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Celebrating a 95th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic can become a major family dilemma. Last year when Anastasia Island resident Dorothy Miller turned 94 on April 18, her family and friends staged a drive-through celebration around her neighborhood. But turning 95 is the real milestone. “Let’s go camping,” one family member suggested, and that triggered a lot of conversations among family members with Dorothy making the decision to “hit the road” and head to the campgrounds at Ge...

Around Anastasia Island: Music by the Sea concerts to continue Lorraine Thompson It wouldn’t seem like summer at St. Augustine Beach without the Wednesday evening Music by the Sea Concerts at the pier pavilion. While last year’s concert schedule was cut short by COVID-19 restrictions, the St. Augustine Beach Civic Association, sponsors of the event for almost two decades, hopes to keep the beach music playing this summer. Although arrangements were not finalized at this writing, Bill Jones,...