Local Historic City News reporters and Mayor Nancy Shaver welcomed Francisca Guilford, National President of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Auxiliary, Thursday during a flag waiving ceremony on the grounds of Castillo de San Marcos National Monument.
In the 1990’s, I was licensed by the South Carolina Board of Financial Institutions to operate a small loan company. One of my mentors who had been making loans in Columbia for many years offered me some advice at a Christmas party one year — she told me if I wanted to keep a profitable loan portfolio, avoid loans to the “P’s”.
In an editorial titled, “Right, wrong and the great in between” that appeared in the Sunday March 13, 2016 edition of The St Augustine Record, editorial page editor, Jim Sutton, reveals some things I wish he hadn’t. I hope they are not completely true, because, if they are, our community is not being well served.
Historic City News readers are encouraged to attend and participate when the St. Johns County Parks and Recreation Department hosts two public workshops to garner public opinion regarding sports fields, beach and waterway accesses, parks, recreational programming, and athletic facilities within the County.
When the Waffle House at US-1 and I-95 South in St Johns County was demolished last month, Historic City News readers speculated about what would replace the long-closed restaurant. Now they know.
Historic City News learned from recent court documents that Australian candy brand, Yowie North America, Inc, lost its attempt to obtain an injunction allowing the removal of a candy wrapping machine from a factory leased by Whetstone to Yowie for the next ten years.
Pointing to months like this where there are as many as five or more festivals or parades that qualify as major events, Historic City News listened to pleas from citizens asking St Augustine’s city commission for relief during nearly an hour of public comments Monday night.
