Raffle benefits Fernandina Beach Police Auxiliary
Submitted by Steve Filkoff Fernandina Police Auxiliary August 23, 2016 11:00 a.m. The Coastal [...]
Business is improving at the Port of Fernandina
Submitted by Susan Hardee Steger August 23, 2016 1:15 a.m. Business is improving at the [...]
Fernandina Beach Main Street Program hard at work
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 23, 2016 1:00 a.m. [...]
First reading: Annexing property for another new housing subdivision on Amelia Road
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 22, 2016 11:00 a.m. [...]
Fire Station review appears to be heading for approval in new budget
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 22, 2016 10:00 a.m. [...]
Citizens group lauds County Commissioner for transparent conversations on financial matters
Media Release August 22, 2016 9:30 a.m. Citizens for a Better Nassau County sent the [...]
Loft accommodations appear to be headed for N. 5th Street
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 21, 2016 1:00 a.m. [...]
Amelia Island revealed . . .
Submitted by Gale Jameyson August 21, 2016 1:00 a.m. Editor’s Note: Gale Jameyson moved to [...]
State Representative Janet Adkins Comments on Sexually Explicit Reading Materials
August 20, 2016 4:30 p.m. PRESS RELEASE Representative Janet H. Adkins [email protected] Contact: Rachel Lockhart [...]
Nassau County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 65 endorses Petree
August 20, 2016 7:50 a.m. The Nassau County Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #65 is [...]
Polls open today for August Primary Early Voting
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 19, 2016 1:01 p.m. [...]
Fernandina Beach honors local law enforcement, standing ovation from audience
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst At the urging of Fernandina [...]
FBCC votes 4-1 (reluctantly) to allow development at 14th and Lime Streets
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 17, 2016 4:51 p.m. [...]
Future of City Planning Advisory Board tabled for now
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 17, 2016 1:41 p.m. [...]
First Coast Manufacturers Association endorses Petree for School Board Dist 5
Press Release Submitted by Jonathan Petree August 17, 2016 11:12 a.m. Our campaign is proud [...]
Newly relocated recycle containers contaminated
Susan Hardee Steger August 16, 2016 10:58 a.m. Newly relocated recycling dumpsters filled with objects [...]
Fernandina Beach City Manager denies firefighter’s grievance
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 16, 2016 4:28 p.m. [...]
NACDAC offers free “Youth Mental Healthy First Aid Training”
Submitted by Mary Pitcher Business Development Manager August 16, 2016 3:45 p.m. Nassau Alcohol Crime [...]
How to select an effective school superintendent – An opinion
Submitted by Debra J. Ackerman August 16, 2016 3:21 p.m. I moved from New Jersey [...]
Island Sunrise Rotary Club – Operation New Uniform
Press Release Island Sunrise Rotary Club Submitted by Peggy Albrecht August 16, 2016 3:00 p.m. [...]
Nassau County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrest suspect out of Georgia
Press Release Nassau County Sheriff’s Office Bill Leeper, Sheriff August 16, 2016 10:02 a.m. The [...]
Fernandina Beach Mayor Endorses Joe Zimmerman
Zimmerman Campaign Media Release Joe Zimmerman, candidate for County Commissioner, District 5, announced this [...]
Auditors report on Parks & Rec internal controls, cite deficiencies
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 15, 2016 4:20 p.m. [...]
Fernandina mourns the passing of Mary Agnes White
Submitted by Susan Hardee Steger August 15, 2016 4:10 p.m. A long time Fernandina resident [...]
Janet Adkins: politician or educator? You decide. — An Opinion
Submitted by Linda Morris Retired Nassau County educator In her zeal for conducting a [...]
Author Mark Woods to appear at Book Loft
August 15, 2016 10:00 a.m.
Amelia Island revealed . . .
Submitted by Ed Richsteig August 14, 2016 1:00 a.m. Editor’s Note: Ed Richtsteig moved from [...]
Former State Senator Stephen R. Wise endorses Adkins
Media Release August 12, 2016 4:30 p.m. “It is a great honor to ENDORSE my [...]
Weekly comments from Dale Martin
Dale Martin City Manager Fernandina Beach August 12, 2016 1:00 a.m. The 2016-2017 budget process [...]
Call to Artists – Egans Creek Park
Press Release Cori Beychok, Marla McDaniel Marketing and Communication Island Art Association August 11, 2016 [...]
WG Pitts selected to provide master plan for Three Rivers mixed-use development in Nassau County
Media Release JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Aug. 11, 2016) – WG Pitts, an award-winning General Contracting, [...]
Early voting gets underway next week
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst Mail ballots are already being [...]
FBCC holds FY2016-17 Budget workshop
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 10, 2016 2:04 p.m. [...]
Summertime on the island
Evelyn C. McDonald Arts & Culture Reporter August 11, 2016 1:00 a.m. I used to [...]
Construction begins on City’s multi-purpose courts
Information provided by Nan Voit and Scott Mikelson” Park & Rec August 10, 2016 3:00 [...]
July 2016 business and building starts
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst The Fernandina Observer welcomes the following [...]
Do political signs work?
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst Love ‘em or hate ‘em, every [...]
Friends of the Library presents “The Art of the Japanese Print”
Friends of the Library Media Release Mary Pitcher August 9, 2016 11:00 a .m. Friends [...]
Local Sheriff Deputy “Doc” McDonald receives School Safety Award
Mary Pitcher Business Development Director Nassau Alcohol Crime Drug Abatement Coalition August 9, 2016 9:00 [...]
Daylight Loggerhead nesting observed
By Jayne C. Nasrallah July 8, 2016 11:00 a.m. On the morning of Wednesday, August [...]
Many voters switching to Republican in Nassau County
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 8, 2016 1:00 a.m. The [...]
Amelia Island revealed . . .
Submitted by Allison Cook August 7, 2016 1:00 a.m. Editor’s Note: Allison is a North [...]
Nassau County Mail In Ballots coming in
August 6, 2016 9:20 a.m. Although candidates continue to spend money on campaign flyers and television [...]
Miller and Childers will face off in November City Commission election.
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst Fernandina Beach City Clerk Caroline [...]
Amelia Island Trail Update
Amelia Island Trails Mike Spino August 5, 2016 11:00 a.m. Most Amelia Island residents are [...]
Weekly comments from Dale Martin
Dale Martin City of Fernandina Beach City Manager August 5, 2016 1:00 a.m. We seem [...]
Possible tornado hits Yulee area
Submitted by Susan Hardee Steger August 4, 2016 9:26 p.m. Close to 100 trees were [...]
Herschel Shepard on becoming an historic preservation architect at Fort Clinch
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 4, 2016 4:27 p.m. If [...]
Double red flag warning at Main Beach
August 4, 2016 4:24 p.m. As of 4:09 p.m. today, the Fernandina Beach Fire Rescue [...]
Fernandina Beach discusses creating a land bank
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst As its final item of [...]
UPDATE ON WESTROCK BOMB THREAT
Media Release Fernandina Beach Police Department On August 4, 2016 at approximately [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Bomb threat at Westrock
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst Chris Augustine, WestRock Director of [...]
Miller Boys & Girls Club earns “Painting a Brighter Future Grant” from local True Value Store
Boys & Girls Club Press Release Alan Donaldson August 4, 2016 9:33 a.m. The Miller [...]
FBCC votes 5-0 to approve Comp Plan change re hazardous materials in floodplain
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 3, 2016 8:28 p.m. [...]
Cats Angels Calendar Project
Submitted by Evelyn C. McDonald August 3, 2016 3:00 p.m. In 2010, my granddaughter visited [...]
State Senator Aaron Bean endorses Taylor for Nassau County Board of Commissioners
Media Release August 3, 2016 2:00 p.m. Justin Taylor, candidate for County Commissioner, District 5, [...]
Florida Pro-Family Leader John Stemberger endorses Adkins for Nassau Superintendent of Schools
Media Release August 3, 2016 1:00 p.m. John Stemberger, President of Florida Family Action, announced [...]
Egans Creek Park is moving forward.
Media Release
$$$ Following more money $$$
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst August 3, 2016 1:00 a.m. [...]
First Coast Manufacturers endorse Kathy Burns for School Superintendent
Burns Campaign Media Release
Nassau County Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #65 endorse candidate for Superintendent of Schools
Press Release August 1, 2016 2:00 p.m. The Nassau County Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge [...]
An evening of “Classical Organ and Blues Guitar” – Free concert
Press Release Submitted by Jerie Lukefahr August 1, 2016 1:00 a.m. On Wednesday, August 31, [...]
Needed: a common sense approach to hazardous materials in the floodplain – An opinion
Submitted by Aaron Bell August 1, 2016 1:00 a.m. The Fernandina City Commission will be [...]
Amelia Island revealed . . .
Submitted by Clyde W. Davis July 31, 2016 1:00 a.m. Editor’s Note: Clyde Waas Davis, [...]
FTC providing $4M in full refunds to people tricked into buying bogus “Extended Auto Warranties”
Federal Trade Commission Media Release July 29, 2016 1:00 p.m. The Federal Trade Commission is [...]
Log truck overturns at S. 8th & Gum
Photos courtesy of Mike Spino, Mike Pikula, and Joe Winston July 27, 2016 12:46 p.m. [...]
Gator’s Dockside to open in Yulee
From Diamonds to Dollars, July 29, 2016 11:00 Gator’s Dockside, a family-friendly, sports-themed restaurant, will [...]
Weekly Comments from Dale Martin
Dale Martin City Manager Fernandina Beach July 29, 2016 1:00 a.m. Our house finally emptied [...]
Candidates for Ocean Highway & Port Authority – Crafting a master plan?
July 28, 2016 8:10 p.m. Editor’s Note: A Fernandina Observer Town Hall Meeting involving candidates [...]
Former Attorney General and Nassau County Sheriffs endorse Adkins for N C Superintendent of Schools
Press Release Contact: Doug Adkins July 28, 2016 6:54 p.m. The Janet Adkins Campaign for [...]
Fernandina Beach election qualifying period August 1-5, 2016
Submitted by Suanne Z. Thamm Reporter – News Analyst July 28, 2016 6:15 p.m. [...]
A Baltic Cruise
Evelyn C. McDonald Arts & Culture Reporter July 28, 2016 11:00 a.m. Back from vacation [...]