Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
Craig Funeral Home delivered to Historic City News this morning the report that Margaret “Peggy” Bassing Bailey, age 92, passed away peacefully in her home on November 17, 2018. She joins her beloved husband and father to her five children John Denver Bailey, Sr. who died just three months earlier. Peggy and John were devoted to one another, and her surviving family members take comfort knowing they are together again in Heaven.
David Nolan contributed to this report.
Special to Historic City News
Carrie Johnson was called “the voice of Lincolnville” in part because her voice rang out loud and clear and she loved to sing, speak, and pray so all could hear. St Augustine’s most beloved citizen passed away at 7:00 a.m. this morning. She was 83 years old.
Historic City News readers who reside or own property in North Beach are advised that a project meeting has been called under the Neighborhood Bill of Rights Ordinance (No. 2007-01) regarding a St Johns County project scheduled for your area.
Merrill Paul Roland
St Augustine, FL
Dear Historic City News editor:
The Oldest City in America, established in 1565, has an un-accredited police department, mismanaged by an incompetent, Napoleonic, vertically challenged Chief of Police – Barry “Barney” Fox.
On Wednesday November 14, 2018, two financial division employees, one of whom has been employed for 15-years, the other for 25-years, told Sheriff David Shoar that they were concerned about “suspicious vendor accounts” being paid by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
Historic City News readers are patriotically invited to attend the next regular meeting of the Saint Augustine Tea Party being held on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 6:30 p.m., in the meeting room of the Village Inn located at 900 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard, in St. Augustine. Please plan to attend.
Nancy Shaver, Mayor
City of St Augustine, Florida
Dear Historic City News editor:
I am writing today regarding inaccurate reporting in The St Augustine Record newspaper last week and their Editorial:” Fake News Has Come Home to Roost” 11/21/2018
As of 11:10 a.m. Tuesday morning, Historic City News editor Michael Gold became aware that Raye Brutnell had surrendered to authorities at the Flagler County Jail in Bunnell. The defendant was answering a warrant for her arrest, alleging numerous crimes committed in the process of carrying out, then concealing, her theft of more than $700,000 of public funds over a period of several years.
