A move that stymied a former St Augustine City Commission, under Mayor Joe Boles, and led to more than $100,000 in fraud and waste during the creation of the “First America Foundation, Inc.”, was nipped in the bud by Assistant City Attorney Isabelle Lopez Monday night when she instructed commissioners not to exert their own concerns into the ordinance creating a Lincolnville Community Redevelopment Area.
It’s back to the typewriter for Assistant City Attorney Isabelle Lopez, after Historic City News reporters learned at the regular business meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night; commissioners are still debating numbers on a plan to revise the Planned Unit Development ordinance.
Since receiving a split-vote majority of 3-2, St Augustine Mayor Joe Boles has resisted knuckling to pressure from constituents, visitors, participants in “Opinion Polls”, including an online reader poll taken by Historic City News, contending that there are better options for the prime piece of land that has been a miniature golf course since the 1940’s.
St Augustine Public Works personnel are in the process of cleaning a section of St George Street that police say was contaminated by an Atlanta man earlier today as he sprayed a yet undetermined liquid on the doors and windows of businesses located along the street.
Historic City News reporters in St Augustine were notified that shortly before 5:00 a.m. this morning, several guests of the Days Inn, at I-95 and 2550 SR-16, reported that they observed strange activity and smells coming from Room 244 — the night manager led deputies to the room to find a clandestine methamphetamine lab.
Florida Highway Patrol Sergeant Dylan Bryan informed Historic City News that a 61-year-old Palm Coast man was struck about 7:55 a.m. this morning while he was traveling on his bicycle eastbound along Palm Coast Parkway west of Florida Park Drive.
St Augustine’s 18th Annual Rhythm and Ribs Festival wrapped up yesterday, and Historic City News was proud to help sponsor the many activities in what turned out to be one of the best celebrations of spring presented by the local Sunshine Rotary Club.
Historic City News photographer Mark Cubbedge was at the St Augustine Amphitheatre last night for a performance by the legendary “rock and roll band with horns”, Chicago.
