Year: 2016

Injunction against Whetstone denied

Historic City News learned from recent court documents that Australian candy brand, Yowie North America, Inc, lost its attempt to obtain an injunction allowing the removal of a candy wrapping machine from a factory leased by Whetstone to Yowie for the next ten years.

Business

Florida Historical Resources Act amendments dead this session

Florida Public Archaeology Network Northeast Director, Sarah Miller, explained some of the successful preservation programs of the University of West Florida program hosted at Flagler College over the past decade; including laws and regulations that help to protect archaeological sites. Historic City News readers learned how they can help to protect and save Florida’s heritage.

Community

Residents ask St Augustine commission for event relief

Pointing to months like this where there are as many as five or more festivals or parades that qualify as major events, Historic City News listened to pleas from citizens asking St Augustine’s city commission for relief during nearly an hour of public comments Monday night.

Community

Sunshine Law citizen activist arrested in St Johns County

Historic City News was informed that Jeffrey Marcus Gray has been arrested. The 46-year-old St Augustine man has been in the spotlight recently because of conflicts he sees between a citizen’s right to access public records and the St Johns County School District’s obligation to protect the security of employees and students on school campuses.

Community

City attorney will demand the Cone of Silence Monday afternoon

St Augustine City Attorney Isabelle Lopez and her trusted sidekick, Assistant City Attorney Denise May, will join City of Jacksonville Beach Attorney Susan Erdelyi, a stockholder in the outside law firm Marks-Gray PA, for an afternoon under the Cone of Silence on Monday, March 14th. Historic City News will be standing by, outside.

Community