Florida State Parks are admission free for Veterans Day
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Florida State Parks are admission free for Veterans Day

400-STATE-COMMERCE-FLIn honor of Veterans Day, Historic City News readers will receive free entry for everyone at Florida’s state parks, including Fort Mose, on Tuesday, November 11. The Florida Park Service encourages residents and visitors to celebrate veterans and active military personnel by bringing them to one of the 171 state parks and trails to enjoy outdoor activities.

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Len Weeks to face Code Enforcement Board

Real Estate developer and general contractor Len Weeks goes before the city Code Enforcement Board Wednesday to answer for a series of violations that led to the emergency demolition of the historic 200-year-old Pedro Fornell House located at 62 Spanish Street in downtown St Augustine.

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Veterans of tomorrow thank veterans of yesterday

300-ISAM-RespectVeterans of tomorrow thank veterans of yesterday

Michael Isam
Special Features Writer
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Back in the day, the people that stood out were the “Rainbows”. The name given to those freshly arrived to boot camp. To those yet to receive that full set of green everything; green from the skin out. To paraphrase the verse by Billy Joel; “When I wore a younger man’s clothes”.

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Heart rocks the Amphitheatre

300-HEART-CONCERTHeart rocks the Amphitheatre

Mark Cubbedge, Special Events Photographer
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Heart has never been a band that shied away from its musical influences of the 1970s and it performed a brilliant mix of cover tunes interspersed with its own mega-hits that kept a sold-out crowd on their feet most of the soggy evening last night at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.