As summer begins to wind down, local governments start the final stages of preparing their budgets for the next fiscal year.

Just as some political contests, like St Johns County Commission Seat 3, will be settled during the August 14 primary — some others, like County Commission Seat 1 and Seat 5, will not be settled until the General Election in November; The Record and League of Women Voters did not allow those candidates to be heard during their forum last night.

Moving forward with another $40,000 in funding approved by the St Augustine City Commission, the 450th commemoration has established, and is promoting, yet another 450th Commemoration brand — many are wondering if the “third time will be the charm”.

When you talk to accountants, you need to learn a new vocabulary; talking to government accountants is even worse.

Shirley Pooler Kinsey and her husband, Bernard, will present an illustrated book of their African-American cultural and historical collection to the St Augustine City Commission Monday night; when they are introduced by 450th Development Director, Dana Ste. Claire.

“The Democratic Party has a good chance of winning back a House seat in northeast Florida from Republicans as long as the Democratic candidates don’t badly bruise one another in the primary,” Flagler County Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parham told Historic City News reporters this week.

On July 19, at Francis Field in St Augustine, Historic City News reporters attended the St Johns County Chamber of Commerce first Politics in St. Johns event; an opportunity for voters to meet and learn about nearly 30 candidates for political office when they addressed the crowd.

Review board members volunteering for Historic City News have noted that among incumbents who are in a tough spot after the redistricting dust settled, 48 year-old Republican State House member Doc Renuart of Ponte Vedra Beach is most notable in St Augustine and St Johns County.