Letter: Don’t need another legacy project
Letter: We don’t need another legacy project
Bruce Maguire
St Augustine, FL
I could not believe what I was hearing — the City Commissioners voted to spend $1.4 million last night on improvements to the VIC and the import of a Picasso Exhibit to St. Augustine.



Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes reported to Historic City News that the registration books for St Johns County voters would close Monday, July 16 — marking the last day to register to vote or to change your party affiliation for the August 14, 2012 Primary Election.
Flagler College announced to local Historic City News reporters that their new Director of Career Services, Tara Stevenson, is trying to make the process of finding a job in a stifled economy a little less daunting for Flagler students about to graduate college.
Historic City News was informed by Traffic Homicide Investigator, Corporal Gregory Cohn, that Florida Highway Patrol troopers were called to the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash in the Heritage Park subdivision at about 4:40 p.m. today; the victim was the 16 year-old son of a St Johns County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Section Coordinator.
Historic City News readers in St Augustine and St Johns County are asking, “Who benefits from the bed tax?”
Historic City News local reporters will learn tomorrow afternoon what is to be done with $500,000 in bed tax collected by the St Johns County Tourist Development Council; when the Arts, Culture & Heritage Funding Panel evaluates $1,240,215 in recently scored requests.
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