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TDC Approves $30,000 for Dual July 4th Fireworks Under Unifying Americana Theme

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

With Palm Coast fireworks on July 3rd and Flagler Beach fireworks on the 4th, the tourist council is hoping Flagler County will be a destination for racing fans worn out by July 1 and 2 races in Daytona Beach.

Wadsworth’s Eco Swag Fair Thursday: Saving the Planet 900 Students at a Time

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Wadsworth Elementary school is inviting the community to its students’ first environmental community outreach Thursday, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., with music, food, games and presentations mixing awareness and kindness.

Bunnell Police Miscues Helping To Lessen Case Against Ex-Cops John and Lisa Murray

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Lisa Murray faces one less count of official misconduct, but while a grand theft charge against John Murray was dropped, a charge of official misconduct was added. The cases, for now, are proceeding to trial.

Property Tax Reform: 50% Exemptions, Breaks for Investors, Losses for Local Governments

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Supporters of the overhaul say it’ll fill up empty homes. Critics say it’ll also slash local government revenue and further shift the tax burden to current residents, exacerbating inequities.

Putt-Putt Golf at Belle Terre Elementary: 9-Hole Course Meets School Board Bogeys

April 19, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Playground equipment at Belle Terre Elementary has been deteriorating, and causing a few injuries. But replacing some of it with putt-putt golf raised financial and “buy-in” issues from school board members.

More Losers Than Winners as HMOs Skim Off Florida’s $20 Billion Medicaid Overhaul

April 19, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Managed-car plans will take over almost all of Florida’s 2.8 million Medicaid patients. The overhaul does nothing to change the status of 3.8 million uninsured Floridians.

District and Teachers’ Union Seal Crucial Agreement on Vast Cuts and Shorter Days

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

More than tree and a half hours into their latest bargaining session, the union and the Flagler County school district were almost ready to agree to cuts that would eliminate 40 teachers, shorten school days and save $3.5 million next year.

Stetson University Takes 3rd Place in National RecycleMania

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Stetson’s third-place overall showing was out of a field of 288 colleges and universities. The university won first in the paper-recycling division, earning it a trophy made of recycled glass.

Suicide Off Hammock Dunes Bridge, Near European Village

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jane Allen, a 50-year-old resident of Oakmont Ct. in Palm Coast, fell to her death from the Hammock Dunes Bridge in early evening Saturday, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

It’s Not Enough to Say No to a Seawall in Flagler Beach: An Action Plan Past Opposition

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

It isn;t just about opposing a seawall. Flagler Beach needs a plan to protect A1A. (© FlaglerLive)

Sherry Epley, a resident of Flagler Beach, lays out a six-point action plan on how to build and sustain opposition to a seawall while developing a viable alternative that saves the beach and State Road A1A.

“Education Savings Accounts” Would Shift Public Money to Private and Home Schools

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A vast expansion of school vouchers, Education Savings Account would shift 40 percent of per-student funding to children attending private school, to college savings accounts or to home-school spending, among other diversions from public-education budgets.

How Slashing Water Management Districts’ Budget 25% Endangers Our Way of Life

April 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Allan Milledge, a former water management district chairman, asks: Do you want to jeopardize protection of our rivers, lakes, springs, and wetlands and the protection of our water supply to save an average less than $20 dollars per household per year?

Textual Titillations, Chamber Scott, Perot Trump, Buying Legislators and Poetry in Jazz: The Live Wire

April 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Buy one legislator, get one free, what’s far worse than sexting, a free speech leap in Vancouver, the Rude Pundit on Obama, when Donald Trump insults “the blacks,” and more.

Flagler Power: From Bunnell By-Pass to Weigh Station to A1A Seawall, FDOT Retreats

April 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Three times in the past 12 months, Florida Department of Transportation projects in Flagler County have foundered on the well-organized shoals of local opposition across government boundaries and fiefdoms.

Charter Schools To Be Allowed To Go Virtual As Florida Expands Online Public Education

April 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A proposed law would let charter schools open full-time K-12 “virtual” charter schools, all students would be required to take at least one online class, and school districts would have to offer full or part-time virtual programs.

Stereotype This: “Lazy Mexicans” And Other Insolvent Myths of American Superiority

April 15, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 25 Comments

As it turns out Mexicans are not only harder workers than Americans. They are the hardest workers in the industrialized world, while smugness, selfishness and the pursuit of inequality are becoming American brands.

Cops and Robbers Chase Through A1A in Flagler at 90 mph Before Crash in St. Johns

April 15, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The high-speed chase, triggered by a former Palm Coast resident, wound through Old Kings Road, Palm Coast Parkway, the Hammock Dunes toll bridge, the Hammock along A1A and Marineland before the eluding truck overturned in St. Johns County.

At 14.5%, Flagler Unemployment Drops to Lowest Level in 2 Years, Florida’s at 11.1%

April 15, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The unemployment rate locally and statewide appears to be trending downward consistently and finally following the national trend, which has been improving for most of the past year.

Upset That His Girlfriend Is Cheating, He Pistol-Whips Her and Fires 7 Shots

April 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Salvitore Kilday, 28, went to a home on Wendlin Lane looking for his girlfriend, found her with another man, and turned violent. Three young children were in the house. He was arrested and jailed.

Water Wars, Side B: Why a Subdivision With 10% of Bunnell’s Residents Is Suing the City

April 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Bunnell has been reading Palm Terrace Mobile Home park’s water meters and servicing its sewer station for 27 years. The city wants to stop doing so to save money, billing the park in one lump sum. The park owner says the city is breaching a 27-year-old annexation agreement.

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: “Spillionaire” Profiteers of Mismanagement’s Gulf Spoils

April 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

How the BP oil spill has made profiteers rich from BP’s $16 billion in clean-up spending while hiding the results of the cleanup, because BP, not the federal government, is in charge.

William Gregory Sentenced to Death for 2007 Double-Murder in Flagler Beach

April 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

William Gregory, moments after hearing his death sentence, is processed by a bailiff. (FlaglerLive)

William Gregory murdered ex-girlfriend Skyler Meekins, 17, and Daniel Dyer, 22, by shooting them in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun as they slept together in August 2007. “You have forfeited your right to live at all,” the judge told him.

Union-Busting Bill Narrowly Clears Hurdle and GOP Dissents Before Full Vote at Florida Legislature

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The proposed law forbids union deductions from public employees’ paychecks, essentially gutting unions. It passed a committee, 11-9, with three Republicans breaking rank to oppose it.

Paul McCartney Redone, Sophocles at the Improv and Xanadu: Culture Worth the Miles

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Brigan Gresh and Dina Mack at the Lake Eustis Museum of Art, a Greek tragedy a-la-improv at the Annie Russell Theatre, the Annual Taste of Oviedo, Tony Kishman as Paul McCartney, and more.

County and City Fire Departments Merge Methods and Training in Hint of Consolidation

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The Flagler County and Palm Coast Fire Departments will share a medical director. Both agencies are holding regular joint exercises and learning shared procedures with the Bunnell and Flagler Beach departments. Consolidation next?

Conklin Is Fired From State-Backed Job After Talk of Suing the State Over Education Funding

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 53 Comments

Colleen Conklin has been a Flagler County SSchool Board member since 2000, and had been the chief operating officer of the Florida Endowment Foundation since mid-2007. (©

Colleen Conklin has been an outspoken advocate for education as a Flagler County School Board member for 10 years–and as the COO of a largely state-funded education foundation for the last four. One job cost her the other.

From Robert Penn Warren to Stanley Drescher: Flagler Beach Names Its First Poet Laureate

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Poetry as manifesto: Stanley Drescher. (© FlaglerLive)

Stanley Drescher, a son of New York’s Lower East Side, has lived in Flagler Beach less than two years. He’s already left his mark on the city’s water tower, wielding his poetry like a crusader’s mightiest weapon.

Flagler Beach’s Steve Settle Will Again Attempt to Appoint Bruce Campbell Manager

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Bruce Campbell, in the foreground, is still the executive-in-waiting as the Flagler Beach City Commission ponders his fate. Drew Smith, the city's attorney, is sitting next to Campbell. On the dais, from left: Marshall Shupe, Steve Settle, John Feind, Jane Mealy, Kim Craney, and Mayor Alice Baker. (© FlaglerLive)

Settle has three votes to make Bruce Campbell’s appointment permanent as Flagler Beach city manager. He needs four when he makes his proposal Thursday. Commissioners Jane Mealy and John Feind are mum.

Popping Again: Drug Database and Pill-Mill Regulations Return From the Dead

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Taken for dead only weeks ago, a revised bill that would preserve many pill-mill regulations, ban doctors from dispensing some pills and require permitting process for pharmacies cleared a Florida House committee Tuesday.

Driver Takes Truck on Bunnell’s Dirt-Bike Course, Flips Into a Pond, Triggers Rescue

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The 60ish driver was riding his truck illegally on the Bunnell’s Pax Trax Motocross course. Two men–Jeff Armstrong, a former fireman, and Jake Flumerfelt–rescued him as water filled his truck and he sat there, awake but not moving.

Palm Coast Maps Out Gentler, Kinder Impact Fees on Developers, But Questions Arise

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The one-time impact fees developers pay when they build something would be lower for residential construction. Builders would get discounts for paying up front, or get to pay them on an installment plan.

Dust Up Those Squeals, Venus: Frankie Avalon At the Flagler Auditorium Tonight

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Frankie Avalon, now 70, is making the Flagler Auditorium one of just 12 stops on his 2011 tour. He’ll be singing the hits that made him famous in pre-Beatles days, along with songs from his 30 movies that kept him famous.

Bunnell Commissioners Crain-Brady and Rogers Are Sworn In, Flynt Exits After 8 Years

April 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Unlike last year, when the mayor and two commissioners were re-elected after facing no opposition, Jenny Crain-Brady and John Rogers were the survivors of a five-way race last month.

76-Year-Old Man On a Scooter Killed in Crash With Waste Pro Truck South of Bunnell

April 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The man was traveling north on U.S. 1 in Korona, just south of the Old Dixie Highway intersection, when a maintenance pick-up truck pulled out of the service station and struck him.

Flagler Beach Against DOT’s Seawall: County Joins City’s Opposition, With Conditions

April 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Flagler County doesn’t want a seawall in Flagler Beach either, but the county doesn’t want to lose $6 million in highway funding–earmarked for SR A1A’s protection–that it hopes to shift either toward a study or toward an alternative to the seawall.

30 Days to Go, $3.8 Billion to Find: Lawmakers Set to Flatline Health Care Programs

April 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Hospitals, Medicaid, the poor, the very sick and the Department of Health would all face severe cutbacks as the Legislature enters its session’s second half, with abortion, pill mills and medical malpractice issues yet unresolved.

Barack Obama and Rick Scott In Florida Voters’ Eyes: From Lousy to Dismal

April 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The latest poll has Obama’s approval at just 44 percent, and Scott’s at 35 percent, with Scott’s disapproval rating doubling in two months, and 60 percent of Floridians saying Florida is on the wrong path. The poll reveals widespread dissatisfaction.

Tour de Goodwill: 460 Cyclists Set Off in Flagler Beach Rotary’s 8th Annual Ride

April 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Flagler Beach Rotary’s Cycle Flagler drew the largest number of cyclists and raised upward of $14,000 for the Rotary’s Christmas and scholarship funds. Riders cycled from 24 to 100 miles.

FPC Posts Video of Teacher’s Public Apology Over Gay Student Bullying

April 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Floyd Binkley's video apology was part of a public service announcement, and went up at FPC's website two months after the incident at the heart of the matter. (© FlaglerLive)

Shop teacher Floyd Binkley’s apology for telling an offensive gay joke appears in the last fifth of the nearly six-minute video as part of a public service announcement about bullying and harassment. The video skirts the details of the matter.

Public Money for Private Schools: Voucher Programs Set to Expand Across Florida

April 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Several bills with enough support in the Florida Legislature would expand student eligibility for voucher programs, including making it easier for corporations to write off taxes in exchange for providing voucher money.

Bogus Government Shutdown, Real Anti-Government Senility

April 8, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 37 Comments

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The nation could use a government shut down, but a real one–including “essential services”–to give those who think they can do without government a taste of what they claim to want.

At Public Forum on Sex Education, Passionate Opinions and Reprimands, But No Consensus

April 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Some 40 people spoke out of the 100 who showed up at the school district’s forum on what direction sex education should take. The disappointing turnout underscored the board’s point–that parents are uninvolved, making the district’s role more vital.

Far Apart, School Unions and Flagler District Negotiators Still Looking for a Common Page

April 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

After two sessions on Wednesday, negotiators only agreed to meet again in mid-April to discuss clearer, fresher budget numbers before negotiating proposed cuts of $3.5 million that would affect most employees and students in the district.

Campaign Crumbs: Flagler Commissioner Nate McLaughlin Facing “Probable” Ethics Violation

April 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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The ethics complaint relates to an incomplete financial disclosure form McLaughlin filed during his campaign for the county commission last August. The complaint was filed by then0-incumbent Bob Abbott’s campaign manager, Ed Caroe.

School Employees Facing Steep Increases in Health Insurance Costs, Further Eroding Pay

April 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Premiums are rising by up to 37 percent for many of the 1,337 school district employees who seek health coverage, particularly for those with family coverage. Employees also face another pay cut next year if retirement contributions are expected of them.

Shakespeare, Carmen and Burlesque: Culture Worth the Miles

April 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A sizzlingly luscious interpretation of Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ at the Orlando Ballet, the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, ‘Sugar Babies’ at the Winter Park Playhouse, and more.

Flagler Schools’ Problem Solvers Clean Up Again: The Winners’ Complete List

April 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Following the Problem Solvers state competition in Cape Canaveral late last month, FPC’s Ryan McDermott filed a complete list of winners from nearly every school in the district. Many qualify for the international competition in Wisconsin in June.

42-Foot Sailboat Nearly Sinks Between Marineland and St. Augustine, 4 Are Rescued

April 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The four people and a dog on the boat were on their way to a four- to six-month cruise to the Caribbean. A St. Augustine boat police patrolman responded to the distress call and rescued the sailors Wednesday.

Motorcycle Cop and Car Collide on Belle Terre: Minor Injuries, Major Ruckus

April 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy on a motorcycle sustained minor injuries when he was involved in a collision with a car on Belle Terre Parkway near Mother Seton Catholic Church Wednesday afternoon.

Fire At Eagles Nest Storage in Flagler Beach Claims or Damages 8 Units

April 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The fire broke out between 5:30 and 5:45 p.m. in a storage unit where tenants had been working on an older Volkswagen all day. Something ignited and they were unable to control the flames.

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