Category: Government

Historic City News was predicting the closest race of the evening last night based on exit polling and feedback from our local readers, and, sure enough when the results in the District 3 race for St Johns County Commission came in, local businessman Paul Waldron was ahead of former Assistant County Administrator Jerry Cameron by…

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Amid a hailstorm of controversy last year when newly elected Mayor Nancy Shaver began her first two-year term in office, all four commissioners balked at the suggestion of an audit of vendor contracts awarded in connection with the 450th Commemoration.

St Johns County voters turned out at six polling locations for the last of eight days of early voting Saturday in the 2016 Primary Election; more than two-thousand ballots were cast.

In recognition of Best Practices in Workforce Excellence, St. Johns County Tax Collector Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC, reported to Historic City News that he has accepted an award at the Florida Excellence Conference in Orlando.

St Johns County Commissioner Bill McClure, now a candidate for Florida’s 4th Congressional District, released the following statement to Historic City News after conducting research into missing campaign signs, mostly in the City of Jacksonville.

Supervisor of Elections for St Johns County, Vicky Oakes, told local Historic City News editor Michael Gold that she is predicting a 32% voter turnout when the ballots are counted Tuesday night at the close of the Primary Election.

Maurice Morissette told members of the St Augustine City Commission tonight that he has been trying to sell the odd-shaped pink building at the corner of Bridge Street and Riberia Street for years; saying that tenant situations have not worked and previous buyers have backed out due to an odor caused by the city’s installation…

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