HISTORIC CITY NEWS 2018

ABC 20/20: Michelle O’Connell – suicide or homicide

Suicide or homicide? That question still lingers for Michelle O’Connell’s family and friends nearly eight years after she was shot inside her boyfriend’s St. Augustine home and died. Historic City News readers will be watching “20/20” when it airs on Friday, April 13 (10:01-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC.

Public Safety

April is National Social Security Month

We want all Historic City News readers to know that April is National Social Security Month, dedicated to educating you about Social Security programs and services. This is the month that the US Social Security Administration highlights the agency’s mission and purpose to the public. This year’s topic is Online Services.

Government

Letter: Too many two and three-wheeled scooters

Letter: Too many two and three-wheeled scooters Brendan Freeman St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: I grew up here and appreciate the Disney World feel of our city, but I think there may be too many people renting scooters and three-wheeled scooters.

Editorials

Compliance with asbestos removal notice at Echo House

Historic City News received word Wednesday that activist Ed Slavin has asked St Augustine city officials to delay approval of the permit to demolish the last remaining portion of the 1920’s era Echo House building until Ron Rawls and St Pauls AME Church can show that they have filed an advanced notice required by federal…

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Public Safety

Letter: Behavior by black church leader must stop

Letter: Behavior by black church leader must stop Shane Boen St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: I would like to know what the City will be doing to address these ongoing and now personal threats to a majority of our population?

Editorials

Letter: Restrictions on downtown Easter parking

Letter: Restrictions on downtown Easter parking John Mountcastle St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: When the diamond-shaped “no parking” signs were placed on portable saw horses in the parking lanes of Cathedral Place and King Street on Easter Sunday, the number of available parking spaces were significantly diminished. City of St. Augustine Ordinance…

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Editorials

Horvath switches decision on Echo House in less than 5-minutes

St Augustine City Commissioner Roxanne Horvath admitted to the audience during the Monday night commission meeting that she did not know what took place in the negotiations that allowed St Paul AME Church to take possession of the estate of Dr. Andrew Anderson II, but two fellow commissioners were on the board in February 2010…

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Government

Rawls AME Church rejects City offer for Echo House

Deemed one of the “top ten” most threatened places in St Augustine last year by the citizens’ action group, “Citizens for the Preservation of St. Augustine, Inc.”, Ronald Rawls Jr has come to the City looking for a permit to demolish the final building of the historic 1920’s complex that at one time provided indigent…

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