Paul Livingston, Director, Northeast Florida Fair Tax will address the open meeting of the Saint Augustine Tea Party on Tuesday, June 25, and all taxpayers are invited to attend, according to an announcement received by Historic City News today.
Fort Lauderdale attorney Eugene K. Pettis will become the Bar’s first African American leader when he is sworn in as its 65th president during The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention in Boca Raton on June 28, 2013, according to an announcement received by Historic City News today.
Justice will come five-years late, but Historic City News was notified today by State Attorney R. J. Larizza’s Office that the 2007 cold case investigation into the shooting death of 31-year-old Clark Edwin McWhorter will finally close; now that his confessed killer has entered a plea of “no contest” to second degree murder charges.
Historic City News was notified this afternoon that 40-year-old Nathaniel David Juratovac of St Augustine will be allowed to make bail pending his attempted murder trial; so long as he can meet certain conditions set by Judge Michael Traynor and he raises the $300,000 appearance bond.
Historic City News is following the Tuesday afternoon arrest of a 42-year-old transient roofer, Cory Allen Gale, on two-counts of lewd and lascivious molestation involving an 11-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl who were living with their mother and her fiancée in an Anastasia Boulevard motel.
The City of St Augustine announced to Historic City News today that long time civil rights activist, Dr. Robert B. Hayling, will be presented with the city’s highest and most prestigious award, the Order of la Florida, by members of the city commission on July 2; in conjunction with the 40th ACCORD’s Seventh Annual Freedom Trail Luncheon.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling is a native of Tallahassee; he graduated from Florida A & M College in 1951 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and just two months after graduation, enlisted in the United States Air Force. Hayling graduated from the Air Force Officer’s Candidate School achieving the rank of First Lieutenant prior to his honorable discharge. During his service in the Air Force, Hayling married his former classmate and college sweetheart, Athea L. Wake.
Keepers of the Coast, a local non-profit dedicated to promoting coastal stewardship and the conservation of coastal habitat, are recruiting volunteers for the 5th Annual “Day After” Beach Clean-Up on Friday, July 5th.
