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HONORS FROM UNF Two Ponte Vedra Beach residents and one from Neptune Beach are among five people set to receive Presidential Medallions Tuesday from the University of North Florida. The medals were to be awarded during a Founders Day luncheon at the University Center.

By CHRISTINA ABEL and MAGGIE FITZROY As Tropical Storm Fay's powerful wind and waves plowed ashore along St. Johns County's coast, some people dared to frolic in the surf and others finally got official permission to try to save their Vilano Beach homes from more blasts of beach erosion.

By CHRISTINA ABEL For months, crews have been clearing hundreds of acres of ground, removing trees and building roads in the Nocatee development west of Ponte Vedra Beach. The land has been flattened to make way for construction.

By MAGGIE FITZROY As Kathy Winstead was going for a run one recent day in Ponte Vedra Beach, she saw mountains ahead, as well as waterfalls and fellow runners who waved as they jogged by.