Historic City News readers living within the St Augustine Port Waterway and Beach special taxing district, paying $6.38 per $100,000 of property valuation, are welcome to attend the District’s next regular business meeting, Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
The City of St Augustine notified Historic City News that the installation of crosswalks at two locations on Avenida Menendez will necessitate the reduction of traffic to two lanes — one for northbound traffic and one for southbound, in two locations on two different occasions in coming weeks.
For the last 90 years, the week in which October 9 falls has been designated as “Fire Prevention Week”, but for Historic City News readers, what is nationally a week — is locally a month.
On Saturday, October 20th, Historic City News readers are invited to attend when Sarah Miller, Director of the Northeast Region of the Florida Public Archaeology Network, and staff members of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve and Environmental Education Center, celebrate National Archaeology Day.
On Saturday, October 20 at 2:00 p.m., the Cathedral Basilica of St Augustine informs local Historic City News reporters that an Ecumenical Prayer Service will be held as part of the City of St Augustine’s celebrations of the 200th Anniversary of the Spanish Constitution.
Should county commission candidates spend over a year’s salary to get elected? Historic City News editor Michael Gold spent about 20 years consulting candidates or managing their campaigns in local elections in St Augustine, St Johns County, and five counties in Georgia and South Carolina — ten campaigns in all, before retiring in 2004; all but one was a winner.
Do you believe in “intelligent design”? I know, the courts have ruled that it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution so we don’t teach anything about the creation in our public schools.
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.
