Author: Historic City News

St Augustine collection of military history

Before residents in the city knew Carl Halbirt, Historic City News reporters remember the Volunteer Trowel Drill Team and Kazoo Band of the St Augustine Archaeological Association; whose members were always welcome to dig into the city’s historic past.

Community

Supervisor holds voter registration events

St Johns County Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes announced to Historic City News in St Augustine that elections office staff members would conduct two voter registration drives this weekend in anticipation of the General Election to be held November 6.

Community

Letter: St Augustine Record reporter is the bully

Letter: St Augustine Record reporter is the bully Denny Dean St Augustine Beach Peter Guinta’s opinions are getting in the way of his judgment, again. I have no control over my neighbors or their actions and I have never condoned threatening or aggressive behavior.

Editorials

Sheriff says con man captured in Umatilla

Just one day after Historic City News reported that authorities were on the trail of a man whose elderly Ponte Vedra Beach victims say snookered them out of thousands of dollars, 42-year-old Bryan Keith Ruby turned himself in to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on a local charge.

Public Safety

Road to Hell is paved with good intentions

Monday evening, the stoic St Augustine Beach Mayor, Gary Snodgrass, announced to a room full of angry city residents that the controversial community garden constructed on the corner of “A” Street and Second Avenue, “was a well-intentioned effort to improve our community”. Woops.

Editorials

Our Children – Our Future forum Friday

Historic City News has learned that tomorrow morning; the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Community Network and Chaplaincy Services would hold an educational forum for workers in St Johns County’s faith and community-based programs geared towards young people and their families.

Community