Only days before the grand unveiling of the 15-foot statue of Ponce De Leon, donated by Candace Carroll of St Augustine, and the re-enactment of the landing of Ponce de Leon 500-years earlier; Historic City News learned of some devastating bad news.
Assistant State Attorney Jacquelyn Roys informed Historic City News local reporters that the Spring Term Grand Jury has returned indictments against 24-year-old Justin Adam Boyles and 38-year-old Charles Danny Massey, for the kidnapping and first-degree murder of 54-year-old Edward Scott Mullener, Jr., whose last known address was on Hernandez Avenue in Palm Coast.
In 1975, when Dewey Adelsperger retired from the State of Florida, where he worked as Director of Exhibition Buildings for the Historic St Augustine Preservation Board, he and his wife, Marjorie, established the Spanish Bakery. Last weekend, their son, Gene and his wife, Beth, closed the doors after its 38-year run.
Historic City News was notified today that Ann H. Breidenstein, who recently retired as the Executive Director of the United Way of St Johns County, has been appointed operations manager of the local non-profit community initiative, Velo Fest.
Communications Specialist Danielle Berke reported to Historic City News that the St Johns County Road and Bridge department is replacing a deteriorated cross culvert on Wildwood Drive with reinforced concrete pipe, necessitating detours in the area.
FDLE Commissioner Gerald M. Bailey informed Historic City News as to the estimated costs and incident reports associated with the ongoing Capitol protests by demonstrators being called the “dream defenders”.
Editorial: Hold on to your wallets
To paraphrase an old political joke about the state legislature, the St Augustine City Commission is in session — hold on to your wallets.
Historic City News learned today that a 19-year-old Duval County man became the victim in a “botched drug deal” that turned into an attempted armed robbery; and, ended with him being shot in the chest by the man he was meeting in the parking lot of a Julington Creek restaurant.
