A Savannah woman, who says that she owns the home in St Johns County where a tenant’s dog was brutally raped by a sexual predator recently, has reported to Historic City News that she is organizing members of the community to promote tougher laws to protect our animals and children.
How much money are we talking about collecting from “bed tax” paid by overnight visitors to St. Johns County?
Historic City “News in Photos” Contest officially began Monday, and entries like this one titled “Waiting for the big one on St Augustine Beach” have been coming into our contest e-mail box each day.
Historic City News readers with school bus riders at home, should be receiving a yellow postcard in the mail this week notifying you of your child’s bus number, bus stop, morning and afternoon pick-up times, according to Christina Langston; Director of Community Relations for the St Johns County School District.
Matthew Sara reported to Historic City News that firefighters from Station 14 played host to a group of local day school students this morning. The kids got the chance to take a VIP tour of the firehouse and see where, when there’s a fire, a loud bell rings, a red light goes off, and our county’s first responders have to jump out of bed and go to work.
Historic City News is pleased to introduce “Making the Grade” — Florida’s first radio talk show focused solely on education issues. The new program airs each Wednesday on WFOY 102.3 FM following Rush Limbaugh.
Kenneth Rainer announced to Historic City News that a new Volunteer Coordinator for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve will start work on August 12th; and she brings many years’ experience with her.
George Waters, vice president of the Sea Oats Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, invited Historic City News readers to attend the August 20th meeting when their guest speaker will be local herbalist Laurence Layne.
