Resolution 2026-34 authorizes up to $17,000,000 in revenue bonds to replace the fire station at A1A and Red Cox Road with a 12,790-square-foot building that would serve Anastasia Island and downtown. The repayment term and the interest cost are blanks in the packet, to be filled when the bonds sell. The commission meets Monday at 5 p.m. in the Alcazar Room.
A sedan left southbound Interstate 95 early Saturday, struck trees and caught fire, according to the Florida Highway Patrol as reported by News4JAX and the St. Johns Citizen. Troopers had not identified the driver in either report, and the crash remains under investigation.
The written record of St. Augustine's Oct. 12 meeting goes to the commission for approval Monday. As drafted it records no vote on the motion awarding the horse carriage franchises, and the interim city manager item carries a MOTION heading with no motion, no second and no roll under it. The same packet's bond paperwork gives the interim term a third version: starting Dec. 16, with no end date.
The bike share this paper previewed Oct. 28 went live Friday with a ribbon-cutting in the Plaza de la Constitucion: 14 stations, 170 docks, 90 bikes, run by local operator Drifters on public land under the city's Mobility Plan. The prices the program website did not carry in October are published now, twice, and they disagree: the homepage prices a one-hour ride at $5.50, the FAQ prices the first hour at $10, and the six-month pass is $90 in one FAQ answer and $99 in the next. The Flagler College student discount the city's release promised is on neither page.
The St. Johns Citizen reports the city settled Florida Carry's preemption suit: $40,000 to cover the group's attorney fees, the signs prohibiting firearms at public buildings removed, and the case dismissed with prejudice this week. The 5-0 settlement vote came Oct. 26, the same afternoon the commission held the fifteen-minute closed session this paper reported in October. The statute that permitted that closed door also sets its price: the transcript becomes a public record now that the case is over.
The St. Johns Citizen reports commissioners voted down the FL St. Augustine Inman plan on Nov. 3, agreed to hear more testimony, and denied it again 4 to 1. The county's own staff report puts State Road 16 past its capacity already: the segment from I-95 to Inman Road runs at 126.2 percent of capacity in the evening peak, and 184.3 percent once committed development is counted, before this project adds a car. The 58.74-acre site has carried an approved distribution-center entitlement since 2020 and has never been built.
The record of the Oct. 13 vote surfaced this week as draft minutes inside the packet for the board's Nov. 10 meeting. Controlled open enrollment for this year carried 5-0 on a motion from Beverly Slough, with no discussion recorded and nobody at public comment speaking to it. The same night's consent agenda carried the $329,860 Bartram Grove school mitigation agreement, the one that says there is no high school room for those 180 homes and will not be within three years.
Both governments published Veterans Day schedules this week. Every county office closes Wednesday, Nov. 11, and reopens Thursday, Nov. 12. City of St. Augustine offices close the same day. No garbage, recycling or yard waste collection changes in either jurisdiction, and both county transfer stations stay open. City-owned parking is free for the holiday, except the Historic Downtown Parking Facility, where the entry fee is waived for active-duty and retired military with valid ID.
The St. Johns Citizen reported Wednesday that the refiled voter guide charges were filed Nov. 2 in St. Johns County Court and that the case is before County Judge Casey Woolsey. The five defendants face conspiracy and unauthorized voter guide counts, by the Citizen's account, and the felony evidence tampering count a circuit judge dismissed with prejudice on Oct. 16 is not among them. The charging documents themselves remain unreachable from this newsroom, and the promise to report them stands.
The touring show is at Colonial Oak Music Park, ticketed, from $28.41 on Eventbrite. The Original Cafe Eleven has Sons of Paradise and Stylie at 7:30, all ages. Prohibition Kitchen, Tradewinds and the Milltop play on with no cover printed anywhere, and the free STAR shuttle runs the beach loop until 9.
The postseason pairings are posted. St. Augustine (9-1) hosts Lincoln and Creekside (8-2) hosts Lake Mary on Friday, Nov. 13, while Bartram Trail, Nease and Ponte Vedra travel. Beachside and Tocoi Creek open the FHSAA's Florida Invitational Tournament a night earlier, Thursday, Nov. 12, with Beachside home against Yulee. Menendez is on no card.
Forty-seven listings on the county calendar today. The two ticketed rooms are A Flock of Seagulls at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, doors 6:30, $52.79 to $81.14, and Ellis Paul at Cafe Eleven, doors 7, all ages with a $5 under-21 fee at the door. After nine the night belongs to four rooms, and Tradewinds holds the latest, to 1:30 a.m. The free STAR shuttle runs to 11 tonight.
Friday, Nov. 6: the First Friday Art Walk opens the galleries for free from 5 to 9, Bruce Cockburn plays the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall at 8 with doors at 6:30, the Mill Top runs three sets ending at midnight, and Blistur holds Tradewinds until 1:30 in the morning. Hastings runs its Fall Harvest Festival through Saturday. Not one bar on tonight's list prints a cover.
The Davey O'Brien Foundation voted the Memphis junior its National Quarterback of the Week for week nine after he went 29 of 35 for 371 yards and four touchdowns in a 49-22 win over Army, with a rushing score on top and no turnover. He is the first winner from the American Conference this year. Memphis says no player in program history had accounted for five or more touchdowns in back-to-back FBS games before. He played at Nease, and he is tied for the national lead with 25 touchdown passes.
Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline named four business owners to throw the switch in the Plaza de la Constitucion at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21, one each from West King Street, San Marco Avenue, Anastasia Boulevard and Aviles Street. In a release posted the same day, the city said the STAR Circulator's downtown runs will end at 3 p.m. every day of the season, with nighttime service continuing only on Anastasia Island from Nov. 22.
The state's weekly emergency closure extract for the week ending Nov. 1 posted, and it answers the question the Nov. 1 inspections table left open: all three county licenses whose inspections ended in Emergency order recommended were approved for closure. Terra & Acqua in St. Augustine was approved to close Oct. 26 on roach and fly activity, and its reopening columns are blank in the file. South A Philly Steaks and Hoagies closed Oct. 27 on roach activity, with Oct. 28 and 10:05 in the state's reopening columns. Main St Pizza & Ice Cream in Hastings closed Oct. 28 on rodent activity, its second closure row in eight days, with Oct. 29 and 13:22 in the reopening columns. The rows, with the state's own column labels.
Voting today costs nothing and has one condition worth checking before you leave: the place. The Supervisor of Elections says some election day polling locations have changed since the 2024 cycle, and election day voting is at your assigned precinct only. Bring a photo ID with a signature; the voter information card does not count. A mail ballot still at home has to be driven to 4455 Avenue A by 7 p.m. After the polls: live music in at least five rooms tonight, free trivia around the county, and a Terrific Tuesday Mockingbird at the Limelight at 7:30. The beach stays out, with the rip current risk high into late tonight.
The county's coastal projects site now carries a page for a Ponte Vedra Beach FEMA Category G project: sand from an offshore borrow area, placed where the North Ponte Vedra Restoration finished in the summer of 2024, with construction expected in the summer or fall of 2028. The page prints the funding split, 75 percent FEMA and 12.5 percent each from the state and the county, and no dollar figure and no volume of sand. One beach south, the South Ponte Vedra Category G project is still waiting on 12 easements, with construction expected to begin in the spring of 2027.
The touring show is at Colonial Oak Music Park, ticketed, from $28.41 on Eventbrite. The Original Cafe Eleven has Sons of Paradise and Stylie at 7:30, all ages. Prohibition Kitchen, Tradewinds and the Milltop play on with no cover printed anywhere, and the free STAR shuttle runs the beach loop until 9.
Forty-seven listings on the county calendar today. The two ticketed rooms are A Flock of Seagulls at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, doors 6:30, $52.79 to $81.14, and Ellis Paul at Cafe Eleven, doors 7, all ages with a $5 under-21 fee at the door. After nine the night belongs to four rooms, and Tradewinds holds the latest, to 1:30 a.m. The free STAR shuttle runs to 11 tonight.
Friday, Nov. 6: the First Friday Art Walk opens the galleries for free from 5 to 9, Bruce Cockburn plays the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall at 8 with doors at 6:30, the Mill Top runs three sets ending at midnight, and Blistur holds Tradewinds until 1:30 in the morning. Hastings runs its Fall Harvest Festival through Saturday. Not one bar on tonight's list prints a cover.
Voting today costs nothing and has one condition worth checking before you leave: the place. The Supervisor of Elections says some election day polling locations have changed since the 2024 cycle, and election day voting is at your assigned precinct only. Bring a photo ID with a signature; the voter information card does not count. A mail ballot still at home has to be driven to 4455 Avenue A by 7 p.m. After the polls: live music in at least five rooms tonight, free trivia around the county, and a Terrific Tuesday Mockingbird at the Limelight at 7:30. The beach stays out, with the rip current risk high into late tonight.
Monday, Nov. 2: a singer at Prohibition Kitchen from 6 to 9, the Tradewinds grid runs three acts deep into the night, the Mill Top plays until 8:30, and eight trivia nights run from Kingfish at 6 to Cafe Eleven at 7:30. Nothing on tonight's list prints a cover. And the polls open at 7 tomorrow morning.
The ukulele player who sells out theaters is in a 501 A1A Beach Boulevard room tonight, seated, all ages, with a $5 under-21 fee at the door. Eighteen listings run on the bureau calendar, Mill Top has sets at noon and 4:30, Prohibition Kitchen has De Lions of Jah at 6, the free STAR bus runs 9 to 9, and the clocks went back an hour overnight.
Tangled Orchid plays Colonial Oak free at 7. Mill Top's own page runs the Chuck Eliot Duo to 11:59. The corn maze stays open to 10. The STAR shuttle is free until 11 tonight, the rip current risk is high into Sunday, and the last early-voting ballots go in by 6 p.m.
EstuSCARY runs 7 to 9:30 tonight and then it is over; it does not run on Halloween. The page now says LOCATION UPDATE: Guana River Dam, 505 Guana River Road, not the South Beach Access lot it said last week, and at least one event calendar still lists the old one. $20 online, $30 at the trail. The free hour is the Shores trunk-or-treat, 6 to 7. All eight county football teams play tonight, the bureau lists 37 rooms with live music and prints a cover on none, and the rip current risk stays high through Sunday evening.
The rip current statement runs to 8 p.m. Friday, so the water is out for two more days and Saturday is the first clean one. Colonial Oak is free both Thursday and Halloween night, 7 to 10, with Tangled Orchid on the 31st. Prohibition Kitchen has four bands across three nights and prints no cover on any of them. EstuScary is $20 to $30 and wants you in costume. Saturday has a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms after 2 p.m.
The visitor bureau's music calendar lists twelve live sets in St. Johns County today, from noon at the Mill Top to one in the morning at the Tradewinds. Three more are on venue calendars the bureau's list does not carry, including a 1 p.m. early show at the Tradewinds and a second Mill Top set at 4:30. Not one of the four documents prints a cover charge or a ticket price for any of the fifteen. Every room on this list is a bar, and the earliest one starts while you are still at work.
Eight high schools · St. Johns County, Florida
St. Augustine Farmers Market at the Classic Car Museum
Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine, 4730 US 1 South, St. Augustine
2026 Ponte Vedra Auto Show, free to spectators
Nocatee Station Field, 400 Nocatee Center Way
To Kill A Mockingbird at the Limelight (Final Performance)
Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine
St. Augustine Farmers Market at the Classic Car Museum
Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine, 4730 US 1 South, St. Augustine
2026 Ponte Vedra Auto Show, free to spectators
Nocatee Station Field, 400 Nocatee Center Way
Beyond Ramen: Tween and Teen Cooking Class
Southeast Branch, Southeast Large Meeting Room (Sides No. 1 & No. 2 Combined)
Hastings Community Center and Library grand opening
401 N. Main St., Hastings
Southeast Branch, SE Teen Area
St. Augustine Farmers Market at the Classic Car Museum
Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine, 4730 US 1 South, St. Augustine
Slow Food Snail of Approval program session for restaurants, retailers and chefs
The Floridian, 485 Old Beach Road, St. Augustine
Public meeting on the St. Johns County Transit Development Plan
Council on Aging Coastal Community Center, 180 Marine St., St. Augustine
cinema · St. Johns
XD, ScreenX and D-BOX. Durbin Park, off CR 210 at the interstate.
St. Johns, Julington Creek, Fruit Cove, Nocatee, Ponte Vedra. No screen is closer. Books a Secret Movie Series and anniversary runs.
435 Durbin Pavilion Dr · 904-230-4622
cinema · St. Augustine
IMAX with Laser. Recliners and an arcade in the lobby. The only screen in the city.
Fathom and Flashback Cinema and Studio Ghibli Fest and sensory friendly screenings and a Mystery Film Event Mondays at 7 p.m. Nobody announces the film.
112 Theatre Drive · (904) 808-1885
escape room · St. Augustine
Three rooms, built in their own workshop, sixty minutes each. The Old Jail. Curse of the Light Keeper. The Sneaky Snake Lounge.
Two to eight players. Walk in and you might get in. Booking shuts 30 minutes before a slot. Strangers in your room unless you pay for private.
525 State Road 16 Unit 104 · 904-687-0022
escape room · St. Johns
Durbin. Four rooms, sixty minutes each. Every booking private to your group. School of Magic, Top Secret, Lost City of Atlantis, Horror Circus.
The name says Jacksonville. The room is in the county. Last slots start 10:15 p.m. Friday, 10:30 Saturday. The only room here you can still be inside at midnight. Phones and watches go in a locker. Get there 15 minutes early.
175 Rainier Ln Suite 5 · 904-209-5049
roller rink · St. Augustine
The rebuilt room on Anastasia Boulevard. 7,500 square feet of rink and a DJ booth. Opened in 2025.
Runs school spirit nights and Pedro Menendez and Pioneer and Palencia and R.B. Hunt are among them. Posts the calendar a week at a time. Session by session. Nine parking spaces. Do not park at Osteen's, they tow.
201 Anastasia Boulevard · (904) 515-5406
bowling · St. Augustine
Bowling on the island. Six to a lane. Cosmic Bowling Friday and Saturday at 8.
Wednesday evening is leagues. Do not plan a Wednesday night on it. Walk-in only, first come first served, and league play moves the schedule.
3245 A1A South · (904) 471-3565
mini golf · St. Augustine
A koi pond you can feed, a pirate ship, a tunnel. Eighteen holes, open since 1978.
Walk in, no booking. No phone published. Email anastasiaminigolf@gmail.com. They may shut early for lightning and give a raincheck.
701 Anastasia Blvd.
mini golf · St. Augustine Beach
Eight waterfalls. Caves. A 65 foot Spanish ship. Eighteen holes lit after dark. A mile south of the pier.
Free scorecard on your phone. Daily, weekly, monthly and all time leaderboards. Walk in, no booking.
818 A1A Beach Blvd. · (904) 461-5571
mini golf · St. Augustine
On the bay by the Bridge of Lions. Eighteen holes. First mini golf course in Florida on the National Register.
Tickets online. The combo with Believe It or Not! starts at $34.99, and a bad trade if you only want to putt.
111 Avenida Menendez
arcade · St. Augustine
Seventy-five machines on free play. 1980s cabinets, 90s pinball, current Stern, skeeball.
An official Stern Army location. Live leaderboard. Twenty dollars for a whole Friday afternoon is the most hours per dollar in the county, and it shuts at 8.
311 Anastasia Boulevard
arcade · St. Augustine
Consoles, sports simulators, foosball, air hockey, Zombie Dodgeball. An after school room on US 1 north.
Opened as an after school hangout. No other room on US 1 was. Go every week and the $50 month beats three visits.
6236 US Hwy 1N, Ste E · 904-907-2212
climbing · St. Augustine
The St. Augustine gym. Strongway Court, off US 1 south. Weight room and classes.
Membership covers the Deerwood Park gym in Jacksonville too. Ask at the desk for class times.
115 Strongway Court · 904-217-4139
skate park · St. Augustine
28,000 square feet of concrete. Half pipes, four rails, three ledges, banks. A nine and a half foot kidney pool.
An ANSI helmet, chinstrap done up. Closed-toe shoes. Both required. Skateboards and inline skates only. A bicycle earns a trespass ticket. No wax and no food or drink in the skate area and no amplified music. Little Dudes Park is the beginner side.
1595 Wildwood Drive · (904) 209-0333
art studio · St. Augustine
Paint your own pottery. No appointment. A wheel, clay and open studio time.
Teen Wheel Throwing has run full three Thursdays running. Book that one. Pieces come back in 7 to 10 days.
3920 A1A South Unit 8 · (904) 814-5650
disc golf · Elkton
A free disc golf course. 90 acres of county fairground.
A youth archery club here. 12 to 17 year olds. $5 a session and the gear is provided. Parks and Recreation runs it.
5840 FL-207 E · (904) 209-0332
library · St. Augustine Beach
Island branch. The only one that runs the environmental speaker and film series.
Seagrove. Sea Grove. The library spells the street two ways on its own sites. Same place.
124 Sea Grove Main St. · (904) 209-3730
library · Fruit Cove
The Fruit Cove and Julington Creek branch. Teen Art with Kasha, the Teen Advisory Board. Both in the Manatee Room.
Advisory board, 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Get there at 5:45.
60 Davis Pond Blvd. · (904) 827-6960
library · Hastings
Two rooms. Inside the W.E. Harris Community Center.
Teen Night Out in the same building, quarterly, and the county runs it. No dates published. Latoya Coleman knows when. Ask her at (904) 209-0373.
400 E. Harris St., Rooms 402 and 403 · (904) 827-6970
library · St. Augustine
The Main STEM Space. The Ponce de Leon Boulevard branch.
1960 N. Ponce De Leon Blvd. · (904) 827-6940
library · Ponte Vedra Beach
Open to 8 three nights a week. Most after school hours in the system. Teen LEGO Prime Building meets here. The Teen Writers' Workshop too.
Seymour's Bookstore is inside and it is open weekdays 10 to 6 and Saturday 10 to 4.
101 Library Blvd. · (904) 827-6950
library · St. Augustine
The teen room of the county system. SE Teen Area. Teen Advisory Board. After school teen club. Relax and Craft for Teens every Saturday.
Relax and Craft, Saturdays. 10 to 4, drop in, no signup.
6670 US 1 South · (904) 827-6900
park · St. Augustine
Beach, dunes, marsh, the Ancient Dunes trail. 1,600 acres. Salt Run behind it.
300 Anastasia Park Road · 904-461-2033
community center · St. Augustine
A full size gym. A pool, a splash park and ball fields. Walkable from much of West Augustine.
Planet Swim runs the pool. (904) 719-2291. The weather line, (904) 209-0380, has no live person on it.
1300 Duval St · (904) 209-0379
cinema · Jacksonville, out of county
Arlington. IMAX at AMC and Dolby Cinema. The only marquee near here running first-run Indian cinema.
The farthest of these. From any part of the county. No phone number. Open caption and sensory friendly screenings.
9451 Regency Square Blvd.
cinema · Palm Coast, out of county
Epic XTS and Epic LUX, recliner seating. 25 miles south.
Flagler County. The near screen for Hastings and the county's south end. You drive away from town, not toward it.
1185 Central Avenue · (386) 206-9790
cinema · Jacksonville, out of county
The last Regal in Jacksonville. The Avenues, with 4DX and RPX.
Duval County, just over the line. Closest Regal from Julington Creek or Nocatee. The phone number is Regal's national line. Do not call it expecting the house.
9525 Phillips Highway · (844) 462-7342
trampoline park · Jacksonville, out of county
Jump arena, dodgeball, ninja warrior course, mini bowling, climbing wall, laser tag. And a laser maze.
Duval County, off Old St. Augustine Road. Closer to Julington Creek than anything in St. Augustine. No outside food or drink at all.
14985 Old St. Augustine Road, Unit 123 · 904-300-0070
FIT quarterfinal: Yulee at Beachside
Barracuda Stadium, Beachside High School
FIT quarterfinal: Tocoi Creek at Lake Howell
Richard L. Evans Stadium, Winter Park
Class 4A regional quarterfinal: Lincoln at St. Augustine
H.L. Foots Brumley Stadium, St. Augustine High School
Class 6A regional quarterfinal: Lake Mary at Creekside
Creekside High School Stadium
Class 5A regional quarterfinal: Bartram Trail at Evans
Trojan Field, Orlando
Class 5A regional quarterfinal: Nease at Pace
Patriots Stadium, Pace