To two neighbors who complained to city commissioners last week about yellow curbing narrow streets in the Abbott Tract, that decision by city officials did not involve the whole neighborhood.

   To the president of the St. Augustine Uptown Neighborhood Association (SAUNA), the decision followed "a 3-year process that has involved the entire neighborhood in several meetings.

   "Residents were part of reviewing drawings and maps of the Abbott Tract, and offered suggestions and changes which were incorporated into what became the final," says association President Rhey Palmer.

   At a meeting last Wednesday at city hall, officials defended parking limited to one side of narrow streets as necessary for public safety, but agreed that a neighborhood association "does not take the place of city government duty to work with, inform and notify the public," as Public Works Director Martha Graham expressed it.

   City procedure has been to survey neighbors on affected streets before taking actions such as yellow curbing or creating resident-only parking spaces.

   Fire Chief JC Costeira will be discussing individual concerns with neighbors who'd like their parking back. 

    Over thirty works by the artist, including local scenes, landscapes, and portraits, will be presented in this major exhibit.

    "Long forgotten by most of the art world, Felix Frederick de Crano was arguably the most sophisticated and versatile artist in Henry Morrison Flagler's Ponce de Leon colony of painters in Saint Augustine," writes art historian Deborah Pollack in her new work Felix F De Crano, Forgotten Artist of the Flagler Art Colony.

   Lightner Museum Director Robert Harper, says, "this exhibit and Deborah Pollack's research will restore de Crano's rightful place in American art history."