Open Daily- October 17-23 P.A.St.A. Art Gallery featured artist for October: Valarie Pothier Valarie Pothier-Forrester received her Bachelor of Art Education and her Master of Arts from the University of Florida, and worked as an…
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Editor’s Note: Since we published the original announcement a few days ago, this event has been re-scheduled. Weather Reschedule!! Dear Friends and Members, Between ground saturation from Hurricane Ian and weather reports of more rain…
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Open Daily- October 10 – 16 P.A.St.A. Art Gallery featured artist for October: Valarie Pothier Valarie Pothier-Forrester received her Bachelor of Art Education and her Master of Arts from the University of Florida, and worked…
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A visit to the beach at the end of Pope Road Wednesday produced a shocker, five days after Hurricane Ian cleared out of our area. The hurricane, while well offshore by the time it reached…
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Eileen Scheid mourns the loss of this graceful tree on Wandering Lakes, a victim of Ian and age
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There have been plenty of photos and videos to emerge since Hurricane Ian wreaked almost unimaginable destruction along the SW Florida coastline. As you know, Fort Myers was particularly hard hit from a storm that…
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Beaches Oktoberfest, Florida’s Largest Oktoberfest, is coming back to Jacksonville Beach this October after a nearly three year hiatus because of the pandemic. Thousands are expected to attend the 6th annual festival happening October 7…
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Open Daily- October 3-9 Bouke de Vries: War & Pieces at Lightner Museum This exhibition of London-based Dutch artist Bouke De Vries’ War & Pieces has been described as a “masterwork” by art critics. The…
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At 5pm, the Hurricane Center declared Ian had returned to a Cat 1 hurricane. The storm pushed off-land into the Atlantic in the afternoon near the Kennedy Space Center as a tropical storm. As expected,…
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At 11:20 am, the National Weather Service issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for our area, and at mid-afternoon extended the advisory until 9:00 pm this evening. Water was already pushing into Marsh Creek from the…
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At 6am this morning, St. Johns County bridges, including the 312 bridge from Anastasia Island to the mainland, were still open. The county expected to be forced to close them “later today”. “We are playing…
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“I’ve covered maybe 91 hurricanes”, said the Weather Channel’s 20-year veteran Mike Seidel, “but this is the worst one I’ve seen”. Seidel was reporting from Fort Myers mid-afternoon today, moments before Hurricane Ian made landfall…
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The 11am advisory: …IAN WILL CAUSE CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE, WINDS, AND FLOODING IN THE FLORIDA PENINSULA SOON…A Hurricane Warning has been issued from Sebastian Inlet, Floridanorthward to the Flagler/Volusia County Line, Florida.A Hurricane Watch has…
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At 6am this morning, St. Johns County’s partial evacuation plan got underway affecting St. Augustine, St. Augustine Beach, Ponte Vedra and areas along the St. Johns River – Zones A, B, and part of F….
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We won’t see something like this beauty, tonight’s sunset, until Sunday at the earliest. Be safe, stay dry and healthy. We will come out of this…
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Late this afternoon, as winds began picking up and lines stretched at gas stations, St. Johns County declared an evacuation order at 6am tomorrow morning for coastal St. Johns. That order includes Marsh Creek. While…
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Significant Flooding Anticipated St. Johns County announced a Tropical Storm Watch (see below) at 5pm today, just as the updated National Hurricane Center tracking showed another easterly shift in Hurricane Ian’s expected path, potentially bringing…
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At 5am this morning, Hurricane Ian was on track to come uncomfortably close to St. Augustine Wednesday morning after a slight eastward tilt to its expected path mid-week. Tropical force, and potentially even hurricane force…
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St. Johns County Civic Roundtable to Host Public Meeting on 1 Cent Sales Tax Increase “Everything You Need to Know About the 1% Sales Tax Proposal” The St. Johns County Civic Roundtable will host…
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