Many of Florida’s 161 state parks will be decorated with lights or hosting special holiday activities and Governor Rick Scott has joined the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Florida Park Service to invite Historic City News readers to join them as they celebrate the winter holiday season.
Veterans welcome new resident
By Michael Isam
St Augustine, FL
Everyone knows that Marines are tough. Just how tough has yet to be completely proven. St. Johns County is now home to another Marine.
Historic City News learned from local Associated Press reports that a group of Christians celebrated the placement of a Nativity scene in Florida’s state capitol rotunda yesterday as a means of combating what they called persistent efforts to drive religion from public life.
St Augustine Streets and Grounds Manager, Charlene Putz, reported to Historic City News that beginning Monday, December 9th, and continuing through Friday, December 13th, the city will be resurfacing Avenida Menendez, from King Street south to St Francis Street.
St Augustine Police spokesman, Mark Samson, updated Historic City News on the past day’s calls for service, Tuesday, December 3, 2013. This report is for informational purposes only by our readers.
During a meeting last night, the Easter Week Festival committee voted 7-4 to continue the traditional Easter Sunday afternoon parade for 2014 — a recurring spring holiday celebration that dates back in St Augustine to the early 1950’s.
Historic City News heard from Patrician D. Price this week when she shared a number of ongoing and special January events already planned for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, located at 505 Guana River Road in Ponte Vedra Beach.
Historic City News readers are invited to provide comments, now through Monday, December 16th, on the proposed 2014-2015 calendar for the St Johns County School District.
