City wastewater treatment method recognized
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.
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St. Augustine and St. Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
Historic City News has reported previously on groups of teenagers roaming St George Street in downtown St Augustine’s Colonial Spanish Quarter at night; causing vandalism, painting graffiti, and engaging in violence.
The mastermind behind fraudulent mortgage loans on homes sold in the Bartram Springs subdivision was convicted today following a joint local investigation by the FDLE and FBI; according to Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent in Charge of the Jacksonville Region, Dominick Pape.