Dear Editor:

Today I was serving food to the homeless in the driveway where people pay their water bill.

For four years, Benjamin A. Rich, a former federal agent, served a term on the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners while Historic City News local reporters documented his somewhat bizarre behavior, heavy-handedness, flamboyant attire, and kooky, crackpot sense of logic.

Despite the reference in the film “National Treasure” to Ben Franklin first proposing the idea of Daylight Savings Time – one of the many historical inaccuracies in that immensely fun but flawed film – the idea goes back to ancient civilizations who were apparently a lot more flexible in how they kept time than we are.

St. Augustine’s City Commission is about to be reconstituted in its meeting December 6th, and, although the faces substantially will remain the same, if the “old commission”, including Don Crichlow, approves the issue of Capital Improvement Revenue Bonds, the “new commission”, including freshman commissioner Bill Leary, will get to say how that money is to be used.

Dear Editor:

I appreciate this opportunity to thank everyone for their support.

Dear Editor:

On behalf of the Board of the Republican Executive Committee of St. Johns County, we would like to extend our congratulations to the following Republicans for their victories in Tuesday’s election.

Re-election Rewards Mayor’s Actions Against Targeted Citizens

While other incumbent politicians across America were being turned out to pasture from all levels of government for abuse of power, St. Augustine re-elected Mayor Joe Boles in a landslide.

Dear Editor:

Now that the elections are over, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of our readers who patiently put up with the obligatory political advertising in Historic City News — afterall, we have to pay the bills around here and we are funded solely from advertising revenue.