HISTORIC CITY NEWS

City manager favors keeping Confederate memorial

It’s the five-member city commission’s decision, but, St Augustine’s City Manager tells Historic City News that he will recommend at the next meeting that they not accede to the demands of a few residents, but rather allow the confederate memorial in the Plaza to remain in place; adding contextualization that will be guided by a…

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Government

Local Chamber of Commerce seats Fiscal 2018 Board

The Board of Directors of the St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce will be led by Chairman Mary O’Brien of Keen, LLC during the 2017-18 fiscal year, according to an announcement received by Historic City News today.

Business

Impact of 1916 World War I agreement in Middle East

St. Augustine, Fla. – On Nov. 9, Dr. Robert Riggs, associate professor and chair in Religion and Politics at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, will discuss the early foundations of Middle East political tensions by focusing on the competing claims of Jewish, Arab and Turkish nationalists. Historic City News readers are invited to attend.

Community

Entertainment this week in St Johns County

Barbara Golden, Communications Manager for the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau, reminds Historic City News readers who reside in St Johns County that admission is free of charge to the Oldest House, the Ximenez-Fatio House, the Oldest Wooden School House, City Walks History Mystery Murder Evening Tour and the…

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Community

Georgia man kills stepdaughter then self Thursday

Yesterday afternoon, a battalion of St Johns County deputies were converged on the parking lot in front of the BP gas station and convenience store on US-1, north of I-95. A Georgia man, who had just killed his former stepdaughter in Brevard County, was sitting in a parked Ford Focus threatening to commit suicide.

Public Safety

New partnership has goal to end intimate violence

During a luncheon held at the River House in St Augustine on Thursday, Kent Justice was emcee for the launch of a newly organized team of law enforcement and citizen agencies whose mission is to reduce violence in the community on a case-by-case basis.

Community

Armed robber is subject of West Augustine manhunt

St Augustine Police informed Historic City News local reporters that an incident that happened Wednesday morning has led to a manhunt for the person who robbed a woman of her purse at gunpoint.

Public Safety

Editorial: The latest assault on individualism

Editorial: The latest assault on individualism Michael Gold, Editor HISTORIC CITY NEWS In just a couple of months, we will be welcoming in the year “2018”. I believe history will remember it as “the year Americans lost their individualism”.

Editorials