Among incidents reported to Historic City News by the St Augustine Police Department, Arnett Heating and Air reported vandalism to their property at 83 Orange Street Monday morning after someone spray painted their building and back privacy fence.
Historic City News received word this afternoon that St Johns County Fire Rescue crews responded to a near drowning in the ocean waters north of the Matanzas Avenue Beach Ramp in Crescent Beach.
The Tolomato Cemetery Preservation Association has invited Historic City News readers to attend a special presentation by noted historical archaeologist, Dr. Kathleen Deagan, on the hidden First Spanish Period cemeteries of St Augustine on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.
Telling reporters in a televised newscast yesterday, St Johns County Commission chairman, Jay Morris, said the goal of a top-to-bottom analysis of county services is to avoid doing the very thing his critics say he has been guilty of during the past two budget years — “kicking the can down the road”.
An armed robbery, using a stun gun, at the Citgo gas station in the 2800 block of US-1 in St Augustine Saturday evening may have been a pit stop for a pair of wanted fugitives on the lamb from Flagler County, according to police reports gathered by Historic City News.
