During the regular meeting of the St Augustine Planning and Zoning Board yesterday, Flagler College lost their request to proceed with an amended Planned Unit Development to develop a 20,000 square foot communications facility in Historic Preservation District 3 at Cordova and Cuna streets.
On the St Johns County Board of Commissioners, Historic City News has discovered that only Cyndi Stevenson, District 1, has taken a voluntary pay cut since the enactment of Chapter 2011-158, Laws of Florida, which took effect on July 1 of last year, and provided that each member of a board of county commissioners, clerk of circuit court, sheriff, supervisor of elections, property appraiser, and tax collector was authorized to voluntarily reduce his or her salary rate.
In an article that appeared on Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group yesterday, Historic City News takes note of a local government official in Vero Beach who had the moral courage, in the words of the late sheriff Neil Perry, “to make the right choice, at the right time, for the right reason”.
Speaking for St Johns County Beach Services, Lt Jeremy Robshaw informed Historic City News that hot and sunny weather is forecast all week; making local beaches a great destination to enjoy the holiday festivities.
Assistant State Attorney Josh Alexander told Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that 30 year-old Nathaniel Callahan, the man who was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Moultrie Road January 6, left clinging to life and in a coma for a short period, told Judge Berger that he was upset because his assailant has never apologized for his actions.
Klare Ly, Public Affairs Director for State Attorney R J Larizza, informed Historic City News local reporters that 65 year-old defendant Robert Keith Sherley was sentenced to thirty years in prison today after entering a plea of “no contest” to two first-degree felony counts of robbery with a firearm.
Paul Williamson, Public Affairs Director for the City of St Augustine, informed local Historic City News reporters that the Independence Day fireworks display over Matanzas Bay is the largest single-event audience in the City each year.
Chairman Harlan Mason of the Republican Party of St Johns County invites Historic City News readers in St Augustine and St Johns County to attend the 2012 Lincoln-Reagan Dinner being held on Monday, July 23.
