Historic City News police reports have shown that counterfeit currency is most easily passed in St Augustine and St Johns County when merchants are distracted at the point of sale or fail to check security features included in United States bank notes.
Historic City News was informed this morning of the winning entrants in this year’s Memorial Day Weekend Taste of the Beach.
Emily Jane Murray informed local Historic City News reporters that the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve will participate in the Blue Star Museum Program this summer, offering free admission to the Environmental Education Center for military personnel and their families.
Historic City News was informed that two St Johns County Fire Rescue employees have been recognized for their accomplishments as open water swimmers.
Economic Problems of Florida Governors, 1700-1763
By John J. Tepaske
Part 3 of 4
In 1724, the able and beloved Governor Antonio de Benavides requested that the subsidy be sent by land instead of by sea. By maintaining a land route between New Spain and Florida, he hoped to eliminate the delays occasioned by the lack of ships in Vera Cruz. He envisaged a line of Spanish presidios on the Gulf Coast from Vera Cruz to Apalache.
Historic City News photographer, Mark Cubbedge, attended this morning’s Memorial Day ceremonies at the St Augustine National Cemetery where American flags were placed at the headstones of each marked gravesite.
St Johns County Fire Rescue Chief, Carl A. Shank, told Historic City News that, together with the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, during National Emergency Medical Services Week, it has been his honor to recognize the tremendous role that EMS practitioners make to improve the health of our citizens.
Palm Coast resident Gary Dekay has been a volunteer with the Flagler County Sheriff’s office for the past six years; and, last week, Sheriff James L. Manfre informed Historic City News that Dekay was recognized for the hours he has donated to the county’s largest law enforcement agency.
