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St. Augustine Visitors and Convention Bureau Communications Director Jay Humphreys announced to Historic City News readers to prepare for a weekend of nautical entertainment featuring the St. Augustine Nautical Festival and Boat Show, Fishing for the Cure Tournament, the 38th Annual Bluewater Tournament and even watch Captain Jack Sparrow and his Pirates of the Caribbean…

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Historic City News has scooped all other media on this report — Deputy Sheriff Charles “Kip” Brantley, a St. Johns County Sheriff’s detective, has surrendered himself to be locked-up to help Jerry’s Kids and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

The Marine Industries Association of Northeast Florida announced to Historic City News that the St. Augustine Nautical Festival and Boat Show, sponsored by The St. Augustine Port, Waterways and Beach District and St. Augustine Marine will cruise into town this weekend, at Francis Field, May 21-22, 2011.

Historic City News received word from Dan Greene that tonight; District 20 State Representative Bill Proctor will join the St. Johns County Young Republicans to discuss how things wrapped-up in Tallahassee last week.

Steve Wright may not take on a bucking bronco, but Historic City News has learned that his over-fifteen years experience, seven of which have been earned at the City of St. Augustine, has placed him second, statewide, in a front end loader and overall in the recent competition of the Florida Sunshine Chapter of the…

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Dr. Richard Shortlidge announced to Historic City News that on Saturday, June 25, 2011, to honor the 271st anniversary of the Spanish victory at “Bloody Mose”, the Presidiales of St. Augustine will offer the second, annual commemoration of this conflict at Fort Mose Historic State Park.

Historic City News readers are invited by the Friends of A1A Scenic & Historic Coastal Byway to attend the second annual Environmental Education Fair on Saturday, May 21st in the Town of Marineland.

When Historic City News editor Michael Gold arrived, just over an hour ahead of yesterday’s unveiling of a monument recognizing St. Augustine’s “foot soldiers”, heavy rain threatened to prevent the ceremonies from continuing — but, as if on cue, at 4:30 p.m., the rain broke.