Neighbors galvanized to protect property rights
“Call me a grouchy neighbor, if you want,” James Register told a group of thirty or forty residents from Nelmar Terrace and Fullerwood Park Historic District that turned out along with Historic City News reporters, a local newspaper reporter and camera crew from a Jacksonville television station.



Secretary Pat Greenfield notified local Historic City News reporters that the Republican Club of Greater St Augustine would host Florida State Representative Fred Costello at their regular business meeting being held on Monday, March 12th.
When it appears that neighbors in the Nelmar Terrace and Fullerwood Park Historic Districts may catch a break in their ongoing battles to protect themselves from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, should they be granted “eminent domain”, some residents are taking a stress-relief-day.
Historic City News will be standing by when Federal forces, including Union Navy and Marines, mark the 150th anniversary of the retaking of Fort Marion at St Augustine in a Civil War re-enactment being staged by the National Park Service on March 10th.
Angela Casey announced to Historic City News that the next meeting of the St Johns County Tea Party would be held on Tuesday, February 28th at 6:30 pm.
A group of community leaders and volunteer members of a citizen advisory board promoting the Civil Rights Museum of St Augustine, met with Historic City News editor Michael Gold and other media representatives who were invited to participate in a press conference today at the Casa Monica.
Next Wednesday, Historic City News has learned that the Board of Directors of the “Chase-Rescorla Scholarship Fund” will meet to select the students who will be awarded this year’s scholarship grants — a process that has led to over $30,000 in scholarships being awarded since March 31, 2007.
St Augustine and St Johns County resident, Randy Brunson, a former elected official to the St Augustine Airport Authority and current candidate for election to the St Johns County Board of Commissioners in District 5, was the victim of a cyber-attack this week that took over his facebook and disabled his e-mail account.