| 📅 FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2026 Weekend Edition | Fernandina Beach ☀️ 83°/72° |
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Fernandina
☀️ 84°/71°
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Yulee
☀️ 86°/70°
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Callahan
☀️ 87°/69°
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Hilliard
☀️ 87°/68°
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| 🎉 | This Weekend |
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FRI
5
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Centre Street, downtown • 6 to 9 PM • 100-plus supercars roll into blocks 3 to 5; Mojo Roux plays the season's first-Friday concert at Centre and 2nd. Both free. Centre Street parking will be impossible. Walk or bike.
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SAT
6
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Farmers Markets: Downtown + Wildlight
N. 7th Street downtown and Tinker Street in Wildlight • Both 9 AM to 1 PM • First Saturday of the month means both markets are running. Produce, baked goods, flowers.
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FRI-SUN
5-7
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207 Cedar Street • Fri and Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM matinee • Romantic comedy about four 1920s London women on a ladies-only Italian getaway. Box office 904-261-6749. Runs through June 20.
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FRI-SUN
5-7
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1955 Island Walkway • Fri and Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM matinee • Musical retelling of The Princess and the Pea, directed by Bill Ivins. Tickets around $19 to $30. Runs through June 14.
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| 🍽️ | Try This |
If you have not wandered into this place on a quiet Saturday afternoon, do yourself a favor this weekend. It is a real bookstore with thoughtful shelves, an actual bistro serving real food, and a small concert room that hosts something almost every weekend. Browse the fiction wall, order the chicken salad, then sit on the porch with whatever you bought. This week alone they have Tea and Verse on Friday, a Black Sacred Music program Saturday night, and a Downton Abbey in Concert matinee Sunday. It is the closest thing the island has to a neighborhood living room.
📍 1430 Park Ave • Bistro open daily for lunch; check storyandsongarts.org for the weekend program.
| 📰 | In Case You Missed It |
Nassau County's twelve-month moratorium on data center applications gets its second and final public hearing Monday night, June 8, with the BOCC voting after public comment at the 5 PM meeting in Yulee. If adopted, the county would stop accepting, reviewing, or approving any data center applications for twelve months while the new fact-finding committee studies water, electrical, noise, and zoning impacts. The committee's first workshop Monday in Yulee surfaced the name NextNRG, the AI-focused energy firm holding a long-term lease option on about 1,600 acres in the county.
Read More → News4JaxThe 8th annual Cross the Line Paddle for Veterans launches Saturday, June 13 at 8 AM from historic St. Marys, Georgia, with paddlers running a seven-mile route across the river to a new finish line at the Dee Dee Bartels Boat Ramp in Fernandina. This year's proceeds benefit Building Battle Buddies, the Nassau County nonprofit that trains and matches service dogs with veterans. Around 70 volunteers, plus the City of St. Marys, NCSO, Nassau Fire Rescue, and FDEP at Fort Clinch help run the day. Register at PaddleGuru; kayak rentals can be delivered to the start line.
Read More → Fernandina ObserverFernandina Beach High senior Mikaela Nichols is one of ten student-athletes in the country to win the 2026 AAU National Scholarship, a $10,000 award given for athletic, academic, and community achievement. Nichols ran an 800-meter best of 2:26 this spring and has been one of Nassau County's standout middle-distance runners. A nice break from the moratorium and mediation news that has dominated the week.
Read More → Fernandina Observer| 📌 | Briefly Noted |
- City air quality workshop happened Tuesday night with a Conserve Nassau presentation; a substantive recap is expected in next week's local press.
- Nassau County Parks is getting autonomous electric mowers within the next 30 days, with the Observer reporting they will start handling rec fields and county parks.
- The final three segments of the Amelia Island Parkway multiuse path are still on track to open by the end of July, finishing the 3.2-mile route from 14th Street to 8th Street.
- Save the date: Make Music Day Nassau returns Sunday, June 21, with free pop-up performances downtown and in Wildlight from 11 AM to 5 PM.
Gumball downtown, Sounds on Centre, two theater openings, the markets, two perfect-weather beach days. What is the most you have ever crammed into a single weekend on the island, and was it worth it? Hit reply and let us know. We read every response.
The Amelia Island Lighthouse, completed in 1839, is the oldest existing lighthouse on the Florida coast. But much of its material had a previous home just across the St. Marys River before it was floated over and rebuilt on Amelia. Where did it come from?
Answer: Cumberland Island, Georgia. The original Little Cumberland Island light was disassembled and ferried south, then reassembled at the north end of Amelia Island in 1838 and 1839.
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