Tourist Development Council Executive Director Glenn Hastings reported to Historic City News today the outcome of yesterday afternoon’s application for reserve funding to backstop the satellite event parking plan being proposed by the City of St Augustine for the two-day Mumford and Sons Gentlemen of the Road stopover September 13 and 14, 2013.
Award-winning restaurateur, Pat Morrissey, invited local Historic City News readers to attend a special screening of “Honeydripper” at the Corner Bar at Gypsy Cab Company when “Dinner and a Movie” returns to benefit the St Johns Cultural Council on Wednesday June 26, 2013.
Letter: We Must Overhaul the Role of the TSA
Glenn Mollette
Newburgh, Indiana
Dear Editor:
You probably think this doesn’t apply to you. Wrong. Even if you never enter an airport your hard earned dollars are paying big salaries and big benefits to thousands of federal TSA workers right now.
During their Human Factors and Applied Psychology conference recently, Historic City News learned that Flagler College graduate Frankie Lawton was named the winner of Embry-Riddle’s “Excellence in Undergraduate Research” award.
Beginning this morning at 9:00 a.m., Historic City News will be covering the St Johns County Commission meeting when Doug Timms, Director, Office of Management and Budget, presents the proposed budgets for Fiscal Year 2014 from three of the five Constitutional Officers.
Historic City News readers can cast their vote, now through September 30, while two hundred national historic landmarks compete for the title “8th Wonder of the World” — one of the nominees is our own historic Hotel Ponce de Leon; that once attracted the wealthy and the elite from presidents to movie stars and now is home to Flagler College.
Saint Augustine Maritime Heritage Foundation, informed local Historic City News reporters that together with St Augustine Cruisers Net, and Sailors in St Augustine, are hosting an event in honor of Justin Riney of Expedition Florida 500.
The first of three cannons to be mounted at Oglethorpe Battery Park in Davis Shores is being set to a frame at the City of St Augustine warehouse on West King Street today, according to an announcement received by local Historic City News reporters.
