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Jeb Smith, 47, whose family has farmed its fields in St. Johns County for nearly a century, recently stepped down as a county commissioner for a new two-year role as president of the Florida Farm Bureau.

Jeb Smith, 47, whose family has farmed its fields in St. Johns County for nearly a century, recently stepped down as a county commissioner for a new two-year role as president of the Florida Farm Bureau.

Jeb Smith, 47, whose family has farmed its fields in St. Johns County for nearly a century, recently stepped down as a county commissioner for a new two-year role as president of the Florida Farm Bureau.

The St. Johns Board of County Commissioners approved an economic development incentive agreement 4-1 with the PGA Tour on May 18 with an estimated value of $16,778,760. The agreement, previously code-named Project Breeze, would create a 150,000-square-foot broadcast media building for the PGA Tour. The tour would relocate its PGA Tour Entertainment arm from its 32,329-square-foot building in World Golf Village to the new facility adjacent to the new PGA Tour Global Home along Palm Valley Road i...

The St. Johns County Public Library system could soon be under private control.

LaShawnda Pinkney, 48, is the first to file to run in the race. She was born and raised in West Augustine and still lives there today.  Pinkney shared details about her background and platform to about 40 people on Friday at a meet-and-greet event for her campaign at the Murabella amenities center near Pacetti Road and State Road 16. The crowd included pastors, West Augustine advocates such as Greg White and Dwala Willis, Pinkneys children and others.  "Im running to fulfill my civic respon...

Commissioner sounds off on whether the reason for wearing masks is medical or political St Johns County Commissioner Jeb Smith, will be the special guest speaker Tuesday evening when the Saint Augustine Tea Party invites Historic City News subscribers to attend an open meeting February 23rd beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the World Famous Oasis Restaurant, located at 4000 A1A South in St Augustine Beach. With so much controversy over whether any benefit is gained by requiring citizens to wear a facem...

St. Johns County has reinstated and refunded its Land Acquisition and Management Program after more than a decade on the backburner due to budgetary constraints. The program was established in 1999 to acquire and preserve environmentally sensitive land for public access and passive recreational purposes. Some of the greenspaces created through LAMP include the Alpine Groves River Park, Vilano Beach Oceanfront Park and the Southeast Intracoastal Waterway Park. County officials, however, pull...

CC BY-SA 2.0 The shadow of a bicycle rider at an intersection. Between 2010 and 2019 in Colorado, 4,425 bicyclists were injured in intersection or intersection-related crashes where officers believed drivers were at fault. Jeb Smith was on his after-work bicycle ride, crossing the road to get to a park, when he was hit. “The truck came out of nowhere taking this left turn and barreled into me,” Smith said. “I was thrown up onto the car and then they backed off and I kind of rolled off ont...

A workforce housing proposal will have another chance in front of the St. Johns County Commission. This month, commissioners rejected the rezoning proposal for 198 single-family units and 124 multi-family units south of State Road 16 and east of Four Mile Road, citing concerns about density, traffic and flooding. The project would have used the countys new Workforce Housing Zoning District, which would require at least 40% of the houses to be priced at $210,000 or less.  Commissioner Jeb Smit...