HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
Public Information Officer Debra Johnson reported to the local news desk of Historic City News that a 40 year-old Palm Coast man has been arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of grand theft and two counts of organized scheme to defraud.
Sgt. Chuck Mulligan reported to local St. Johns County news reporters, confirming the identity of the body found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway last weekend.
Historic City News reported yesterday on some apparent misinterpretations of news coverage in the early morning fire that virtually destroyed the Clark-Worley House; most notably what the City of St. Augustine Fire Marshal, John Rayno, says might give a false impression to readers that he wasn’t interested in the cause of the fire and that he was refusing to investigate.
St. Augustine Visitors and Convention Bureau Communications Director Jay Humphreys announced the following weekend entertainment activities to the local St. Augustine news desk at Historic City News; including a host of Easter weekend activities.
Gwendolyn Duncan, President of the 40th ACCORD, Inc., told Historic City News in St. Augustine that her organization will sponsor a Freedom Trail Tour on the red Sightseeing Train with local historian David Nolan as guide.
Flagler’s Writers-In-Residence program will host poet Christopher Buckley on Friday, April 16th at 5:00 p.m. in the Gamache-Koger Theater of the Ringhaver Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.
Local government offices will be closed for the Easter holiday.
Don Juan Márquez Cabrera, royal governor of Florida from 1680 – 1687, receives warning from Havana in late February, 1683 that French and English buccaneers from New Providence, in the Bahamas, intend to attack the presidio of San Agustín (present-day St. Augustine, FL).