley December 2, 2022 If you are looking for an interesting walk on [...]
Dec
City Manager’s Comments – Service Awards
By Dale Martin, City Manager The city work staff has not been immune to the [...]
Dec
Phyllis Gwendoline Grace Blacklock, 102
November 28, 2022 Longtime Fernandina Beach resident, Phyllis “Phyll” Gwendoline Grace (Petvin) Blacklock, 102, passed [...]
Nov
Pat’s Wildways: Boris the Botfly Goes to the University
By Pat Foster-Turley November 25, 2022 Some of you readers may remember that Bucko and [...]
Nov
City Manager’s Comments – Christmas
By Dale Martin, City Manager From the time that I first visited Fernandina Beach as [...]
Nov
City Manager’s Comments – Thanksgiving
By Dale Martin, City Manager November offers two significant days for me. One is singularly [...]
Nov
Pat’s Wildways: Like a Mother to Me?
By Pat Foster-Turley November 18, 2022 I was older than 30 when I entered the [...]
Nov
City Manager’s Comments – Election
By Dale Martin, City Manager Another biannual general election has closed. We can now pause [...]
Nov
Pat’s Wildways: Was that a Pig?
By Pat Foster-Turley November 11, 2022 Amelia Island abounds with pets traveling with their owners [...]
Nov
Fernandina Beach Voters Elect Bradley Bean New Mayor
By Wes Wolfe Florida Politics Fernandina Beach, with a median resident age of 55, isn’t [...]
Nov
City Manager’s Comments – Flood Risk Ratings
By Dale Martin, City Manager The City Commission, through Resolution 2021-20, established a series of [...]
Nov
Pat’s Wildways: The Marsh is Alive
By Pat Foster-Turley November 4, 2022 When the land on Crane Island was slated for [...]
Nov
City Manager’s Comments – The Riverfront
By Dale Martin, City Manager An interesting facet of working at City Hall is the [...]
Oct
Pat’s Wildways: Blue Crabs
By Pat Foster-Turley October 28, 2022 I’m sure lots of you readers have happily feasted [...]
Oct
OHPA Does the Right Thing! Mayor is on Board
By Tammi Kosack October 25, 2022 It’s been a while since we’ve seen agreement between [...]
Oct
Candidate Essay by Darron Ayscue: Common Sense, Not Nonsense
Darron Ayscue for City Commission Seat 5, Fernandina Beach EDITOR’S NOTE: A few weeks ago, [...]
Oct
Pat’s Wildways: A Fort Clinch Saturday Morning
By Pat Foster-Turley October 21, 2022 One recent Saturday, it was a beautiful day—sunny, clear, [...]
Oct
Candidate Essay by Mike Lednovich: Preserving Our City’s Quality of Life
Mike Lednovich for City Commission Seat 4, Fernandina Beach EDITOR’S NOTE: A few weeks ago, [...]
Oct
Pat’s Wildways: Greenway Adventures
By Pat Foster-Turley October 14, 2022 These days I seem to have decreasing successes with [...]
Oct
City Manager’s Comments – Storm Assessment
By Dale Martin October 7, 2022 One week after Hurricane Ian (a tropical storm when [...]
Oct
Pat’s Wildways: Hurricane Season
By Pat Foster-Turley October 7, 2022 Just as regular as clockwork, my orange hurricane lilies [...]
Oct
Pat’s Wildways: Darien, Georgia Revisited
By Pat Foster-Turley September 30, 2022 Lots of my readers probably get the Harris Teeter [...]
Sep
Pat’s Wildways: For the Love of Cats
By Pat Foster-Turley September 23, 2022 I have always been a cat person. Throughout junior [...]
Sep
City Manager’s Comments – Front Street
By Dale Martin September 23, 2022 Although the most significant highlight of Tuesday evening’s City [...]
Woman joins Baptist Health’s Familial Brain Aneurysm Study to help others, ends up saving her own life
Press Release Submitted by Kristi Tucker September 17, 2022 Pamela Jordan, 61, of St. Johns, [...]
Pat’s Wildways: The Deer Whisperer at Fort Clinch
By Pat Foster-Turley September 16, 2022 Bucko and I often see deer when we make [...]
Sep
City Manager’s Weekly Comments – Trees
By Dale Martin September 16, 2022 As the current fiscal year nears its conclusion (Sept. [...]
Sep
Observer’s City Commission Candidate Forum Is Coming Up
By Mike Phillips, Editor The seven candidates for two seats on the Fernandina Beach City [...]
Pat’s Wildways: Watch Out for Tortoises
By Pat Foster-Turley September 9, 2022 Many people who live here on Amelia Island are [...]
Sep
City Manager’s Weekly Comments – National Community Survey Results
By Dale Martin September 2, 2022 The data from the City’s recent National Community Survey [...]
Sep
Pat’s Wildways: Psychic Capital of the World, Part Two
By Pat Foster-Turley September 1, 2022 The morning after the séance and piano bar [...]
Sep
Barnabas Receives Support for Dental Program
Barnabas Center Press Release Submitted by Nicola Barnack Director of Development August 31, 2022 [...]
Aug
Bosque Bello Cemetery Gets New Landscapers
City of Fernandina Beach August 26, 2022 The rumors are true. Starting Monday, Aug. 29, [...]
Aug
City Manager’s Weekly Comments – Staff
By Dale Martin With the hiring of Ms. Catherine Vorrasi to lead the Parks and [...]
Pat’s Wildways: Psychic Capital of the World
By Pat Foster-Turley August 26, 2022 If you are looking for a strange but interesting [...]
Aug
Traders Hill Farm Partners with Barnabas Center to Deliver Healthy Foods Across Nassau County
Barnabas Center Press Release Submitted by Nicola Barnack Director of Development August 24, 2022 Barnabas [...]
Aug
Nassau voters pick Ray Nelson, Justin Taylor for Fernandina Port Authority
By Wes Wolfe, Florida Politics There are going to be two new faces overseeing port [...]
Nassau County School Board Races Head to Runoffs
By Wes Wolfe, Florida Politics Nassau County, with its deep-red politics and ability to generate [...]
Alyson McCullough Takes Western Seat on Nassau Co. Commission
By Wes Wolfe, Florida Politics One of the nastier and more-competitive North Florida races not [...]
Hupp Huppmann Wins Nassau Co. Commission Battle
By Wes Wolfe, Florida Politics It was a thorough drubbing for incumbent Nassau County Commissioner Aaron Bell, [...]
Dr. Taylor Clem to Speak at The Bartram Garden Club Open House
The Bartram Garden Club, Inc. Submitted by Linda Broadrick Secretary and Publicity Chairman August 23, [...]
Aug
Pat’s Wildways: Souvenirs from Belize
By Pat Foster-Turley August 18, 2022 These days, I’ve traveled to many places and brought [...]
Aug
City Manager’s Weekly Comments – CRA Update
By Dale Martin At the joint meeting Monday evening between the City Commission (acting as [...]
Amelia Island Makes “World’s Best” List for Fourth Consecutive Year
Amelia Island has been voted No. 10 among the “Best Islands in the Continental United [...]
Aug
City Manager’s Weekly Comments – City Streets
By Dale Martin As the 2022-2023 budget process continues, a topic of significant discussion [...]