Dawn Hamilton reported to Historic City News that her son is one of nine boys from the Hastings area that are trying to salvage local Cub Scout Pack 502, and she has asked for support from our readers with the sale of their discount “Camp Cards”.

Historic City News reporters visited the first day of the 66th Annual Florida Azalea Festival today and special wagon tours of the Ravine Gardens State Park — all part of the celebration of spring that comes to downtown Palatka and Memorial Park.

Members of the Board of Trustees for the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind convened in an emergency meeting today to discuss the flashpoint issue of taking property through a process known as “eminent domain” that has brought tempers in the otherwise peaceful neighborhood surrounding the campus to a rolling-boil.

At the regular meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night, Historic City News reporters listened as a delegation from the Haitian American Historical Society, submitted a proposal to erect, at their expense, a monument paying tribute to Florida’s first Black General; the Black Caudillo, Jorge Biassou.

Historic City News local reporters learned that the local chapter of Phi Theta Kappa honor society held its spring induction ceremony recently at the St Augustine campus of St Johns River State College.

Historic City News has been asked to warn our readers that on Saturday evening, March 3rd at 5:00 PM, Searle’s Buccaneers will sack the City in a historical reenactment of Searle’s 17th century raid.

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.

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