While watching “Sea Hunt” on television as a child, it wasn’t necessary to wear fins and a mask; but, that didn’t keep the man who is in talks with the City of St Augustine to build an 8,000-square-foot aquarium on Riberia Pointe, from feeding his lifelong fascination with the ocean.
St Johns County Tax Collector Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC, told Historic City News that he has received the inaugural safety award from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles for the driver education program his office restored to local high schools.
Historic City News has learned that now, fifty-years after the fact, in the same dining room where a group of more than 100 students from the all-black Richard Murray High School held the first “sit-in” of the civil rights movement in St Augustine, Flagler College will introduce the Civil Rights Library.
St Johns County Sheriff’s Detective Samantha English has been busy rounding up burglars following a rash of break-ins to vehicles throughout the Northwest District of the county within the past several months. Historic City News received word of the re-arrest of one, and three additional arrests over the past few days.
Velo Fest reported to Historic City News that volunteers hit the pavement today with the Official Gentlemen’s Bike Guide; assisting both locals and guests when they navigate the streets of St Augustine during the Gentlemen of the Road stopover Friday and Saturday.
The Florida Department of Transportation informed local Historic City News reporters that beginning yesterday, the Crescent Beach Bridge is operating on a “single-leaf only” basis and that both leaves of the center drawbridge span will not be able to open simultaneously for boaters until after September 21st.
This Friday, Historic City News has learned that the Florida National Guard will celebrate the 448th anniversary of the first known muster of citizen-soldiers in the continental United States during a celebration in St Augustine, September 13th beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Historic City News readers are invited to attend Wednesday morning when a firing of volleys by the Sheriff’s Office, a rendition of Amazing Grace on bagpipe by Deputy Craig Harrison, and taps sounds on trumpet by Deputy Kyle Brownett; all part of a 9-11 Commemoration Ceremony in St Johns County.
