The controversial application for permission to alter the HP-1 zoning, to allow the former Dow Museum of Homes to become an upscale daily rental property has had its share of plan changes — even a parking plan so secret that developer David Corneal’s attorney, Ellen Avery Smith, could not share it publicly at the last city commission meeting.

Today, Education Commissioner Pam Stewart presented St. Johns River State College President Joe Pickens with a check for nearly $22,000 to benefit first-generation students and students pursuing careers in the critical field of health care and Historic City News was there.