Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
A Republican poll observer in today’s election reported to local Historic City News editor Michael Gold that he was asked to stop recording the identities of voters as the showed up to cast their ballots at the Solomon Calhoun Community Center today.
Historic City News was called to several local precincts in St Augustine this morning as campaign workers began arriving to find political signs for their candidates on the ground instead of prominently posted as they had been the night before.
Today is the day that Americans peacefully overthrow the government as they make their way to their established polling precinct and enter the holy of holies, the sanctum sanctorum, where everyone in the country is on the level — the voting booth.
The parade associated with the St Augustine Pirate Gathering will necessitate a disruption of traffic in parts of downtown St Augustine on Saturday, November 10.
Historic City News has been informed that an out-of-state man traveled to St Johns County on Friday evening to commit an illegal sexual act with a mentally ill, teenaged girl at the arrangement of her legal guardian — or so he thought.
The information contained in this report is taken from sources deemed reliable; the accuracy and completeness of which Historic City News does not control and cannot guarantee.
The original public records are on file with the St. Johns County Tax Collector and should be consulted before taking any action.
The science of sea level rise, and its potential impacts on the Matanzas Basin, will be presented during the first series of community workshops by researchers from the University of Florida for Historic City News readers in St Augustine, Palm Coast and the coastal communities in the Matanzas area.
