Florida Department of Environmental Protection reported to Historic City News that Secretary Herschel T. Vinyard Jr. joined more than 365 community members for Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve’s National Estuaries Day celebration, “FAMILY EcoMENTALITY”.

The tragedy of September 2, 2010, ending in the death of Michelle O’Connell, one month short of her 25th birthday, tugs at the heartstrings of friends and family members who knew her and cannot believe the law enforcement and criminal justice community’s determination that she took her own life.