Category: Editorials

After careful consideration of each candidate’s qualifications for the office, the Historic City News Editorial Review Board has endorsed Lynn Straughan for St Johns County School Board District 5.  Her unwavering dedication to education and extensive experience in social services make her a formidable candidate for the School Board.

Carol AndersonSt Johns, FL At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, the coming primary election on August 20 is crucially important to the healthy future of St Johns County.  And now that all the primaries are closed, Historic City News readers who are registered Republicans will most likely select our elected officials.

When Historic City News reporters read about $400 Million that mysteriously appeared in this year’s proposed state budget, we couldn’t resist trying to sort through the clues about how it all happened. The mystery isn’t where the money would go. The mystery is who wanted it.

Harold K Edgerton, NAACP Past PresidentAsheville, North Carolina Dear Historic City News readers: I am now in my 70’s and old enough to have been called “negro”, then “colored”, then “Afro”, then “black”, and now “African American”. But, when it comes to color, I am simply red, white, and blue. I am a proud American….

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Michael Gold, FounderHISTORIC CITY NEWSSt Augustine, FL This weekend, my high school graduating class celebrated our 50th-year reunion with a Yellow Jackets football game. We stormed past Palatka, to complete a perfect regular season. We also enjoyed a dinner at the St Augustine Shrine Club and a potluck lunch Sunday at Faver Dykes State Park.

Second generation screen actor, Michael Douglas, will speak at the upcoming 2023 American Democracy Summit being held in Los Angeles on September 27th –29th. Historic City News has previously reported on Douglas’ entry into politics since his dad, Kirk Douglas, passed away three years ago.

Historic City News was informed that 73-year-old Sylvia Ann McGinnis Martin of St Augustine, unexpectedly passed away on April 28, 2023, due to an auto accident that also took the life of her husband Jason Martin, and sister Sandra Conners. Her son, Willie Erke, her sister Sally Parmentier, and her parents Arthur and Thelma McGinnis…

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It is with great sadness that Historic City News reports the unexpected passing of Sandra Louise Conners on April 28, 2023. She was born on January 9, 1958, in Rockford, Illinois to Arthur and Thelma McGinnis, and will forever be remembered by her loved ones and those whose lives she touched.