Administrator Michele M Leonhart informed Historic City News reporters that for the first time ever, the Drug Enforcement Administration has revoked the ability of stores within a large national chain to handle or distribute controlled substances such as oxycodone and hydrocodone pending a judicial proceeding.
Historic City News reporters have learned that the Florida Department of Transportation will spend $65,000 to repair the black ornamental swing gates on the Bridge of Lions that were damaged when a motorist collided with them on August 1.
The Florida National Guard announced to local Historic City News reporters that there would be a daylong celebration of the 447th anniversary of the first known muster of Citizen-Soldiers in the continental United States at Florida National Guard Headquarters, located at 82 Marine Street in St Augustine.
Jen Williams, the public-hunting-area biologist for the Northeast Region of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, informed Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that permits to hunt Twelve Mile Swamp and Relay wildlife management areas are available, until September 28 — or until all permits are issued.
United States Attorney Robert E O’Neill announced to Historic City News today that 66-year-old Charles Lee Gorish, a registered sex offender, has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with international transportation of child pornography from Florida to Canada.
Historic City News reporters witnessed a split vote last night, with one commissioner missing, which means that neighbors in both the Nelmar Terrace and Fullerwood neighborhoods will not be able to stop the removal of three trees from a vacant lot previously approved by the St Augustine Planning and Zoning Board.
Historic City News reporters in St Augustine and St Johns County have learned that the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve is planning an ecological prescribed burn in the coastal strand on the west side of South Ponte Vedra Boulevard beginning today, weather permitting.
Bob Graham, a member of the federal St Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission, two-term Florida governor and 18-year US Senator, was interviewed yesterday by The Florida Current and asked to discuss what we know, and what we still don’t know, about the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001.
