St. Augustine News

Former St Augustine Mayor and Fullerwood Park Historic District resident George Gardner is continuing to take his fight to the legislature; rallying friends, neighbors and objectors to Senate Bill 1348, while castigating House Economic Affairs Committee Chair Dorothy Hukill.

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.

The event tells the story of the first legally sanctioned, free black settlement in the United States and how it came to be.

A compromise of a long-standing zoning dispute with the city of St. Augustine over the 4,154-square-foot Collins House on Nelmar Avenue was approved Friday morning by The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind's board of trustees.

St. Augustine Visitors and Convention Bureau Communications Director Jay Humphreys informed Historic City News reporters that there will be demonstrations, exhibits and goods presented by a silversmith, blacksmith, jewelers, spice & tea traders, leatherworkers, woodworkers, beekeepers, needlework, soap makers, weavers, and a sponge monger at the ... (more)

The City of St Augustine Director of Public Affairs, Paul Williamson, is asking Historic City News readers to contact legislators by telephone or e-mail before the first committee hearing on the Senate Bill, currently scheduled for Tuesday, February 14th at 1:30 p.m. During the January 23rd meeting of the St Augustine City Commission, members voted ... (more)

Matthew Boyle is a reporter at The Daily Caller. He studied journalism at Flagler College in St.

Last Saturday night I took a nostalgic meander from Bridge Street to the Willie Galimore Community Center, by way of Twine Street.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A California teen was convicted and sentenced for her part in spray painting the lion statue at the Bridge of Lions in St.

Beginning Monday, some lucky person, maybe a Historic City News reader, will have a chance to win a free "sackful of Krystals" once a week - every week for a year; when The Krystal Company opens its second St Augustine location at SR-16 near I-95. One winner will be selected by the contest administrator using a random electronic drawing method ... (more)

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Deputies say he drove to St. Johns County to have sex with a girl.

Gigi Hart, Grants, Special Projects and CRA Coordinator for the City of Bunnell, announced to Historic City News today that resident Katherine Lopez is the lucky winner in the first "Buy Bunnell" campaign; an initiative of the Community Redevelopment Agency.

St Augustine Attorney Terry Shoemaker reported to Historic City News today that he has notified the Florida Division of Elections that he would be a candidate for State Attorney in the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida.

Despite oft-repeated statements by St. Johns County commissioners that the county needs far more commercial development and far less residential development, the board voted this week to greatly expand Worthington, a Greenbriar Road project, from 38 to 251 homes.

Michael Allen, NPS Community Partnership Specialist, announced to Historic City News yesterday the upcoming 2012 Quarterly Business Meeting of the Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission.

An attorney for a 51-year-old St. Augustine man charged in the death of teenager Shae Burchfield was in court Wednesday to ask that publicity surrounding the case be limited.

Nathaniel Callahan was riding a moped to work last month on Old Moultrie Road when someone in a minivan hit him and left him on the road.

Matthew Boyle is a reporter at The Daily Caller. He studied journalism at Flagler College in St.

It's a good lesson for anyone who's stuck their nose where it doesn't belong. A raccoon got himself in a tight situation while searching for food.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- It's hard to think of the city of St. Augustine, the oldest city in the country, without its historical sites.