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Diffusing the Powder Keg: St. Augustine and Chapel Hill
David R. McCallister, ChairmanHeritage Defense CommitteeSons of Confederate Veterans, Florida Division Dear Historic City News Editor, In light of the recent events…
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Employing heuristics to marginalize local candidates
Michael Gold, EditorHistoric City News News writers, I refuse to call them "journalists", are constantly writing, editing, then re-writing their articles to…
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Letter: All candidates with “R” after their name are not Republican
Andrea L. Anthony, CPA, CDFA® Former Director, Ponte Vedra Republican Club Former Vice Chair SJC Republican Executive Committee Former Treasurer SJC Republican…
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#WalkAway
"The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement," founder Brandon Starka tells Historic City News. "It is a video campaign movement, dedicated…
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Letter: Proud to release Gullah Geechee film through Historic City News
Letter: Proud to release Gullah Geechee film through Historic City News Derek Boyd HankersonProducer and DirectorSt Augustine, FL Beatrice-Boyd Productions is proud…
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Hope in the midst of rural America’s opioids crisis
Hope in the midst of rural America’s opioids crisis
By Sydney Gruters
Special to Historic City News
Opioid misuse seems to be a topic on the minds and in the hearts of so many Americans these days. Most of us know someone who has been personally affected by this horrific epidemic. Rural America is being hit especially hard.
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Letter: Proposed contextualization is intentionally misleading
Letter: Proposed contextualization is intentionally misleading
Gregory C. White
St Augustine, FL
Dear Historic City News editor:
How does a simple monument erected with private funds raised by the citizens of St. Augustine to memorialize its local dead just a few years after the bloodiest war in American history, have to do with white supremacy? It doesn’t!
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Remembering before we had lions, but we still had a restaurant on the bay
Wolfgang Schau, the man who the city allowed to donate a pair of lion statues for the east side of the Bridge of Lions, owns a catamaran. It is a beautiful sailing vessel and I am sure that he and his family find it easy to navigate in and out of our historic channel when they want to have some fun on the water. After all, he keeps it tied to a mooring ball owned by the city — but not just any mooring ball.