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 learned this week that there are two announced candidates for the office of the Supervisor of Elections; the incumbent Republican Vicky Oakes and Ed Slavin who has declared to run as a Democrat.
From November 30 – January 4, 2020 Historic City News readers are invited to join the Villa Zorayda Museum for their 10th Annual “Candlelight Tours” of the Museum which are offered on select evenings during St. Augustine’s “Nights of Lights” Celebration.
This is the weekend for the 54th Annual St Augustine Festival of Art November 30 and December 1, 2019 – The St Augustine Art Association, with the support of many community volunteers and partners, has been hosting the annual St Augustine Festival of Art for decades.
Historic City News is informed weekly about road and lane closures in Northeast Florida from the District Two offices of the Florida Department of Transportation.
Archaeologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History reminded Historic City News local reporters of something almost all our readers already know — the story of the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving in 1621 has a catch. The Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving wasn’t the first.
The Florida Bar, the state’s guardian for the integrity of the legal profession, announced to local Historic City News reporters that the Florida Supreme Court has disciplined Erin Rebecca Waskiewicz, a St Johns County attorney; one of 22 attorneys to be disciplined in recent court orders. Two attorneys were ordered to pay restitution and one was given probation. The court acted to disbar six, revoke the licenses of nine, and suspend seven. Disciplinary revocation is tantamount to disbarment.
St Johns County notified Historic City News under the Neighborhood Bill of Rights that there will be a discussion about temporary morning hours access and parking to beach access points on Ponte Vedra Boulevard from 545 Ponte Vedra Boulevard to 311 Ponte Vedra Boulevard.
Historic City News has learned that while patrolling downtown at about 2:11 a.m. Saturday morning November 23, St Augustine Police Officer Jonathan Correa was hailed by management at the White Lion Tavern on Cuna Street. Three patrons were refusing to leave the bar after “last call” and one man was in the middle of “a screaming match” with the bouncer, Correa reported.