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06/01/2025

🎸☀️FREE SUMMER CONCERTS! Concerts in the Plaza will bring a wide variety of musical entertainment to St. Augustine’s historic downtown all summer long, brought to us from the City of St. Augustine! The concerts take place every Thursday from 6-8 PM in the gazebo of the Plaza de la Constitucion, located between King Street and Cathedral Place. This year’s line-up includes:

THE SCHEDULE

📍May 29: The Groove Coalition — 70s, 80s and 90s R&B Music
📍June 5: JC Hatfield Trio — Old Style Jazz, 60’s Folk Music, Old Time Country, Bluegrass, Dixieland
📍June 12: The Palmetto Pickers — Southern Country/Americana
📍June 19: The Committee
— Rock & R&B
📍June 26: Crab Creek Band — Good Time Rock and Roll
📍July 3: Shayla Nelson — Acoustic Pop and Classics
📍July 10: Los Van Guardias — Spanish Pop/Rock with Latin Jazz and Flamenco Influence
📍July 17: The Landfall Band — Celebrating the Music & Spirit of Jimmy Buffett
📍July 24: ZaZa Flamenca
— Acoustic Guitars, Vocals and Percussions
📍July 31 : The Morrow Family Band — Americana
📍August 7: Paige King Johnson — Classic Country with a modern twist
📍August 14: Bad Dog Mama — R&B, Soul, Country and Rock
📍August 21: STR8UP —
High Energy Dance Band
📍August 28:Thick & Thin String Band — Folk, Bluegrass

06/01/2025

Do you know what happens to trash that gets left behind? Trash on the beach could be eaten by an animal, entangle an animal, or even injure someone else. Please remember to pack in, pack out when you visit the park beaches.

Image: Text reads "Leave No Trace, Please Pack Out What You Pack In." Image on the left shows a full trash bag next to a sign that says "Keep Out Of Dunes."

06/01/2025

Be a lighthouse in someone’s storm.

📸: Photo by Roger Bansemer,

06/01/2025

02/08/2025

✨📍2025 FESTIVALS in St. Augustine & St. Johns County, Florida! See the full list with all details here: http://totallystaugustine.com/2025-festivals-annual-events-in-st-augustine-st-johns-county/

✨ Feb. 6-16: Fort Mose Jazz & Blues Festival
✨ Feb. 7-8: St. Auggie Shorts Film Festival at Flagler College
✨ Feb. 15: Lighthouse 5K & Fun Run on Anastasia Island hosted by The Junior Service League of St. Augustine
✨ Feb. 15-16 & March 8-9: St. Augustine Beach Art & Craft Show at St. Augustine Beach Pier Park
✨Feb. 20-22: Flight to Freedom at Fort Mose Historic State Park
✨Feb. 20-22: St. Augustine Spanish Wine & Food Festival (PICTURED)
✨Feb. 21-23: 40th Annual Cathedral Festival on the Mission Grounds
✨Feb. 22-23: Ancient City Cat Show at Solomon Calhoun Center
✨ Feb. 23: Lullaby of the Rivers Music Festival at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre
✨ Feb. 23: Kidz Entrepreneur Night Market & Talent Show at the Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine
✨March 1: The Florida Man Games at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds
✨ March 1: Chocolate & Beyond at Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine
✨March 8: St. Augustine St. Patrick’s Parade
✨March 8-9: St. Augustine Celtic Music & Heritage Festival at Francis Field
✨ March 29-30: St. Augustine Lions Seafood Festival at Francis Field
✨March 30: 142nd St. Ambrose Fair at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Elkton (PICTURED)
✨ April 11-13: Gamble Rogers Folk Festival
✨ April 12-13: Old Town Art Show at Francis Field
✨ April 19: St. Augustine Easter Parade at 9 AM
✨ April 20: Easter Promenade in the Plaza de la Constitucion
✨ April 26-27: Cabbage, Potato and Bacon Festival by Hastings Main Street

📸: Photos show St. Ambrose Fair (March 30) and the St. Augustine Spanish Food & Wine Festival

📸: Castillo de San Marcos photo by

#2025

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08/12/2023

Surf Station employee Charles Gregory is found ! Flound alive, and although he can’t walk right now, the doctors say eventually he will be able to again

He is extremely sunburned and dehydrated after spending 36 hours in the Atlantic treading water, his muscles overused have atrophied clinging to his near sunk 8 foot john boat.

The tiny boat would have sunk completely, but he let the motor go and sink so the boat would stay afloat, but barely

All started at 4 am 2 days ago when Charles took his little boat out the inlet like he has done countless times before to go fishing for bull reds.

On his way out the inlet, a rogue wave hit the boat and knocked it over. A second wave came and knocked everything out of the boat. His life jacket was washed away by the huge wave. Charles t-shirt, cell phone, and all his belongings were in the front of the boat, and all sank, including his sunglasses, hat, and more. His radio, flares, horn, everything sank to the bottom of the ocean

Charles is fair skinned, and then had nothing to protect himself for the next 36 hours in the water floating. No sunscreen or even a T-shirt. Bare skin, with No food or water, nothing but his shorts, which he took off to wave at passing boats that never saw him.

Charles needed to tread water next to the boat because if he got on the boat it would sink. However, sharks would circle the boat and he would need to get on the boat temporally to get away from them, however, this made the boat sink.

It rained at night, which was good but very cold with nothing to insulate is bare skin. Charles got so cold and was shivering so badly, he threw up seven times.

During the day, about 20 to 25 boats and planes went by, but no one ever saw him.

When asked what kept him going, Charles said “Honestly, thinking about my parents. It sounds cheesy, but I couldn’t help the thought of them not knowing… what ever happened to me, if I were not to make it. I had left without telling them, and being that far out in the ocean, no one knew where I was.”

The Coast Guard found Charles 12 miles off Vilano, and 28 miles from Mayport

We will be very happy when Charles is able to return to work at the shop. He’s got yet more of this story to tell!

Said his dad Raymond to the community: “Thank you so much for the prayers. Those prayers got him rescued!”

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