Census Bureau hiring local field representatives
Monica K Dukes informed local Historic City News reporters that the US Census Bureau has jobs coming to St Johns County for field representatives and our readers are being invited to apply now.
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Legislature in session: Law and order issues
Historic City News is watching the issues in front of Florida’s House and Senate that may affect us here at home, and the topics on the Legislature’s law enforcement and justice agenda include whether or not local police should be allowed to use drone aircraft for surveillance, implementing a possible concealed weapon ban at public…
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St Johns County needs entrepreneurial spirit
The presidential State of the Union address is traditionally used as a “cheerleading assembly” to motivate and inspire the populace to keep paying their taxes for another year and hope for the oft misquoted and misattributed “chicken in every pot”.
Terms of county attorney contract up for negotiation
Historic City News local reporters have learned that the current contract between St Johns County and County Attorney Patrick F McCormack expires on April 15, 2013; and, when the county commission meets on next Tuesday, the item will be taken up for discussion.
And the winner is Donald Crichlow
There was little doubt by Historic City News reporters that former St Augustine city commissioner Donald A Crichlow had the advantage over the dozen or so other applicants who expressed interest in being considered to fill the remaining two years of resigned commissioner Bill Leary — and, last night, it was only a matter of…
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Entertainment in St Augustine this week
Barbara Golden, Communications Manager for the St Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau, informed local Historic City News reporters about the following free and low cost entertaining events for our St Johns County readers.
Pope Benedict XVI will resign
Father Thomas S. Willis, rector of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine, has announced to Historic City News that Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has announced that he will resign as Bishop of Rome and, therefore, as the Vicar of Christ on February 28th.
$93k expenditure on 450th buried in Consent Agenda
St Augustine’s 450th Commemoration continues to remain controversial for its apparent lack of accountability and absence of any definitive budget limitations; and, true to form, City Manager John Regan has slipped another $92,740 Dana Ste Claire’s way — this time for brand identity elements and further website development, among other things.