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Florida Senate Veers Right on Reams of Controversial Bills, Isolating Democratic Minority

February 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Sen. Gary Farmer, the Senate minority leader, will be in an even more pronounced minority as the legislative session begins next week. (Facebook)

The November elections, the coronavirus pandemic and an expanded GOP caucus have emboldened Senate leaders to embrace what may be the most conservative agenda in recent years as they prepare for the 2021 legislative session that begins Tuesday.

Outta’ Sight: Flagler Auditorium Celebrates Community with Covid-Conscious Concert Series

February 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Cherry Drops include, from left: Jimmy Mason, drums, backing vocals; Josh Cobb, guitar, backing vocals; Vern Shank, lead vocals, percussion; James Markowski, bass. (Vern Shank)

The Cherry Drops’s Feb. 27 show will be Flagler Auditorium’s second in its Community Celebration Series, a multi-artist, multi-media string of spring performances that lives up to its title. Along with concerts by mostly area music artists, each event will include presentations and activities by area civic and cultural groups such as the Flagler County Historical Society, and the Palm Coast Cruisers with their car show.

Belle Terre Swim Club, in Deficit, is Not Closing Yet. But the School Board Needs Help Keeping It Open.

February 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club is again facing deficits. (© FlaglerLive)

School board members don’t want to close the facility. But for the second time in six years, the club is in deficit and the district is using dollars designed to run its K-12 operations to keep it afloat, though the club is used primarily by adults. That’s not a tenable situation. 

Covid Vaccination Report: 17.1% in Flagler Have at Least 1 Shot, 45.2% of 65 and Over

February 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The percentage of people vaccinated in Flagler, Florida and the United States as of February 19. The proportion of vaccinated people 65 and over for the U.S. as a whole is not available. (© FlaglerLive)

The latest proportions of people vaccinated for Covid-19 in Flagler County, Florida and the United States, according to the Florida Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.

Addiction Is Not a Crime. The Drug War Is.

February 20, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 53 Comments

Every defendant a Josef K. (© FlaglerLive)

To continue with our cruel and sadistic drug war is the daily crime. The only way out is to decriminalize all drugs, treat, repair and, somehow, atone for lawmakers’ and the judicial system’s half-century assault on their own citizens. 

In Flagler Beach, 4 of 5 Candidates for City Commission and Mayor Liven Only Forum Ahead of March 2 Election

February 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The candidates in stills from the Facebook Live clips of the Woman's Club forum last Tuesday evening. From left, Eric Cooley, Kim Carney, Pat Quinn and Suzy Johnston. (© FlaglerLive via Woman's Club video)

The Flagler Woman’s Club hosted a forum featuring incumbent Commissioner Eric Cooley, whose opponent, Paul Harrington, was a no-show, and all three candidates vying to replace Linda Provencher as mayor: Kim Carney, Suzy Johnston and Pat Quinn. Here’s a full summary of the evening.

Ask the Doctor: Returning Children to School Safely, All Those Post-Vaccine Reactions, HIV-Patient Eligibility

February 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

Dr. Stephen Bickel answers new questions about the anxieties of returning children to school in covid times, the effects (or non-effects) of the covid vaccine on various medical conditions, the eligibility of populations other than those 65-and-over for the vaccine, and more.

In Flagler Beach, the Two Finalists for City Manager Are a Contrast of Experience and Personalities

February 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Dru Driscoll, left, and William Whitson, seen here during their Zoom interviews with the Flagler Beach City Commission, are the finalists for the city manager's job. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

William Whitson has managed four cities and was assistant manager of Port orange for eight years, Dru Driscoll has worked 22 years in Daytona Beach, the last few as deputy city manager and fire chief. They are seeking to replace the late Larry Newsom, who died in August.

Reilly Opelka Loses Epic Five-Setter Against Best Friend Fritz at Australian Open

February 10, 2021 | Michael Lewis | 2 Comments

Reilly Opelka

The 23-year-old battled his best friend, Taylor Fritz, for more than four hours in a second-round match at the Australian Open, and was at one juncture just two points away from winning and getting to the third round Down Under for the first time.

Confrontation at City Hall Prompts Palm Coast to Add Armed Security and Consider Metal Detector

February 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

The unidentified man who refused to wear a mask was in a confrontation with several city employees before a Palm Coast City Council meeting in early January. He is seen here in a still from surveillance footage. (© FlaglerLive)

Employees’ confrontation with a man who refused to wear a mask before a recent Palm Coast Council meeting was the last straw for the manager, who opted to add armed security and soon add a metal detector outside the public meeting venue. He said the generally more tense atmosphere here and elsewhere is prompting moves for greater security.

Why the U.S. Is Underestimating Covid Reinfection

February 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Hundreds of Americans suspect they contracted covid early in the pandemic and recovered, only to get infected again months later. But because the U.S. does so little genetic sequencing of covid samples, we don’t know much about reinfection rates.

Healthy Opelka, Ranked 40 in the World, Hopes to Start 2021 Tennis Season With Strong Australian Open

February 5, 2021 | Michael Lewis | 3 Comments

Reilly Opelka warming up for the Australian Open this week. (Tennis Australia)

Reilly Opelka’s career has been hampered by injuries, but the 7-foot ex-Palm Coast resident who still has strong ties to the community opens his bid at the Australian Open this weekend healthy and strong, and ranked 40 in the world.

Flagler County Government Will Host Weekly Feel-Good Show on Local Radio

January 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

It wasn't yet clear who will host the show--if any singl;e person--but Flagler Broadcasting General Manager David Ayres said the county had "effervescent" staffers lined up. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County commissioners haven’t discussed it publicly yet–or agreed to it–but the county administration is preparing to host a weekly radio show, or infomercial, on WNZF, the Flagler Broadcasting station, starting likely in February. The sponsored half-hour show would focus on feel-good stories, profiles of county employees, and highlights of county doings.

Punting Responsibility, County Pits Hammock Neighbors Against Each Other Over Its Public Boat Ramp Giveaway

January 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The boat ramp at the end of Pamela Parkway, part of a 7,600-square-foot right of way Flagler County owns, and that it is seeking to give away to the two homeowners on either side of the ramp. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County government owns the unmarked, unguarded road segment of Pamela Parkway in the Hammock that ends as a boat ramp and that once cost a woman her life as she unknowingly drove into the Intracoastal. The county wants to give away the right of way to two homeowners in exchange for the homeowners building a seawall. Other residents object.

Anti-Vaccine Activists Are Peddling False Claims That Covid Shots Are Deadly, Undermining Vaccination

January 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Post-shot band-aids readied at a vaccination station at the Emergency Operations Center last December, when the Moderna vaccine first arrived in Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

Anti-vaccine groups are exploiting the suffering and death of people who happen to fall ill after receiving a covid shot, threatening to undermine the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history. In some cases, anti-vaccine activists are fabricating stories of deaths that never occurred.

5 Contestants, 2 Seats: Flagler Beach Woman’s Club Hosting Candidates’ Night Ahead of City Election

January 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Three candidates have lined up to replace Linda Provencher as Flagler Beach mayor. Provencher, above, is seen with then-Gov. Rick Scott in 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach and Beverly Beach are holding the year’s first local elections on March 2. The Beverly Beach races are uncontested, though the city will have two new commissioners. The Flagler Beach races for mayor and one commission seat very much are contested.

Sea Ray Plant Will Reopen as Boston Whaler, Bringing Back 300 to 400 Jobs and Annexing Into Palm Coast

January 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Get ready for that familiar sight again as Boston Whaler will take over its sister Sea Ray's plant, abandoned two and a half years ago. (Rusty Clark)

Capping a whirling six months of major economic-development victories for Palm Coast, and two and a half years after the Sea Ray plant shut down off Colbert Lane, eliminating some 440 high-paying jobs, the plant will reopen very soon under the banner of Boston Whaler, a boat builder owned by Sea Ray’s parent, Brunswick Corp.

Ask the Doctor: No, Vaccines Contain No Aborted Fetus Tissue, Socializing Without Masks, Politics of Vaccines

January 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

Dr. Stephen Bickel answers two dozen new questions, including about the politics and logistics of the vaccine rollout, whether vaccinated people may socialize without masks, and numerous specific questions about the vaccine and beyond it.

Flagler Grand Jury Issues 4 Indictments for Murder, 2 More in Drug Deaths, 2 in Killing of Deon O’Neal Jenkins

January 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Allyson Dawn Bennett, 39, and Javian Neesmith, 21, both of Palm Coast.

The indictments of Allyson Dawn Bennett, 39, and Javian Neesmith, 21, are Flagler County’s second and third for murder stemming from the death of individuals from drug overdoses–a relatively new, rapidly expanding but also increasingly controversial trend in criminal prosecutions that began with the emergence of the fentanyl epidemic.

Biden Terms Vaccine Rollout ‘A Dismal Failure’ as He Unveils Pandemic Response Plan

January 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Way to vaccines. (© FlaglerLive)

During his Thursday speech outlining what he’s dubbed the “American Rescue Plan,” Biden made several claims about the current response to the pandemic and how it’s affecting Americans. Statements are fact-checked and given context.

As Covid Patient Load Keeps Breaking Records at AdventHealth Palm Coast, ER Director Gives Inside Look

January 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The daily count of patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of Covid-19 at AdventHealth Palm Coast since October, through today. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

As the Covid-19 patient load reaches 35–the hospital is licensed for 113 beds–Dr. Paul Mucciolo, AdventHealth Palm Coast’s ER medical director until last year, and the Chief of Staff since, details the hospital’s response and challenges to a record surge.

Ask the Doctor: Securing Your 2nd Vaccine Dose, Why So Little Supply, Death or Adverse Reactions

January 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

Dr. Stephen Bickel answers questions about the short supply of Covid vaccines, the potency of the first shot and what happens if the second shot is delayed, where to get the second shot, and specific questions on the vaccine’s content, adverse reactions and other issues.

2 Covid Deaths Raise Flagler’s Total to 52; State Emergency Management Chief Rips Federal Vaccine Rollout

January 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz addressing the the newly created House Pandemics and Public Emergencies Committee today. (House video via Florida Channel)

Bob Snyder, who heads the state-controlled Flagler County Health Department, said he expects some more doses next week, but he doesn’t know how many, while the head of state emergency management blamed the federal government’s rollout, detailing its obstacles, in unusually blunt language for a member of the DeSantis administration.

Big Savings and Unexpected Revenue Allow Palm Coast to Hire 2 More Cops and Restore Raises Despite Covid

January 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palm Coast City Manager Matt Morton likes his decisions driven by data. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast’s ultra-conservative fiscal management is allowing the city to hire two additional sheriff’s deputies, restore employee raises, and restore the city manager’s own raise, which he had declined last year on the approach of Covid’s era of uncertainty.

Ask the Doctor: Visions of Vaccines Dance In Our Heads

January 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

FlaglerLive today is fortunate and proud to be launching the “Ask the Doctor” column, by Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia Counties Health Departments. You are invited to submit your Covid, vaccine and other medical-related questions. Dr. Bickel will answer them here on a regular basis.

Ask the Doctor: Frequently Asked Questions Archive

January 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

The Ask the Doctor archive of questions frequently asked and linked to the answers provided by Dr. Stephen Bickel of the Flagler and Volusia Health Departments. The Ask the Doctor feature is a regular feature on FlaglerLive.

‘Zero Doses’ of Vaccines for Flagler This Week, ‘Few If Any’ Over Next 5 as Covid Surges Amid Warnings of Bleak Months

January 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There were 398 confirmed new cases in Flagler in the week ending Saturday, by far a new record, with no letup in sight and no vaccines ahead. (© FlaglerLive)

The state is sending what little supply of vaccines it has elsewhere for the next five weeks: The Villages qualify, Flagler does not. So even people due for their second shot may not get it as Flagler County’s Covid numbers surge to their worst levels yet. Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler County Health Department, spoke as if at a wake when he updated government officials this morning, and in many ways it was.

3-2 Vote Clears 268-Home Development on Matanzas Golf Course, But With Severe Restrictions

January 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The disputed "Tract 3" in the Lakeview Estate development proposal: Palm Coast government opposes development there, saying it would block existing residents' view of the fairway. The developer of Lakeview Estates disagreed. But in the end, the development proposal the city approved excludes development on that particular tract. The drone view was shown during Tuesday evening's hearing. (© FlaglerLive)

The plan the Palm Coast City Council approved strikes at the heart of the proposal, denying the developer authority to develop a key tract and upholding the city administration’s interpretation of protected golf views.

Gardens Development Agreement to Pay $719,000 to Offset School Overcrowding Raises ‘Worrisome’ Questions of Accuracy

January 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Calling it “worrisome” and “nebulous,” Flagler County School Board members said today they are not ready to sign off on an agreement with the planned 335-home Gardens development on John Anderson Highway that would offset projected overcrowding costs in the district’s schools.

600 Are Vaccinated at Flagler County Fairgrounds in 1st of Many Rounds As Crush of Cars Stretches to U.S. 1

January 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 61 Comments

The Covid-19 vaccination station at the Flagler County Fairgrounds this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s first large-scale vaccination event drew health care workers and people 65 and over. No one was turned away at the Flagler County Fairgrounds, where the next round is expected Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but by appointment only.

Is the Hobbled Distribution of Vaccines the Biggest Trump Screw Up Yet?

December 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Plenty more where those Moderna vaccines came from, except that Trump administration incompetence is preventing their distribution. (© FlaglerLive)

Some 7.7 million first doses of vaccines have been shipped to date (two million shots have been given), with a target of 16 million by the end of the year. This is warp speed?

Festive New Year Atmosphere as Flagler County’s 1st Responders and Health Department Workers Get Vaccines

December 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Caryn Prather, Flagler County Fire Rescue's Community Paramedic and one of the leaders of the county's 10-months-long Covid-testing program, getting her first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday at the Emergency Operations Center. She was one of about 20 people inoculated. (© FlaglerLive)

It was a festive atmosphere Tuesday afternoon in a classroom of Flagler County’s Emergency Operations Center, temporarily converted into a shooting gallery: over the course of an hour, some 20 people, most of them firefighter-paramedics, some of them Department of Health employees, sat for their first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna edition. 

New Laws Take Effect This Week: School Bus Safety, Politicians’ Ethics, Voting Equipment

December 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

it will increase from $100 to $200 the minimum penalty for motorists who fail to stop for school buses and will double from $200 to $400 the minimum penalty for motorists who pass stopped school buses on the side where children enter and exit.

New laws enact a voter-approved prohibition on public officials and employees using their offices to benefit themselves and fines for driving past stopped school buses and focus on insurance policy statements and election equipment used for recounts.

More Than 1,000 Covid Vaccines Arrive at Flagler Health Department, Inoculations of 1st Responders Start Tuesday

December 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Flagler County Health Department Chief Bob Snyder, right, with Dawn Kamen, the registered nurse who oversees the department's immunology program

The Flagler County Health Department on Monday took delivery of more than 1,000 vials of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. Inoculations begin Tuesday and Wednesday with first responders and health care workers. It’s still not exactly known when doses will arrive for people 65 and over, who are next in line for the vaccine, but it’ll be soon.

Ahead of Frigid Christmas Nights, Beachfront Grille Cooks Up 150 Meals for Homeless and Needy

December 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Sydney Adams

Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach teamed up with the Sheltering Tree, the cold-weather shelter for the homeless, and Mayor Linda Provencher to provide 150 Christmas meals for the homeless and the needy.

Internal Tally Puts Flagler’s Covid Deaths at 50, Two More Than Public Dashboard; 4 Connected to Social Club

December 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Coronavirus temperature checks at the Government Services Building in Bunnell, where some officials have occasionally boasted of the county's lower Covid numbers, relative to the rest of the state. (© FlaglerLive)

The internal Florida Health Department spreadsheet, obtained by FlaglerLive, consolidates some previously undisclosed information and much information that had been disclosed to some extent in different ways and places previously.

TR, as FPC Principal Tom Russell Was Known to Most, Is Celebrated as Learner, Leader, Tweeter and Jovial, Heroic Dad

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Tom Russell in a photo shown at this evening's memorial, with a grandchild.

James Tom Russell, who died on Dec. 9 after leading Flagler Palm Coast High School for just a year and a half after a long career in leadership of Volusia County schools, was celebrated at a memorial at Jackie Robinson Stadium Friday evening with broad-ranging affection and admiration.

AdventHealth Marks ‘Milestone Week’ of Covid-19 Vaccinations

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Vaccinations at AdventHealth facilities this week. (AdventHealth)

Capping a fast-moving and historic week in medical history, AdventHealth leaders shared optimism, celebrated triumphs, and continued their focus on administering vaccines to help conquer Covid-19.

On Eve of Tom Russell Memorial, School Board’s McDonald Downplays Covid Deaths and Calls for ‘Backing Off This Fear’ of Virus

December 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Janet McDonald has on several occasions used her school board seat to disseminate false, misleading or inaccurate information about Covid-19. She did so again on Tuesday. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County School Board member Janet McDonald falsely claimed at a workshop that overall deaths are down this year, that masks are harmful, testing unreliable, and that the district should focus on “wellness” rather than additionally “ramp-up” safety measures. She did so days from the memorial for Tom Russell, the FPC principal who died of complications from Covid.

At Groundbreaking on $23 Million Sheriff’s Operations Center, County Hopes ‘Difficult’ Years of Errors Are Over

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Ready shovels today on the site of what will become the Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell, south of the Government Services Building complex. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff’s, county, Bunnell and Flagler Beach officials broke ground today on a 51,000-square foot, $23 million Sheriff’s Operations Center on the future Commerce Parkway in Bunnell, possibly ending eight years of costly errors and misjudgments and what will be a four-year exile for the sheriff’s agency from a place of its own.

Hospitals Scramble to Prioritize Which Workers Are First for Scarce Covid Vaccine

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that top priority go to long-term care facilities and front-line health care workers, but the early allocation was always expected to fall far short of the need and require selective screening even among critical hospital workers.

As Covid Deaths Reach 46 in Flagler, Local Officials Detail Vaccination Plans and Refute Anti-Vaxxers’ Disinformation

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler's weekly positive-coronavirus case load through last Saturday. In the five days since, 99 cases have been confirmed, with two days of reporting left. (© FlaglerLive)

Dr. Stephen Bickel and Bob Snyder of the Flagler Health Department outlined the logistics of vaccinating all residents and refuted disinformation about the dangers of vaccines, describing how individuals may feel after getting vaccinated and what the chances are of having adverse reactions.

Advisers Recommend Checkered Shortlist of 7 for Flagler Beach City Manager, Out of Motley Field of 57 Applicants

December 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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An advisory group of retired city managers has recommended a short-list of seven candidates for Flagler Beach city manager, but city commissioners are free to decide for themselves who they will choose to interview when they discuss the pool of 57 candidates Thursday evening. The candidate will replace the late Larry Newsom.

Flagler’s Cold-Weather Homeless Shelter, In New Home, Opens for 15 Guests With a Few Dollars’ Help from Local Governments

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

At the Sheltering Tree's new cold-weather shelter at Church on the Rock, beds are arranged for the homeless with distance and some privacy. (© Martin Collins for FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s only cold-weather shelter for the homeless moved from its old location after 12 years to Church on the Rock on U.S. 1, where it operated for the first time this year, on Monday and Tuesday nights, with security, privacy from formerly resentful neighbors, and elbow room to spare.

Flagler Sees Highest 2-Week Tally Yet as Covid Hits School, County and City Leaders and Passes 1 Million Mark in State

December 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Cases have reached their highest levels of the pandemic in Flagler in the last two weeks. (© FlaglerLive)

Leaders in Palm Coast, the Flagler County Fire Department and the district’s largest school are battling Covid-19 in a two-week stretch that’s also seen the highest number of infections in schools, where the plan is to continue the option of remote learning past Christmas.

The Strange Case of Cornelius Baker’s Dangling Fate on Death Row, 13 Years After a Bunnell Murder

November 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Cornelius Baker arriving for his last hearing in Flagler County Circuit Court in February. (© FlaglerLive)

Conflicting Supreme Court cases gave convicted murdered Cornelius Baker hope that he could get a new sentencing trial and escape the death penalty, as have two previous Flagler death row inmates. But the conflicting cases, again reflecting the contradictions of Florida’s capital punishment laws, now leave his fate in an absurd twilight zone.

Oral Arguments on Alachua’s Mask Mandate Evoke Hijabs, Nazis, KKK, Crime and, Finally, Public Health

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The appeal was argued on Zoom before, Judges (© FlaglerLive)

Oral arguments about Alachua County’s mask mandate before a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeal Monday was a spectacle of audacious leaps and strange analogies that nevertheless illustrated the sharp and far from resolved divide between mask proponents and anti-maskers, including on the judicial bench.

Powered by Vacation Rentals, Flagler’s Tourism Revenue Is Up Significantly as State’s Drops 30%

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Flagler County’s tourism-tax revenue has gone up three successive months between July and September, substantially so in August and September, in contrast with statewide tourism revenue, which plummeted 30 percent in the third quarter. Vacation rentals, the beach, and vacationers traveling shorter distances account for the county’s success.

Flagler Public Health Director Echoes Strong CDC Directives Against Travel at Thanksgiving as Covid Surges

November 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The way the CDC wants it: an empty section of Orlando International Airport. (© FlaglerLive)

Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler health department, has been warning for weeks that the combination of holiday gatherings, cooler weather and more indoor activities would result in quicker spread of the disease at a time when community spread is already out of control in much of the country and not exactly under control in Flagler.

Belle Terre Elementary Briefly Under Code Blue Alert for Bomb Threat This Morning

November 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A very vague bomb threat led school and sheriff's officials to sweep Belle Terre Elementary this morning, out of caution. (© FlaglerLive)

Belle Terre Elementary was placed under a “Code Blue” alert early this morning when a parent found a note in the parent’s child’s backpack mentioning a bomb. The parent found the note at the child’s home.

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