Category: Community

Historic City News received a request from Linda Murray that we announce a joint community forum being held on Thursday, March 24th at 7:00 p.m.

A year after the Bridge of Lions was opened; the first and last skyscraper was built in St. Augustine in 1928.

President Becky Reichenberg told Historic City News local reporters that St. Johns Federated Republican Women will host Sheriff David B. Shoar at this month’s meeting.

Northeast Region Outreach Coordinator Amber Grafft-Weiss, representing the Florida Public Archaeology Network, encouraged all Historic City News readers to participate in this week’s Tolomato Cemetery “Lunch and Learn”. Tolomato is the oldest extant planned cemetery in Florida, starting life as a mission Indian village and eventually becoming the parish cemetery for what is now the…

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Priscilla Proctor announced to Historic City News that an assistant professor of English at Flagler College has been awarded the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award for her manuscript “Play Button.” Liz Robbins, Ph.D., will receive a $1,500 prize along with a standard publishing contract and 25 authors’ copies of her book, according to Proctor….

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The Board of Directors of the Children’s Museum of St. Johns, Inc. announced to Historic City News that Susan Connor has assumed chief executive duties of the non-profit volunteer organization; becoming its first executive director and the museum’s first paid employee.

Historic City News was informed that the International Society for Krishna Consciousness of Alachua will conduct their sixth annual “Festival of the Chariots” parade and cultural event on Saturday, March 26th in the Plaza of St. Augustine starting at 11:00 a.m. and lasting through the afternoon.