The Neighbor to Neighbor newspaper

11/21/2025

🎄 LOCAL CHRISTMAS MARKET 🎄 This Satuday, November 22nd.
🎅🏻 Santa shows up from 11am - 1pm!
More info here ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2ds7yj4n.

11/21/2025

11/21/2025

Today at the IAFE-The Network Awards, we brought home 14 awards—a huge achievement on the international stage. Our fair competed against fairs from around the world across multiple categories, including Marketing, Sponsorships, Competitive Exhibits, Agriculture, Commercial Exhibits & Concessions, and Non-Fair Events.

Proud is an understatement. 🎉 Congratulations to everyone who makes our fair the best!

1st Place:
New Class of Competition- Egg Contest
Sponsor Exposure- Snyder Air Conditioning, Plumbing & Electric
Strategy to Encourage New Competitive Exhibits participants- Plant & Art Auction
Creative Display- PRI Productions Selfie Room
Agriculture Individual Livestock Photo- UO Goat Show (Kram Kran Photo)
Vendor Marketing and Promotion- Yummy Food Competition
Vendor Communications & Operations- Safety Playbook
In-Kind Sponsorship- Sunbelt Rentals
Community Impact- Northeast Florida Scottish Games & Festival and Lowe's Home Improvement

2nd Place:
Best Marketing Campaign The Social Bee
Facility Partnerships- HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital First Aid Building
Agriculture Individual Photo: Horticulture/Crops- Hort ID Contest (Kram Kran Photo)
Agriculture Individual Photo: Other Agricultural Photo- Silent Goat Disco Party

3rd Place:
Scripted Videos- Meet Me At The Fair- People (Kram Kran Photo and The Social Bee)

11/21/2025

11/21/2025

Thank you to The Clay Electric Foundation for their generous grant and ongoing support. Your support helps BASCA continue offering the services that so many adults with intellectual and developmental differences count on everyday.

We are also grateful for the way you invest in the wider community. Your commitment helps make our area a better place for everyone.

Thank you for making such a meaningful difference.

11/21/2025

in 1943: 81 years ago, nearly 18,000 of the 2d Marine Division stormed ashore on Tarawa Atoll, launching Operation Galvanic and a brutal fight for control of the Gilbert Islands.

Their mission was to seize strategically vital airfields, but the ocean itself became an enemy. Unforeseen low tides trapped landing craft on treacherous reefs, forcing the Marines to wade hundreds of yards under withering fire.

Against all odds, they clawed their way onto a narrow beachhead, a foothold won in blood. For days, they battled a tenacious foe entrenched in fortified bunkers and hidden machine gun nests.

By November 23rd, 1943, Tarawa was secured but at a cost. More than 1,000 Marines paid the ultimate price, and nearly 2,000 more were wounded.

The Battle of Tarawa was a crucible. The hard-learned lessons, bought with courage and sacrifice, helped shape future amphibious operations throughout the remainder of World War II, ensuring that future generations would benefit from their bravery.



✍️ (U.S. Marine Corps digital illustration by Lance Cpl. Abigail Hutcheson)

11/20/2025

11/20/2025

What a beautiful night!
Clerk of courts, Tara Green, gave a thank you speech at the Historic Triangle. She said the art work was beautiful!!! The Clay county Archives, under Clerk Green, presented the art guild with a $250 donation.
More pictures to come……

11/20/2025

LAUDERDALE LAKES, FLA. (WSVN) - Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue conducted their annual safety test to demonstrate how to safely cook a turkey in a propane

11/20/2025