Public Works Director Martha Graham announced to local Historic City News reporters that the City of St. Augustine would be performing necessary sewer repairs on King Street, between Malaga Street and Martin Luther King Avenue on June 26, 27 and 28.
Historic City News was informed of this year’s winning restaurants in the Taste of the Beach contest to benefit Betty Griffin House; held at St Augustine Beach on Sunday May 20, 2012.
City Hall proudly displayed the colors today, emblazoned across the front of the Lightner Building where municipal workers hoisted a United States flag so large that it stretches from tower to tower above the entrance to the centuries-old Flagler era structure that once housed the Alcazar Hotel.
John Fraser will be pleased to learn that Historic City News reporters were at City Hall this afternoon when his brother-in-law, Steven Binninger, was issued a permit to resume construction on Fuego del Mar— a replica 16th century boathouse at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park.
James D Fiske, Director of the Flagler County Historical Society, reported to Historic City News that, on Saturday, June 23, a Living History tour would be made of the actual site where Seminole Indian leader Osceola was captured during the Second Seminole War while under a flag of truce.
Historic City News readers are reminded that Negro men and women were not the only ethnic victims of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s — in fact, the largest mass arrest of Rabbis in the history of the United States of America occurred here, in St Augustine.
When Corporal Castaing and Sergeant Etheredge of the St Augustine Police Department went to the Anastasia Boulevard motel room of Rebecca M. Heise, just before 2:00 a.m., they were expecting to take the 49 year-old woman to jail on an outstanding Jacksonville warrant for failure to appear on animal cruelty charges.
Historic City News was watching as a proclamation was read by Mayor Joseph L. Boles, Jr., declaring June 11, 2012 to be St Augustine’s 450th Youth Ambassadors Appreciation Day during the regular meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday evening.
