Year: 2024

Florida Legislation Proposes Safeguards for Confederate Monuments

Historic City News has been following a move that has ignited a fierce debate in Florida’s Senate, focusing specifically on Confederate memorials.  The proposed legislation seeks to prevent the removal of historic state monuments as occurred in St Augustine in August 2020.  The local cenotaph, currently on loan at the Trout Creek Fish Camp in…

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Government

City police arrest public works director for drunk driving

City Manager David Birchim announced to local Historic City News reporters that effective Tuesday, June 20, 2023, former utility director Todd Grant replaced Reuben Franklin as the Public Works Director. Franklin vacated the post to become one of two Assistant City Managers. Unfortunately, less than a year later, city police Sergent Brandon Embrey observed 56-year-old…

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Public Safety

Legislative Achievement Award presented to House Speaker Paul Renner

Public Affairs Supervisor Tyler Jarnagin reported to Historic City News this week that St Johns County Emergency Management Deputy Director Kelly Wilson joined Flagler County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord at the Tallahassee office of House Speaker Paul Renner (R-19th District) to present him with the Florida Emergency Preparedness Association’s “Legislative Achievement Award”.

Government

Letter: I support the protection of historic Florida monuments

Harold K Edgerton, NAACP Past PresidentAsheville, North Carolina Dear Historic City News readers: I am now in my 70’s and old enough to have been called “negro”, then “colored”, then “Afro”, then “black”, and now “African American”. But, when it comes to color, I am simply red, white, and blue. I am a proud American….

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Editorials

County Attorney Migut headed to Jacksonville Beach

Jacksonville Beach officials have moved to appoint the third city attorney in less than three years, according to reports received by Historic City News this week.  This announcement coincided with drama in St Johns County that culminated in the resignation of County Attorney David M. Migut.

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