HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Corvera Pipe Band will participate in St Patrick’s Parade

On Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, the Pipe Band of Corvera, from the Asturias region of Spain, will perform as part of the yearlong observance of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the relationship between St Augustine, Florida and Aviles, Spain.

Community

Menorcan History Month activities announced

Whether you spell it Menorcan or Minorcan, Historic City News readers are invited to participate in the Menorcan Heritage Celebration at Llambias House on Sunday, March 2nd from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. as part of Menorcan History Month activities announced this week.

Community

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

Don Pedro Menendez de Avilés birthday celebration

Historic City News readers are invited to attend a brief wreath-laying ceremony this morning, Thursday, February 15, starting at 11:00 a.m. in Parque de Menendez located in front of St Augustine City Hall, 75 King Street. Menendez, who founded the city on September 8, 1565, was born on February 15, 1519, in Avilés, a port city in the Asturias…

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Community

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.

Government