The City of St Augustine has received approval from the commission during last night’s regular business meeting to move forward with an application for a $50,000 matching grant to get the Flagler era city water works building at Davenport Park in condition to be returned to public service.
Over the past 30-days, we’ve observed three residents obsess and conspire, provoke hard feelings, engage in juvenile name calling, cajole others to disrupt the legitimate operation of businesses unrelated to their complaint, and generally demoralize a community of otherwise law-abiding citizens to sink to their level of malicious, poor judgment.
Historic City News in St Augustine has learned that a 30-year old Alachua County woman, Amy Lynn Kuitert, was arrested Saturday night, charged with child neglect, and released from the St Johns County Detention Facility the next morning — after posting $250 cash bond.
Just before 1:00 a.m. this morning, Police Chief Robert A Hardwick informed local Historic City News reporters that officers were able to capture three men wanted in connection with several burglaries that occurred last night in the area of Lee Drive and Clipper Court in St Augustine Beach.
During a special extended 10-minute presentation before the St Augustine City Commission tonight, sponsored by Vice-Mayor Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline, once again the five-member panel will listen to another Historic District merchant who doesn’t like buskers.
The last formal proposal to return the North City Water Works building to use was reported by Historic City News on July 16, 2011, when Colin Bingham proposed that the property could be repaired for community meetings — tonight, the St Augustine City Commission will revisit what should be done with the aging, deteriorating structure.
Ranger Jesse Olbrich told local Historic City News reporters that on Saturdays at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, volunteers will be able to participate in regular drill sessions in the courtyard and public musket demonstrations.
Historic City News readers in St Augustine and St Johns County flock to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve for some of the area’s best bird watching; but a sighting near the Guana Dam has the birding community all aflutter.
