Help Betty Griffin House benefit from tournament
With less than two weeks remaining before the future Stars of the PGA TOUR come to TPC Sawgrass for the first-ever Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open, Historic City News reminds our readers that your ticket purchase can benefit Betty Griffin House.

St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw reported to Historic City News that the Sheriff’s A.C.E. Program is sponsoring the 10th annual Horror Zone this Halloween season.
Florida School of the Arts reported to Historic City News that students will present a concert of songs based on Greek myths and lyrics in “Myths and Hymns.”
According to Communications Director Jay Humphreys, John W. Fraser, general manager of Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth, has been installed as the new chairman of the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors & Convention Bureau Board of Directors.
Vivian Browning, a local resident who has owned property on Vilano Beach since 1986 and serves as chair of the Vilano Beach Town Center Redevelopment Group, has to feel optimistic now that Publix Supermarkets has confirmed with Historic City News that they have signed a lease.
Plans that originally called for a 10,000 square foot Castillo Orientation Center in the Colonial Spanish Quarter could be expanded to a 15,000 or 20,000 square foot, two story “world class interpretive experience” in a partnership being discussed between the city and University of Florida.
Historic City News asked for your help in locating two men in connection with a strong armed robbery of an 86 year-old woman last week and now, two suspects in that crime have been identified.