HISTORIC CITY NEWS March 2016

Fugitive captured after attempts to flee deputies and K-9

Historic City News was informed that 34-year-old Kirk Daniel Stevens of St. Augustine led deputies and K-9 units on a 20-minute foot chase through heavily wooded terrain off Kings Estate Road Thursday as he attempted to avoid capture on outstanding warrants.

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Search continues for fifth meth lab suspect

Detectives are still looking for a fifth suspect in Wednesday’s methamphetamine lab bust inside a Ravenswood Drive residence, Historic City News learned.

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Our Veterans – Now and Forever Day

Local Historic City News reporters and Mayor Nancy Shaver welcomed Francisca Guilford, National President of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Auxiliary, Thursday during a flag waiving ceremony on the grounds of Castillo de San Marcos National Monument.

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Editorial: Preachers, Painters, and Politicians

In the 1990’s, I was licensed by the South Carolina Board of Financial Institutions to operate a small loan company. One of my mentors who had been making loans in Columbia for many years offered me some advice at a Christmas party one year — she told me if I wanted to keep a profitable…

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So a Record columnist upset the city attorney – so what?

In an editorial titled, “Right, wrong and the great in between” that appeared in the Sunday March 13, 2016 edition of The St Augustine Record, editorial page editor, Jim Sutton, reveals some things I wish he hadn’t. I hope they are not completely true, because, if they are, our community is not being well served.

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County Parks announce Master Plan public meetings

Historic City News readers are encouraged to attend and participate when the St. Johns County Parks and Recreation Department hosts two public workshops to garner public opinion regarding sports fields, beach and waterway accesses, parks, recreational programming, and athletic facilities within the County.

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Lions Den should not be another Cafe Erotica

When the Waffle House at US-1 and I-95 South in St Johns County was demolished last month, Historic City News readers speculated about what would replace the long-closed restaurant. Now they know.

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Injunction against Whetstone denied

Historic City News learned from recent court documents that Australian candy brand, Yowie North America, Inc, lost its attempt to obtain an injunction allowing the removal of a candy wrapping machine from a factory leased by Whetstone to Yowie for the next ten years.

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