Year: 2012

Pedigo featured artist at Plum Gallery

Historic City News entertainment reporters have learned that Sara Pedigo, assistant professor of art and design at Flagler College, will be a “featured artist” through the end of December at Plum Gallery; located at 9 Aviles Street in downtown Saint Augustine’s historic district.

Community

St Johns County teachers benefit from donations

Courtney Kraft, a teacher at Hartley Elementary School, informed local St Johns County news reporters at Historic City News that she has received funding for a “Hands on Alphabet” project through “DonorsChoose.org”; a nonprofit organization that connects donors with public school teachers who need classroom materials.

Community

FDIC cancels unlimited insurance on accounts

Historic City News has learned that depositors previously granted unlimited deposit insurance coverage by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation if their funds were held in non-interest-bearing accounts, are losing that protection as of January 1, 2013.

Business

Library policies changing January 1

The St Johns County Public Library System informed Historic City News that they will be making two changes that will affect library patrons and their ability to continue their borrowing privileges in the future.

Community

Civility at St Augustine Beach commission meeting

With the selection of a new Chief of Police behind them, the St Augustine Beach City Commission spent their meeting last night discussing other less controversial business; without all the bitterness and drama that was starting to define politics in the small beach community.

Government

Celebrate the New Year in historic elegance

Historic City News readers are invited to celebrate 125 years of the Hotel Ponce de Leon while they ring in the New Year during the New Year’s Eve Scholarship Ball, hosted by the President’s Society of Flagler College.

Community

National Geographic names city Best of the World

Historic City News reporters learned that National Geographic has name St Augustine one of twenty “must see” places in the world for the coming year; travel editors of the magazine, which began publication in 1888, give a number of tips and thumbnail history of the area in their recommendation.

Community

New county commission responds to public

After five or six years of overbearing, even abusive behavior, by St Johns Commissioners deemed to have bullied members of the public who have come before them with concerns and complaints, the new commissioners seem interested in what the public has to say.

Editorials