Category: Community

Historic City News readers with school bus riders at home, should be receiving a yellow postcard in the mail this week notifying you of your child’s bus number, bus stop, morning and afternoon pick-up times, according to Christina Langston; Director of Community Relations for the St Johns County School District.

Matthew Sara reported to Historic City News that firefighters from Station 14 played host to a group of local day school students this morning. The kids got the chance to take a VIP tour of the firehouse and see where, when there’s a fire, a loud bell rings, a red light goes off, and our…

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Historic City News is pleased to introduce “Making the Grade” — Florida’s first radio talk show focused solely on education issues. The new program airs each Wednesday on WFOY 102.3 FM following Rush Limbaugh.

Kenneth Rainer announced to Historic City News that a new Volunteer Coordinator for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve will start work on August 12th; and she brings many years’ experience with her.

George Waters, vice president of the Sea Oats Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, invited Historic City News readers to attend the August 20th meeting when their guest speaker will be local herbalist Laurence Layne.

Each week, Barbara Golden, Communications Manager for the Visitors and Convention Bureau, informs local Historic City News reporters about entertaining events and other activities of interest to our St Augustine and St Johns County readers. Our editor makes his picks of the best low cost, or no cost, and passes the results along to you.

Logo designers Danielle Fisher and Beau Phillips, both of whom work at not-for-profit organizations, informed local Historic City News reporters that they have pooled their talents and created a new logo to brand future fundraising efforts and charitable giving through the annual Mayor’s Holiday Lighting.