The Florida League of Cities reported to Historic City News that members of the St Augustine City Commission and the city’s fire chief will be visiting area schools next week as part of Florida City Government Week, October 21-27.
Historic City News was informed that St Augustine City Commission candidate Bruce Maguire, who has advanced to the General Election runoff November 6, will be available to discuss issues relevant to the Old City South and Lincolnville neighborhoods with his supporters tonight at the Willie Galimore Community Center.
The lunatics are running the asylum and the citizens of St Johns County should not stand for it one single, solitary day longer.
At today’s county commission meeting, I observed, once again, some of the most egregious examples of incompetence in office that I care to witness — and there is not one good reason for it.
Melissa Glasgow, Director of Economic Development for St Johns County, told Historic City News that, late Friday, Advanced Disposal, Inc, submitted an application for a state and county incentive package worth $670,460.
Historic City News was watching when St Johns County commissioners returned from lunch to take on the most controversial item on today’s agenda — a vote to approve or deny the transmittal of a Comprehensive Plan amendment; which, in the end, they voted to do neither.
A few more answers available to Historic City News today in the tragic death of 20-year-old Chelsea Marie Wantz of St Augustine; who was struck from behind in a car-vs-scooter crash at 3:25 AM Saturday morning.
Historic City News readers are as well informed about politics and government in St Augustine and St Johns County as any other group of citizens — they tend to do their homework and they are among the first in line when it’s time to exercise their right to vote.
A species said to be on the brink of extinction, the Chinese alligator, will be in the spotlight this weekend when the St Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park shines the spotlight on rare and endangered reptiles October 20 and 21 during Reptile Awareness Weekend.
