Year: 2012

FDOT road repairs and maintenance report

Laurie Sanderson reported the following St. Augustine and St. Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.

Public Safety

St Paul School of Excellence hosts open house

Linda Murray reported to Historic City News that St Paul School of Excellence, in St Augustine’s historically black Lincolnville neighborhood, will host an Open House for children entering kindergarten, first and second grade from 6:00-7:30 PM on Thursday, February 16, 2012.

Community

St Augustine History and Culture Expo

The abundant cultural threads of St Augustine throughout the past 450 years will come to life in a colorful, entertaining and vibrant presentation of music, dance and food at the next Discover First America adventure program titled “St Augustine Tapestry”.

Community

Palm Coast hotel evacuates guests

Debra Johnson reported to Historic City News that this afternoon’s fire alarm at the Holiday Inn, located at SR-100 and I-95 in Palm Coast, may have been a false alarm, but management relocated the guests in the hotel as a precaution — and because the first two floors were flooded.

Public Safety

Pardon our dust

A lot of Historic City News readers in St Augustine and St Johns County have asked about their connection to us — either on our website (https://historiccity.com) or on our facebook (http://facebook.com/historiccitynews) and this weekend should wrap-up all the remaining issues with those products.

Editorials

Morton’s ends 12-year run on the Southbank

In October, Tilman Fertitta, took Landry’s Restaurants Inc. private; then, by December, he agreed to buy Morton’s Restaurant Group Inc., the famous Chicago based restaurant chain founded in 1978 by Arnie Morton and Klaus Fritsch.

Business

Monday starts five months of beach dredging

The United States Army Corps of Engineers announced this week that Historic City News readers at St Augustine Beach, and near the three borrow sources at the St Augustine inlet, will be impacted by beach renourishment beginning February 6th, and continuing through June or early July 2012.

Public Safety

Flagler awarded $1 million match-grant

Dr William T Abare, Jr, announced to Historic City News that Flagler College is trying to raise $1 million by June 1st in order to qualify for a one-to-one match, $1 million endowment to be awarded from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.

Community