Item 6(B) 3 on the agenda for Monday night’s City Commission meeting is sure to raise a few eyebrows for some Historic City News readers when a presentation by Colin Bingham, who, with Donald Wallis, co-founded the ill-fated First America Foundation, Inc., pitches an initiative he says will improve unused properties in the city for the 450th commemoration.
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Debra Rhodes Gibson informed Historic City News local reporters that, in order to encourage adult reading, the St. Johns County Public Library System has established an adult summer reading contest.
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The original public records are on file with the St. Johns County Clerk of Court and should be consulted before taking any action.
First America Foundation, Inc., voted Friday to terminate its contract with the city and now the question being asked by many Historic City News readers is, “What about the money?”
Forty-seven years ago, on June 9, 1964, Andrew Jackson Young, Jr., tried, unsuccessfully, to cross through a hostile mob of segregationists as he led a group of peaceful Civil Rights demonstrators east on King Street towards the Plaza.
