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Guest Column: Time to break from tradition

Guest Column: Time to break from tradition Michael Isam St Augustine, FL It is not quite 10:00 am, and the sun has been warming a spot just for you. “Hurry up and wait” has been the order of the day. An hour spent just waiting for all the color guards to arrive and take their…

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Guest column: Peer pressure not more regulations

Everyone has seen them, the recreational boats that have three smokers aboard going out for a day of beer and fishing. Upon return, there are no empty beverage containers, cigarette butts, or single use plastic bags.

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Editorial: In the name of the 450th

Certain members of the City of St Augustine staff, and some of its elected commissioners, have increasingly taken heat from the public about what, exactly, we taxpayers have to show for the hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars that have been thrown at what should have been a simple, economically realistic anniversary week, or…

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Guest Column: City has tools to protect history

Robert Hall has long been crusading to “get a handle on what will be allowed in St Augustine’s HP (Historic Preservation) districts.”

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Ed Slavin Historical Park, Greenway and Coastal Trail

A bill filed in the state legislature in September of last year, approved by the House and Senate in the last session, and then signed by Governor Scott on Friday, will allow the naming and sponsorship of state greenways and trails — so maybe the “Ed Slavin Historical Park, Greenway and Coastal Trail” is in…

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Guest Column: Vehicle Safety Issues

Vehicle Safety Issues David B. Shoar St. Johns County Sheriff Back in the 1960’s and 1970’s motorists in Florida were required to have their vehicles inspected annually; however, as the state grew, it proved to be time consuming and motorists found themselves waiting in long lines to get their car or truck checked.

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City should not compete with private businesses

At the next meeting of the St Augustine City Commission, the same spendthrifts that brought you the First America Foundation, that conceived the skateboard park on Anastasia Island and purchased the M & M Market in Lincolnville, will decide if they should evict an attraction operator and demolish the oldest miniature golf course in Florida.

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Editorial: Pick a visitor center – any visitor center

Historic City News notes that we are anything but lacking in visitor centers these days; for years the Visitor Information Center, owned by the City of St Augustine and one-time home to the Chamber of Commerce was it.

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