On Saturday, October 20th, Historic City News readers are invited to attend when Sarah Miller, Director of the Northeast Region of the Florida Public Archaeology Network, and staff members of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve and Environmental Education Center, celebrate National Archaeology Day.
On Saturday, October 20 at 2:00 p.m., the Cathedral Basilica of St Augustine informs local Historic City News reporters that an Ecumenical Prayer Service will be held as part of the City of St Augustine’s celebrations of the 200th Anniversary of the Spanish Constitution.
Should county commission candidates spend over a year’s salary to get elected? Historic City News editor Michael Gold spent about 20 years consulting candidates or managing their campaigns in local elections in St Augustine, St Johns County, and five counties in Georgia and South Carolina — ten campaigns in all, before retiring in 2004; all but one was a winner.
Do you believe in “intelligent design”? I know, the courts have ruled that it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution so we don’t teach anything about the creation in our public schools.
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St. Augustine and St. Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
This school year, Historic City News has learned that the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve is partnering with Sebastian Middle School and St Johns Technical High School in St Augustine and Mayport Elementary Coastal Sciences Academy in Jacksonville on a new project — the Sea Grass Nursery Program.
St Johns River Farmers Market spokesperson Liz Gallagher updated Historic City News in St Augustine about some of the vendors available for tomorrow’s market from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, in a beautiful Old Florida setting at Alpine Groves Park located at 2060 SR-13 in Switzerland.
Historic City News has reported previously on groups of teenagers roaming St George Street in downtown St Augustine’s Colonial Spanish Quarter at night; causing vandalism, painting graffiti, and engaging in violence.
