Cathy DuPont notified Historic City News that representatives of the Department of Interior will conduct a meeting with city staff and others next week to discuss arrangements for the first meeting of the federal St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission.
The City of St. Augustine invited all Historic City News readers to join governmental entities across the nation in celebration of National Public Works Week, May 15th through 21st with an open house on Saturday, May 21st.
Historic City News receives regular reports from Commissioner Jay Bliss as to the activities at the St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District.
St. Augustine Beach Police reported to local Historic City News crime patrol reporters that they have discovered a man living at the beach who is a convicted sex offender in Tenneessee — but, they took him into custody when the also found out that he had not registered with Florida authorities after arriving here.
Jacob Thomas Governale, a 30 year-old would-be car thief, decided to take on several sheriff’s deputies armed with batons, pepper spray, tasers and even a K-9 deputy; threatening to drowned the deputies and their dog if they came into a pond to capture him.
St. Johns County Sheriff’s Colonel Art F. May reported to local Historic City News that deputies will be cracking down on motorists who fail to wear their seat belts as they mobilize for the 2011 national “Click-it-or-Ticket” campaign.
Contributed by David Nolan
Special to Historic City News
St. Augustine was the only place in Florida where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested during the civil rights movement.
The City of St. Augustine informed local Historic City News reporters today that the previously announced public meeting soliciting input on the city’s harbor management plan has been rescheduled for Thursday, May 26th at 4:00 p.m. in the Alcazar Room of City Hall located at 75 King Street.
