Research Reserve advances community education
Education Coordinator Kenneth Rainer conducted a special presentation this morning for Historic City News and other members of the media to learn about the educational programs being offered at the Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve.


Historic City News has learned that, in two weeks, actors will be auditioned to perform in the newly renovated St Augustine Colonial Quarter, in a production to be called “The Colonial Crew Revue”.
Historic City News readers crossing the Crescent Beach Bridge on SR-206 should expect lane closures, and even complete bridge closures, during an eight month long project of improvements beginning January 3.
Historic City News learned that about an hour ago, Epic Theatre evacuated all auditoriums at 84 Theatre Drive in St Augustine while deputies with the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office conducted a weapons search after receiving a report that an unknown man had entered the theatre with a shotgun.
Period re-enactors are needed to interpret 1743 operations of the Spanish tower that stands guard over the Matanzas Inlet during an upcoming “Spanish Torchlight Tours” event planned for Saturday January 26, 2013 at the Fort Matanzas National Monument.
Saturday afternoon, 33-year-old Jason C Stockwell became the third man to be arrested for lewd and lascivious molestation in a wooded area of the Graham Swamp Preservation Area in Palm Coast; after the Sheriff’s Office publicized in October that they were instituting a proactive patrol program to prevent such crimes.
A woman attempting to enter her parked vehicle along the bayfront Christmas night was knocked to the ground and robbed of her purse by three ruffians who were captured by St Augustine police later last night.
Historic City News readers are invited to Pier Park, located on A1A Beach Boulevard in St Augustine Beach, on Monday, December 31, 2012, when the City of St Augustine Beach presents its 7th Annual New Year’s Eve Beach Blast Off.