Posted inEditorials
Join the editorial review board process for General Election
Historic City News is trying something new this year in our editorial review of candidates for elected office in the upcoming November 4 General Election.
Posted inCommunity
FDOT road repairs and maintenance report
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
Posted inGovernment
Monday city will pick two new PZB members
On September 30, 2014, two new members will join the five-member Planning and Zoning Board in St Augustine; a panel that City Attorney Isabelle Lopez calls the “most important citizen’s board”, and those two people will be selected on Monday evening at the regular meeting of the St Augustine City Commission.
Posted inGovernment
City’s budget process comes to a close
City’s budget process comes to a close
Second and last public hearing is Thursday, September 25 at 5:05pm
The mayor and St Augustine city commissioners are wrapping up work on and poised to adopt a budget for the fiscal year 2014-2015 this week. All that remains is the final second public hearing which will be on Thursday, September 25th at 5:05 p.m.
Posted inCommunity
3rd Annual Clean Water Music Fest
3rd Annual Clean Water Music FestSaturday, September 27, 2014For a complete list of events go to the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall website.
Posted inCommunity
Judge awards seized livestock to Sheriff for auction
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office was awarded 39 large animals following a court proceeding Wednesday. The animals were seized on August 22nd from a home on Nikolitch Avenue in Flagler Estates.
Posted inPublic Safety
Citizen watchdog snaps photo of possible graffiti vandal
Historic City News has learned that a concerned citizen photographed the young man shown walking along the sidewalk of San Marco Avenue after he is said to have painted “Be God” in black paint on the roadway.
Posted inEditorials
Letter: How to keep 7-Eleven fiasco from repeatedly happening
John Valdes
St Augustine, FL
Dear Editor:
The most frustrating meeting of my eight years on the City of St. Augustine Planning and Zoning Board was the day the developer’s attorneys brought a request for permission to remove two trees from the vacant lot at the intersection of San Marco Avenue and May Street — now the infamous “7-Eleven Project”.
