Historic City News was informed this morning of the winning entrants in this year’s Memorial Day Weekend Taste of the Beach.

Emily Jane Murray informed local Historic City News reporters that the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve will participate in the Blue Star Museum Program this summer, offering free admission to the Environmental Education Center for military personnel and their families.

Historic City News was informed that two St Johns County Fire Rescue employees have been recognized for their accomplishments as open water swimmers.

Economic Problems of Florida Governors, 1700-1763
By John J. Tepaske

Part 3 of 4

In 1724, the able and beloved Governor Antonio de Benavides requested that the subsidy be sent by land instead of by sea. By maintaining a land route between New Spain and Florida, he hoped to eliminate the delays occasioned by the lack of ships in Vera Cruz. He envisaged a line of Spanish presidios on the Gulf Coast from Vera Cruz to Apalache.

Historic City News photographer, Mark Cubbedge, attended this morning’s Memorial Day ceremonies at the St Augustine National Cemetery where American flags were placed at the headstones of each marked gravesite.

Palm Coast resident Gary Dekay has been a volunteer with the Flagler County Sheriff’s office for the past six years; and, last week, Sheriff James L. Manfre informed Historic City News that Dekay was recognized for the hours he has donated to the county’s largest law enforcement agency.

Economic Problems of Florida Governors, 1700-1763
By John J. Tepaske

Part 2 of 4

THE OLD EVILS RE-APPEAR

But the picture soon changed. Delivery of the subsidy was still irregular and a source of real trial to the governor and his hard-pressed colonists. In the spring of 1712, English capture of a supply ship bound for Florida made cats, horses, and dogs, real delicacies at Saint Augustine supper tables.

Conservative talk radio show personalities and hosts, Chuck and Colleen White, will be the guest speakers at the regular bi-monthly meeting of the Saint Augustine Tea Party on May 28th, at the Village Inn located at 900 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard in St Augustine, according to an announcement received by Historic City News today.