Jesse Fish s claim to Anastasia Island played out for decades
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The battle for Anastasia
There is an epilogue to the story in Monday’s Record about the new Fish Island Park and its progenitor, “that infamous Floridian” Jesse Fish.
In 1795 Jesse Fish received a land grant from the king of Spain that encompassed all of Anastasia Island, save for two small land grants and the “King’s Quarries” for coquina stone, all located near the northern end of the island. After Fish’s death, the controversy over this land grant would cast a dark shadow over legal titles to properties on Anastasia and retard development on the island for years.
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Faced with growing discontent over his nation's faltering economy and massive street demonstrations provoked by the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the regime of Russian president Vladimir Putin responded with an iron fist. State security forces arrested more than 10,000 people who participated in arguably the most significant protests against Putin's rule since he assumed power in late 1999.
Hundreds of hotel rooms are being built in St. Augustine, and at least two hotels are scheduled to open this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Five hotels are in the works: The Marriott Renaissance St. Augustine Historic Downtown Hotel with 89 rooms on West Castillo Drive; a Homewood Suites by Hilton with 117 rooms at 10 Prawn St.; a Marriott Tribute hotel with 51 rooms at 5 Prawn St.; a Comfort Suites hotel with 86 rooms on North Ponce de Leon Boulevard; and a Hilton Garden Inn with 89 rooms on North Ponce de Leon Boulevard, said Patrick Doty, a senior planner with the city of St. Augustine.
Summer isn t over yet
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Six weeks. That’s how long music festival bosses say the Government has got to save this summer’s outdoor events from blanket oblivion. Unless a package of measures is announced by mid-March, then organisers fear the UK’s festival season will be torpedoed in its entirety for the second year running, leading to thousands of job losses and countless festivals going bust.
Last week’s cancellation of June’s Glastonbury Festival showed that even Britain’s most famous music jamboree is not immune from the ravages of Covid-19. But organisers of festivals scheduled for later in the summer believe that the second half of the season could be saved if action is taken soon. They are calling for the Treasury to underwrite their insurance and for the Government to name a restart date after which events can go ahead.