The City of St. Augustine will designate parking spaces for motorcycles along Cathedral Place between Charlotte and St. George streets through Sunday, March 14, in anticipation of increased motorcycle traffic due to Bike Week, Daytona Beach’s annual event.
Parking fees remain in place. Those using the designated parking area are encouraged to use the ParkStAug mobile app, which is available from both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, to pay for parking.
Areas set aside for motorcycle parking will be designated with traffic cones and signs stating that those using the space must pay to park.
Raj Mia, a senior at Bartram Trail High School, will join Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott in representing Florida during the 59th annual United States Senate Youth Program Washington Week, which takes place March 14 through 17.
Mia is the senior class and student council president. He served as junior class president last year, and is recognized as an AP Scholar with Distinction. He currently serves as a National Honor Society commissioner and vice president of the Tech Club where he helps freshmen students build personal computers and expand their creativity with technology. Mia plans to pursue an undergraduate degree in engineering before attending law school.
The St. Augustine branch of the American Association of University Women will host Mary Gatta and Molly Vollman Makris at its March 11 meeting.
They will discuss their recently published book “Gentrification Down the Shore,” an ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park, New Jersey, to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrification and the experiences of longtime residents in this beach-community city.
Asbury Park and St. Augustine have much in common as both were developed as seasonal seaside resort towns for the wealthy to escape to during hot weather in the case of Asbury Park or cold weather in the case of St. Augustine. The study documents the tragic consequences of this kind of redevelopment, which bypasses longtime residents in favor of seasonal visitors and deprives them of access to nature, culture and civic life. In both cities, their Black communities have been left behind.
A 38-year-old Jacksonville man was killed Saturday following a one-car accident in St. Johns County, according to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol. His passenger was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.
The man was driving a pickup truck southbound on Interstate 95 in the area of mile marker 328 at around 4:50 p.m., the report stated. He moved from the left lane across the center lane and into the right lane.
He began to lose control and veered back to the left lane and then went off the road and into the median, the report said. The front right of the truck struck the guardrail and overturned. The driver was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the report.
This week there’s art, music, monster trucks and golf, and there’s always Bike Week mostly in Daytona Beach but also up and down the East Coast. And the weather’s getting warmer, so that’s an incentive to spend some quality time at the beach.
Butterfield Garage Art Gallery
Nancy Hamlin-Vogler is the featured artist in March, with her “Backyard Studio Kitchen” series of mixed media paintings. She will be available from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at the gallery, and she’ll lead a demo/Q & A on the gallery portico from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 20.