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DeSantis Appealing to U.S. Supreme Court a Ruling Blocking Ban on Drag Shows

October 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in a fight about a ruling that blocked statewide a new law aimed at preventing children from attending drag shows. The state’s attorneys want the Supreme Court to approve a partial stay of a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell issued to block the law.

Hailey Lulgjuraj Ended Chemo a Week Ago. She Is Hosting a Benefit for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors Saturday.

October 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Hailey Lulgjuraj with her husband Tony and their children, Christian, the oldest, and Sebastian. (Hailey Lulgjuraj)

Hailey Lulgjuraj has just ended treatment after she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. She never stopped working. She decided to channel her gratitude toward the first annual “Tides of Hope” benefit for breast cancer patients and survivors at Oceanside Beach Bar & Grill, the Flagler Beach restaurant her husband co-owns with her brother in law. She tells the story behind the benefit.

Curtis Ceballos’s Invisacook Stove, Built in Bunnell, Lands on Time Magazine’s Top Inventions of 2023

October 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Curtis Ceballos in the studio portion of the Invisacook manufacturing plant in Bunnell. Ceballos developed the Invisacook induction cooktop stove five years ago. This week, Time named it one of the best inventions of 2023. (© FlaglerLive)

Five years ago Curtis Ceballos, a Palm Coast entrepreneur and inventor, developed Invisacook, an induction cooktop stove that essentially makes the cooktop disappear: no more flames, no more red-hot coils, no more burning surfaces. It’s manufactured in Bunnell and sold worldwide. This week, Time Magazine named the invention one of the best of 2023.

FHP Chase Ends in Shooting at Two Women, Wounding One, at Hammock Beach Resort; Incident Captured on Video

October 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 71 Comments

A chase involving the Florida Highway Patrol and two people in a white car ended in a shooting in the parking lot area of the Hammock Beach Resort. (© FlaglerLive)

A chase involving units of the Florida Highway Patrol ended in an FHP-involved shooting at the Hammock Beach Resort involving two women, one of whom was injured and air-lifted. A video of the incident shows the women’s vehicle pinned and surrounded by FHP vehicles and troopers when the shooting occurred.

Palm Coast’s Jessy Gilbreath, 28, Arrested for Raping Autistic Child, 12, in His Charge

October 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Jessy Kalany Gilbreath, a 28-year-old resident of 45 Eton Lane, Side B, in Palm Coast, faces a capital felony charge of child rape. Though it’s the first such charge for a Flagler County suspect since the Legislature in its last term revived a law making an individual convicted of raping a child younger than 12 eligible for the death penalty, that does not apply in this case because the capital offense did not take place after Oct. 1, as did other alleged offenses.

Palm Coast Dedicates a Trail To the Memory of Al Krier, Demosthenes of Cimmaron Safety and Civility

October 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Palm Coast City Council member Theresa Pontieri held the picture of Al Krier as she addressed the crowd this morning at the dedication of a new trail in Krier's name, explaining that she keeps the picture pinned to her visor as a reminder of keeping his activism and the city's commitments to them alive. (© FlaglerLive)

The 1.3-mile Al Krier Trail was dedicated by Palm Coast city officials and friends of Al Krier this morning on Palm Harbor Parkway, commemorating the dogged activism of a man who focused the city’s attention on safety issues on Cimmaron Drive and brought a civilized, cheery style to his campaigns.

Almost 1000,000 Customers Migrate from State Insurer Citizens to Private Carriers

October 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Impenetrable: your insurance claim is somewhere in there. (© FlaglerLive)

Citizens had 1.325 million policies as of Friday, down from 1.412 million policies two weeks earlier, according to Citizens data. The drop came as five private insurers assumed 99,773 Citizens policies in mid-October as part of a state effort, known as “depopulation,” to shift homeowners into the private market.

A ‘Code of Conduct’ for Palm Coast City Council Members, Proposed by Mayor, Gets Pushback

October 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council on its best behavior. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin is looking for the City Council to adopt a Code of Conduct for itself. The council is divided on the matter. The split is not over the wording of the proposed code, which drew few objections, but over the document’s implications, its lack of enforceability, and the precedent it may be setting, treating elected officials as city employees–which they are not.

Palm Coast Council Will Expand Public Comment Segments at Workshops, Even at Risk of Epic Meetings

October 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

From time to time--but not often--Palm Coast City Council meetings overflow with members of the public looking to speak their piece. The council will accommodate them even more than they've been accommodated so far. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council will expand its public comment segments at workshops even if it risks lengthening often-epic sessions. Council members cited the importance of public comments–and the extent to which such comments can educate members and sway decision-making. Nick Klufas, the senior member of the council(he’s in his seventh year), cautioned that the council “could potentially get gunked up via this process.”

Palm Coast Approves 91,000 Square Foot Storage Facility Next to Elks Lodge on Old Kings Road

October 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

A rendering of the planned three-story storage facility on North Old Kings Road.

Another storage facility will go up in Palm Coast, on 12 acres on the west side of Old Kings Road, just north of the Elks Lodge, on land owned by First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Palm Coast, which is to the north of the site. The three-story building will be 91,000 square feet, or about half the size of a Walmart Supercenter.

Flagler County Cultural Council Wants You To Know: ‘We’re Here To Stay.’ But It’s Going to Need Help.

October 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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FC3, the Flagler County Cultural Council, has big ambitions–among them, to be known as the county’s designated arts agency, as the driver, supporter, coordinator and promoter of local arts, culture and history, and as a magnet for state and national grants that will help local cultural agencies thrive, or incubate new ones. But for all its giddiness, the organization, after three years, remains cash-poor and mostly in the organizational stage.

Da’mari Barnes, 17, Pleads Out in Shooting Death of Jamey Bennett, 19; Uncertain Sentence Pending

October 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Da'Mari Barnes, center, in court today after tendering his plea, with his attorney, Steven Robinson, behind him, and Knoeidia Hill, a victim's advocate with the State Attorney's Office, right, standing with parents of the victim. (© FlaglerLive)

Da’Mari Barnes, now 17, pleaded guilty today to manslaughter in the shooting death of Jamey Bennett, 19, at a bonfire near Matanzas High School in 2022. The open plea means that when Barnes is sentenced on Jan. 2, the judge will have wide discretion to sentence Barnes either as an adult, with guidelines setting the minimum at 11.5 years in prison and a maximum at 30, or as a youthful offender, to up to six years in prison.

Richard Corcoran Will Be Paid $1.3 Million to Remake New College in DeSantis’s Image

October 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. (© FlaglerLive)

New College of Florida President Richard Corcoran is set to earn up to $1.3 million per year in salary and benefits under a five-year contract approved Friday. Corcoran’s time as interim president of the college was part of sweeping changes to the school spearheaded by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who appointed a slate of conservative allies to the New College trustees board in January.

Voices from Gaza: ‘These Could Be Our Final Days.’

October 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

A man evacuating from a-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, in a sector already demolished by the Israeli bombings. (Muhammad Sabah/B'Tselem)

Olfat al-Kurd is a 45-year-old a mother of four, and Muhammad Sabah, 42, both residents of Gaza, provide testimonies about their attempts to escape bombings and find secure refuge inside the 140 square mile enclave–exactly the geographic size of Bunnell. Gaza’s population is 2 million.

An Honest Conversation About Old Age

October 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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“Honest Aging: An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life,” by Rosanne Leipzig, is the most comprehensive examination of what to expect in later life. “So much of what’s out there is dishonest, claiming to teach people how to age backwards,” Leipzig said. “I think it’s time we say, ‘This is it; this is who we are,’ and admit how lucky we are to have all these years of extra time.”

Florida’s Manatees Should Never Have Been Delisted from Endangered

October 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A manatee at the Santa Fe River. (FWC)

Six years ago the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took Florida manatees down a notch on the endangered list, reclassifying them as merely “threatened.” Now, after nearly 2,000 have died over the past few years, the feds say they may put them back on the top of the list. Manatees had previously been on the endangered list longer than since the Endangered Species Act of 1973. They were an entry on the original list issued in 1967.

In Gaza, Fighting Atrocities with Atrocities Compounds the Indefensible at Civilians’ Expense

October 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Israel hasn’t won a war since 1967, and even that proved to be the untenable occupation and low-grade war it has faced for decades. It’s not about to win against Hamas. Hamas knows this. Israel knows it. Civilians are paying. Civilians alone will lose, as revenge substitutes for strategy and both sides perpetrate war crimes.

Palm Coast Moving To Loosen Sign Ordinance, Allowing More Free Expression–and Realtors’ Sales Pitches

October 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

The sign that started it all, in Gilbert, Arizona, leading to a 2015 Supreme Court decision that found unconstitutional any attempt by local governments to regulate the content of signs. The image is taken from a brief filed with the court.

A proposed rewriting of Palm Coast’s sign ordinance would not change the look of the city markedly, preserving most of the restrictions in place now. But a draft ordinance–still very much a work in progress–errs on the more permissive than restrictive side, now that local governments are largely (but not entirely) barred from regulating what signs say. That means homeowners will get to express themselves more freely, including with hate speech. Realtors will get to plant more signs.

Ex-Employee of Palm Coast Assisted Living Who Defrauded Residents Is Sentenced to Jail and House Arrest

October 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Tina Marie Teixeira. (© FlaglerLive)

Tina Marie Teixeira, 27, an ex-employee of Market Street, the assisted living facility on Palm Coast Parkway, was sentenced to a year in jail instead of the recommended three and a half years in prison, followed by two years of house arrest and three years on probation on convictions for defrauding several residents or their spouses at the facility last year.

Flagler County Tried to Evict a Tenant at the Airport. Jury Called It Retaliation and a Violation of 1st Amendment.

October 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 82 Comments

Les Abend with his plane at the county airport, from where the county attempted to evict him in retaliation, a jury said, for Abend's opinions. (© Les Abend for FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Airport Director Roy Sieger sent Les Abend an eviction notice regarding the hangar Abend had leased for over four years. A two-day trial resulted in a verdict against the county, with a jury finding that the county was retaliating against Abend, a former member of the county’s airport advisory board, for his criticism of Sieger. An eviction case turned into a rare First Amendment case in County Court. Abend will get to keep the hangar.

Grim Year for Local Arts as 3 Big Organizations Vanish and Palm Coast Drops Grants to Lowest-Ever Level

October 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Palm Coast government on Tuesday scaled back its Cultural Arts Program almost by half, offering $20,000 to 13 organizations the coming year. It is the lowest nominal level since 2012, and the lowest level in the city’s history when adjusted for inflation. The retreat takes place in a year that has seen the disappearance of three major cultural organizations in Palm Coast and the county.

Victory for the Hammock as County Rejects More Intense Commercial Development on A1A Parcels

October 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

The pair of parcels on State Road A1A an applicant was seeking to rezone. (Google)

The Flagler County Commission Monday unanimously rejected a proposal to rezone an acre of Hammock property along State Road A1A to more intensive commercial uses. The commission, siding with Hammock residents, found the proposal vague in its designs for the property, at odds with the Scenic A1A overlay, and at risk of setting a precedent that would potentially damage or demolish the road’s character.

Superintendent LaShakia Moore’s $175,000 Salary Is Significantly Less Than a Predecessor’s, When Adjusted

October 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

LaShakia Moore at a recent School Board meeting. Starting tonight the "interim" part of her superintendent title will be eliminated. (© FlaglerLive)

The four-year contract with Superintendent LaShakia Moore the Flagler County School Board is ratifying tonight calls for less compensation than that awarded the two other executive of the county’s largest governments, even though Flagler schools have more employees than both combined, and it is less, in adjusted numbers, than the starting pay of Bill Delbrugge, who in 2005 became superintendent, like Moore, without previous such experience.

Matanzas Brawl Was Long Simmering: Parents Had Alerted the School and Sought Mediation, To No Avail

October 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

Parents of Matanzas High School students who face charges and were disciplined over a brawl last week say they had attempted to address the situation in the run-up to the brawl, but they say Kristin Bozeman, left, the principal, was unaware of the situation until it occurred, while Assistant Principal Fred Terry, right, would not allow mediation between parents. (© FlaglerLive)

The Matanzas High School brawl last week did not occur out of nowhere. According to eight of the parents involved, several of them had been warning the school administration of problems well before, asking for a series of measures, all neglected or turned down outright by the administration, to an apparently unaware principal, Kristin Bozeman, who would tell several of the parents that she was unaware of the issues until the day of the brawl.

21-Year-Old Palm Coast Woman Is Killed in Single-Vehicle Crash on Unlit Old Kings Road

October 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

A 21-year-old Palm Coast woman driving alone was killed in a single-vehicle crash on an unlit portion of Old Kings Road shortly before midnight Sunday. It was the 17th fatality on Flagler County roads this year.

Florida’s Matt Gaetz: Jerkiness In a Class By Himself

October 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Matt gaetz when he was a Florida House member. (Florida House)

As Sen. Lindsey Graham once remarked, “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.” You could probably murder Matt Gaetz in the House chamber and receive a standing ovation.

Local Newspapers Are Disappearing, But Don’t Romanticize Their Role Too Much

October 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The lobby of the Daytona Beach News-Journal in 2010, at its 6th Street location. It no longer exists there. (© FlaglerLive)

Taking one newspaper’s history as a prism, local newspapers didn’t always fulfill their watchdog role, lavishing attention on their community sometimes with a paternalism that chose to conceal problems and fostering a certain coziness with the area’s power players. Boosterism and conflicts of interest occasionally interfered with telling the full story.

Flagler Beach Increases Water, Sewer, Garbage and Stormwater Fees 8%, Swelling Monthly Bills By $8.15

October 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Flagler Beach's sanitation plant. (© FlaglerLive)

After an 8.5 percent increase last year, the Flagler Beach City Commission Thursday unanimously approved an 8 percent increase in water, sewer, garbage-collection and stormwater rates starting on Halloween–an apparently unintentional spook–with a smaller, 3.5 percent increase next year.
The city is estimating the the average water bill for residents will increase by $8.15 a month, to $110, or by $102 for the year.

8 Years in Prison for Connor Anderson, Who ‘Terrorized’ Smiles Bar Patrons in Shooting

October 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Connor Anderson in court today, with his attorney, Aaron Delgado, to the right, and Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark. (© FlaglerLive)

Connor Anderson, the 31-year-old man who wrestled with the Smiles Nite Club bartender and others and fired his gun six times inside the bar last November, was sentenced to eight years in prison, followed by five years on probation, after a sentencing hearing where Anderson described himself as disgusted with his act.

City Repertory Theatre’s Double Bill of Dares: Albee’s ‘Zoo Story,’ and an Unpredictable ‘Rabbit’

October 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Nassim Soleimanpour’s 2011 play “White Rabbit Red Rabbit.”

“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” will be staged with no rehearsals, no director, no set and performed over four nights by four different actors who will have never before read the script. Also on the double-bill, Edward Albee’s very first play, “The Zoo Story,” making it one of City Repertory Theatre’s more daring evenings.

Ex-Matanzas Student Brendan Depa Will Plead Out in Teacher-Assault Case, Leaving His Fate to a Judge

October 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Brendan Depa in court today, next to Teifke. (© FlaglerLive)

Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School student who drew global attention and a first-degree felony charge as an adult after a video of his assault on a paraprofessional circulated, will plead out, avoiding a trial. But he will also be taking the risk of a steep sentence.

Monserrate Teron Is Sentenced to Life in Prison for Raping His Niece as Child’s Mother Describes a Family Wrecked

October 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Monserrate Teron stepping down from the stand after he addressed the court at his sentencing today. (© FlaglerLive)

Monserrate Teron, the former Army nurse a jury last July found guilty of raping his 7-year-old niece, was sentenced this morning to two life terms, plus 30 years on an additional charge. Teron turns 60 in two weeks. The victim’s mother described to the court the day-to-day of her daughters’ harrowing lives since, accusing a large part of Teron’s family as “enablers.” That side of the family again today insisted that Teron is innocent.

What Does Palm Coast Hope to Be ‘When We Grow Up’? City Launches 14-Month Plan to Listen and Respond

October 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Consultants Silvia E. Vargas, at the mic, and Kathie Ebaugh at the whiteboard, gathering initial expectations from City Council and Planning Board members about what they want the 14-month comprehensive plan process to entail as they discussed the launch of that plan this afternoon at City Hall. (© FlaglerLive)

What should Palm Coast look like in 2050? City Hall today kicked off a 14-month process to answer that question, to do so by engaging as many residents as possible as inclusively as possible along the way, ending with a document that will re-imagines the city’s blueprint as its residents want it to be at mid-century. The result of that exercise will be a complete re-write of the city’s “Comprehensive Plan,” the first since 2004.

School Board Members’ Questions to Outside Counsel Reveal Worry of Lawsuit If They Fire Their Attorney

October 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Looking for a clue: Flagler County School Board members Christy Chong, Will Furry and Sally Hunt--first three from right--are looking to push out Board Attorney Kristy Gavin. (© FlaglerLive)

Three Flagler County School Board members have submitted nine questions to two attorneys the board hired for at least $5,000 to examine how it could fire Board Attorney Kristy Gavin without getting sued. The board members wrote the questions and circulated them outside of a public meeting. The questions had not been disclosed publicly until this article.

In Lawsuit Settlement DeSantis Administration Will Stop Censoring Covid Death Counts and Vaccinations

October 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

An image from the early days of the pandemic at UF Shands in Gainesville, in July 2020. (© FlaglerLive)

The DeSantis administration has agreed to release years of previously suppressed data about Covid’s spread in Florida to settle a lawsuit filed by a former state House member, a government openness group, and news organizations. The Florida Department of Health will resume posting on its website details of vaccination counts, case counts, and deaths weekly by county, age group, gender, and race in the future.

Don O’Brien Said to Consider Dropping Out of House Race, Pam Richardson Runs for County Commission

October 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Donald O'Brien, left, and Pam Richardson. (© FlaglerLive)

Darryl Boyer, one of three Republican candidates in the primary for the state House seat that Paul Renner is relinquishing in 2024, said today that Donald O’Brien, one of the other two competitors for that seat, told him he was likely dropping out of the race. At the same time, Pam Richardson, the Realtor-broker, has joined the Republican primary race for O’Brien’s Commission seat, also contested by Ed Danko and Victor Barbosa.

Flagler’s Family Life Center Nets $26,000 from Creekside Festival Donation as 10,000 Turn Out

October 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Vendor space sold out at the 2023 Creekside Music and Arts Festival, and the two-day event drew a combined crowd of 10,000. (Flagler Broadcasting)

Last weekend’s edition of the Creekside Music and Arts Festival at Princess Place Preserve made up for last year’s, when Hurricane Ian made the park impassable and forced the event to move to the Agriculture Museum. The two-day event drew 10,000 people and netted the Family Life center a $26,000 donation from Flagler Broadcasting, which organized the event.

Judge Orders One Final Mediation in Hopes of Averting Trial in Captain’s BBQ Suit Against County

October 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Captain's BBQ, to the left, at Bing's Landing. The lawsuit it filed against the county is four years old. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission met behind closed doors for the first time in over three years this morning to discuss a possible settlement of the four-year-old lawsuit by Captain’s BBQ at Bings Landing. The judge in the case ordered the two sides again to go to mediation to avoid a January trial. Mediation and an attempted settlement that made significant concessions to Captain’s in 2020 failed as commissioners rejected the proposal.

In Florida, Surgeon General Normalizes Medical Quackery

October 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, in an “America’s Frontline Doctors” lab coat, speaks at a July 2020 event that included Stella Immanuel, a doctor who said “demonic seed” causes ovarian cysts and endometriosis. (Screenshot from YouTube)

In 2021, when Ron DeSantis brought the Quack Ladapo to Florida, it was like returning to a simpler, much stupider time, when docs prescribed drinking a little ground unicorn horn mixed with water as a cure for the plague. Or if you were fresh out of unicorns (or the virgins you need to catch them), you could always  try chicken butt.

State Attorney’s Jason Lewis, Near-Invincible Prosecutor, Wins 7th Judicial Circuit’s Lifetime Achievement Award

October 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis had no idea he would be the State Attorney's recipient of the Boyle Award for th Seventh judicial Circuit. (© FlaglerLive)

Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis, a ferocious, annihilating prosecutor who’s as genial outside the courtroom as he is fearsome inside it, since 2014 has managed the Flagler outpost of the State Attorney’s Office and oversees its homicide attorneys in the four-county Seventh Judicial Circuit.

Before Her Leap Off the Flagler Beach Bridge, Untouched Drinks and a Purse Left Behind

October 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Five people have jumped from the Flagler Beach bridge in the last 10 years. Two died. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach Police Department identified the woman who jumped from the Flagler Beach bridge Wednesday afternoon and survived as Mandy Michelle Mincey, a 47-year-old woman with no reported home. She was also known as Mandy Monroe. Earlier that day she had been at a bar and had ordered drinks, but left them untouched as she ran to the bridge.

Palm Coast Issued Development Orders for 4,138 Homes This Year Alone, and Has 13,361 ‘in Pipeline’

October 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

Too much? (© FlaglerLive)

While City Council member Theresa Ponstieri significantly overstated the actual number of homes the council approved this year, there is no question that Palm Coast is growing rapidly, and that Council policy is doing all it can to accelerate that growth, with increasing rumbles from existing residents who think, like Pontieri, that the pace is too rapid.

With District Financial Procedures Ensnarled, School Board Pursues Firing Attorney, But With a Lifeline

October 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

It's been a year of face-palms. (© FlaglerLive)

The board’s discussion took an unexpected turn as the possibility of saving Kristy Gavin’s job in a different capacity–she would answer to the superintendent as a staff attorney–gelled around a consensus that perhaps reflects the board’s leeriness at fostering either more controversy or more difficulties for its new superintendent, who already relies a great deal on Gavin and her unparalleled institutional history. 

With $719,000 Almost Certainly Lost to Fraud, School District Turns to Insurance in Hopes for Recovery

October 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

The Flagler County Sheriff's Office made public a heavily redacted incident report on the school district's fraud case today. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly this afternoon confirmed that the amount of money the Flagler County school district lost in a wire-transfer phishing scheme is $719,583, but that “it’s close to 100 percent long gone.” The district made the payment on Sept. 22. Its fraudulent nature was not detected until Tuesday morning–11 days later, an eternity of comfort for phishing scams to evade controls and make it out of the country.

Sheriff Chitwood’s Dangerous, Irresponsible Attacks on News-Journal’s Frank Fernandez

October 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The News-Journal's Frank Fernandez, right, always on the lookout for cons. (© FlaglerLive)

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood’s repeated, vilifying and unjustified attacks on News-Journal reporter Frank Fernandez irresponsibly and dangerously inflame his social media base at a time when reporters’ safety is nothing to take lightly–the more so when a law enforcement chief who should know better is stoking the flames. Volusia County media should respond in concert.

Flagler School District Loses ‘Significant Amount of Money’ in Apparent Phishing Scheme Involving Vendor

October 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

School Board Attorney Kristy Gavin's desk was conspicuously empty during today's three-hour workshop: she was investigating a case of potential fraud involving the district's accounts. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler Schools)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a case of fraud, or phishing, targeting the Flagler County school district and one of its vendors. The district may have lost as much as $700,000 intended for one of the contractors building the Matanzas High School addition. If it is a case of phishing, the likelihood of recovering the money is not high, especially since the district may not have been timely either in discovering the fraud or in reporting it.

Bob Snyder, ‘Giant During Covid,’ Steps Down from Flagler County Health Department He Led for 11 Years

October 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Bob Snyder looks up to retirement. (© FlaglerLive)

Bob Snyder, who’s led the Flagler County Health Department since 2013, was the co-architect of the county’s response to the Covid pandemic and more recently ensured that the department’s funding more directly reflect the county’s population, after decades of imbalance, stepped down and opted for retirement Sunday, six months before he was planning to do so.

For $3 Million Rebuild of Splash Pad at Holland Park, Palm Coast Turns to Trusted Contractor

October 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

The splash pad today. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast government is turning to a trusted contractor, Daytona Beach-based Saboungi Construction–fresh from its ramped up transformation of Waterfront Park–to repair the desolate splash pad at Holland Park, a two-year-old blight on the city’s prized park system and an eyesore at the flagship park almost since it opened in May 2021.

Judge Exonerates ‘Christian’ Teacher Who Refused to Refer to Trans Student by His Preferred Pronouns

October 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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An administrative law judge Monday backed a Miami-Dade County teacher who reportedly told a transgender student that, “I’m a Christian, and my God made no mistakes” while refusing to call the student by preferred pronouns.

Here Are the 3 Lawsuits Against the District the School Board Will Discuss Behind Closed Doors Tuesday

October 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Tuesday's closed-door meeting was initially requested by school board members, contrary to state law, which authorizes only the school board attorney to call such "shade" meetings. (Marcus Wallis on Unsplash)

When the Flagler County School Board meets behind closed doors early Tuesday afternoon, a meeting that may at least in part be in violation of state law, it will discuss three pending lawsuits against the district, and potential settlements in two of them, including an employment discrimination lawsuit scheduled for trial in federal court in December.

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