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.
Historic City News reader, Sheila Bacon Greenleaf, shared the news that Friends of South Dixie Highway have won approval from the City of St Augustine for the text of a marker to be erected beside the 100-year-old Albert Lewis Trough; located at 92 South Dixie Highway — the former site of the San Juan Trailer Park.
St Augustine 450th Commemoration Youth Ambassadors contact, Jeani Taliaferro, updated local Historic City News reporters on the organization’s May activities with a report prepared by Youth Ambassador and Nease High School IB Class of 2015 member, John Hutton.
For the third time, Flagler College won the US Enactus National Championship, and will represent the nation at the Enactus World Cup in Cancun, Mexico, on September 29, according to Brian Thompson in a report to Historic City News this morning. Flagler Enactus also won the national title in 2004 and 2009.
St Augustine’s annual summer-long music series begins Monday and Historic City News readers are invited to attend the free Memorial Day afternoon performance at the Gazebo in the Plaza de la Constitucion.
In a split vote, whose final tally was 757 yes to 475 no, the Boy Scouts of America will begin allowing openly gay teens to participate in their program beginning January 1, 2014; according to information received by Historic City News from the North Florida Council in Jacksonville.
“Legal Tips on Tourism” will be the topic when members and guests of the St Johns County Chamber of Commerce Hospitality and Tourism Council hold their next meeting at the Casa Monica Hotel located at 95 Cordova Street in downtown St Augustine; according to an announcement received by Historic City News from Council President, Adam Shockey.
The regular meeting of the St Johns County Board of Commissioners was held Tuesday in the County Auditorium in the St Johns County Administration Palace located at 500 San Sebastian View in St Augustine.
