FDOT road repairs and maintenance report

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONLaurie 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.

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Abbott Tract neighborhood prepares for smoke tests

Abbott Tract neighborhood prepares for smoke tests

400-CITY-ROAD-REPAIRSAccording to John Ruddell, a supervisor for the city’s waste water collection system, as simple as it seems, one of the most effective ways to find leaks or unintended pipe connections in a sanitary sewer system is to push smoke through the pipes. Historic City News readers who reside in the Abbott Tract neighborhood will be affected as the city begins this testing in two weeks.

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Unveiling of Civil Rights Library of St Augustine

Unveiling of Civil Rights Library of St Augustine

300-1964-KING-ARRESTHistoric City News has learned that now, fifty-years after the fact, in the same dining room where a group of more than 100 students from the all-black Richard Murray High School held the first “sit-in” of the civil rights movement in St Augustine, Flagler College will introduce the Civil Rights Library.

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