Historic City News reporters regularly review the “consent agenda” items prior to public meetings of St Augustine City Commission; often there are payments to private entities, agreements, and actions that have a financial impact on local residents that are approved for the City Manager without public discussion before the Commission.
A 4:00 p.m. closed-door meeting of the St Augustine City Commission has been called by City Attorney Ronald W. Brown in order to obtain advice regarding the pending litigation captioned Wendler v. City of St Augustine.
The St Augustine Fire Department has informed Historic City News reporters that they will be conducting training exercises at 31 Cordova Street next week from Tuesday, June 25th, through Friday, June 28th.
The Solarium at Flagler College, the fourth floor parlor atop the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, has been closed to the public for decades; however, this Sunday, June 23, from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Historic City News readers are invited to attend a limited-event and view the full moon from the recently restored space.
Historic City News was informed today that Donna DeLorenzo and Barry Sand, co-advisors of Flagler Enactus, were named “Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellows of the Year” at the 2013 Enactus USA National Exposition on May 23rd in Kansas City, Missouri, where Flagler College won their third national championship.
Some Historic City News readers responding to our article reporting the arrest of 42-year-old transient roofer, Cory Allen Gale, who is charged with two-counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against an 11-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl, have questioned how it is possible that Gale continued to have such close contact with the victims.
Historic City News has learned from a report released yesterday by RealtyTrac, that Florida has more vacant homes in foreclosure than any other state in the nation; easily beating out other large states with troubled housing markets.
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
