HISTORIC CITY NEWS 2018

Letter: Williams challenges fellow candidates to say no to dark money

Letter: Williams challenges fellow candidates to say no to dark money Dick Williams, long-time St. Johns County resident and candidate for the St. Johns County Commission District 4, has pledged not to use so called “Dark Money” political committees to conduct campaign activities on his behalf and has asked his fellow candidates to join him.

Community

Letter: Proposed contextualization is intentionally misleading

Letter: Proposed contextualization is intentionally misleading Gregory C. White St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: How does a simple monument erected with private funds raised by the citizens of St. Augustine to memorialize its local dead just a few years after the bloodiest war in American history, have to do with white supremacy?…

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Editorials

Descendants of Constitution Plaza War Memorial sought

In St Augustine, the statewide group, “Save Their Honor” is seeking descendants of the 44 local soldiers whose names are inscribed on the Plaza de la Constitution Confederate War Memorial as part of a program to help protect the memorial honoring their family members.

Community

Remembering before we had lions, but we still had a restaurant on the bay

Wolfgang Schau, the man who the city allowed to donate a pair of lion statues for the east side of the Bridge of Lions, owns a catamaran. It is a beautiful sailing vessel and I am sure that he and his family find it easy to navigate in and out of our historic channel when…

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Editorials

Mayor responds to inquiries about context of confederate memorial

Mayor responds to inquiries about context of confederate memorial Mayor Nancy E. Shaver Lincolnville, FL Special to Historic City News I try with every vote I take to do the right thing to represent our town; and in this case, to consider those who lived here in the past and those who will come in…

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Letter: Please reconsider vote that will deface 140-year-old memorial

Letter: Please reconsider vote that will deface 140-year-old memorial David R. McCallister Temple Terrace, FL Special to Historic City News Dear Mayor Shaver and Commissioners of St. Augustine, The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a nationwide organization with a Florida Division and local Camps, including one in St. Augustine. As the legal successor organization to…

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Bicyclist killed in single-vehicle crash on A1A

This morning at 8:30 a.m., Historic City News received word that a 41-year-old Jacksonville bicyclist traveling north on SR-A1A was struck and killed by a St Augustine driver in the area of Guana River Road.

Public Safety

Local trespasser wanted in attempted homicide investigation

A clerk working at Circle K gas and convenience store, on SR-16 along the I-95 corridor, called the sheriff’s office late Tuesday evening to report that a man entered the store and went directly into the bathroom, where he locked the door and remained for about an hour. The employee requested the man leave the…

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