United States Attorney Robert E O’Neill announced to Historic City News today that 66-year-old Charles Lee Gorish, a registered sex offender, has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with international transportation of child pornography from Florida to Canada.
Historic City News reporters witnessed a split vote last night, with one commissioner missing, which means that neighbors in both the Nelmar Terrace and Fullerwood neighborhoods will not be able to stop the removal of three trees from a vacant lot previously approved by the St Augustine Planning and Zoning Board.
Historic City News reporters in St Augustine and St Johns County have learned that the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve is planning an ecological prescribed burn in the coastal strand on the west side of South Ponte Vedra Boulevard beginning today, weather permitting.
Bob Graham, a member of the federal St Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission, two-term Florida governor and 18-year US Senator, was interviewed yesterday by The Florida Current and asked to discuss what we know, and what we still don’t know, about the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001.
Guest Column: Remembrance of 9/11
By Michael Isam
St Augustine, FL
My day started out like the day before, well almost.
I was sitting at my computer putting together the latest information for my veteran blog as my normal routine. Just after I had performed my last cut and paste, the phone rang.
US Army National Guard Sergeant Tommy Phillp, a security force member of the Provincial Reconstruction Team located in Farah province, Afghanistan, takes a photo of the base 9/11 memorial before beginning a nine-mile ruck sack march to commemorate Patriot Day.
Keepers of the Coast told Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that they are recruiting volunteers to participate in the 27th Annual International Coastal Clean-Up on Saturday, September 15.
The City of St Augustine reported to Historic City News that the two northbound lanes of South Castillo Drive would be closed for resurfacing operations starting at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 12.
