Traditions older than the Nation’s Oldest City
By Michael Isam
Special to Historic City News
There is a truth that traces its roots to the first trained armies. Soldiers do as soldiers have learned. Carry out your objective quickly, completely, and with as few casualties as possible.
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With Florida continuing to suffer at the hands of HIV, having one of the highest rates of infection in the United States, and some counties being hit particularly hard by an increasing amount of cases, Historic City News has found that, generally, the rate of new cases in St Johns County has been one of the lowest in the state.
Forty years ago on January 23, 1974, in broad daylight, during a savage and incredibly brutal act in one of the city’s most established neighborhoods, Athalia Ponsell Lindsley, the estranged wife of St Augustine mayor James Lindsley, was hacked to death with a sharp machete — a horrifying murder which haunts the community to this day.
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
