Historic City News reporters have been watching, as additional facts become known in the most recent efforts by the City of St. Augustine to pull off a successful fundraising effort in the 450th Commemoration drama.
Brian A. Iannucci
St Johns, FL
Dear Editor:
Upon waking this day, December 16, 2011, I was perusing my email to find yet another salvo in the current melee between the local Republican Party and the Tea Party. The staggering appropriateness of this message allowed me the opportunity to reflect on this date in history.
Historic City News was notified that the early morning fire at the TPC Clubhouse located at 110 Championship Way in Ponte Vedra Beach has been ruled “accidental” according to an announcement from Fire Rescue Lieutenant Jeremy Robshaw.
In a televised report that was broadcast on First Coast News today, a report from USC Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future predicts that most print newspapers will be gone in five years — but the editor of Florida Times-Union makes a different prediction.
Two St Augustine men are being held without bond today; each facing felony drug charges after police say they were manufacturing methamphetamine in their home; which lies within 1,000 feet of R. B. Hunt Elementary School on Anastasia Island.
St Johns County Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes notified Historic City News that tomorrow, Friday December 16th, the first absentee ballots for the Presidential Preference Primary will be mailed.
The information contained in this report is taken from sources deemed reliable; the accuracy and completeness of which Historic City News does not control and cannot guarantee.
The original public records are on file with the St. Johns County Tax Collector and should be consulted before taking any action.
The appointed, but yet unfunded, federal commission overseeing the 450th anniversary of the settlement of St Augustine in 1565, has named a local official employed by the National Park Service as its interim director while the search for a permanent director and elusive dollars continues.
