The re-election campaign of County Commissioner Ken Bryan, who championed extending drinking hours, and who, as a result, won favor with bar owners in both St Augustine and St Augustine Beach, is in political debt to controversial wheeler-dealer Philip McDaniel and Historic City News readers are asking when McDaniel will come to collect.
With all the hoopla yesterday over Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day, and the controversial anti-gay implications appertaining thereto, Historic City News in St Augustine intentionally chose not to run a story documenting the crowds of guests in the local restaurant; however, when one long time reader sent us this photo, we couldn’t resist.
Not too long ago in St Augustine and St Johns County, candidates for local office used “home grown” strategies to help bolster their campaigns and gently persuade voters to show up on Election Day to “pull the lever” so they could win — thanks to technology, today Historic City News finds that it’s more like rocket science.
From a web camera atop the Wells Fargo Bank building on Cathedral Place, Historic City News reporters have been monitoring the conditions on the Bridge of Lions this afternoon following a two-car collision, which sent the driver of one vehicle to the hospital by helicopter.
The Florida Bar announced to Historic City News in St Augustine that the Florida Supreme Court recently ordered 22 attorneys disciplined; including Ponte Vedra Beach attorney, Richard Scott Draughon, who was among ten disbarred and eight suspended from the practice of law.
A movie theater, distillery, bar, and expanded law offices go before the city’s Planning and Zoning Board next Tuesday; according to a recap published by former St Augustine Mayor George Gardner in his newsletter, The St Augustine Report.
Historic City News reminds local residents that free mediation is available to settle legal disputes of $15,000, or less, through the Citizen Dispute Mediation Program.
This morning, Historic City News has received additional evidence in the investigation of an armed robbery that occurred at the peak of rush hour yesterday near one of St Johns County’s most congested intersections; SR-312 and US-1 South at the Marshalls Department Store.
