Category: Community

Ranger Jesse Olbrich told local Historic City News reporters that on Saturdays at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, volunteers will be able to participate in regular drill sessions in the courtyard and public musket demonstrations.

Historic City News readers in St Augustine and St Johns County flock to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve for some of the area’s best bird watching; but a sighting near the Guana Dam has the birding community all aflutter.

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Saint Augustine Tea Party Chairman, Lance Thate, has invited all Historic City News readers to attend their Tuesday evening meeting when St Augustine Chief of Police, Loran Lueders, will address security in the face of the recent Boston Marathon bombings.

Historic City News special reporter, Raphael Cosme, was onboard El Galeon Andalucia while Spanish explorers Ponce de Leon and Pedro Menendez visited the historic replica of the 16th century sailing vessel harbored at the St Augustine Municipal Marina.

A group of local Historic City News readers, recalling their service in the Pacific Theatre of Operations during World War II, and that of their families, attended a ceremony Wednesday afternoon at Naval Station Mayport commemorating the Battle of Midway that occurred June 4th through June 7th of 1942.

Although elementary and middle school grades are not expected to be released until this summer, and high school grades will not be announced until later in the year, the St Johns County School District is already crowing about student scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test announced to Historic City News earlier today.