Month: April 2013

Airport tower stays two more months

The US Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration announced to Historic City News today that it will delay the closure of the federal contract air traffic control tower at Northeast Florida Regional Airport at St Augustine for two more months as the agency attempts to resolve multiple legal challenges to the closure decisions.

Public Safety

Merchants and residents learn about King Street project

According to reports from several local merchants and residents along the King Street entrance corridor, the Public Works Department has been contacted by the Florida Department of Transportation concerning work planned to improve the roadway between Malaga Street and Martin Luther King Avenue.

Business

Torch Run for Special Olympics this afternoon

Deputy Rafael Fuentes informed local Historic City News reporters that this afternoon, beginning at 4:00 p. m., more than forty runners and Special Olympians will carry the torch during the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.

Community

Flags lowered for Flossie Poe on Saturday

Flags will be lowered at City Hall in St Augustine tomorrow in honor of Flossie Irene Poe who passed away on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013 at her home on Springs Court in Macon, Georgia. She was 101-years-old.

Community

City seeks review by Supreme Court of Florida

Historic City News has learned that earlier today, Isabelle C. Lopez, Assistant Attorney for the City of St Augustine, has filed notice invoking the discretionary jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court to review the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal rendered on March 15 in the lawsuit brought by Donna Wendler.

Government

Governor says he’ll sign the Internet cafe bill

While in town Tuesday, Governor Rick Scott indicated to Historic City News that if the Florida Senate passed HB 155 outlawing gambling centers, he would sign the legislation into law — yesterday, that measure passed by a vote of 36-4.

Government

Tuesday flash mob deemed a success

Historic City News readers joined more than 100 people; men and women of all ages gathered in the plaza downtown to dance as part of a “flash mob” assembled to protest violence against women on Tuesday, April 2.

Community