Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
According to an afternoon interview for Historic City News with Erika Ward, Deputy Supervisor of the St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections office, Candidate Mark P. Miner, one of two Republican candidates challenging the re-election bid of Commissioner Ben Rich, has missed the 12:00 noon deadline today to submit “candidate petitions” in lieu of paying the established qualifying fees — in Miner’s case, $2,443.08.
In an announcement received by Historic City News this morning, we are advised that the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners will hold a Special Meeting on Thursday, May 29, at 1:30 p.m. in the County Auditorium, located at 4020 Lewis Speedway in St. Augustine.
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The opinions published may not have been unanimously held; but they will reflect the major leaning of our editorial panelists.
The deadline for prospective candidates to submit petitions to the Supervisor of Elections for verification in all Statewide, County, Special District & Municipal contests is noon on Monday, May 19, 2008.
“At FPL, we’ve been working hard to strengthen our system against storms.” announced the Florida Power and Light Company in a media release this afternoon. The announcement comes as a reminder of Florida’s summer hurricane season which is upon us.
Beginning next month, residents and visitors will have a new spot to enjoy a fresh, hot cup of Joe as well as something to go with.
Historic City News and Media gets to the bottom of all the “buzz” around the one time service station at 1280 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard that is owned by Celestia Kyall; widow of the late St. Augustine businessman Kirby Kyall.
Djibouti lies in northeast Africa on the Gulf of Aden at the southern entrance to the Red Sea and according to the bank’s staff here in St. Augustine, Colonial Bank doesn’t operate there.
None the less, the following e-mail was received by Historic City News and Media this morning from a local Colonial Bank subscriber:
Kevin Wiseman, project manager for the new county administration building, gave Historic City News and Media a “hard hat” tour of the construction progress on the new 105,000 square foot facility this morning and gave us a review of some of the thinking that went in to the design and planning for the project.
