Category: Community

Catherine Culver announced to local reporters at Historic City News that beginning Monday, December 26, through Saturday, December 31, the Colonial Spanish Quarter will reopen, for one week only, with two special programs running concurrently.

City of St. Augustine Deputy Director of Public Works, Todd Grant, announced to Historic City News today that travel along Riberia Street, from King Street to Bridge Street, would resume Friday evening.

Originally not expected to be finished before April 2012, the Florida Department of Transportation reported to Historic City News that this week a new seawall running along SR-A1A north of the Flagler County line to Summer Haven has been completed — months ahead of schedule.

Administrative Support Assistant Laura Cryan announced to Historic City News reporters that in less than two weeks since boat service to Fort Matanzas National Monument was suspended, all mechanical problems have been corrected and the ferryboat has resumed service.

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.

Historic City News reporters in St Augustine recall that Betty Grable, who would have turned 95 today, was performing in Born Yesterday at the Alhambra Dinner Theatre on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville less than a year before her death in 1973.