Uptown St Augustine comes alive for Historic City News readers on the last Saturday of each month, at the galleries, antique stores and other unique shops on along San Marco Avenue beginning at Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum; north to the Mission Nombre de Dios.
St. Johns County Fire Rescue told Historic City News this morning that a local team of United States Lifesaving Association certified beach lifeguards will officially begin full-scale guarded beaches this Saturday, May 25, 2013.
Historic City News was informed that an information host at the St Augustine and St Johns County Visitor Information Center who has been welcoming visitors to the city for almost 15 years, Kay David, has been named the 2013 Tourism Employee of the Year in the Government Category during the 4th Annual State of the Industry Event at Renaissance Resort.
This morning, Historic City News editor Michael Gold got the call that El Galeon could not make the 11:30 a.m. slack tide in order to arrive in St Augustine as planned; but that did not stop the crew of the 170 foot, 495 ton, detailed replica of ships that brought Spanish explorers and settlers to La Florida 500-years ago — they just had to wait for the next tide.
January 4, 2010, Times-Union sales and marketing vice president, Ron Davidson, took the reins as publisher of the St Augustine Record. Two weeks later, on January 19, 2010, Florida Publishing Company succumbs to bankruptcy under the ownership of Morris Publishing Group, LLC.
Paul Williamson reminds Historic City News readers that on Monday, May 27, all offices of the City of St Augustine will be closed in observance of Memorial Day.
Tomorrow, May 21st, Historic City News learned that patriots across the country will be hitting the streets to protest the recent revelation that the Internal Revenue Service was used to harass and abuse US citizens who are Tea Party members and members of other conservative Patriot groups.
Kathy Catron, Director of Communications for the Visitors and Convention Bureau at FloridasHistoricCoast.com, announced that tomorrow, about 11:30 a.m., Historic City News readers can watch as El Galeon and her crew sail into the Matanzas Bay; America’s oldest seaport.
