Letter: Historic City News is a vital link between government and people
Teresa H Monson
St. Johns River Water Management District
Dear Historic City News editor:
On behalf of the St. Johns River Water Management District media team, I would like to thank Historic City News for helping share our messages with your readers on issues and projects related to Florida’s water.
Letter: Pier Park and Pavilion giveaway
Merrill Paul Roland, Esq.
St. Johns County, FL
Dear Historic City News editor:
I attended a City of St. Augustine Beach Commission Meeting last night.
Letter: Protest claims flawed process being used at Beach
Dr. Michel S. Pawlowski
St. Augustine Beach, FL 32080
Dear Historic City News readers:
I am submitting a formal protest to the St Augustine Beach city manager, Max Royle and Beverly Raddatz, as well as Mayor Rich O’Brien, and Commissioners George, England, and Kostka, concerning the application process and scheduled interviews to fill the vacancy on the city commission created by the resignation of former commissioner Gary Snodgrass.
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 $35,501 plus benefits.
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 stands in the Plaza de la Constitution.
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 offended.
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.
