Velo Fest Community Initiative has invited all Historic City News readers to attend the Second Annual Velo Fest Festival this weekend; beginning Friday evening at 5:30 p.m. with a “Community of Bikes” parade that kicks off at the Historic Downtown Parking Facility in St Augustine.
Spokesperson, Gretl Plessinger, informed Historic City News this afternoon that Florida Department of Law Enforcement Jacksonville Regional Operations Center Special Agent in Charge Dominick Pape has resigned his position effective next month.
Historic City News has learned that St Johns County emergency services personnel were on the scene of a chemical spill for approximately 6 hours today; attempting to mitigate the leak from a tractor-trailer that crashed while traveling south along I-95.
A New Jersey fugitive and a Pennsylvania man police say carjacked a victim in Jacksonville, were taken into custody this morning after being spotted driving the stolen vehicle on I-95 in St Johns County, according to a report received by Historic City News.
A move that stymied a former St Augustine City Commission, under Mayor Joe Boles, and led to more than $100,000 in fraud and waste during the creation of the “First America Foundation, Inc.”, was nipped in the bud by Assistant City Attorney Isabelle Lopez Monday night when she instructed commissioners not to exert their own concerns into the ordinance creating a Lincolnville Community Redevelopment Area.
It’s back to the typewriter for Assistant City Attorney Isabelle Lopez, after Historic City News reporters learned at the regular business meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night; commissioners are still debating numbers on a plan to revise the Planned Unit Development ordinance.
Since receiving a split-vote majority of 3-2, St Augustine Mayor Joe Boles has resisted knuckling to pressure from constituents, visitors, participants in “Opinion Polls”, including an online reader poll taken by Historic City News, contending that there are better options for the prime piece of land that has been a miniature golf course since the 1940’s.
