Category: Community

Nellie, the bottle-nosed dolphin, was born on February 27th in the salt-water tanks at Marine Studios on the St. Johns and Flagler county border; along SR-A1A and the Atlantic Coast — today she turned 59 years-old.

The information contained in this report is taken from sources deemed reliable; the accuracy and completeness of which Historic City News does not control and cannot guarantee. The original public records are on file with the St. Johns County Clerk of Court and should be consulted before taking any action.

Communications Director Miki Gilloon has announced that Historic City News readers are invited to attend when the Board of Trustees of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind holds an emergency meeting, this Thursday, March 1, 2012, at 3:00 pm.

Historic City News has learned that, in a recent worldwide fashion design challenge, a St Augustine High School senior has been selected to receive the First Place Platinum Award by a panel of judges at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

“Call me a grouchy neighbor, if you want,” James Register told a group of thirty or forty residents from Nelmar Terrace and Fullerwood Park Historic District that turned out along with Historic City News reporters, a local newspaper reporter and camera crew from a Jacksonville television station.

Secretary Pat Greenfield notified local Historic City News reporters that the Republican Club of Greater St Augustine would host Florida State Representative Fred Costello at their regular business meeting being held on Monday, March 12th.

When it appears that neighbors in the Nelmar Terrace and Fullerwood Park Historic Districts may catch a break in their ongoing battles to protect themselves from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, should they be granted “eminent domain”, some residents are taking a stress-relief-day.

Historic City News will be standing by when Federal forces, including Union Navy and Marines, mark the 150th anniversary of the retaking of Fort Marion at St Augustine in a Civil War re-enactment being staged by the National Park Service on March 10th.