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The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island's 4th Annual Cookout runs Oct. 15-18 with more than 20 food experiences, including a $45 celebrity chef event featuring Michelin-starred Ron Hsu and Advanced Sommelier Sarah Thomas.
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The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island's 4th Annual Cookout runs Oct. 15-18 with more than 20 food experiences, including a $45 celebrity chef event featuring Michelin-starred Ron Hsu and Advanced Sommelier Sarah Thomas.
Local Government
Community
The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island's 4th Annual Cookout runs Oct. 15-18 with more than 20 food experiences, including a $45 celebrity chef event featuring Michelin-starred Ron Hsu and Advanced Sommelier Sarah Thomas.
Local Government
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The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island's 4th Annual Cookout runs Oct. 15-18 with more than 20 food experiences, including a $45 celebrity chef event featuring Michelin-starred Ron Hsu and Advanced Sommelier Sarah Thomas.
Local Government
Fernandina Beach has completed the acquisition of nearly 10 acres along Egans Creek through a partnership with the North Florida Land Trust, including a nine-acre wetland donation from Sherry Quattlebaum and a one-acre Sadler Road purchase from Pineland Holding Company.
Local Government
Fernandina Beach's Waterfront Advisory Board unanimously advanced the draft Harbor Master Plan to an Oct. 20 City Commission workshop, but left unresolved who pays for a flood wall across private waterfront parcels and what legal mechanism would compel owners to build it.
Local Government
The National Park Service more than doubled Cumberland Island's daily ferry visitor cap to 700 and is negotiating land swaps that could allow private homes on the Georgia barrier island, with a public comment deadline of Oct. 16.
Local Government
Nassau County has begun mailing vote-by-mail ballots for the Nov. 3 general election, with sample ballots also available at the Elections Office in Yulee.
Local Government
Nassau County's voter registration deadline for the Nov. 3 general election is Monday, Oct. 5, with a Fernandina Beach mayoral race and Florida's Amendment 3 on the ballot.
Local Government
The Amelia Island Tourist Development Council meets Wednesday, Sept. 23, to vote on seven resolutions recommending how Nassau County should spend bed-tax dollars in fiscal year 2026/27, including grants to the Wild Amelia Nature Festival, the Amelia Island Museum of History and Story & Song Center for Arts & Culture.
Public Safety
A nor'easter arriving Tuesday, Oct. 6, will bring 35-to-45 mph coastal gusts, tidal flooding, life-threatening surf conditions and up to 6 inches of rain to Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island through at least Friday, the National Weather Service warns.
Public Safety
Nassau County will resurface Buccaneer Trail from the South Fletcher Roundabout to Marian Drive over two nights, Wednesday, Oct. 7, and Thursday, Oct. 8, between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., with a separate roundabout paving project on the same corridor scheduled for the following weekend.
Public Safety
FDOT's $5 million Atlantic Avenue project launches the week of Oct. 6, bringing resurfacing, drainage repairs, bike lanes and parking changes to 1.62 miles of Fernandina Beach's main corridor through late 2027.
Public Safety
Ocean Conservancy warns that the Trump administration's proposed $1.7 billion NOAA budget cut could weaken hurricane forecasting and storm surge warnings Amelia Island residents depend on, though congressional subcommittees have pushed back with smaller reductions.
Sports
Fernandina Beach senior Rileigh Revere won the girls 100-yard backstroke in 59.52 seconds at the Frank Holleman Invitational on Sept. 19 in Ponte Vedra Beach, where the Pirates were the only Nassau County team competing against regional swimming powers.
Sports
Fernandina Beach High School's boys cross country team won the team championship at the 8th Annual Coach Hope Memorial Invitational on Sunday, Sept. 13, while sophomore Maya Kovalcik took first in the girls race to lead the Lady Pirates to a runner-up finish.
Sports
The Fernandina Beach High School Foundation will dedicate a new digital scoreboard on Homecoming night Friday, Sept. 18, marking the Pirates' first home football game in a newly renovated stadium funded by Nassau County's 2022 one-mill property-tax referendum.
Sports
The Nassau Sport Fishing Association will hold a free Youth Fishing Rod Tournament on Friday, Sept. 18, at Amelia Island State Park, with a $50 Academy Sports gift card going to the angler who lands the heaviest fish on a 36-inch rod.
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Megan published her first poem in the Sun Sentinel at the age of 11 and has been locked in ever since. She attended UF and FIU and has a degree in Communication Arts. Her professional background includes photography, editing, writing, translation, and graphic design. Megan enjoys learning language, art and vegan foods.
Editor
Megan published her first poem in the Sun Sentinel at the age of 11 and has been locked in ever since. She attended UF and FIU and has a degree in Communication Arts. Her professional background includes photography, editing, writing, translation, and graphic design. Megan enjoys learning language, art and vegan foods.
Editor
Megan published her first poem in the Sun Sentinel at the age of 11 and has been locked in ever since. She attended UF and FIU and has a degree in Communication Arts. Her professional background includes photography, editing, writing, translation, and graphic design. Megan enjoys learning language, art and vegan foods.
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