Employees of the Year for County Schools

Dr. Joseph Joyner told local Historic City News reporters that St Johns County’s “school-related employees” enhance the educational experience for the children whose lives they touch, and they are essential to the successful operation of a school or school district office.

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Castillo relives The Enemy at the Gates

National Park Service spokesman, Joseph Brehm, invites Historic City News readers to participate in a special program Friday evening at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument you can relive the night before the Spanish soldiers, stationed at the Castillo, prepared for the counterattack against British forces stationed at Fort Mose in 1740.

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Local History Fair winners will compete at State

Historic City News congratulates twenty St Johns County students from nine participating schools that were selected from a recent local competition to travel and compete in the Florida State History Fair, scheduled for May 4-6.

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Obituary: Laurie Bennett Ellis

After a two and a half year battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Historic City News was informed that 58-year-old Laurie Bennett Ellis of St. Augustine died Saturday, March 22, 2014, at the Haven Hospice Care Center in Orange Park.

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