When about 30 downtown merchants and residents along the King Street corridor gathered at Butterfield Garage yesterday afternoon, they were not there to sing “Kum Bah Yah” — they wanted to hear what City Manager John Regan had to say about the bombshell news that King Street was about to be under construction for over a year.
Kirsten Miller, who, with her mother, owns Butterfield Garage on King Street, told Historic City News editor Michael Gold yesterday that the Florida Department of Transportation and City of St Augustine should give the community more time to plan before starting a project she says would be devastating for everyone downtown.
The Federal Aviation Administration training center in Palm Coast will remain in Flagler County and continue to be a vital part of the local economy while FAA officials reevaluate a plan to move the facility, Congressman John Mica reported to Historic City News today.
For the past six years, Academy Director Gail Cullum has been the head of a St Augustine High School program that is part of a partnership with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.
A residential structure fire reported to E-9-1-1 operators at 3:11 a.m. this morning, sent St Johns County Fire Rescue teams to the 1800 block of Shore Drive; where first responders reported heavy smoke in the home.
Brandon Meredith Hardy, the 21-year-old man who came to St Augustine from Valdosta thinking he was going to have sex with a 12-year-old child, was found guilty yesterday of using the Internet in an attempt to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
A former long-time Sheriff’s Office employee and once lieutenant assigned to the St Johns County Detention Facility finds himself detained today after violation of his probation on charges of aggravated stalking last year, according to a report received by Historic City News from Sheriff’s spokesman, Chuck Mulligan.
In court for a pre-trial hearing Tuesday, Historic City News reporters learned that 27 year-old Alan Everett Squire who resided at 70 Washington Street in St Augustine, pled guilty then was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted robbery of the T-11 convenience store located at 52 San Marco Avenue.
