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.
Within a week, we go from chilly, windy and raining weather to bikinis and barbecue!
The last of the spring break crowd was treated to some beautiful summer like weather today and nobody wasted any time getting to the beach. Today’s high temperatures were in the 80’s and that means perfect conditions for fishing, skim boards and a weekend cookout St. Augustine style.
A new feature we will be adding is the “Warrant of the Week”. In cooperation with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, Historic City News will be highlighting a different warrant each week.
This Saturday, Apr. 19 and Sunday, Apr. 20, 2008, EPIC Community Services and the Garden Club of St. Augustine present the 12th Annual Flower and Garden Expo.
Growers, nurseries, crafters and artisans from around the state offer gardeners everything they need to make spring bloom at the “Flower and Garden Expoâ€, at the St. Johns County Agricultural Center in St. Augustine.
Sometime between Monday afternoon and yesterday morning, April 17, 2008, an FPL substation on east SR 206 in the vicinity of the Moses Creek Conservation Area, was burglarized causing about $1,500.00 in damage and resulting in the theft of about $1,000.00 worth of copper wire according to an incident report filed yesterday by Deputy Justin Anderson.
The second quarterly edition of the City of St. Augustine Beach newsletter was released this month.
This issue covers the appointment of the new Assistant Chief of Police, Joni Mathis, who replaced Joseph Sisti; City Attorney Geoffrey Dobson swearing in 2008 Commissioner Sylvester “Brud†Helhoski as the City’s Vice Mayor and Commissioner Rich O’Brien as the City’s Mayor as well as several awards and recognitions presented by the Mayor and Commission
The 2nd Annual St. Johns County Sea Turtle Homecoming Festival has been announced for Saturday, April 26th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the SJC Ocean Pier Pavilion in St. Augustine Beach. The event is hosted by the Keepers of the Coast.
St. Johns County Waste Management is hosting the Annual Turtle Town Beach Cleanup from 8:00 am to 11:00 am at the Pier Parking Lot.
Two co-workers of Wolfe Technologies on a construction site at the end of Osceola Elementary Road got into trouble yesterday evening when one of the workers attempted to use a crane to lower the other from the roof of a building approximately 40-50 feet off the ground.
According to the incident report filed by Deputy Jared Monie, the operator extended the boom of a crane and his co-worker, 20 year old Ryan Lankford, stepped onto the end of the lift.
A 34 year old St. Augustine woman is in custody today under 10,000.00 bail and facing charges of cocaine possession.
The driver of a 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe in the area of Four Mile Road and Ervin Street was stopped for violation of a traffic control device about 10:00 p.m. last night.
