Tomorrow’s Vice Presidential campaign stop in St Augustine will necessitate some street closures in the vicinity of the Ketterlinus Gymnasium according to an alert received by Historic City News this morning.

Community Affairs officer Corporal Catherine Payne tells Historic City News that additional charges have been filed against two St Johns County inmates for their involvement in the introduction of contraband into the detention facility.

Martha Graham, Public Works Director for the City of St Augustine, informed local Historic City News reporters that the cutting edge technology used by the City to disinfect wastewater effluent, has earned statewide and national recognition for the Department.

Historic City News readers, traveling in the area of Florida National Guard headquarters at 82 Marine Street Friday afternoon, will want to plan an alternate route as an event at the State Arsenal (St Francis Barracks), will necessitate street closures, according to Public Affairs Director Paul Williamson.

The City of St Augustine notified Historic City News that the installation of crosswalks at two locations on Avenida Menendez will necessitate the reduction of traffic to two lanes — one for northbound traffic and one for southbound, in two locations on two different occasions in coming weeks.

For the last 90 years, the week in which October 9 falls has been designated as “Fire Prevention Week”, but for Historic City News readers, what is nationally a week — is locally a month.

Historic City News has confirmed that a 20-year-old St Augustine woman, who FHP Homicide Investigator Pete Young previously reported to have suffered fatal injuries in a crash early Saturday morning, is, in fact, alive and in critical condition as of Sunday evening.