HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Senior Enlisted Advisor installation ceremony Sunday

Maj. Gen. Michael A. Calhoun, announced to Historic City News this morning that Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey Young will assume responsibility as the Florida National Guard’s Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Adjutant General of Florida during a military ceremony this Sunday, May 3rd.

Community

HHSAC Executive Committee Meeting Schedule

Health and Human Services Advisory Council FY 2014/2015 Executive Committee Meeting Schedule All meetings are held at the Health and Human Services Kingfisher Conference Room, 200 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine. Any changes in dates, times, or meeting rooms will be posted. Meetings held on first Thursday of the month at 3:30 p.m. FY 2014/2015 October…

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Community

Neutral Milk Hotel Concert

Neutral Milk Hotel Thursday, May 7, 2015 For a complete list of events go to the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall website.

Community

Brand New Concert

Brand New with Manchester Orchestra & Kevin Devine Thursday, May 7, 2015 For a complete list of events go to the Amphitheatre website.

Community

VCB forms advisory committee for Visitor Center

Richard Goldman, President & Chief Executive Officer of the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra & The Beaches Visitors & Convention Bureau, informed Historic City News last week that the VCB will provide staff support to a newly organized VIC Advisory Committee.

Business

Better Built Homes owner charged with embezzlement

Historic City News was notified by media relations officer Kevin Kelshaw that the owner of a closed SR-207 business has been charged with eight counts of misappropriating construction funds between $1,000-$100,000 and one count of grand theft.

Public Safety

2015 Nease High School beach cleanup

International Baccalaureate students from Allen D. Nease High School spread out across the 39-mile stretch of St. Johns County beaches for a Beach Cleanup project, according to a report received by Historic City News this afternoon.

Community

Rawls: City embarrassed by exposure of past mistakes

Historic City News, reporting on Monday night’s City Commission meeting, recorded audience applause when St Augustine commissioners and staff were cautioned about the consequences of their past failure to be “transparent, issue educated, and proactive” by St. Paul AME Pastor Ron Rawls, speaking for the local “300 Concerned Citizens” group.

Government