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Ten Flagler Churches, Almost as Many Denominations, One Big Unity Celebration Jan. 22

January 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Following up on last year’s celebration across denomination, the Second Flagler Churches Together in Prayer and Song brings together 10 congregations at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton on Jan. 22.

Palm Coast “Joy Ride” Draws Far Fewer Participants Than Anticipated

January 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Palm Coast’s “joy ride,” rescheduled to Saturday after its December cancellation, drew about 80 biking enthusiasts, and interviews for a potential BMX reality show drew a dozen or two prospective local actors.

Flagler Road Fatalities Rise in 2010 Following Holiday Surge; Florida’s Lowest Since 1978

January 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In Flagler County, 23 people lost their lives in wrecks in 2010, more than the 16 in 2009 but less than the 31 deaths recorded in 2008. Florida had its seemingly safest road year since 1978, according to preliminary numbers.

FPL’s Bogus $1.25 Billion Rate Increase: Ex-PSC Commissioner Nathan Skop Tells All

January 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Florida Public Service Commission was right to turn down all but million of FPL’s rate-increase request last year, former commissioner Nathan Skop says

Tuscon Shooting Rhetoric, Internet’s Gains on TV & Print, Barkley vs. Carlson: The Live Wire, Jan. 10

January 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In defense of inflamed rhetoric following the Gabrielle Gifford assassination attempt, the craziness of the Crazy Horse monument in South Dakota, Earth’s 10 billion souls, a short film inspired by Kafka, and more.

23 Panthers Killed in Florida in 2010, 16 of Them by Vehicles

January 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The endangered Florida panther numbers less than 200 animals in South Florida. Every year, in rising numbers, 12 to 17 panthers are killed on Florida roads. Yet the panther population may be increasing.

Craving Art? Garren, Graham, Cerreta and More Dish It Out: 3 Local Galleries, 3 New Shows

January 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

No lack of art: Beth Garren, JJ Graham, Peter Cerreta and some 40 other artists show new work at Hollingsworth Gallery and the Flagler County Art League in Palm Coast, and at the Gallery of Local Art (GOLA) in Flagler Beach.

Bunnell’s Armando Martinez: Cop or City Manager? Constitution Says Choose One

January 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

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Martinez is city manager and public safety director, at an extra cost of $11,000 to taxpayers. Yet the state constitution is clear: “No person shall hold at the same time more than one office under the government of the state and the counties and municipalities therein.”

County Commissioners Trip Into “Inadvertent” Sunshine Violations Through Emails

January 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

County administrator Craig Coffey solicited feedback from commissioners on an economic development document he was preparing. Two commissioners copied their replies to fellow-commissioners, a violation of the sunshine law.

Silver Alert for Walter Thomas Fults, 81, Driving a White Nissan Sentra

January 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has issued a Silver Alert for Thomas Fuilts, 81, of Palm Coast, driving a white, four-door Nissan Sentra, tag number L382SZ.

U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls to 9.4%, But Underlying Improvement Is Limited

January 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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The economy added 103,000 jobs in December, but the falling unemployment rate masks persistently bad numbers for the long-term unemployed, including 2.6 million workers no longer counted in the unemployment rate.

Flagler Sheriff Bans Inmates From Writing Or Receiving Personal Mail Other Than Postcards

January 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Citing savings and security, the sheriff is banning non-postcard correspondence beginning Jan. 15. The ban costs inmates money and chills their speech, a federal lawsuit filed over a similar policy in Santa Rosa County charges.

On Point: Color Splash from Hollingsworth To the Art League

January 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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On Point with Charlotte Marten recaps the week’s main events and in a special report, previews two new shows opening at Palm Coast’s art galleries: Daytona Beach artist Beth Garren at Hollingsworth Gallery, where Garren’s work will be shown with that of JJ Graham, and “Color Splash” at the Flagler County Art League.

9.5-Inch Rain Deficit at Year’s End, Falling Aquifer: Hydrologic Summary for July-December

January 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The latest bi-annual report on water conditions in the region: a severe drought netting a 9.52-inch deficit at year’s end, lower flows on the St. Johns, and a still-declining aquifer.

Nine Ways Health Care Reform
May Affect You in 2011 BB (Before Boehner)

January 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Lower prescription costs for seniors, calorie counters in restaurant menus, higher Medicare premiums, more restrictions on health savings accounts: some of the changes you can expect this year, and more.

FPC Bulldogs’ Big Win, Foreclosure Bandits, John McCain’s Crankiness: The Live Wire, Jan. 6

January 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The FPC Bulldogs basketball team beats Mainland at Mainland, how the recession smashed up state budgets, the war on journalists, Facebook vs. Twitter, a look at Damascus and Jerusalem in 1938, and more.

FPC Graduate Kristen Hadeed’s Student Maid Co. Tapped for ABC TV’s “Extreme Makeover”

January 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Kristen Hadeed, a 2006 FPC graduate, built Student Maid, a Gainesville-based cleaning service, from scratch in the last two years. A crew of 30 will donate its time to ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” shoot in Clay County later this month.

Edouard Manet: “Olympia” (1863)

January 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Edouart Manet’s “Olympia” (1863)

Between Authority and Authoritarianism: Conklin and Pryor Clash Over Principal Power

January 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

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The school board is debating a new policy and procedure controlling the staging of controversial plays. Matanzas Principal Chris Pryor doesn’t want to be “second-guessed.” Board member Conklin doesn’t want unilateral decision-making.

Rick Scott’s Forgettable Inaugural, a GOP Welcome, JailinG girls for Men’s Crimes: The Live Wire, Jan. 5

January 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Also, David Brooks as the Babbitt of Bobos, Oprah’s fake love of Dickens, the wussification of America, the importance of analytical reporting, and more.

A Cabaret in Winter Park, Bryce Hammond Returns to New Smyrna: Culture Worth the Miles

January 4, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Artist Bryce Hammond returns to his native New Smyrna’s Arts on Douglas Gallery, Heather Alexander is Born to Entertain at the Winter Park Playhouse, brash talent at the he Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park and the Toronto Symphony.

For Jobless Flagler, 3 Economic Development Plans But Little Direction or Unity

January 4, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

As joblessness persists in Flagler County, local governments want to increase their role in economic development, but there’s no agreement about who would lead, and how.

News-Journal Circulation Plummets 10% in First 6 Months Under New Ownership

January 4, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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The News-Journal circulation has fallen by more than 41,000 copies, or 39 percent since 2005 though its recent, accelerating decline is far steeper than losses the newspaper industry is experiencing across the country.

Florida Corruptions, Grayson’s Farewell, Disney’s Mammoth: The Live Wire, Jan. 4

January 4, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Florida’s foreclosure mediation is less than advertised, Scalia has weird ideas on equal protection, Chinese breast stimulators are very funny, going from birth to 10 in a time-lapse video, and more.

Georgia Aquarium Buys Marineland’s Dolphin Attraction and Takes It Off the Tax Rolls

January 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The $9.1 million acquisition from Jim Jacoby–who bought the Marineland attraction in 2001 for $1.9 million–took place just before the New Year. It’ll be run as a non-profit, so Marineland as a town will lose a third of its tax revenue.

Revels Plan Would Resurrect Carver Gym—If It Can Surmount Buck-Passing

January 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The county and the school board appear ready to commit their recurring share of Carver Gym’s annual bill. Bunnell, where the gym is located, and other groups are either less committed or less certain about their capabilities.

Extreme Drought Conditions Prompt Flagler To Extend State of Emergency Indefinitely

January 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Flagler County is among a handful of regions in the United States facing extreme drought conditions. The burn ban is designed to stem what could be an active and dangerous wildfire season, starting much earlier than normal.

School Uniforms in Alachua, Rick Scott’s 70s Nostalgia, Junk-Touching Diagrammed: The Live Wire, Jan. 3

January 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Also, a Florida appeals court throws out a conviction against pill pushers, Shel Silverstein reads the Giving Tree, a Christmas rewind from the Flagler Fire Department and more.

From DuPont to ITT: A Century of Marketing Flagler County to Northern Chill Migrants

January 2, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Marketing Flagler County: Sisco Deen tells the story of the DuPont Land Co.’s — and other development companies’ — marketing schemes to get northerners to buy in Flagler County, long before ITT industrialized the process.

Happy 2011! A Year-End Report from FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam

January 1, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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A summary of FlaglerLive’s first seven months: some explanation about how we grew to 3,200 visits a day and some speculation as to why, and a look back at the site’s highlights, accomplishments and limitations.

Bleeding Dangers: Has Your Dialysis Clinic Been Inspected Lately? Not Likely

December 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The United States spends $20 billion a year to care for some 400,000 Americans who rely on chronic dialysis to live. Inspection rates vary from higher than 40 percent per year in some states to lower than 10 percent in others.

Your New Year’s Resolutions
–and How To Keep Them

December 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Besides the week’s somewhat fiery highlights (a shooting and a couple of fires) Charlotte Marten asks a few people around town what their New Year resolutions are, and how they intend to keep them.

Flagler Lays Off Sex as Births Fall For First Time in 16 Years; Deaths Also Dip

December 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Flagler County’s old norms keep dying. Used to be that property values never fell. And for more than two decades, they didn’t. They only increased. That changed in 2008, when they fell 8.5 percent, and kept falling more steeply the next two years. Values are set to fall again next year, if the last six […]

Floridians, Start Your Orwells: Rick Scott’s Buzzword-Assault on State Health Care

December 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Judging from a 68-page transition team report, Rick Scott will seek to accelerate privatization of state health services. He has a willing audience among business-friendly Republican legislative leaders.

Christmas Eve Shooting Update: Victim, With Long Rap Sheet, Had Just Posted Bond

December 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Christian Grasso, the 28-year-old victim of a shooting on a Flagler Beach street on Christmas eve, has been in and out of jail almost a dozen times in Flagler and Volusia counties since 2005.

Fire Demolishes Half a House on Forsythe; Oxygen Mask for 10-Year-Old Cat

December 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The fire at 104 Forsythe Ln. off of Old Kings Road in North Palm Coast was called in by a neighbor. Neither owner was home. But two dogs and a cat were.

Shooting Shatters Christmas Eve Calm in Flagler Beach; Suspect Still at Large

December 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

One man was shot at 8:50 p.m. Friday, leaving a pool of blood in the middle of the street on South Central Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets. Police had no information regarding motives. The shooter got away.

Christmas Rescue: Flagler Beach Firemen Save Knocked-Out Veteran From Blazing Home

December 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The fire started on the bed in the bedroom of the unit at The Village. Somehow, Old Glory escaped with only a few scrapes. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach Fire Department’s Scott Jackson and Alex Wilhite pulled unconscious 44-year-old Roy Davis out of his burning home at The Village apartments Thursday morning. Includes photo gallery.

Negotiations Over New Pier Restaurant Lease Crawl Between Nods and Deal-Breakers

December 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A marathon negotiating session over a new Pier Restaurant lease between the Flagler Beach City Commission and restaurateur Raymond Barshay left several issues unsettled.

The Week’s Highlights: FlaglerLive’s Video Recap

December 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

On Point reviews the week’s main events, including new and surprising Census numbers for Palm Coast and Flagler County, Flagler Beach’s attempt to find a new tenant for the Pier Restaurant, and more.

Open Field: Ron Vath and Joy McGrew Will Not Run Again for Flagler Beach Commission

December 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

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Between them Vath and McGrew had 15 years’ experience on the city commission. McGrew was also the commission’s most influential swing voter. Their departure will likely invite a large field of candidates.

Florida Bulks Up, FCAT Hype, Adam Putnam’s Bosses, Eclipse Toons: The Live Wire, Dec. 22

December 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Also, graphing your own Census, Medicare’s therapy fraud express, the Smithsonian’s new culture wars, buzzrords of 2010, F. Scott Fitzgerald reading Keats, and more.

Culture for the Visiting In-Laws

December 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

© Josh Garrick, from the exhibit of his photographs at the Peabody Auditorium.

Arts columnist Josh Garrick saves the day with a list of suggestions, should you find yourself stuck with in-laws (or any extended family) and the perennial question: “What else is there to see?”

How Sheriff Fleming and FDLE Are Manipulating Press and Public Over Pill Mills

December 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Sheriff Don Fleming on Tuesday led one of of three simultaneous news conferences on prescription-drug related arrests in 10 northeast Florida counties. It was more hype than news, much of it recycled.

Two Wrecks in 18-Hour Span on Flagler Roads Send 3 to Hospital in Critical Condition

December 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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Jessica Vides, a 2005 FPC graduate, and–separately–Joseph Edward O’Guin and Cacilia Carter of Bunnell, were critically injured victims of the wrecks–one on US1 and CR13, one on Colbert Lane in Palm Coast.

Greasy Spoon No More? Flagler Beach Ready to Negotiate New Lease for Pier Restaurant

December 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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A year of indecision later, Flagler Beach city commissioners will discuss a 31-year lease with Ormond Beach restaurant owner Raymond Barshay at a special meeting of the commission on Dec. 22.

Ready for Prime Time: Back Home at FPC, IB Conquerors Claim Their Diplomas

December 20, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Living to tell the tale: from left, Anthony deAugustino, Devin Johnson, Mia Pagliaricci, Jordan Bryant, confessing to the greatness of the International Baccalaureate program to Roger Tangney. (© FlaglerLive)

A majority of Flagler Palm Coast High School’s IB class of 2010–32 students, all of them now in college–returned on Monday afternoon for their diploma ceremony, an occasion small in numbers but oversize in achievements.

FPC at EPCOT, George Hanns as Burt Reynolds, a Lunar Eclipse and Tiger’s Sex: The Live Wire, Dec. 20

December 20, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Your police state (and local police agencies) on steroids, how Facebook is more dangerous to soldiers than Wikileaks, WNZF soars higher, when China overtakes America, and more.

Julian Assange’s Greatest Leak: Americans Prefer Their Government Mostly Masked

December 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The case against Julian Assange and Wikileaks is nonexistent, Darrell Smith argues in a column. What case has been built against him unravels the false claim that Americans prefer their government to be transparent.

All Eyes on Pensacola Federal Judge Roger Vinson as Health Reform Faces Its Next Bug

December 17, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Pensacola-based federal District Judge Roger Vinson will be ruling soon on the constitutionality of Obama’s health care reform. He’s likely to rule it unconstitutional, further weakening the law’s legitimacy as it moves toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

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