Category: Editorials

Letter: Managers have duty to check employees

Managers have duty to check employees Durry Garbutt St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: I have attached a seven-page police report exposing criminal activity by persons employed as cleaning subcontractors by two major beach property rental agencies.

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Letter: Don’t need another legacy project

Letter: We don’t need another legacy project Bruce Maguire St Augustine, FL I could not believe what I was hearing — the City Commissioners voted to spend $1.4 million last night on improvements to the VIC and the import of a Picasso Exhibit to St. Augustine.

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Editorial board to interview candidates

Historic City News editor Michael Gold announced that an editorial board will convene on Friday morning, July 20, to interview candidates competing for seats in, or including, St Johns County if their name appears on the upcoming August 24 Primary Election ballot.

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Finding moral courage to make the cuts

According to St Johns County Human Resources, as of May 7, there are 1187 people on the county payroll, excluding employees of the five constitutional officers; and, of those reported, 349 earn $45,000, plus benefits, per year — or more.

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Making the right choice

In an article that appeared on Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group yesterday, Historic City News takes note of a local government official in Vero Beach who had the moral courage, in the words of the late sheriff Neil Perry, “to make the right choice, at the right time, for the right reason”.

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Guest Column: Hurricane Awareness

Guest Column: Hurricane Awareness David B. Shoar St Johns County Sheriff It has been nearly 48 years since a hurricane struck the first coast directly from the east and that hurricane, Hurricane Dora has been the only one to strike from the east since records have been kept dating back to 1851.

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