Category: Editorials

District 1 – Beverly Slough District 2 – Tommy Allen, Chair District 3 – Bill Mignon, Vice Chair District 4 – Kelly Barrera District 5 – Patrick Canan Jay Bliss St Augustine, FL Florida is one of the minority states that pays elected school board members handsomely, in St Johns County, the base pay is…

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In a letter obtained by Historic City News today, an African-American documentary filmmaker, author, historian, and Leadership St Johns graduate, wrote to St Augustine City Commissioner Todd Neville; calling him out over his accounting of local Black soldiers during the Civil War.  At issue is Neville’s tacit support for removal of the confederate memorial that…

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HK Edgerton Member, Save Southern Heritage –FL Tampa, FL Dear Historic City News editor: I am sick and tired of this same old song and dance about Confederate monuments being offensive. Ron Rawls is reading Morris Dee’s script and I want him and all his cronies to take a lie detector test to prove they’re…

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Doug Russo St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: My support of the Confederate burial memorials is based on my belief in the holy scriptures.

Jerry Smith Ocala, FL Dear Historic City News Editor: It is with great dismay that I am forced to observe this inevitable “march to disown history” and to sully the memories of our ancestors in St Augustine on Saturday evening. It is clearly a misguided (and ultimately fruitless) mission to create discord where none exists.

Letter: How DR Horton treats their buyers after closing Roger D. Carman Jr. St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: D.R. Horton Home Builders built our home and it was completed in February 2016. We closed on the home on February 29th, 2016, and have experienced more problems and issues than anyone should EVER…

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Guest: What’s Being Taught at Flagler College? Lance Thate Chairman St Augustine Tea Party On October 31, 2017, Halloween, a demonstration took place in the historic district of St. Augustine, Florida, at a restaurant known as “The Bunnery”. Both the St. Augustine Record, and Historic City News, reported on this event. From their reports, Flagler…

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The events of Halloween have sure changed my perspective on core values that I have held for as long as I can remember. My parents taught me right-from-wrong, and even in the absence of someone to tell me otherwise, you’d be surprised how easy I have always found it to know the difference.