HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
Historic City News is pleased to report that once again, participants will come from 75 different beaches in the United States and the world to compete for trophies and prizes in the Florida Skim-board Pro/Am.
An employee of the Grand Bohemian Gallery on King Street reported the theft of a bronze horse sculpture yesterday valued at $4500.
The 10th Annual Commemoration of the end of the Second Seminole War was held in St. Augustine yesterday, and Mayor Nancy Shaver reported for Historic City News from the parade grounds by sharing photographs during the event.
“Cruel Summer”, the name of an undercover operation where male and female detectives pose as juveniles on Internet websites, striking up online conversations with adults looking for sexual encounters, resulted in 17 arrests recently according to information distributed in a press conference yesterday.
Danielle Anderson, President of the Flagler County Republican Club, informed local Historic City News reporters that it is time for the Republican BBQ Party and Blue-Ribbon Cake & Pie Contest, as party members look forward to the upcoming 2018 election season.
At approximately 8:30 p.m. Friday night, the Florida Highway Patrol reported to Historic City News that troopers responded to a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Flagler Estates.
On Thursday evening August 10th at approximately 5:00 p.m., Historic City News learned that the St Augustine Beach Police were dispatched to Panama Hattie’s Restaurant & Bar to investigate the theft of checks from the manager’s safe.
Historic City News has learned that 593 St Johns County taxpayers became victims of a scheme to defraud that originated within the offices of the St. Johns County Tax Collector, Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC.