A sizable tree at the corner of 4th and Ash was snapped by winds early Sunday afternoon. A transformer blew within a short time of the trees demise, across the street in the same block. Within minutes city maintenance workers were on the scene, a bulldozer removed the tree and cleaned up the resultant mess. Thank God for the efficiency and work ethic of our city employees.
In spite of the damage wreaked by Beryl the city seems to have fared well and was into full recovery mode as the winds and some rain continued to belt our community. Hopefully, the long term assessment of damage will not include any loss of life or serious harm to our home.

What repairs are being made to The Shave Bridge and why has it taken so long? When the 8 lane I-35 bridge collapsed in Minnesota 08/01/2007 a new one was built and opened in 13 months!

I have been trying to sign up to receive your newspaper for the last three weeks, but every time I try it says “try again later.” What’s up?

Would like to ask “foodie” Gerry where we can get a Sunday brunch a la “Denny’s” type with pancakes, etc. We have tried Gourmet Gourmet, Ruth’s, Lulu’s, Huddle House, Elizabeth Pointe and some others without success. Denny’s and IHOP would be fine, but don’t want to drive to Ga.
Also, we like our steaks “Pittsburgh medium rare” and have not found a place that can do to our satisfaction.
Please advise any suggestions!
Thank You

Your motto: A JOURNAL OF NEWS AND OPINION

Made a comment a few weeks ago, maybe a month, about Charlie Corbitt being invisible in most of the pictures of the Fernandina Council in one of the online articles. Was making a joke, but the editorial team deleted my comment and emailed me the reason is because it is an election year.

This is what is called being a hypocrite isn’t it?

Does anyone know the status of the city drinking water. On 11/20/14 the water department sent a notice stating the testing exceeded the maximum contaminants of TTHM and HAA5. The amounts didn’t seem to be huge but they were enough that the city felt compelled to cover the issue by notice. If it has been resolved then a notice should go out stating that we are within normal regulatory limits. However, if the water is still outside of norm, then they need to get a move on ASAP. The letter states: ” Some people who drink water containing TTHM in excess of the MCL over many years may have problems with liver, kidneys or central nervous system and may have increased risk of cancer. Any consumer concerned about exposure to DBPs may choose alternate sources of water for consumption.” This sounds like a little CYA and they need to get it right. This is our health they are dealing with and many people that come to vacation.

01-09-16

Editors
Fernandina Observer
Fernandina Beach, FL

Dear Editors;

On Thursday, 7 January 2016, the Fernandina Beach High School Aerospace Technologies classes—forty students—completed their end-of-semester rocket launch. This launch was the students’ midterm exam. We had been using the practice athletic fields at the high school, but as the semester progressed the rockets became more complex and promised higher performance. As we lost more and more rockets it became clear that we had outgrown our home field.

For the second year in a row we had the privilege of using the Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport for our launch. With a large expanse of flat land (and few rocket-devouring trees), even the brisk wind did not stop us. Everyone got to fly, and with the lower clouds we were able to blend in safely with the very few airport operations that did occur.

I want to take a few lines to say, “Thanks.” Thank you to Dr. Spenser Lodree for trusting me enough to combine teenagers and small black powder-fueled ballistic projectiles. No one was hurt and we witnessed some truly inspired moments.

Bobby Kozakoff, the Airport Operations Manager, for allowing us to fly from the airport, and to make sure everyone knew how to behave safely around aircraft. He escorted our rocket retrieval team, and even recovered a few of the rockets himself—no small feat as some of the models drifted more than one half mile down range.

A special thanks to Sean McGill, and McGill Aviation, for letting us invade his building. He gave us a place (Hang Glide USA’s reception room—thanks to the HGU gang!) to conduct our pre-launch briefing, prep our rockets, have lunch or simply dodge the chill breezes and warm up a bit. We even got permission to use their golf cart to chase down some of the wayward rockets, too.

Without the help of any one of these people, we might not have been able to complete our semester testing. Thank you everyone for your contribution to the education of some of Fernandina Beach’s fine students.

Sincerely,

Keoki Gray, Instructor
Aerospace Technologies 1 & 2

how come you dont have news like the other newspaper and why dont you print the local obituaries?

I’ve been a subscriber for several years now and receive your daily email reminders when a new article is published. After clicking on the link in the email I am redirected (as usual) to your web site for a full version of the article.

For the past few weeks, after being directed to the web site, I receive a pop-up notice asking me if I want to “subscribe to our daily news. Since I’m already a subscriber, this pop-up is beginning to become annoying.

If your crack IT Department can’t fix this problem, I’ll learn to live with it. I just thought you should know in case others have the same feelings.

Thanks to all of the Observer team for a great publication.

lWe read the very interesting and coincidental article this morning by Gerry Clare about their move to Cypress Village, as last month we went on the Cypress Village wait list with a wait list deposit. We’re currently in our summer home near Asheville, N.C. though our actual residence is in West Palm Beach, where we return at the end of October.

We’ll be visiting Cypress Village again to check availability in mid August, and hope to look up Ms
Clare then.
Len/Lorraine Resnick

To Mr. Ross:

My family and I have been coming to Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach almost four decades. We love both. We live shopping in Fernandina Beach at Charlie Taykor’s Atlantic Seafood and Steve Hair’s Ye Olde Pirate. We fished with Mike Odom. We went into the Shoppes of the Landon’s and still go often to Arlene’s Island Treasures and Emma’s Shop now. We have frequented Fernandina Fisge, Brett’s,Amelia Island Hardware, Espana, Last flight Out, Salty Pelican, Golden Grouoer, the CrabTrap, Timoti’s, Robison Jewelry, Pablo’s, Hola(very happily often), Amelia Outfitters, Joe’s, 29 South, Luku’s, the Green Turtle, the Florida House, PalaceSLoon, AmeliaTavern, the Marina, Teisted Sisters, Jack and Diane’s Ciao, Luca’s, Amelia Coffee,the Boathouse, Pepper’s, The Celtic Shop, numerous t-shirt shops, the Chanber of Commerce, Caribi, Wicked Bao with Natalie, Tasty’s, theLoop, Diane’s Bakery, Elizabeth Pointe, the Hiyt House, Red Otter, Driftwood,Island Treasures, David’s, the Ghos Tours, Trailer Park Collectobles, Sabbia, Friends of the Library sales, Pajama DVe’s, Snad Bar,A-A gas and the other one on South fletcher, Turner Ace Hardware, ERA Fernandina Realty for dozens and dozens of rentals and as many referrals over the years, Roger Martin there to buy our townhouse, Oublix, AneliaLiauors,Bealls, Bealls Outlet, UOS, Alvin’s, the BeCh Diner, Petsnque, Fort Clinch, Bartles ramp, Eganz Creek, the Surf,Sliders, Island BBQ, Walgreen’s and CVS, Moon River Pizza , Barnabas House, Lott’s, the movie theater at 14th and Lime, the hospital and simply dozens and dozens more businesses we have frequented over almost forty years now we own a townhouse on south Fletcher within eyesight of the Gernandina Beach city limits sign.

And somehow after all of this we are going to be charged for beach parking after spending literally thousands upon thousands of dollars in Fernandina Beach over forty years?

REALLY? Never mind utrilities and taxes and FPUC utilities and many many other not yet named contributions to this wonderful island.

We are part of your target audience to hit up for pocket change to go once in a while perhaps to the North End to walk that beach.

You are going to insult a lot of folks like us. And you are going to become ‘just like the rest’ who charge Beach parking and that is going to be anegative factor in their choice of where to go to spend their vacation dollars. What a foolish move.

Whenever I google Fernandina Observer and clink on the link, I get sent to April 13…..not today’s date.

Using the search to retrieve, say, April 21, 2020 returns all find of stuff from different dates.

I understand your desire to create a new look, but it does not seem to work.

How do I simply look at today’s news? Used to work just fine.

H E L P