Category: Business

Historic City News has learned that nearly half of Florida’s 67 counties – 33 of them – now have double-digit unemployment.

After eight years, Staffing of St. Augustine, a temporary and temporary to permanent placement agency, has added new and innovative services along with a new look according to a press release received by Historic City News.

Begin Business Date: 06/08/2009 End Business Date: 06/14/2009 From the records of DENNIS W. HOLLINGSWORTH

AT&T hasn’t stopped charging businesses for advertising and enhanced listings in the white pages of the “real phone book” but Historic City News wonders how many of those advertisers are aware of a unanimous PSC decision today that allows the phone company not to distribute the white pages to telephone customers?

Northrop Grumman reported to Historic City News today that after successfully completing a Milestone C review, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program has received a fixed-price, incentive fee contract award from the U.S. Navy valued at $432 million.

THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, June 11, 2009… One in 148 Florida homes was in foreclosure in May, the third highest rate in the country, according to RealtyTrac, a California-based company that lists foreclosed properties nationwide.

Begin Business Date: 06/01/2009 End Business Date: 06/07/2009 From the records of DENNIS W. HOLLINGSWORTH

The large volume of rain and subsequent flooding in recent weeks has caused significant losses in potato production and other crops for farmers within St. Johns County and the tri-county area.