HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Historic City News has been published daily since March 2000. Reporting local news for St Augustine and St Johns County Florida, Historic City News is the county's only free press. Our mission is to hold public figures accountable to the public.
On Wednesday November 21st, when St Johns County Sheriff David Shoar called a make-shift, 27-minute press conference in his private office, inviting reporters he felt would be sympathetic to his predicament, he talked about how his Director of Finance, Raye A. Brutnell, was a “good person”, and, when asked, he said, “From everything I know remorseful to look like, yes. She was remorseful.”
Solid waste collection schedule changed for December 25-26 only
Offices for the City of St. Augustine will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, December 25 and 26, and on Monday and Tuesday, December 31 and January 1, in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays.
Carl Edward (Bud) Markel passed away December 19, 2018, with family members at his side. He was born in Hillsboro, Illinois on February 1, 1935.
Yesterday, the State Board of Education reported to Historic City News that former Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran was unanimously appointed to serve as Florida’s next Commissioner of Education during the State Board of Education meeting in Tallahassee.
The Seventh Judicial Circuit reported to Historic City News that they have welcomed two new Circuit Judges and announced changes to judicial assignments for several sitting judges.
Historic City News learned Wednesday that suspended St. Augustine Planning and Zoning Board member Deltra L. Long has entered a guilty plea to felony charges of making a false property damage claim to the federal government.
The delay in commencing tonight’s regular meeting of the St Augustine City Commission is due to its special purpose. Under the city’s charter, the first meeting in December following a November General Election is called for 7:30 p.m. at which time alternating commission seats and the next mayor are installed.
George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday, November 30th. He was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, and lived to be 94-years-old. He grew up with the New England elite, a world of prep schools, mansions and servants seemingly untouched by the Great Depression. His father, Prescott Bush, the son of an Ohio steel magnate, made his fortune as an investment banker and later served 10-years as a senator from Connecticut.