Historic City News was notified by Jeremy Robshaw that St Johns County Fire Rescue would hold its annual lifeguard orientation meetings and seasonal lifeguard tryouts for the 2013 beach season during the coming weeks.
Over the past 50 years that I recall in St Augustine, I can’t remember a time when there have been so many businesses close — many have been in business for years, some for decades, and even some that have been owned by the same family for generations.
Federal investigators looking into yesterday’s private aircraft crash in Palm Coast have identified the three occupants to local Historic City News reporters; the pilot of the ill-fated flight, was a Spanish teacher at Clinton County High School in Albany, Kentucky.
Historic City News and regional television reporters were at the scene this morning as investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board arrived in Palm Coast to survey the damage and locate clues that may tell why a 55-year-old Bonanza aircraft fell from the sky yesterday.
A 1957 Bonanza H35 was declared a total loss; the pilot and two other occupants have been declared dead at the scene, after the private aircraft crashed into a home at 22 Utica Path in the Seminole Woods Subdivision of Palm Coast at about 2:19 p.m. this afternoon.
Historic City News reporters spotted four transients and their dog as they were being detained by three St Johns County deputy sheriff’s in front of the busy US-1 entrance to Wal-Mart Stores about 5:00 p.m. today.
Historic City News has been informed that a Glenmoor Retirement Community security guard has been arrested today and is in custody in the St Johns County Detention Facility; charged with burglary, grand theft, dealing in stolen property, exploitation of the elderly and defrauding a pawn broker.
Congressman Ron DeSantis was sworn in to the 113th Congress today by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).
