Watching St. Johns County. 2026-09-09T13:34:44.131-04:00 https://stjohnstattler.org/ The St. Johns Tattler 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/culture/fall-at-the-concert-hall/ Isobel Grange

Jet, the Indigo Girls, a Jacksonville band older than the road you'll take to see it, and a hall small enough that none of them can hide.

2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/scene/free-music-all-weekend/ Dez March

Sing Out Loud puts local bands in seven St. Augustine bars and brewhouses this weekend, and every showcase costs exactly zero dollars.

2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/schools/final-budget-hearing-sept-10-6264-mills/ Wren Calloway

A $1,558,622,009 budget and a rate of 6.264 mills, down eight thousandths of a mill from last year. The hearing is at 5:30 p.m. at 40 Orange Street, and public comment is item 9 on a nine-item agenda.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/scene/cafe-eleven-fifty-one-nights/ Remy Cole

Cafe Eleven has dated shows on its calendar from Sept. 18 through late February. Most of them are all ages. Almost all of them charge you five dollars at the door for being under 21, and neither the venue nor the promoter publishes a ticket price anywhere you can find one.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/scene/escape-rooms/ Dez March

Four or five real escape rooms sit within a short drive of the plaza, and they are the best rainy-afternoon group plan in the county that doesn't cost ninety dollars a ticket.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/scene/free-at-the-amp-markets/ Dez March

Free admission at the Saturday farmers market, the Fall Night Market on Sept. 15, and an all ages record fair on Sept. 27. The market matches your SNAP dollars, the yoga takes donations, and the parking advice is to not park at the Amp.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/sports/friday-night-sept-11-county-calendars/ Truett Speer

Six of the county's eight public high schools have posted a 2026-27 athletic calendar. Every one of the 76 events on them is football. Not one carries a score.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/sports/last-homestand-and-the-opener/ Truett Speer

The Jumbo Shrimp finish at VyStar on Saturday night. The Jaguars open against Cleveland at one o'clock Sunday. Every date, time and channel below comes from the two schedules the Tattler pulled Wednesday.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/scene/free-late-shows-ponce-de-le-rollin/ Remy Cole

Sing Out Loud is running three late-night after-parties at Ponce De Le Rollin' on Anastasia Boulevard, Sept. 25 to 27. All three are free and all ages, two of them run until 2 a.m., and nobody is skating.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/culture/limelight-season-35-opens/ Isobel Grange

The Limelight raises the curtain on Catch Me If You Can at 7:30 Thursday and runs it through Sept. 27. Singles are $35 and $40, a subscription brings that to $34, and the theatre's own box-office page gives its credit card fee two different ways.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/environment/highest-tides-of-the-fall-october-27/ June Ellery Pace

NOAA's predictions for the St. Augustine city dock put the water 10 inches above an ordinary daily high on Oct. 27, and the four days around it are nearly as high. None of that includes wind or rain.

2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/opinion/the-nib-concurrency/ Marlo Vane

A cartoon about the county's favorite word, and the traffic it keeps approving in spite of it.

2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/food/what-the-state-found-this-summer/ Bee Ortiz-Nadal

I read the whole file instead of eating dinner. Four in ten routine inspections needed no follow-up, the median inspection turned up four items, and all seven emergency closures the state recommended this summer were cleared within two days.

2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/food/new-food-licenses-summer-2026/ The Ledger

Twenty-four kitchens, carts and trucks recorded an opening state inspection in St. Johns County between July 1 and Sept. 4. Twenty-two needed no follow-up; the other two were cleared on a call-back. The list, as the state recorded it.

2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/culture/sing-out-loud-weekend-three/ Isobel Grange

More than 160 acts at 17 venues, all of it free, closing Sept. 18-20. Meanwhile the Amp books eleven ticketed nights and two free events in nineteen days.

2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/growth/two-northwest-sector-meetings-sept-14/ Ivey Sutter Malone

Two northwest-sector applications get their public participation meetings 30 minutes apart on the same Monday night. Here is what each notice actually says, and what it leaves out.

2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/news/week-ahead-meetings-sept-8-17/ The Ledger

Two cancellations, a disaster-debris procurement, two rezoning workshops on the same night, a closed attorney-client session, and a 5:01 p.m. budget hearing.

2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z https://stjohnstattler.org/news/what-we-are-doing-here/ Roy Alden Teague

A new paper for St. Johns County, from people who love it enough to read the fine print. And the one promise you should hold us to.