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Busy day at City Hall
Today, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Historic City News reporters will be watching as city commissioners and staff wrangle with issues that will likely go on for eight or nine hours tonight.
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ACCORD presents A Night Out at the Museum
On Friday, September 18th, Historic City News readers are encouraged to attend “A Night Out at the Museum”, presented by the Anniversary to Commemorate the Civil Rights Demonstration, Inc.
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Ste. Claire says he won’t be disappointed with unsold hotel rooms
When interviewed on CBS 47 Action News in Jacksonville and asked about the Visitor and Convention Bureau’s report that there are many hotel rooms downtown still available for the 450th, ranging from $129-$460 per night, Dana Ste. Claire replied, “The economic impact that we hope to measure is probably going to be gauged in a different way.”
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Bed Tax Bonanza – $560,000 in government cheese
One topic of recurring interest to Historic City News readers is the disposition of some $5 million annually collected by landlords and hoteliers in St Johns County in the form of a 4% tourism development tax collected on lodging and short-term property rentals.
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Presidential debate straw poll at Tea Party
Historic City News was informed by Chairman Lance Thate, that the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Saint Augustine Tea Party will be Derek Boyd Hankerson.
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County Fire-Rescue completes internal investigation
Historic City News received the following statement from St. Johns County Fire Rescue Chief, Carl Shank, after completion of the department’s internal review and investigation into the events surrounding the initial response to the Belleza condominium complex on July 13, 2015.
Posted inCommunity
The “free” five-day festival
One month from now, Historic City News readers in St Augustine will celebrate the 450th anniversary of the founding of our nation’s oldest enduring city. Five days and more than $4 million later, it will finally be over, and residents can return to their normal way of life.
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This is the Back-to-School sales tax holiday weekend
DO YOU KNOW WHAT PURCHASES ARE INCLUDED IN THE SALES TAX HOLIDAY THIS WEEKEND?
