St Augustine attorney Jane West, Policy & Planning Director for 1,000 Friends of Florida, asked the Historic City News editorial review board to evaluate several pieces of what she described as “very damaging bills” that are moving forward quickly in the current session of the Florida legislature.
All Historic City News readers, 16-years-old or older, may be eligible to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine when St Johns County holds walk-up appointments from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21st, at the Solomon Calhoun Community Center located at 1300 Duval Street in St Augustine.
The foresight of the St Johns County Board of County Commissioners who decided to continue tourism funding during the darker days of the COVID-19 pandemic, is paying dividends, according to Historic City News sources. Visitors & Convention Bureau President Richard Goldman says, “Money spent maintaining awareness has led to providing continued long-term hiring to meet local demand.”
Historic City News was asked to patriotically invite our subscribers to attend an open house meeting on Tuesday evening, April 13th at 6:30 p.m., at Norma D’s Kitchen, located at 224 N Main Street in Hastings Florida. Their special guest speaker will be Dr. Stephen E. Grable, M.D., whose presentation will be about the several changes that have occurred recently involving vaccination against the ever-looming threat of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Florida Department of Transportation Community Outreach Specialist Allen Nelson has updated Historic City News with the weekly lane closure report containing information regarding ongoing construction projects and traffic impacts for the coming week. Our readers and subscribers will be updated every Friday by 5:00 p.m., with some unavoidable exceptions and state holidays.
As part of the Hospital Creek Bridge improvement project intermittent overnight closures are planned for the bridge from Friday, April 9 through Friday, April 23. Closures will occur in 30-minute increments between the hours of 11:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. The bridge, located on SR-A1A just west of the Vilano Beach Bridge, will reopen to allow emergency response vehicles to pass through when needed.
Melissa Wissel, Communications Director for the City of St Augustine, informed local Historic City News reporters that former mayor, George M Gardner, died yesterday, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Gardner would have turned 84-years-old next month on May 23rd. Flags at City Hall will be lowered to half-staff to honor the life of this mayor of the people, on a date to be determined. George Gardner came into office as mayor and served the citizens from 2002 until 2006. He concluded his six-years in elected office at the City of St Augustine as a commissioner from 2006 until 2008.
Gary L Bernstein has spent more than half of his life in service to the school children of St Johns County schools. In addition to working for his parents in their family-owned St George Street department store, and in customer service at the Publix grocery store on Anastasia Island, Gary found that he could use his “spare time” over the past 30+ years as a crossing guard employed by the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
