Category: Editorials

Letter: How to keep 7-Eleven fiasco from repeatedly happening John Valdes St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: The most frustrating meeting of my eight years on the City of St. Augustine Planning and Zoning Board was the day the developer’s attorneys brought a request for permission to remove two trees from the vacant lot at the…

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Guest Column: Help mosquito control keep the county disease-free by Cory ‘Duke’ Mara St Augustine, FL With a new reported case of West Nile Virus earlier this week in Volusia County now is the time to be prepared.

Guest Column: Has anyone noticed it is an election year? Pat Reilly St Augustine, FL I say we should have an election every year.  Just look at all the activity. It reminds me of what you see when you turn the jets on in a Jacuzzi; a whole lot of foam at the top, but…

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Guest Column: Long past time for zoning review John Valdes St Augustine, FL Once again the need for the City of St. Augustine to review its zoning regulations became obvious to me and many others at a recent Planning and Zoning Board meeting, at which a property owner intended to turn the old castle at…

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There has been a lot of posturing over the past year as St Augustine’s 450th Commemoration Department has attempted to justify its existence and avoid further scrutiny of its failed promises of sponsorships, private partnerships, and events worthy of, well, a “celebration on the scale of the Olympics”, I believe the mayor once said.

Letter: Infrastructure expertise needed on city commission Grant Misterly St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: This week, St. Augustine unveiled a proposed five-year capital improvement plan for infrastructure spending that totals $79.6 million! This is significantly more than in past years. For our population of approximately 13,000, that represents over $6,100 per person. With stakes that…

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Revisionist history – it’s not just for tourists As someone who’s spent enough decades living in St Augustine, Ponte Vedra Beach, and St Johns County; I can tell you, for a fact, that for a community that lives or dies by retelling the story of First America, we sure seem to be selling a lot…

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Letter: Attack ads hit new low in county politics Ellen A. Whitmer Fruit Cove, FL Dear Editor: Saint Johns County politics hit a new low when voters received political attack ads against Ron Sanchez.