Judge Wendy W Berger, Fifth District Court of Appeal, will administer the oath of office to Mayor Joseph L. Boles, Jr and St Augustine Commissioner-elect Roxanne Horvath, during a re-organization meeting on Monday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Alcazar Room of City Hall located at 75 King Street.
Letter: Recent bike fatality
Heather Neville
St Augustine, FL
Dear Editor,
My heart hurts this morning for the loss of yet another cyclist, and to a hit and run again.
I can only imagine the horror of the witnesses as they saw this person’s life lost.
Technology start-up companies around the United States who are looking for resources and capital may soon be talking with a recruiter who is directing their attention to St Augustine; according to an announcement received by Historic City News last week.
St Augustine Police detective Chris Miller needs Historic City News readers to come forward with any information they may have that will lead to the identification of the driver, or location of the vehicle, that ran over 49-year-old Christian Gerard Schroom in the wee hours Sunday morning.
Historic City News in St Augustine has learned that a passenger returning a golf cart in Ponte Vedra Beach suffered life-threatening injuries last night, when she was thrown from the cart in the area of Pablo Road, just west of Ponte Vedra Boulevard.
As is customary to honor the memory of former mayors and commissioners as well as recipients of the two highest honors offered by the City of St Augustine, Historic City News reports that the flags at City Hall were lowered to half-staff yesterday in tribute to Jerry Kass.
Historic City News reporters watched as the City of St Augustine remembered a little of its own history last night when Mayor Joe Boles invited two former mayors to launch this year’s holiday lighting — one who lead the city during its 400th anniversary in 1965, and another who flipped-the-switch the very first year of the Nights of Lights in 1994.
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