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Saturday is the only dry day of Amelia Island's long weekend

Sounds on Centre returns tonight, a sea turtle nest gets counted at seven Saturday morning, the city set its tax rate Thursday, and police are warning about fake city invoices.

Recent issues

• Wednesday, September 2, 2026Mid-Week EditionFernandina's paid parking came back for 40 minutes Tuesday night

  A reversal that failed 2 to 2, the city pulling its Flock license plate cameras, and the millage vote Thursday at 5:05.

• Monday, August 31, 2026Full EditionFernandina Beach sets its property tax rate on Thursday

  The city sets its 2026-27 tax rate Thursday, a boil water advisory is still up in West Nassau, and Atlantic Avenue is getting nine months of road work starting in October.

• Friday, August 28, 2026Weekend EditionAmelia Island just picked up 3.2 miles of new trail

  The finished Parkway trail opens to riders, Amelia Community Theatre closes its 45th season, and another 419 homes are headed for Nassau County.

• Wednesday, August 26, 2026Mid-Week EditionDowntown Fernandina parking now has an end date: November 18

  The meters run through November 18 with no refunds, Nassau County sends $2.8 million of bed tax money back for a $4 million Seaside Park rebuild, and a 22-townhome Live Local plan lands on Sadler Road.

• Monday, August 24, 2026Full EditionFernandina residents named overdevelopment the city's biggest threat

  A city survey puts overdevelopment far out front, red tide reaches bloom levels in a Nassau County sample for the first time this season, and the Amelia Wharf design is sent back a second time.

• Friday, August 21, 2026Weekend EditionFernandina's downtown meters come off in November, not this weekend

  The commission voted to end paid parking but the meters run until mid-November, the Smithsonian opens at the museum tonight, and a Fernandina rower's Atlantic crossing counts after all.

• Wednesday, August 19, 2026Mid-Week EditionFernandina's parking vote passed. The meters stay on for now

  Three quarters of Fernandina Beach voters backed the parking referendum, Scott Inglis took Seat 4 outright, and the commission meets tonight with parking nowhere on the agenda.

• Monday, August 17, 2026Full EditionNassau County votes Tuesday, at your precinct and nowhere else

  Election day mechanics, red tide in the water just south of us, and a Fernandina rower stopped eight miles from an Atlantic record.

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