HISTORIC CITY NEWS

County monitoring tropical depression today

National Weather Service Jacksonville has informed Historic City News that St Johns County Emergency Management is at “Level-3 Monitoring” status this morning as a result of a low pressure front developing to our east, over the Atlantic Ocean.

Public Safety

This summer, enter the video journalism contest

Historic City News managing editor, Michael Gold, is the state editor for WatchdogWire.com in Florida; the national citizen journalism project of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. So, when Watchdog Wire has a contest, you can count on Historic City News to include all of our readers as well.

Community

Carpet Golf has ties to Civil Rights Act

As a kid growing up in St Augustine in the 1950’s and 1960’s, Historic City News managing editor Michael Gold has many memories of a time when the bayfront miniature golf course was a very popular nighttime attraction for local families as well as vacationers and summer day-trippers from Gainesville, Jacksonville, and Daytona Beach.

Community

Senate confirms Mendoza as new federal judge

Seventh Circuit Judge, Carlos E. Mendoza, was confirmed for a seat on the federal bench earlier this week according to an announcement received by Historic City News from Court Communications Officer, Ludmilla Lelis, in Deland. Circuit Judge Clyde E. Wolfe will take over the Putnam County criminal division seat being vacated by Mendoza on August…

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Government

Night Owl Cinema

Community First Night Owl CinemaFree Movies at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Gates open at 7 p.m. and each movie will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are not required, as the event is free and open to the public. There will not be a charge to park at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. No outside food or…

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Community

Guest Column: New e-cig law July 1st

Guest Column: New e-cig law effective July 1st By: Summer Perritt Pedro Menendez High School Special to Historic City News The Electronic Cigarette. The e-cig, the thing on all the posters in the gas station, and in all the ads in my magazine, or however you choose to identify the new “up and coming” nicotine…

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Community

Horvath moves vision forward – Marlowe fully funded

The St. Augustine City Commission voted unanimously last Monday, June 23, to accept Commissioner Roxanne Horvath’s plea for almost $75,000 in consulting fees to pay a Gainesville man to “facilitate” the fifteen-handpicked volunteers that will tell us where we want to be in fifteen or twenty years.

Government

Shooter and victim both taken to jail

St Johns County Sheriff’s detectives updated the Historic City News crime desk upon the arrest of both men involved in a 4:38 a.m. shooting that occurred at 1011 Southbank Way in St. Johns this morning.

Public Safety