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Boles’ defeat means Monday is last meeting as mayor

JOE BOLES
JOE BOLES
After losing in the General Election to Lincolnville resident, Nancy Shaver, outgoing Mayor Joe Boles will preside over his last meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night, November 10, 2014. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Historic City News was informed that there will be no second meeting of the commission in November.

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Len Weeks to face Code Enforcement Board

Real Estate developer and general contractor Len Weeks goes before the city Code Enforcement Board Wednesday to answer for a series of violations that led to the emergency demolition of the historic 200-year-old Pedro Fornell House located at 62 Spanish Street in downtown St Augustine.

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Veterans of tomorrow thank veterans of yesterday

300-ISAM-RespectVeterans of tomorrow thank veterans of yesterday

Michael Isam
Special Features Writer
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Back in the day, the people that stood out were the “Rainbows”. The name given to those freshly arrived to boot camp. To those yet to receive that full set of green everything; green from the skin out. To paraphrase the verse by Billy Joel; “When I wore a younger man’s clothes”.

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Letter: My heartfelt thanks to everyone

JOHN VALDESLetter: My heartfelt thanks to everyone

John Valdes
St Augustine, FL

My heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you who supported my campaign for city commission. I very much wanted to serve the City of St. Augustine for the next four years as your commissioner and it is a great disappointment not to have achieved that goal.

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Heart rocks the Amphitheatre

300-HEART-CONCERTHeart rocks the Amphitheatre

Mark Cubbedge, Special Events Photographer
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Heart has never been a band that shied away from its musical influences of the 1970s and it performed a brilliant mix of cover tunes interspersed with its own mega-hits that kept a sold-out crowd on their feet most of the soggy evening last night at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.