The US Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration announced to Historic City News today that it will delay the closure of the federal contract air traffic control tower at Northeast Florida Regional Airport at St Augustine for two more months as the agency attempts to resolve multiple legal challenges to the closure decisions.

After a day of hosting crowds that included members of some of St Augustine’s founding Minorcan families, Historic City News reporters and a troupe of authentic 16th century re-enactors, the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve will undertake an ecological prescribed burn on the southern portion of the Guana Peninsula.

Public Information Officer Klare Ly announced to Historic City News that Randal Bryan Hart, the 28-year-old St Johns County man accused of stabbing his dog, Amber, and slashing her throat with a knife before dragging her into the woods to die, will be back in court Wednesday afternoon.

The Division of Hotels and Restaurants reports to Historic City News each calendar quarter about St Augustine and St Johns County food service violations observed by Safety and Sanitation Inspectors during routine inspections, as well as those completed in response to complaints.

Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Dennis Shorter informed Historic City News that a Ponte Vedra Beach man who was riding a motorcycle this afternoon, failed to stop in time to avoid a collision with the rear-end of a vehicle stopped at a traffic signal on SR-A1A.

Gretl Plessinger, assigned to the FDLE Office of Public Information in Tallahassee, has informed local Historic City News reporters that March is an important landmark for Floridians — the 30th anniversary of the Missing and Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse.