Atlantic Beach News

Photos by MAGGIE FITZROY/Staff Hester Hartman, and her daughter Gabriella, 6, search for the perfect pumpkin at the Lord of Life patch.

The following is a compilation of reports from Beaches-area police departments: ATLANTIC BEACH - A 15-year-old boy was arrested and charged with filing a false police report after he left his bicycle behind at a swimming pool Oct.

Thankfully, that proposal has gone away, at least for the time being. But what to do about Mayport, which is in need of revitalization? A suggestion that is much better than turning Mayport into basically a parking lot and drop-off point for cruise ship passengers is to retain the fishing village atmosphere, which makes Mayport unique, and to make ...

Florida Highway Patrol says they have identified the man who died in an evening crash on Atlantic Boulevard.

From today until daylight saving time returns March 14, lawn watering is supposed to be cut back to once a week.

Three teens were injured, one critically, in an Oct. 23 accident on Third Street South just north of 19th Avenue after they ran out in front of a Cadillac driven by a Ponte Vedra Beach woman.

So many fun things are going on around our beaches and throughout town the next few weeks.

Submitted by Tracy Collins on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 15:10. Last week, we screened "One Village Same Ocean" in the auditorium here at the Times-Union. Thursday, the same production company that highlighted Mayport's struggle against the cruise ship industry will screen their second Mayport offering, "Living River Village." Birdman Productions will host ...

The City Commission approved a $20 increase in building permit fees Monday to help cover a budget shortfall in the building department.

In the immediate post-budget time frame, the City Council Finance Committee Monday found itself with a fairly light agenda, much of which was either deferred or read into the record for the second time and will be taken up in two weeks.

DON BURK/The Times-UnionMusic producer Michael Knox from Nashville does a question-and-answer session with the audience at the festival.

In recent weeks, experts from those sectors have written opinion columns on the opposite page on the subject of health care reform.

CELIA FRANK/For Shorelines Susan Roche plays Emma Borden and Karen Garrett is Lizzie Borden in "After the Murders: The Quest of Lizzie Borden," which will open Friday at Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre.

On the heels of a 5 percent tax increase, the City Commission gave preliminary approval to a proposed hike in permit fees the Building Department charges for businesses and home builders.

Submitted by Amanda Warford on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 18:56. This video blog series introduces some of Jacksonville's most creative and talented people.

Staff A tractor pulls one of the lights that was used for the 2005 beach renourishment project along Atlantic Beach.

When a guest spoke to the City Commission during Monday's meeting, she admitted she lives west of the Intracoastal Waterway, not in Atlantic Beach.

Photos by MAGGIE FITZROY/Staff Matthew Parker , 8, and friend Make McNeill, 11, are scared by monsters as they walk through the dark halls of the Hall of Terror at Adventure Landing on Friday.

Here's the good news: The road work on Florida A1A is expected to wrap up by the end of December.

The following is a compilation of reports from Beaches-area police departments: ATLANTIC BEACH - Three men took a 30-year-old woman's money and bikini bottoms during an attack about 8:45 p.m., Oct.