HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
Historic City News learned, in an alert from Florida Highway Patrol Troop G, that the driver of a 2001 Honda Civic that crashed into a power pole on CR-13 at about 11:12 p.m. last night, has been charged with Careless Driving and additional charges are pending receipt of the results of a blood alcohol test.
Nevada author, Tal Leverett, has invited local Historic City News readers to join him, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on December 22nd and 23rd, when he will be visiting St Augustine and available to inscribe copies of his book, “The White Bear”.
Historic City News in St Augustine has learned that the first annual “Park-to-Pantry Food Drive”, to help local food pantries, will begin this Thursday, December 20, at the visitor center of Fort Mose Historic State Park.
Ripley Entertainment Vice President of Communications, Tim O’Brien, reported to Historic City News that although the multi-national exhibitor has been unable to verify the Mayan claims that the world will come to an end on Friday, it is prepared in case they do.
Barbara Golden, Communications Manager for the St Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau, informed local Historic City News reporters about the following entertaining events for our St Johns County readers.
An elderly man from Pennsylvania who is now residing in Fruit Cove has gone missing this morning in the Julington Creek area and St Johns County investigators are asking you for assistance in locating him.
Friends of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve informed local Historic City News reporters that Southeast Toyota Distributors, LLC in Jacksonville recently sent a team to assist in building reef from over 5,000 pounds of oyster shell.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced five members of the “Guardians” gang last Friday to federal prison terms. Maynard Kenneth Godwin (33, Jacksonville), Andrew Chase Wilkie (31, Callahan) and Eric Steven Ellis (28, Atlantic Beach) were convicted of conspiracy and violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.