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SHRIMP FESTIVAL A FAMILY AFFAIR FOR BEACHES FAMILY
When the 49th Annual Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival www.shrimpfestival.com kicks off tomorrow, an Atlantic Beach family will be well represented throughout the festival. Sisters Kathy and Mary Frosio and brother Al, along with his wife, Karin, all will be a part of the festivities in one way or another. The Frosios are life long [...]
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Burn the Floor: Ballroom Gets Reinvented Tonight in Jacksonville
For one night only, you can see ballroom reinvented as BURN THE FLOOR makes its way into our area. The show starts at 7:30 tonight and is only here for one performance at the Times-Union Center for Performing Arts. The new Broadway production of BURN THE FLOOR broke box office records and enjoyed two extensions [...]
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There’s Still Time to Catch Jersey Boys!
If you haven’t seen the popular musical Jersey Boys, there’s still time to catch the show will it’s in Jacksonville. This is the final weekend for Jersey Boys at the Times-Union Center Moran Theater. Click here to check for ticket availability. The show wraps Sunday, April 1. Whether or not you’ve seen the show, everyone [...]
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There’s a Lot of Talent at Atlantic Beach Elementary School…
…and there were 32 acts who took to the stage January 27 to prove it. A sold-out event, the show ran for two hours with an intermission. The warm-up act was the Fletcher High School Step Team, whose experience and great vibe set the tone for the evening. It was great fun to watch [...]
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Fletcher High Rolls Out The Welcome Mat
On Friday morning January 27 Fletcher High’s PTSA hosted its annual Welcome Breakfast, where it was all about making this year’s area 8th graders and their parents feel comfortable as they begin their high school journey, and showing them why Fletcher is, indeed, the Pride of the Beaches. Prospective Fletcher students and parents from the [...]
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Fletcher High School Holds Annual Welcome Breakfast for Prospective Students This Friday
On Friday morning, January 27 at 8:00 am students starting 9th grade this fall and their parents are invited to attend the Welcome Breakfast. This event is organized by Fletcher’s Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) and is all about making prospective students feel comfortable about starting high school and showing them why Fletcher is, [...]
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LOCAL COMPANY DEVELOPS NEW SMART TECHNOLOGY
Force Innovations, a local technology firm is developing new smart technology for homes that will take operation and security to new space age levels. Dan Fulmer, a life long beaches resident has been in the technology business for years, and his company Fultech, has seen many changes in the time. “I’m really impressed with where [...]
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SHRIMP FESTIVAL A FAMILY AFFAIR FOR BEACHES FAMILY
When the 49th Annual Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival www.shrimpfestival.com kicks off tomorrow, an Atlantic Beach family will be well represented throughout the festival. Sisters Kathy and Mary Frosio and brother Al, along with his wife, Karin, all will be a part of the festivities in one way or another. The Frosios are life long [...]
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‘Keep the Ferry’ Float a Hit at the Beaches Parade!
The annual Opening of the Beaches Parade on Sunday was held under beautiful skies and a great group of floats, and terrific, beaches-lovin’ crowd. Here’s just a few of the many floats and Parade marchers that delighted the crowds and kids who lined the route of this annual Parade, now in its 66th year. [...]
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Shopping more »
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We Love Makeup: It’s in Our DNA
It’s just one of those things. We’ve loved make up since middle school, and we’ve become quite the connoisseur with all our years of practice. We do it for ourselves; it’s not about impressing anyone. We love the process, the experimenting, the texture, the fun. We’re always looking for something new. So naturally we’re [...]
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Shopping with Friends: A Miss America Comes to Town
Former Miss America and Jacksonville native, Leanza Cornett, recently headed the cast of Nunsense! at Alhambra Theatre. It ran for five weeks and ended on February 5. While Leanza was here, her young friend Elise Lobb, a local high schooler, model, and terrific golfer, took her to one of her favorite beaches boutiques, Rosie True. [...]
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Love Luscious Long Lashes?
Well, let’s be honest. Who doesn’t? Lately we’ve been seeing lots of women sporting some beautiful lashes and everyone’s heard about Latisse. But eyelash extensions had us intrigued. When we met The Beaches Online’s newest sponsor Paradise Grooming for Men‘s owners, we couldn’t take our eyes off of theirs. Really! So we asked, “Tell us [...]
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“GOOD MORNING!” “HOW YOU DOING?” “GOOD AFTERNOON!”
For many people work is not much more than a means to the end. We get up, go to work and come home. Day after day. After day. We work hard so we can play hard, then events like the PLAYERS Championship come along and we take a day or two off from work so [...]
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Free Tickets to Players Final Round!
If you want to see the final round of this year’s PLAYERS Championship but only have tickets to Thursday, Friday or Saturday, then you will definitely want to hear this news! The PGA TOUR is giving away tickets to Sunday’s final round to every person who spends $100.00 in merchandise in any of the on [...]
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JIM AND TABITHA FURYK FOUNDATION TREAT KIDS TO DAY AT PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
When it comes to giving back to the community, Jim and Tabitha Furyk take it as their personal responsibility to make a difference in the community they have chosen as their home. Since moving to Ponte Vedra the Furyks have started The Jim and Tabitha Furyk Foundation and have been hard at work to [...]
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PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP MORE THAN JUST GOLF FOR MANY LOCALS
Whether you love golf or not, chances are you wait patiently all year for the PGA TOUR’s flagship event to come back to the First Coast every May. The PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP is unmistakably the TOUR’s biggest tournament, and for the golfers who tee it up in hopes of winning the tournament, it is one of [...]
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OPENING OF THE BEACHES PARADE THIS WEEKEND!
With the opening of the Beaches only days away, beach residents will be pondering whether or not to fight the crowds that converge to the shoreline to begin the beach going season. The Opening of the Beaches festival put on by the City of Jacksonville Beach every year is like our greeting card to the [...]
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‘Tour-de-Farm’ This Sunday!
Are you a fan of the Beaches Green Market and/or the Atlantic Beach Mid-Week Market? Do you enjoy eating foods grown locally; fresh, organic food? Do you enjoy gardening yourself, or even just looking at the beauty of growing food? This Sunday is the day when more than 20 farms from three counties welcome [...]
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Raising the Bar: Atlantic Beach Facing Poor Cell Service
Residents in Atlantic Beach are making noise over their deteriorated cell phone service. Our own Jeannie Greenwald is at the center of it all – she faces a daily deluge of dropped calls and an AT&T iPhone that at times could be compared to a useless paperweight. “I look at the phone and it says [...]
