Category: Community

Tara Dodson has invited Historic City News readers to join Keepers of the Coast on Saturday, January 21, 2012, from 10:00 a.m. until noon, to learn more about North Atlantic Right Whales and their adopted St Augustine area habitat.

Matt Blakely, director of the Motorola Solutions Foundation, announced to local Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that through an “Innovation Generation” grant, over 70 students from Nease and Pedro Menendez High School’s will have the opportunity to learn and apply science, technology, engineering and math skills beyond the classroom.

Dr. Kathy Deagan, University of Florida Distinguished Research Curator who has put context to St Augustine’s earliest history over four decades of methodical archaeological study, weighed in Tuesday on treasure hunters and television reality shows.

The local Sea Oats Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society will present a program entitled “Orchids in the Park” during their January meeting next week, according to an announcement received at Historic City News from chapter Vice President George Waters.

St Augustine sailor loves Navy deployment By Corporal Ed Galo Special to Historic City News After nearly 11 years of active duty service in the Navy and five deployments, Petty Officer 1st Class and St Augustine native George Fricke says he still loves every day he puts on a uniform.

While the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind is in mediation with the City of St Augustine, neither the school’s public spokesperson nor its President, Danny Hutto, will be commenting to the media on a proposed bill introduced by retiring Representative Bill Proctor that may give the school the power of “eminent domain”.

Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, President of the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society, invited Historic City News readers to attend when the organization celebrates the eighth annual Florida Jewish History Month.

Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and Fort Matanzas National Monument in St Augustine, along with the 395 other national parks across the country, will offer “free admission” from January 14 through 16 to commemorate Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Day.