St Augustine prepares for pirate raid
Historic City News has been asked to warn our readers that on Saturday evening, March 3rd at 5:00 PM, Searle’s Buccaneers will sack the City in a historical reenactment of Searle’s 17th century raid.
Year: 2012
State employee drug testing moves forward
Florida lawmakers are not waiting for a ruling from a Miami federal judge before moving forward with a bill to require state employees to submit to screening for illegal drugs.
Hastings woman charged in hit-and-run crash
A 29 year-old Hastings woman is in custody tonight following a hit-and-run crash between a motorcycle and pickup truck after witnesses identified her as the driver of the vehicle that fled the scene in Flagler Estates yesterday afternoon.
Fair Food threatens to picket Chamber breakfast
Representatives from the Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice told Historic City News reporters that they intend to picket tomorrow’s Annual St Johns County Chamber of Commerce Membership Breakfast to express disappointment with the Chamber’s chosen topic and guest of honor.
Senate and Supervisor Vicky Oakes salute poll workers
St Johns County poll workers have historically maintained the integrity of the early voting and Election Day process; and, last week, the Florida Senate joined Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes in recognizing their commitment to assisting their fellow citizens.
City goes “all in” with settlement
In what some Historic City News readers have characterized as a “high stakes poker game”, the City of St Augustine is taking their hand and going “all in” for a negotiated settlement that, among other provisions, will halt fears that the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind will exercise the power of eminent domain…
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Happy 59th Birthday Nellie
Nellie, the bottle-nosed dolphin, was born on February 27th in the salt-water tanks at Marine Studios on the St. Johns and Flagler county border; along SR-A1A and the Atlantic Coast — today she turned 59 years-old.
Flagler sheriff appoints new second-in-command
Historic City News has learned that FBI National Academy graduate and 29-year veteran of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, David O’Brien, was appointed Chief Deputy this morning by Sheriff Donald W. Fleming.