Flagler Beach held its first St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, after Palm Coast’s Irish Social Club could no longer hold its parade down Old Kings Road. A few pictures from the event.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 21
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 21: Sword Exercise; Hamlet’s Soliloquy; They Loafed Around Town; A Lazy Town; Old Boggs; Dead; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Murder-Suicide Shakes Community on Barkwood Lane in Northern Palm Coast
A middle-aged couple was found dead in their home on Barkwood Lane, off of Belle Terre Parkway, late Sunday afternoon. A shotgun was found at the scene next to the man.
Florida’s Deficit Grows by $135 Million, To $3.75 Billion, As Growth Remains Anemic
State revenue forecasters essentially tacked about $135 million dollars onto a budget shortfall that already stood at $3.62 billion, forcing lawmakers to consider deeper cuts as they craft a spending plan for the budget year that begins July 1.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 20
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 20: Huck Explains; Laying Out a Campaign; Working the Camp; meeting; A
Pirate at the Camp-meeting; The Duke as a Printer; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 19
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 19: Tying Up Day-times; An Astronomical Theory; Running a Temperance
Revival; The Duke of Bridgewater; The Troubles of Royalty; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Pier Restaurant Lease Hobbling Again As DEP Rejects Permitting a New Deck
Flagler Beach was going to pay for and build the $50,000 deck as a concession to potential restaurant owner Ray Barshay. Until DEP’s decision, Barshay and the city were very close to a long-term, deal.
Brush Fire at Yacht Harbor Village Is Quickly Contained
The fire broke out across a home on Harbor Village Point in the Yacht Harbor gated community on the Intracoastal side of State Road A1A.
Digital Video Awards’ 73 Contestants Spotlight School District’s Click on Technology
Computer-generated art, podcasts, digital photography and more: A complete list of contestants and winners from the second annual Flagler Digital Media Awards, held Friday at the Flagler Auditorium.
Economic Development Set Punts Again to More Meetings, Postponing Hard Questions
The same five “strategic goals” were hashed over again in the third day of an economic development summit, and a fourth was scheduled in May, for yet another $7,000 for “facilitator” Don Upton, bringing his tax-funded total to $30,000.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 18
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 18: Col. Grangerford; Aristocracy; Feuds; The Testament; Recovering the
Raft; The Wood-pile; Pork and Cabbage; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Military Training Likely Source of Morning Rattling or Minor Temblor in Flagler
Emergency services don’t know why roofs, windows and perhaps the ground shook at around 9:30 a.m. this morning in eastern Flagler County, from the Hammock to Bunnell. Authorities are still investigating.
Bipolar Obamocracy:
Bombing Libya While Invading Bahrain
Barack Obama didn’t deserve the Nobel peace prize a few months into his first term. He deserves it less now. But Obama and Clinton certainly deserve the Nobel prize in physics for reinventing the rules of double-standards.
Bullying of Gay Student at FPC Leads to Teacher’s Public Apology and Policy Change
FPC shop teacher Floyd Binkley made gay jokes in front of his students. A gay 9th grader in his class, who’d been repeatedly bullied by others outside of class, took the jokes as an offense directed at him.
Reader’s Digest Sweepstakes Scam in Flagler: Be On The Alert
Readers Digest claims you’ve won. You get a check then get asked to call somewhere to “activate” the check. It’s a scam to get your financial information. Don’t fall for it.
Census 2010: Flagler’s Population Climbs to 95,696, Florida’s to 18.8 Million
Flagler County’s population increased 92 percent since 2000. Florida’s population is 18.8 million, up 17.7 percent from a population of 16 million a decade ago.
Florida Lockups Lite: Closing Prisons and Boot Camps, Privatizing Inmate Healthcare
The Department of Corrections plans to close three prisons and two boot camps, a bill would privatize inmate health care and cut top salaries 5 percent while ending numerous positions.
Just in Case: How Flagler County Firefighters Prepare for Japan-Like Catastrophes
Operation Integration, held at Camp Blanding near Starke once a year, gathers dozens of first responders, members of the National Guard and others for training in mass-casualty catastrophes. Flagler County firefighters took part for the first time this year.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 17
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 17: An Evening Call; The Farm in Arkansaw; Interior Decorations; Stephen
Dowling Bots; Poetical Effusions; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Teacher Tenure Out, Merit Pay In: Legislature Whips First Bill of 2011 to Gov. Scott
The Legislature passed the biggest change to the state’s education system in more than 10 years, sending to Gov. Rick Scott a bill tying teacher salaries to test scores and ending multi-year contracts.
Cancel This Subscription: Palm Coast Data Revenue Plummets Another 21% in 3Q
Palm Coast Data revenue fell $15.7 million in the last nine months, compared with the same period a year earlier as trouble for the company and its parent, Amrep, continue.
Alcohol, Molotov Cocktail, Machete, Taser: Mondex Man in Jail for Assaulting Deputies
Rafael Rodriguez, 25, is in jail after brandishing a machete as he walked with an unleashed dog toward sheriff’s deputies. He’d allegedly thrown a Molotov cocktail on a Mondex road earlier.
Reversing Bad Run, Flagler Auditorium Scores $5,000 Grant from Tourist Council
After losing out on at least $15,000 for various reasons, the Flagler Auditorium managed to eke out $5,000 from the Tourist Development Council, a small but significant financial boost to a budget of over half a million dollars.
School Board Member Salaries By County, 2010-2011
Complete list of Florida school board members’ salaries, county by county, as set by state law. Salaries are set by population–or according to the starting pay of a teacher, whichever is less.
Youth Center II: Carver Gym Rises Again As School District Takes Over Management
South Bunnell’s Carver Gym, no longer on the endangered list, will be run like the Youth Center on FPC’s campus: with money from the county–and other sources–and staffing from the school district, along with new controls and programming.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 16
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 16: Expectation; A White Lie; Floating Currency; Running by Cairo; Swimming Ashore; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Throngs Voice Opposition as School Board Endorses Cuts With Sweeping Consequences
The board voted 4-1 to approve recommended cuts that would reduce middle and high school days by one period, among other cuts totaling $3.5 million. The proposal must be approved by employee unions before it goes into effect.
Theatrical Premieres and a Unique View of the White House: Culture Worth the Miles
A new comedy about five would-be actors at the Mad Cow Theater, “Greater Tuna,” the critically acclaimed comedy, at the Garden Theatre in Winter Garden, “Charm” at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, and more.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 15
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 15: Huck Loses the Raft; In the Fog; Huck Finds the Raft; Trash; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Disaster Ready? 5 Nuclear Reactors in Florida, 3 Of Them Within 180 Miles of Palm Coast
Progress Energy’s Crystal River Plant in west Florida is exactly the same distance–140 miles–separating Tokyo from the exploding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Two reactors in Jensen Beach are 180 miles south.
Two Alumni of Flagler Beach Follies Make City Manager Shortlist in Diminutive Polk City
Caryn Miller, the former Flagler Beach Community Redevelopment Agency director, and Scott Janke, whose wife’s porn-star flicks cost him a job and subsequent candidacies, are candidates for Polk City’s $60,000-a-year job.
Citing Cost and Turnout, Palm Coast Approves Voting and Election-Cycle Changes
Early voting will last two weeks and be held at the public library in Palm Coast rather than in Bunnell, but voting locations are reduced to six. Voters will be asked to approve a referendum moving elections to even years.
Florida Abortion Public Funding Ban Would Extend to Reform’s Health Insurance Exchange
Measures that would bar public money from subsidizing abortion coverage in Florida in nearly all cases passed a Senate panel on Monday. The ban would extend to the health-insurance exchange that will be set up by 2014 as part of health care reform.
King Scott’s Nepotism, Tsunami Creeps, Kerouac Dreams, A Flash Mob in Beirut: The Live Wire
Why Bob Graham fears Rick Scott, the new pessimism in American culture, Bahrain imports repression, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, dental floss imports, and more.
Sex-Ed in Flagler: School District Prepares to Move Away from Abstinence Only
Flagler’s sex-ed curriculum is abstinence only. But it’s barely taught and it appears not to address rising STD rates, though Flagler’s teen-pregnancy rate is lower than that of Florida or the United States. School board members are exploring a change.
Flagler County at the Heart of a Mortgage Fraud Investigation That Nets 11 Arrests, $9m Losses
Eighteen of the 23 homes at the heart of the fraud scheme were in Flagler County as fraudsters focused their attention here because it was out of the way. The scheme totaled some $9 million in losses, mostly to banks.
“In the Mood” Tonight at the Auditorium: 1940s’ Swing, Romance and a Simpler Age
String of Pearls brings its swing, jazz and other big band sounds and dance of the 1940s to the Flagler Auditorium for one performance March 14, recalling what Woody Allen called “a more charming time and a better time.”
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 14
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 14: A General Good Time; The Harem; French; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Palm Coast Voter to City Council: “Reducing Voting Locations Is Insane”
In a letter to the Palm Coast City Council, Steven Jones, a Palm Coast resident and voter since 1984, opposes reducing polling locations from 21 to six, and offshoring early voting to Bunnell.
Palm Coast City Election: Reducing Polling Locations, Changing to Even Years
Polling locations would be reduced from 21 to six, early voting might be reduced to a week, and voters will be asked to approve a charter amendment that would switch elections to even years, to save money and take advantage of turn-out.
Flagler Beach Police Officer Brett Smith Jailed on DUI Charge (Updated With Arrest Report)
Brett Smith, 30, was found passed out in a vehicle in the Daytona North (Mondex) area of the county Saturday evening. He was not on duty.
Sunshine Sunday: Beyond Transparency, Government Records Must Be Accessible
Government transparency and access to government records are not the same, says First Amendment Foundation President Barbara Peterson, though access to any record not exempt by law is every citizen’s right.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 13
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Flagler Reads Together, FlaglerLive is serializing Huckleberry Finn, this year’s book. Here’s Chapter 13: Escaping from the Wreck; The Watchman; Sinking; With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations.
Humane Safari: Alms for the Paw Opening At the Flagler County Art League
The Flagler County Art League’s “Alms for the Paw” show, featuring 40 artists and 60 works, is part fund-raiser for the Flagler County Humane Society, part showcase for animal art: it’s not as easy as you may think.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 42-43
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 42-43, full text, With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations: Tom Sawyer Wounded.—The Doctor’s Story.—Tom Confesses.—Aunt Polly Arrives.—Hand Out Them Letters– Out of Bondage.—Paying the Captive.—Yours Truly, Huck Finn.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 41
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 41, full text, With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations: The Doctor.—Uncle Silas.—Sister Hotchkiss.—Aunt Sally in Trouble.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 40
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 40, full text, With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations: Fishing.—The Vigilance Committee.—A Lively Run.—Jim Advises a Doctor.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 39
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 39, full text, With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations: Rats.—Lively Bed—fellows.—The Straw Dummy.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 38
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 38, full text, With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations: The Coat of Arms.—A Skilled Superintendent.—Unpleasant Glory.—A Tearful Subject.
Flagler Reads Together: Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 37
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 37, full text, With E.W. Kemble’s original illustrations: The Last Shirt.—Mooning Around.—Sailing Orders.—The Witch Pie.