Vice Mayor tags city manager on performance failures

For four-years, Historic City News has hoped that Vice Mayor Todd Neville would make good on his campaign promise to increase transparency and accountability in city government. Since he did not qualify for re-election this year, he is officially a “lame duck”, but you wouldn’t know it given his performance at tonight’s St Augustine City…

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Government

Letter: Williams challenges fellow candidates to say no to dark money

Letter: Williams challenges fellow candidates to say no to dark money Dick Williams, long-time St. Johns County resident and candidate for the St. Johns County Commission District 4, has pledged not to use so called “Dark Money” political committees to conduct campaign activities on his behalf and has asked his fellow candidates to join him.

Community

Letter: Proposed contextualization is intentionally misleading

Letter: Proposed contextualization is intentionally misleading Gregory C. White St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: How does a simple monument erected with private funds raised by the citizens of St. Augustine to memorialize its local dead just a few years after the bloodiest war in American history, have to do with white supremacy?…

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Editorials

Descendants of Constitution Plaza War Memorial sought

In St Augustine, the statewide group, “Save Their Honor” is seeking descendants of the 44 local soldiers whose names are inscribed on the Plaza de la Constitution Confederate War Memorial as part of a program to help protect the memorial honoring their family members.

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