HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
Jennifer Zuberer has invited Historic City News readers to witness history in the making when the Spanish Constitution Monument gets a dose of 21st century technology in the Plaza de la Constitucion located in downtown St. Augustine.
Historic City News has received the Florida Senate redrawn district maps; approved after some last-minute adjustments applied yesterday over objections from half the chamber’s Democrats who said, “it did not go far enough to shake up the existing Republican supermajority”.
Florida East Coast Industries, Inc. announced to Historic City News this morning that they are developing a privately owned, operated and maintained passenger rail service to connect South Florida to Orlando, which will be operational in 2014.
Historic City News recently received an interview with Jay Kislak, chairman of the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Federal Commission, who was in St Augustine on Monday for photographs at the Spanish Constitution Monument in the Plaza.
In 1888, railroad pioneer Henry Flagler built the Hotel Ponce de Leon in St Augustine, his first hotel in a series of luxury resorts along Florida’s east coast.
St Johns County Sheriff David B Shoar is asking Historic City News readers for their help in identifying the criminal who robbed and beat an elderly Hastings couple in their West Stanton Street home last night, shortly before 10:00 p.m.
Historic City News reader Linda Murray provided the following upcoming events for your calendar.
Derek Boyd Hankerson reported to Historic City News that online registration for the upcoming 2012 Conference of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program has begun.