Bozard Ford Rhythm and Ribs title sponsor
St. Augustine Sunrise Rotary Club spokesperson Martha S. Graham announced to Historic City News today that Bozard Ford will be the “Title Sponsor” of the 16th Annual Rhythm and Ribs Festival.
Let me get this straight
Let me get this straight . . . . We’re going to be “gifted” with a healthcare plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t; which purportedly covers at least ten million more people — without adding a single new doctor, but is adding 16,000 new IRS agents.
St. Patricks Day Cultural entertainment
St. Johns County Cultural Council, the county’s designated local arts agency, periodically reports upcoming cultural events to local Historic City News reporters for the benefit of our readers.
Grant funds 12 firefighter positions
Historic City News observed members of the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners vote yesterday to accept a federal SAFER grant, which provides funding for 12 new firefighter positions for the next two years.
ER Doctor confesses to obtaining child pornography
Historic City News received word from Middle District of Florida States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill that a Jacksonville emergency room doctor has entered a guilty plea in a child pornography case.
Man says he’s shot — turns machete on responders
Public Information Officer Debra Johnson told local St. Johns County reporters with Historic City News that deputies in Flagler County have arrested a Daytona North man who called to report that he had been shot in the head.
Cultural entertainment and events
St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau Communications Director Jay Humphreys updated Historic City News reporters on this weekend’s entertainment options along Florida’s Historic Coast.
Cultural Alliance asks for your help
Florida President Sherron Long is requesting that Historic City News readers who value arts, culture, zoos, music, theater museums, or history, to help restore line items that would support state arts and cultural grants in Florida’s 2011-2012 budget.