Category: Government

Members of the St Augustine City Commission will hear from the public during their regular meeting Monday night regarding whether they feel the carpet golf course on the bayfront should be kept, the property repurposed, or if it should be replaced with green space.

When St Johns County Supervisor of Elections, Vicky Oakes, told Historic City News that Monday was the last day for candidates in federal, statewide, multi-county, county, district and special district contests to submit voter petitions in lieu of paying qualifying fees, she did so knowing that her work is just starting.

Without a doubt, the City of St Augustine has a continuing interest in revitalization of the Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum; a collection of properties on the north end of St George Street that were once managed by the city’s Department of Heritage Tourism and then closed because of continuing financial losses to the tune of…

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Historic City News reporters were on hand this morning when Chairman Allen L Lastinger, Jr called to order the third meeting of the Board of Directors of University of Florida Historic St Augustine, Inc in the Sala de Montiano room of the Government House Museum.

Two candidates have qualified for the office of State Attorney for the 7th Judicial Circuit which includes St Augustine and St Johns County, Putnam, Flagler and Volusia counties; and, they will face each other as opponents for the first time in a candidate forum on Monday May 14.

The election of 2006 was a dark election for St Johns County residents — it was the year that convicted felon Thomas G. Manuel played the voters here like a violin; and used his powers of manipulation, in concert with three pawns, one of whom would later say, on camera, “to take over the county”.

City of St Augustine Beach Commissioner, Undine Pawlowski, informed Historic City News local reporters that at the May meeting of the Beach commission, on Monday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m. at St Augustine Beach City Hall, a time would be set for the official ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Ocean Hammock Park.

A conditional special use permit for the next 180 days, allowing Ren Weise to conduct outdoor weddings on his property located at 4975 Palm Valley Road in Ponte Vedra Beach, was approved by county commissioners on a 4-0 vote; Ken Bryan was not able to vote because of a declared conflict of interest.