Category: Editorials

Peggy HattonSt Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: Attached you will find two pictures of a vagrant that is well known to the St Augustine Police Department. She’s frequently warned and arrested, she’s been repeatedly treated by first responders and transported to Flagler Hospital.

Two days before the first meeting of the St Augustine City Commission this year, before the mayor or any of the other three commissioners had met in the sunshine to discuss the Coquina Avenue Land Grab publicly, Commissioner Leanna Freeman was posting on social media and reaching out by e-mail to ask her followers to…

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Letter: Fix this mistake before it happens Nancy Shaver, MayorCity of St Augustine To the people I serve, Last fall you elected me to a third term as your Mayor, trusting me to lead us in working together to make the City the best it can be. And now, I need your help to make…

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Lee GeanuleasSt Augustine Residents Count Dear Historic City News readers: Remember on January 14, 2019 when Michael Cullum, Public Works Director for the City of St Augustine, told the City Commission that the city “did not have legal access” to the Coquina Creek outfall?

Letter: No more free rent Merrill Paul Roland, Esq.St Johns County, FL Dear Historic City News editor: On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, I requested a copy of the rental agreement or lease for office space between St. Johns County and the “Friends of A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Byway” located at 2175 Mizell Road St….

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Mary Ann and John MorrowCoquina Avenue, St Augustine Dear Historic City News editor: After being away for only a week, we learned on January 15, 2019, that there will be a city park next door to us. How can the city decide this so quickly?

Michael Gold, EditorHISTORIC CITY NEWS I don’t find myself telling judges what to do very often; but, I am hoping that Judge Maltz, or Judge Tinlin, or any of the other judges before whom former St Augustine City Commissioner Errol D. Jones has appeared, will step up and close the revolving door at the St…

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Editorial: Public has right to know the integrity of our sheriff Michael Gold, Editor HISTORIC CITY NEWS St Augustine, FL For more than 60-years, I’ve called St Augustine and St Johns County my home — not by choice, but by the grace of God, I happened to be born here.  I have a deep-rooted interest…

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