Historic City News watched yesterday as Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, said that in 2014, he will push for a $250 million reduction on sales taxes that businesses pay for energy; proposing to cut in half the commercial energy sales tax — noting that residential utility customers do not pay the tax at all.
A split vote Monday night when the St Augustine City Commission decided to allow Philip McDaniel and his investors, who are converting a portion of the former ice plant on Riberia Street into a micro-distillery, to convert the side of the historic building into a billboard.
Historic City News readers, commissioners and city staff will have until their October 28th meeting to further consider the wisdom of allowing passengers on horse-drawn carriages to consume alcoholic beverages from open containers.
Historic City News was informed by St Johns County Sheriff’s spokesman, Kevin Kelshaw, that on Saturday October 12 at about 6:39 p.m., deputies responded to a reported sexual battery of a teenage girl that was said to have occurred inside his apartment.
In accordance with Florida State Statute 775.21, this news release will serve as public notification that the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has been given information that a person judged to be a sexual predator has relocated his residence within St. Johns County.
Executive director, Kevin Doyle, announced to Historic City News in St Augustine that Consumer Energy Alliance-Florida, a source of sound and unbiased information on US and global energy issues for consumers, will be a sponsor of the Florida Energy Summit that began today in Orlando.
The Friends of the Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve are hosting their fourth annual fund-raiser to support the mission of protecting and preserving our ocean and estuary resources and Historic City News readers are encouraged to participate.
