Today at about 12:00 noon, Historic City News has been notified that the remains of 43-year-old Captain Tecarie Marie Czarnecki will be returned to St Augustine. Czarnecki had just completed her 19th year of service to the Florida National Guard.

AC Entertainment contact Margaret Stolfi reported the first band cancellation of the Gentlemen of the Road stopover to Historic City News this morning.

Anastasia State Park and the Friends of Anastasia State Park have invited Historic City News readers to participate in their 10th annual 10K run and 5K beach walk through the beautiful and scenic Anastasia State Park on Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 7:30 a.m.

According to John Ruddell, a supervisor for the city’s waste water collection system, as simple as it seems, one of the most effective ways to find leaks or unintended pipe connections in a sanitary sewer system is to push smoke through the pipes. Historic City News readers who reside in the Abbott Tract neighborhood will be affected as the city begins this testing in two weeks.

St Johns County Tax Collector Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC, told Historic City News that he has received the inaugural safety award from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles for the driver education program his office restored to local high schools.

Historic City News has learned that now, fifty-years after the fact, in the same dining room where a group of more than 100 students from the all-black Richard Murray High School held the first “sit-in” of the civil rights movement in St Augustine, Flagler College will introduce the Civil Rights Library.