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Flagler Beach Commission Gives City Manager William Whitson A Mediocre Evaluation, and a Few Pointers

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson with his one true champion on the commission, Jane Mealy, last February, just before Whitson's tenure ran into a series of difficulties. (© FlaglerLive)

As an evaluation for the chief executive of a local government, that of City Manager William Whitson, his first since his arrival here in May 2021, is not a triumph. It evokes words like middling, mediocre, passable, decent, tolerable. In the exact words of the evaluations themselves, they average out to the low end of “Meets the Job Standards.”

False Active Shooter Alarm Triggers Massive Response at Matanzas High School

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A Flagler County Sheriff's deputy, long gun drawn, running toward the campus this morning, at the beginning of the emergency. (© FlaglerLive)

Matanzas High School went into lockdown, deputies swarmed toward the school, as did rescues, shortly after 11 this morning when a signal intended to alarm the school to the presence of an active shooter or assailant went off.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, August 18, 2022

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

B.J. Wood's cartoon for the Augusta Press, reprinted with permission.

More theorizing about Joe Mulins’s amazing technicolor drug bust on Drug Court day before Circuit Judge Perkins, a few words from Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses.

Easy Access to Guns Contributes to America’s Youth Suicide Problem

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Between 2011 and 2020, the most recent decade for which data is available, 14,763 children ages 5-17 died by suicide in the U.S. – a rate of approximately four deaths every day. Over 40% of these suicides involved a firearm. The great majority of guns involved in youth suicides come from the victim’s home or the home of a relative.

DSC Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Classroom/Lab Building on Deltona Campus

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

An artist’s rendition of Daytona State College Deltona Campus Building Two. (DSC)

The facility, scheduled to open in Spring 2024, will be home to the college’s nursing, sonography and high-tech CNC Machining programs, supporting up to 120 nursing students, up to 40 CNC training students and up to 100 students in a new sonography program.

In Latest Attack on Students, All LGBTQ Support Documents Are Ordered Out of Florida Schools

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A demonstration on behalf of LGBTQ students and rights outside Flagler Palm Coast High School last March. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. on Wednesday gave his staff the go-ahead to “pull” LGBTQ support documents at all school districts, after a State Board of Education member asserted that some could violate a controversial new law.

Flagler Beach Rotary Will Host Wellness Retreat to Benefit Project Share

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach is pleased to announce that the club will host a Good Health for Life Wellness Retreat to benefit Project Share on Saturday, October 15, 2022, from 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Rotary’s Project Share, now in its 24th year, provides Christmas toys for more than 1000 children annually.

School Board’s Massaro and Conklin Denounce Woolbright ‘s ‘Disgusting and Despicable’ Zealotry

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

"I am a lifelong Republican," Cheryl Massaro said, "but I'm a moderate." (© FlaglerLive)

At the end of Tuesday’s Flagler County School Board meeting, Cheryl Massaro and Colleen Conklin, without naming her, sharply denounced fellow-Board member Jill Woolbright characterizing them and district staffers as “evil” in one of three campaign speeches she delivered at churches last weekend.

Arming School Staffers on Flagler’s Campuses Raises Questions of Cost, Training and Numbers

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The Flagler County School Board is considering whether to add armed civilians, possibly school staffers, on school campuses, but a workshop on the issue raised almost as many questions as it answered, with numerous issues still undecided–if the board were to go that way. That, too, is uncertain for now.

Goodwill Opens Larger Palm Coast Store, Expecting $35,000 in Business Per Week

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The very first shoppers, followed by a few dozen more crowding in, as Goodwill opened its store on Palm Coast Parkway this morning, following a ribbon-cutting. (© FlaglerLive)

Goodwill’s 16,000 square foot store on Palm Coast Parkway is about 5,000 square feet larger than the previous location. It employs 28 people, is expected to cater to 280 to 300 customers a day and generate $35,000 in sales per week.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, August 17, 2022

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Law And Order Paint Into A Corner by Ed Wexler, CagleCartoons.com

Goodwill opens its newest retail store, the Palm Coast Planning Board takes on three self-storage facilities, Flagler Undercover, a few words about hands, and of course Django Reinhardt.

The GOP’s Embrace of Violent Message-Laundering

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a conservative student summit in Tampa on July 22, 2022.

Just as money laundering enabled mobsters to disguise their ill-gotten gain as the profits of a legitimate business, message laundering presents dishonest and dangerous speech as credible, innocuous or persuasive.

School Board’s Jill Woolbright Says She’s in ‘Satanic Warfare’ Against ‘Evil Spirits’ at School District

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 88 Comments

School Board member Jill Woolbright, flanked by New Way Church Pastor Richard Summerl;in and his wife Kimberly Summerlin during a prayer-endorsement after Woolbright campaigned for seven minutes before the congregation during a service over the weekend.

Flagler County School Board incumbent Jill Woolbright, who is in a non-partisan race against Sally Hunt to be decided in the Aug. 23 election, says God placed her on the school board, that she is involved in “satanic warfare,” and that, in a reference to others on the school board and at the district office, she has “felt the evil spirits around me.”

DeSantis Would Expand Teaching Corps to Retired Cops and Firefighters

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis is teasing legislation that could have retired firefighters fighting fires in classrooms, without teacher certifications. (© FlaglerLive)

DeSantis teased legislation aimed at recruiting to teaching jobs retired law-enforcement officers, emergency-medical technicians, paramedics and firefighters who have bachelor’s degrees. They’d be eligible for $4,000 bonuses and would not have to pay for the state teacher-certification exam.

Woman Who Started Small Fire Outside Larry’s Guns Was Seeking Police Attention

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

An image from the dash cam of a law enforcement officer who drove up to the parking lot of Larry's Guns in Bunnell at 2 a.m. Tuesday, as a woman was burning belongings in front of the store.

Bunnell police is investigating an incident that took place early Tuesday morning in front of Larry’s Guns, the store near the corner of State Road 100 and U.S. 1, as a woman was burning belongings in a small fire she had started. She told police she wanted to catch their attention because her car had broken down.

Sheriff and County Administrator Duel Over Policing Budget Before Commissioners Nod Staly’s Way

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and County Administrator Heidi Petito dueled in front of a standing-room-only meeting room Monday night over the sheriff’s claim that the county was underfunding him, and the county’s counter that it has increased the sheriff’s budget by 48 percent since 2018, not including spending on facilities like the new Sheriff’s Operations center. But in the end, Petito’s bosses showed readiness to go Staly’s way.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, August 16, 2022

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Espionage Act by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council considers Ryan’s Landing, the Flagler County School Board holds a pair of meetings, Food Truck Tuesday, the last day of Elvis Presley.

Why It’s Important to Be Honest About It: Monkey Pox Affects Mainly Gay and Bisexual Men

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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It’s important that people know that sexual and gender minority men are the primary victims of this monkeypox outbreak. This knowledge will help us end the outbreak before it bridges into other communities.

Exorbitant Costs to Save Beaches, and Doing Nothing is Not an Option, Flagler Commissioners Are Told

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

A beach carved out: the area just north of the Flagler Beach pier on Sunday, after it had lost even more sand over the past week. (© FlaglerLive)

The county commission this morning heard the results of the $250,000 beach management study it commissioned last year, and was left with two certainties: doing nothing is not an option. Starting to do something is unaffordable for now, even with six options presented by Olsen Associates, the Tampa-based consultants the county hired for the study.

Joe Mullins Says Drug Dealer Sought to Sell Him Cocaine, So He Turned Him In. The Public Sneers.

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Joe Mullins in a campaign selfie he posted on his Facebook page a few days ago, one of his many efforts to rehabilitate his image in the face of the law enforcement community after he had a series of less than respectful or truthful encounters or statements toward or about active and retired cops in recent weeks.

Mullins says someone randomly contacted by by text and offered to sell him an “eight-ball” of cocaine. Mullins reported the attempt, leading to the arrest of the 18-year-old alleged dealer, a glowing release issued by the Sheriff’s Office, and a cascade of sneering, doubting reactions about Mullins from the public.

Sheriff Plans Show of Force, and Threatens Appeal to Governor, Over Budget Stalemate With County

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly will tell Flagler County commissioners this evening that his agency is losing deputies to neighboring agencies because the pay is not competitive enough. Staly is seeking to have a deputy's starting pay equal that of firefighters, at around $51,000 a year. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and the Police Benevolent Association, the union representing deputies, are organizing a show of force that would pack the county commission’s chambers this evening in hopes of swaying commissioners to give the sheriff more than the additional $4.45 million they are so far providing for next year’s budget.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, August 15, 2022

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Selling nuclear secrets by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

The County Commission talks beach calamities and repairs, the sheriff asks for a raise for his troops, a candidate forum at Cattleman’s Hall, the coming California Megastorm, how Bassam al-Sheikh Hussain became a rare Lebanese hero.

How Seized Documents Show Trump May Have Violated Espionage Act

August 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

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The FBI recovered confidential and top-secret items from Mar-a-Lago during its Aug. 8, 2022, search of the estate – pointing to former President Donald Trump’s potential violation of several federal laws. The unsealed documents seem to indicate that the U.S. Department of Justice believes Trump may have violated the Espionage Act, as well as other criminal laws relating to the handling of public records.

Mothers Behind Book-Banning Campaign Claim Their First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated

August 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Students, teachers and parents protested an effort, partially successful, by Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright last fall to ban "All Boys Aren't Blue" and three other titles from school libraries. "All Boys" was removed. The other three were restored. (© FlaglerLive)

The self-dubbed Mama Bears filed a federal lawsuit alleging that by not being allowed to read sexually explicit material aloud at school board meetings, they themselves are being censored.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 14, 2022

August 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Muslim tolerance -- by John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune

Flagler’s LGBTQ youths rally for school board candidates, Grace Community Food Pantry, reflections on the stabbing of Salman Rushdie and the shock of the crime’s increasing ordinariness.

Behind Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’

August 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The book, “Satanic Verses,” goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs when Rushdie, in dream sequences, challenges and sometimes seems to mock some of its most sensitive tenets.

1st Early Voting Day Begins With Harmony and a Cross-Party Prayer. Then Joe Mullins Shows Up.

August 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

Commissioner Greg Hansen, to the right, near the Republican Club's tent, where Linda Hansen--sitting, speaking with candidate Denise Calderwood--had the altercation with Joe Mullins this morning, as Mullins sought to have his campaign literature under the tent. The Democrat's tent is between the Republican Club's and that of Alan Lowe. The tents were set up on the east side of the Flagler County Public Library for the first day of early voting today. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the public library early voting site this morning after Commissioner Joe Mullins got into a heated verbal altercation with Linda Hansen, wife of Commissioner Greg Hansen, who has himself been the target of Mullins’s insults. It was the latest burst from a mass of dark clouds that have increasingly cloaked Mullins week after week as he attempts to win re-election.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, August 13, 2022

August 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Disney Earnings by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

11th Annual Surfers for Autism in Flagler Beach, Sensory Storytime at the public library, the Gamble Jam, Kurt Vonnegut on banned books.

Arctic Is Warming Nearly 4 Times Faster Than Rest of the Planet

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Arctic is on average around 3℃ warmer than it was in 1980. This is alarming, because the Arctic contains sensitive and delicately balanced climate components that, if pushed too hard, will respond with global consequences.

Military Vets Without Bachelor’s Degrees Will Soon Be Teaching in Florida Schools

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved a new law to create an alternative temporary teaching certificate for military veterans, saying that their prior military experience will have value in the classroom. But the law would get around a prerequisite expected of thousands of teachers in Florida — a bachelor’s degree.

Sheriff Staly Is American Legion Post 115’s Law Officer of the Year

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Sheriff Rick Staly, along with other First Responders who have exceeded the duty requirements expected of their position and demonstrated a distinct pattern of community service coupled with professional achievement, received awards.

Study: Flagler’s Beaches Are Eroding Critically, and Will Cost County Alone $5 to $13 Million a Year to Slow

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

What was left of what used to be the sea wall at Varn Park, in November 2021. (Olsen)

The most comprehensive study to date about Flagler County’s beaches paints a stark picture of the consequences of climate change and sea level rise, accelerating erosion, potentially crushing costs to local taxpayers to slow down the erosion with beach renourishment, and few sources of funding to do so.

Water Main Breaks on South Central Ave. in Flagler Beach, Requiring Boil-Water Notice

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The location of the water main break in an image released by the city.

A water main that serves residents and businesses on portions of the south-central area of Flagler Beach broke on Friday, requiring several days of repairs and a boil-water notice for affected residents and businesses next week. Service will not be interrupted through the weekend, as the city’s public works department is patching the damage until Monday.

Mom Faces Felony Charges After Alleged Series of Lurid Attacks on Her 12-Year-Old Daughter

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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Priscilla Jocelyn Florentino was booked at the Flagler County jail on three felony charges, including child abuse and assaulting an officer, after allegedly handcuffing her 12-year-old child’s hand to a steering wheel in a hot car, defacing the child with lurid accusations on her face, shoving a pipe down the 12 year old’s mouth, shoving her fingers down her mouth, choking her, striking the girl with a phone, and shearing off the child’s hair to a military-style cut.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday August 12, 2022

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Defund the FBI by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News.

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin and Commissioner Dave Sullivan on Free For All, defunding the federal police appears to be OK with conservatives, Ricky Gervais and Moby-Dick.

The US Military Faces a Rise in Extremism in Its Ranks

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks at a news briefing at the Pentagon on July 20, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pentagon officials are shaken by service members’ prominent role in the events of Jan. 6. Of the 884 criminal defendants charged to date with taking part in the insurrection, more than 80 were veterans. That’s almost 10% of those charged.

Northeast Florida Fall Boat Show Set for Oct. 15-16 in Jacksonville

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Hundreds of boats. Thousands of accessories. (Northeast Florida Boat Show)

The North Florida Marine Association announces the Northeast Florida Fall Boat Show, Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16, at the J-Tech Institute campus in Jacksonville’s Southside.

Fried Criticizes DeSantis Attack on Law Enforcement Following FBI Search of Trump’s Home

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried speaks near the Florida Governor’s Mansion on August 9, 2022. (Danielle J. Brown)

“It also pains me that Ron DeSantis — who still has not condemned Nazis, even after multiple requests to stand united with me,” Fried said. “He won’t condemn January 6, but he has no problem attacking the FBI, an FBI that is run by a director that was appointed by Donald Trump.”

Titanic Erosion in Flagler Beach Uncovers an Anchor from Another Century, and Mottle of Secrets

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The anchor just north of the Flagler Beach pier. (© FlaglerLive)

The anchor was discovered just north of the Flagler Beach pier, site of drastic erosion over the past few weeks. A team from the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archeological Maritime Program was alerted and has been analyzing the find for its historical value and age since.

Schools Scramble to Fill Vacant Slots, Including 108 in Flagler District, as Enrollment Appears Up

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

At Insian Trails Middle School on Wednesday. (Flagler Schools)

Flagler County has 108 job postings as of today, according to its openings advertised online, including 32 instructional positions, among them six teaching openings at Buddy Taylor Middle School, six at Matanzas High School, and four at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Sheriff Staly Issues Statement Rejecting Any Suggestion of Endorsement of Palm Coast Candidates

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Proximity is not endorsement: Sheriff Rick Staly, with his wife Debbie, had briefly stopped to campaign at the VFW voting precinct off Old Kings Road on Election day in 2020, when an Alan Lowe campaign volunteer was also campaigning--at the time, for mayor. Staly has never endorsed Lowe, and said today he was not endorsing anyone in the Palm Coast council races. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff Rick Staly said today he has “not endorsed and will not endorse any candidate for Palm Coast City Coast City Council,” a statement prompted by Palm Coast Council candidate Alan Lowe featuring Staly in an ad by ex-felon Oliver North endorsing Lowe.

Denise Calderwood, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Denise Calderwood. (© FlaglerLive)

Denise Calderwood is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 2, facing incumbent Greg Hansen and Janet McDonald in the Aug. 23 primary. It is an open primary: all Flagler County voters are eligible to vote regardless of party affiliation.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, August 11, 2022

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The NAACP Flagler Branch hosts a forum for candidates for the Palm Coast City Council and the Flagler County Commission, remembering the Iowa State Fair, Bill Burr, Orwell.

Social Media? No. Blame Cable News for Idiocy Politics.

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Joe Biden and Donald Trump supporters, like these two, are more likely to be polarized by TV news than online echo chambers. AP Photo/Allen G. Breed

Roughly 17% of Americans are politically polarized – 8.7% to the left and 8.4% to the right – based on their TV news consumption. That’s three to four times higher than the average percentage of Americans polarized by online or social media sources.

Appeals Court Will Decide Whether You Can Pass Water and Food to People in Line to Vote

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Voters lining up for early voting at the public library in Palm Coast in 2012, when it was still legal to pass water or food to those in line. It no longer is. (© FlaglerLive)

Attorneys for the League of Women Voters of Florida, the Black Voters Matter Fund, the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and other plaintiffs filed a 67-page brief asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a district judge’s ruling that said increased “solicitation” restrictions near polling places violate speech rights.

Palm Coast Fire Department’s Jeremy Barton Gets American legion’s 1st Responder Award

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Palm Coast Fire Driver Engineer Jeremy Barton, holding the award, with his family, and, right, soon to be Fire Chief Kyle Berryhill. (Palm Coast)

Palm Coast Fire Driver Engineer Jeremy Barton has been awarded the 2022 Law & Order and First Responder Award by the Flagler American Legion Post #115 for his outstanding contribution to the fire service for his leadership of the Driver Engineer Field Training program for the Palm Coast Fire Department.

‘Disturbing’ Beach Erosion Near Pier Meets Split and Muddled Response from Flagler Beach Commission

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Cliffs instead of a beach: the nearly catastrophic erosion at the Flagler Beach pier and north of it is prompting an emergency response from city government, but options are limited and expensive. (© FlaglerLive)

A 90-minute emergency meeting of the Flagler Beach City Commission this morning resulted in more confusion, disagreement and speculation than direction on how to address what City Manager William Whitson described as “disturbing” and relatively sudden erosion of a massive portion of beach at the pier and just north of it. Others–including surfers and a city commissioner–said the sand has merely migrated, and will return of its own.

Sims Jones, Palm Coast City Council Candidate: The Live Interview

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Sims Jones. (© FlaglerLive)

Sims Jones is a candidate for Palm Coast City Council, District 2, running against Theresa Carli Pontieri, Shauna Kanter and Alan Lowe. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Arming Teachers Is Not the Answer. Limiting Access to Guns and Addressing Mental Health Is.

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

An active-shooter training exercise conducted by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office in 2019, for sheriff's deputies only. (© FlaglerLive)

Problems have escalated to such a point that it has helped drive good people out of the classroom and negatively influenced people willing to become teachers. This is especially true in schools with a reputation for having a culture of discipline issues or weak community support.

Goodwill’s New 16,000-SQ. Ft. Store Marks Opening with Ribbon-Cutting Aug. 17

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The new Goodwill on Palm Coast Parkway. (© FlaglerLive)

Goodwill Industries of North Florida will celebrate the new store’s opening with a ribbon cutting on August 17 — National Thrift Shop Day — at 10 a.m. with Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin.

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