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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Community Redevelopment Agency Announces Workshop for Francis Field Improvement Project
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Thu, Apr 30 at 2:58 PM
April 30, 2026
Community Redevelopment Agency Announces Workshop for Francis Field Improvement Project
Public workshop scheduled for Wednesday, May 13
The City of St. Augustine Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) in collaboration with its consultant, Marquis, Latimer & Halback, Inc., will host a public engagement opportunity for the Historic Area Community Redevelopment Area (HACRA) Francis Field Improvement project on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, from 3:00pm to 7:00pm in The Alcazar Room at City Hall, 75 King Street. Residents, business owners, and stakeholders are invited to attend the workshop to view the design concepts, offer input, and share ideas to improve Francis Field.
The Francis Field project represents a strategic investment in one of St. Augustine’s most active and sought-after event spaces. Home to spring festivals, heritage events, and the Sing Out Loud Festival, the field continues to see growing demand. The Francis Field Improvement project focuses on planning improvements to support expanded use and long-term functionality.
St. Augustine Police Department Patrol Supervisor DARRICK BRANDON EMBREY was arrested for two felonies of making written threats to kill or do bodily injury to his wife and his brother. EMBREY resigned after 25 years with SAPD. The arrest warrant states in that EMBREY sent text message threats to kill or do bodily harm to his wife and his brother. The context of the alleged threats involve a family inheritance dispute. The arrest warrant was signed by Circuit Court Judge Christopher Ferebee. Two surety bonds of $7500 were posted. There are no-contact orders and GPS monitoring requirements. Defense counsel has requested reciprocal discovery. More later.
26000557CFMA - STATE OF FLORIDA vs. EMBREY, DARRICK BRANDON
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace has introduced several documents she says help prove fellow Republican Rep. Cory Mills made false claims about his four-year stint in the U.S. Army.
Mills is a two-term congressman endorsed by President Donald Trump who represents Seminole and part of Volusia County in Florida's 7th District. He has been under fire from a number of fronts, including an ongoing House ethics investigation.
Mace — who has been quarrelling with Mills and pushed for his expulsionfrom Congress in recent weeks — offered the materials into the record during a House Armed Services Committee hearing involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Nancy Mace says Cory Mills' Army colleagues dispute his claims of heroic rescues
The documents, which The News-Journal has not yet seen, include a statement from Mills' first sergeant, "which states his forms and accounts from his military service are falsified," a photo of Mills wearing a Bronze Star in 2019, before he was officially given the medal, and a document detailing his "life-saving" exploits in Iraq in 2003.
"According to the soldiers who were there, they said it never happened," Mace said.
Mace also offered a transcript of a conversation she had with retired Brig. Gen. Arnold N.G. Bray, whose signature is on the Form 638 that Mills had said explains the rationale for his receiving the Bronze Star.
Bray told Mace he did not review, read or sign the Form 638, she said.
"To be candid, I didn't look at it," Mace quoted Bray as saying.
"I just buried my father on Thursday, Mr. Chairman. My father died with shrapnel in his body," Mace said, adding he had served tours of duty in Vietnam.
"I take stolen valor seriously because we have men and women who have given their lives, and an individual that steals the stories of dead soldiers or injured soldiers has no right to serve in this body, let alone on this committee," Mace said.
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