Posted inBusiness
Chamber president resigns effective December 31
This morning, Beau Phillips notified Historic City News that Kirk Wendland, president of the St Johns County Chamber of Commerce, tendered his resignation to be effective December 31.
Posted inPublic Safety
Gorish enters guilty plea on federal child porn charges
Acting US Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced to Historic City News today that 67-year-old Charles Lee Gorish, a registered sexual offender who once lived at 5412 Choctaw Street in St Augustine, has entered a guilty plea to transporting images and videos of child pornography from Florida to Canada.
Posted inEditorials
Letter: Wendland gave Chamber three action-packed years
Letter: Wendland gave Chamber three action-packed years
Victor Raymos, Chairman
St Johns County Chamber of Commerce
Dear Editor:
Kirk Wendland has resigned his position as President of the St Johns County Chamber of Commerce to take a position with Stellar. Kirk has left the Chamber in excellent shape.
Posted inEditorials
Letter: Best days for Chamber lay ahead
Letter: Best days for Chamber lay ahead
Kirk Wendland, President
St. Johns County Chamber
Dear Editor and Chamber members:
This letter is to inform you that I have provided the Board of Directors with my letter of resignation, effective December 31, 2013.
Posted inBusiness
Affordable Care Act: Singing the blues
If you told most business owners who read Historic City News that they had to cut 80% of their customers, they would promptly hang up the “out of business” sign; but, that is exactly what Florida Blue has to do with 300,000 individual policyholders in order to comply with the Affordable Care Act, according to published reports.
Posted inPublic Safety
Man identified by victim charged in sexual assault
Historic City News crime desk reporters were notified that Monday, the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that a 33-year-old female victim was dropped off at Fire Station 14 on West King Street; she was reporting that she had been sexually assaulted.
Posted inPublic Safety
Unregistered sexual predator discovered
When the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance call at American Inn on SR-16 last night, the responding deputy found it odd that the victim of that disturbance, 28-year-old Kirby Donnell Miller Jr., did not want to press charges.
Posted inCommunity
St Francis House director resigns
Historic City News has learned that the former St Augustine Police officer-turned-executive director of the only full time emergency shelter between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Renee Byers Morris, has resigned; according to a published article that appeared in The St Augustine Report.
