Former mayor’s wife hacked to death
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Former mayor’s wife hacked to death

It is 43-years later and we still have never punished the person responsible for the gruesome hacking death of the City’s former first lady — Athalia Ponsell Lindsley. Almost everyone who was thought to have committed the horrifying murder has died. Many of the investigators and public officials, the judge and prosecutor in the Alan Stanford trial (which ended in an acquittal) the sheriff, police chief, and members of the jury — all dead.

Nepotism is rampant within the local sheriff’s office
Posted inEditorials

Nepotism is rampant within the local sheriff’s office

St Johns County sheriff, David B. Shoar, through his representative, Commander Charles E. Mulligan, told Historic City News last week that the reason he ignored the department’s nepotism policy in the final days of Fiscal 2016 is because the department has a “critical shortage” of qualified applicants to fill the existing need for additional law enforcement deputies.

St Augustine Plein Air Paint Out
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St Augustine Plein Air Paint Out

Historic City News was informed by the St. Augustine Art Association that a 10-day citywide Plein Air Paint Out is planned for April 21th – 30th. The event is open to local, regional and national artists and is designed to capture “Impressions of the Flagler Era.”