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SAINT AUGUSTINE – St. Johns Housing Partnership (SJHP) was created with the mission of reducing sub-standard housing for low-income homeowners. For over 20 years, SJHP has worked on creating public and private partnerships to help improve [Read More]

August 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Dr. Ahmad honored

PALATKA – This community came out in great numbers July 21 to honor longtime physician Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, M.D., saluting him on his retirement. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Paying tribute were members of Rotary, sheriff’s deputies and medical [Read More]

July 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

And Jake makes five

By ANNE HEYMEN PALATKA – East Palatka resident Sara Hetherington has an eagle eye – especially when it involves abandoned kittens. It was déjà vu all over again, as they say, when Sara, crossing Palatka’s Veterans Memorial Bridge spied what [Read More]

June 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Philippine program launched

SAINT AUGUSTINE – Local businesswomen and nonprofit volunteers Cora D. Carter and Barbara Lynch of St. Augustinemet through a series of events they believe is divine intervention. Since 2013, Carter is the founder and president of Resources [Read More]

June 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Rotary helping jobless workers

SAINT AUGUSTINE – Members of the Rotary Club of St. Augustine recently launched the organization’s newest initiative to commemorate the Club’s centennial anniversary with a program to help unemployed and furloughed workers in St. Johns [Read More]

April 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Slow moving violation?

SAINT AUGUSTINE – St. Johns County Sheriff Deputy Leonard Fontenot is one of the “Stories to Make You Smile” in the latest edition of People A grinning Fontenot is pictured with a tortoise and a brief story explaining how the [Read More]

July 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Power of purse coming in May

SAINT AUGUSTINE –  Plans for Flagler College’s Women of Vision Advisory Board’s fifth annual Power of the Purse®luncheon are well underway. The event, which is scheduled for May 9, will include a silent auction of designer handbags, a [Read More]

February 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Hummingbird gets sugar water IV

SAINT AUGUSTINE – Thanks to the quick action of St. Augustine resident Terri Heymen, a West Virginia hummingbird has a new lease on life. Last month, Heymen and friend Diane Key were en route to Merrill, Mich., when they encountered a [Read More]

August 14, 2017 // 2 Comments