St. Johns County Tax Collector Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC, and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles are warning Historic City News readers that they may be targeted by a company representing itself as the state agency and demanding payment for fraudulent citations.
The Lightner Museum Curator’s Tour for January will be a brief history of European porcelain and its meteoric rise to popularity. We caught 13-year-old Evie Kirschling of St. Augustine when she got nose-to-nose with a porcelain mandrill made in 1921 by Arthur Storch of Thuringia Volkstedt, Germany.
The city’s free Park & Ride Shuttle is expanding to include daily service between December 26 – December 31. Services will be available from all regular parking locations to their established downtown destinations according to an announcement received by Historic City News.
Wasn’t it just Christmas? The older I get, the faster the weeks come and go. What used to seem an eternity from one summer to the next now passes in the blink of an eye.
St Augustine City Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline, wife of Roger Kline of the north Davis Shores neighborhood, has been absent from city functions lately; she missed a meeting or two as well as the dedication of the National Register Historic District marker for the Nelmar Terrace subdivision which has been one of her pet projects.
This fellow may look cute and even friendly, but Flagler County is experiencing an increase in sick raccoons countywide according to an alert forwarded to Historic City News today. Experts say don’t approach raccoons at all but especially if they appear to be ill or acting strangely.
During the first week of December, St Augustine Police spokesman Mark Samson notified Historic City News that the department wanted our reader’s help with their mission to fill a Police Tahoe with clothes, toys and food to be distributed locally before Christmas.
