Year: 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.

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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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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.

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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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