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The RoarAug 2, 2026
St. Johns County · Florida
Ponte Vedra news with a bite.
Ponte Vedra and Ponte Vedra Beach: golf, growth, and the politics of the north county.
Ponte Vedra is the north end of St. Johns County: golf, gated entrances, and the fastest growth in the county. Decisions made here — roads, schools, drainage — end up shaping the county budget everyone else pays into.
Our Ponte Vedra coverage is mostly growth and money: what's being built, who approved it, and what it does to the roads.
What we make fun of in Ponte Vedra
- · Development approvals and the growth fight
- · School capacity and new school construction
- · Nocatee-area traffic and A1A north
- · The Players and what the week does to the county
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- St. Augustine
- St. Augustine Beach
- Nocatee
- World Golf Village
- Hastings
- Vilano Beach
- Ponte Vedra Beach
- Palm Valley
- Fruit Cove
- Julington Creek
- St. Johns
- Durbin Crossing
- SilverLeaf
- Crescent Beach
- Butler Beach
- Anastasia Island
- Elkton
- Spuds
- Flagler Estates
- Orangedale
- Marineland
- St. Augustine Shores
- St. Augustine South
- Switzerland
- Picolata
- Tocoi
- Armstrong
- Molasses Junction
- Mill Creek
- Sampson