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	<title>St Augustine St Johns County Florida Local News</title>
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		<title>County commission District 5 draws contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With sitting county commissioner Joseph &#8220;Ken&#8221; Bryan becoming an announced candidate, a three-way contest is brewing for the District 5 seat which he currently occupies &#8212; and, even though he appears confident in his ability to achieve re-election, his opponents say they are in the race to win. If all candidates qualify, previously announced Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bills advance allowing public to speak at public meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Safety Advocate Lisa Hurley updated Historic City News on a very timely Senate bill, and its companion House bill, that we, and others in the media, are following as the two bills make their way to the floor. Yesterday, a Florida Senate committee unanimously passed SB-206; which requires local government public meetings to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town Hall Meeting with Commissioner Pawlowski</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City of St Augustine Beach Commissioner Undine C Pawlowski announced to local Historic City News reporters that she would hold an informal Town Hall Meeting on February 3rd from 10 &#8211; 11:30 a.m. at the Anastasia Branch Library. Citizens and residents of the City of St Augustine Beach can raise concerns and ideas at this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday is Election Day for Republicans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Johns County Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes announced to local Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that tomorrow, Tuesday January 31st, registered Republicans will determine Florida’s Presidential Preference nominee. There was no voting today, early voting in this hotly contested race wrapped up Saturday afternoon; however, Oakes said that voting precincts around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshot: FSDB Board of Governors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Board of Governors of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind convened in emergency session Friday; five of the seven-member Board, none of whom resides in St Augustine, attended the meeting in person. The purpose of the meeting was not to discuss pending legislation that could circumvent mediation with the City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Gingrich and Romney in dead heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Augustine pollster and former Republican State Committeeman from St Johns County, Jon Woodard, reported to Historic City News the results of his recent Dixie Strategies &#8211; First Coast News poll showing that if Tuesday&#8217;s election were held today, Gingrich and Romney could tie. The poll results were released by Dixie Strategies yesterday from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday &#8211; Saturday are last two days of early voting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last day to vote early in the Presidential Preference Republican Primary Election is Saturday, January 28th from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at any one of six early voting locations within St. Johns County, Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes told Historic City News. Election Day will be Tuesday, January 31, however, if you wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City may have less support to force sewer taps</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, Florida Representative Matt Hudson, Chairman of the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, recommended cutting the job of Gerald R. Briggs from the 2012-13 House version of the budget. As chief of the Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs, Briggs oversees the controversial septic tanks program, which has been caught between opposing forces in recent years. Florida [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeological resources a local priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All public and private properties within the city limits of St Augustine have required evaluation by a trained and professional archaeologist since 1986; however, that effort was reinforced last night when city commissioners passed a resolution for the further protection of archaeological resources. Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline said, &#8220;We can all be the best stewards of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eminent Domain: The keys to the kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the regular business meeting of the St Augustine City Commission last night, more than 50 current and former residents of the city appeared before the five-member board to express, in no uncertain terms, their distrust and disbelief in what they see as manipulation of local codes to favor the Florida School for the Deaf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turnout good for first day of early voting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not including provisional ballots, Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes informed local Historic City News reporters that St Johns County voters cast 962 ballots in the first day of early voting in the Republican Presidential Preference Election. Early voting tomorrow, Sunday January 22, is held from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. After the resignation of Jacksonville [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City commission set to borrow $2 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historic City News readers may recall that, in 2003, and again, two years later, the City of St Augustine sold bonds to investors &#8212; a high priority debt, given to raise money that was needed for the system that delivers water and sewer service to city taxpayers and residents. As collateral, the City guaranteed repayment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican early voting begins Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In St Augustine last night, St Johns County Supervisor of Elections, Vicky Oakes, addressed Historic City News reporters and members of the Republican Party announcing the commencement of &#8220;early voting&#8221; in the Presidential Preference Primary Election. The early voting period in this election, to determine which candidate will represent the Republican Party in their bid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When vote called &#8211; Thrasher stands alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historic City News learned that Florida Senator John Thrasher from St Augustine stood alone yesterday as the only holdout against a Senate Bill that would regulate, rather than ban, so-called &#8220;Internet casinos&#8221; in the state. For thirteen St Johns County business locations, and their landlords, where computer terminals provide entertainment for players entered into sweepstakes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County brass convenes to plan another building</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate Coordinator Debbie Taylor called a meeting this morning of directors and senior staff of all St Johns County Health and Human Services Center agencies as well as County Administrator, Michael Wanchick, and his two assistant administrators, Darrell Locklear and Jerry Cameron. The meeting did not appear on the Health and Human Services calendar, [...]]]></description>
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