Historic City News readers will begin using the new replacement bridge over the San Sebastian River between Saragossa Street and King Street when traveling southbound on US-1 by Friday morning according to a report from the Florida Department of Transportation.
Beginning today, in St Johns and other east Florida counties from Nassau through Volusia, recreational and commercial blue crab traps must be removed in preparation for a 10-day trap closure allowing the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to identify and retrieve lost and abandoned blue crab traps from the water.
Letter: City botches Taberna closing
Alex D’Agnillo Jr.
St Augustine, FL
A large number of re-enactors and people that enjoyed the Taberna at the Spanish Quarter over the last few years were planning to get together Saturday night as a “going away” party because this weekend was supposedly their last.
Negotiators for the St Johns Education Association and the St Johns County School Board have reached a tentative agreement on their 2012-2014 contracts for the district’s teachers, according to an updated announcement received by Historic City News last week.
Review: 2016 Obama’s America
Lance Thate
St Augustine Tea Party
The movie 2016 Obama’s America, is now showing at the EPIC Theatre in St Augustine, so members of the Town Crier Committee of the St Augustine Tea Party attended the midnight debut to learn what all the buzz was about.
With former commissioner Mark Miner officially out-of-office, on leave by the governor since August 10, 2012, Historic City News has learned that it is possible that a request by the county administrator may expedite the commencement of commissioner-elect Bill McClure’s term in office.
In a letter to the editor published in The Record today, St Augustine City Commissioner Bill Leary profoundly states, “city government is unhealthily obsessed with the 450th commemorations”; a fact that Historic City News has reported, in detail, over the past three years.
This morning, an Orange Park teenager was arrested and charged with thirty individual drug-related offenses by St Johns County Sheriff’s deputies, according to a report received by Historic City News today.
