Wednesday, May 16
“ROMANZA WEEK”, Monday-Sunday, May 14-20, 2012, clusters over 50 shows and exhibitions in a single week to highlight the remarkable living culture of the Nation’s Oldest City.
Historic City News reader Linda Murray reminds residents that a new regulation, the “West Augustine Nuisance Ordinance”, is able to address complaints of blight, open-air drug sales, loitering, and unclaimed or unchained animals, through an anonymous complaint line.
Dana Williams, the son of colonial history and antique weapons expert, Jack Williams, reminds Historic City News readers that today marks the 200th anniversary of the burning of Fort Mose in St Augustine during the Patriot War of 1812.
During a very narrowly focused, almost scripted meeting this afternoon, on a unanimous vote by the St Augustine Beach commissioners, Chief Richard Hedges was placed on administrative leave, with pay, while an independent law enforcement investigation is conducted into his administration of the agency.
Although Historic City News cannot report a final action by the city commission tonight on the disposition of the 1949 landmark bayfront miniature golf course, commissioners did take note of what the mayor described as the only “hot button” issue; based on a show of hands of audience members attending to comment.
The week leading up to Mother’s Day is very special around the country and nowhere less so than here in St Augustine and St Johns County; but, not for the obvious recognition of the woman who brought us into this world — rather, as Historic City News learned, to make a family’s dream of home ownership come true.
Monday, May 14
“ROMANZA WEEK”, Monday-Sunday, May 14-20, 2012, clusters over 50 shows and exhibitions in a single week to highlight the remarkable living culture of the Nation’s Oldest City.
This weeklong extravaganza builds to a “Monumental 1812 Constitucion Parade and Celebration” that on Saturday May 19 that commemorates the Bicentennial of Spain’s Constitution, and the only remaining monument to it in the whole world – right here in St. Augustine’s Plaza de la Constitucion.
