General Counsel Rick Figlio informed Historic City News that Governor Rick Scott has requested, as a mark of respect for the victims of the tragic events of January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona, that all state flags immediately be lowered to half-staff, returning them to full-staff at sunset, January 14, 2011.
The St. Johns County Attorney’s Office is inviting Historic City News readers to attend a workshop where they will present a proposed St. Johns County noise ordinance.
After their holiday-hiatus, Historic City News government reporters will be watching as the St. Augustine City Commission returns for their first meeting of the New Year tomorrow; beginning at 5:00 p.m. in the Alcazar Room, on the first floor of City Hall, located at 75 King Street.
Local psychologist Sue Adine Middleton-Bates, Ph.D., donated her Davis Shores home to the City as a center for its Archaeology Division in 2007; subject to a stipulation reserving the life estate of her husband, Dr. Henry Bates.
Monday night, Historic City News local government reporters will watch as First America Foundation, Inc. Chairman Donald W. Wallis faces members of the St. Augustine City Commission – and the public – and may give some idea of how he is using the $275,000 in “seed money” he was given.
The St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee invited Historic City News reporters to attend this evening’s grand opening of a permanent office for the Republican Party locally in St. Augustine.
Historic City News has learned that Dr. Terrence R. Steiner, the medical examiner who performed forensic autopsies in criminal investigation for twenty-one years in St. Johns, Flagler and Putnam counties, resigned last week at the age of 65.
St. Johns County Public Information Officer Rob Weber provided Historic City News the schedule for various St. Johns County facilities that will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
