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.
Here are a few reminders of things to do in St Augustine on an ongoing basis and selected events during the month of April.
Although local Historic City News reporters and thousands of people in St Augustine witnessed the re-enactment of Ponce de Leon’s landing on April 3, our readers who missed the first ceremonies will get their chance to relive history as Florida’s 500th Anniversary events continue through the weekend in the nation’s oldest city.
The US Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration announced to Historic City News today that it will delay the closure of the federal contract air traffic control tower at Northeast Florida Regional Airport at St Augustine for two more months as the agency attempts to resolve multiple legal challenges to the closure decisions.
According to reports from several local merchants and residents along the King Street entrance corridor, the Public Works Department has been contacted by the Florida Department of Transportation concerning work planned to improve the roadway between Malaga Street and Martin Luther King Avenue.
National Park Service Ranger Joe Brehm reported to Historic City News that all available spaces for new trainees in the April 13th and 14th Cannon School have been filled; however, due to the high demand, a second spring cannon school will be held on May 11th and 12th at the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument.
Deputy Rafael Fuentes informed local Historic City News reporters that this afternoon, beginning at 4:00 p. m., more than forty runners and Special Olympians will carry the torch during the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.
Flags will be lowered at City Hall in St Augustine tomorrow in honor of Flossie Irene Poe who passed away on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013 at her home on Springs Court in Macon, Georgia. She was 101-years-old.
