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Congestion Ahead: Palm Coast Approves 4-Laning of Old Kings North and 7 Safety Projects on Belle Terre Parkway

August 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Get ready for some new traffic disruptions around some of Palm Coast’s busiest arteries: Old Kings Road North, just past Kings Way, and along Belle Terre Parkway from south of Buddy Taylor Middle School to Royal Palms Parkway as construction crews take on a series of critical road improvements that, once done, will make traveling safer and swifter.

Challenged by Staffer, Palm Coast Council Awards $8.2 Million to Same Firm Dragging Belle Terre Bridge Project

August 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Palm Coast loves its canals. A $9.2 million project is intended to improve flood protection in the L and B Section. (Palm Coast)

Carmelo Morales, a rank-and-file city engineer, charged city council members with “micromanaging” an  $8.2 million stormwater contract with the same firm building the Belle Terre Parkway/Buddy Taylor walkway and storm pipe, and risking leaving the city begging for contractors. But in the end, the council approved the contract and conceded Morales’s point, with caveats.

Flagler School Board Suspends Search and Prepares to Hire LaShakia Moore as Permanent Superintendent

August 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Interim Superintendent LShakia Moore diring the school board's discussion about her future as a permanent superintendent this afternoon during a workshop. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler Schools TV)

The Flagler County School Board this afternoon agreed to suspend its search for a new superintendent and instead set in motion several steps that would lead to the appointment of Interim LaShakia Moore as the permanent district superintendent come September or October. 

Florida Felons Want Their Guns Back. Supreme Court May Hear Them Out.

August 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A rife used in a criminal shooting in Flagler County in 2014. (© FlaglerLive)

After a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year on Second Amendment rights, the Florida Supreme Court could decide whether to uphold a state law barring possession of guns by convicted felons.

33% Increase in Flagler’s Population, 0% Increase in District’s 9 Public Schools’ Enrollment Over Past 17 Years

August 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Still flat but for online's uptick: Flagler County Schools' enrollment since 2000. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County schools’ nine traditional campuses are again enrolling almost as many students as they did last year, and as many as they have each year for the past 17 years, as charter, private, parochial, online and home school enrollment continues to encroach on the district’s numbers. The figures have big implications for funding, school impact fees and school construction.

Homeowner, 85, Arrested on Murder Charge in Shooting Death of Mark Ruschmeier, 36, in Long-Running Dispute

August 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

The Flagler County Sheriff's Crime Scene Investigation unit in front of 20 Blare Drive in Palm Coast nearing noon today, as it investigated the early-morning homicide there. (© FlaglerLive)

Charles Kidd Jr., 85, was arrested on a second-degree murder charge this afternoon following the early morning shooting death of 36-year-old Mark Ruschmeier, who has lived with Kidd at Kidd’s Blare Drive home in Palm Coast’s Woodlands for at least a decade.

Time for Flagler County Government To Appoint a Citizen Advisory Group

August 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

They can use the help: the Flagler County Commission. (© FlaglerLive)

As Flagler County government appears to flail between budget shortfalls and a call for a new tax, it may be time for the county to do what St. Lucie County has been doing for years: appoint a citizen advisory group of resident volunteers with business experience to review future budgets and advise the commissioners.

In Palm Coast Sheep, Not Chicken, May Safely Graze

August 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

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The Palm Coast City Council’s rejection of a pilot program that would have allowed chickens in a handful of backyards is disappointing. But the council since its earliest days has tended to run the city more as a homeowners association bound to conformity and the somnolence of residents out to pasture rather than as a vibrant city welcoming of differences, innovation, young and working people.

School District’s Cost for Security at Alternative School with 2 Teachers and 25 Students: $142,500

August 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A Flagler County Sheriff's deputy at a protest outside the Government Services Building before a School Board meeting two years ago. It's been a bit calmer since. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County school district is paying $142,500 a year for security at its relatively new alternative school on the campus of Flagler Palm Coast High School–an alternative school with just two teachers and an average of 20 students per quarter, some of them virtual, and that operates only four days a week.

Sheriff’s Deputy Hospitalized During Investigation of DUI Suspect’s Cocktail of Drugs, Including Fentanyl

August 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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George Clemons, 61, was arrested on numerous charges for drugs, DUI and hit and run, while one of the deputies investigating the case, Nick Huzior, had to be hospitalized after talking ill while field testing the substances found in Clemons’s truck.

New College Interviews for New President Between Eliminating Gender Studies and Making Homer Mandatory

August 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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New College of Florida officials on Thursday interviewed three final candidates vying to become the school’s next permanent president, including current Interim President Richard Corcoran. The trustees also interviewed Tyler Fisher, an associate professor of modern languages and literature and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Central Florida, and Robert Gervasi, a former interim president at the University of Mount Union in Ohio.

The Heroic Effort to Save Florida’s Coral Reef from Devastating Record Heat

August 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Elkhorn coral fragments rescued from overheating ocean nurseries sit in cooler water at Keys Marine Laboratory. (NOAA)

As water temperatures spiked in the Florida Keys, scientists from universities, coral reef restoration groups and government agencies launched a heroic effort to save the corals. Divers have been in the water every day, collecting thousands of corals from ocean nurseries along the Florida Keys reef tract and moving them to cooler water and into giant tanks on land.

Palm Coast’s Saltwater Canals in Better Shape Than Feared, Narrowing Debate to ‘Spot Dredging’ and Cost

August 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

A segment of a Palm Coast canal with and without sea wall, with the lighter-colored water showing silting. (Taylor Engineering)

A long-anticipated analysis of Palm Coast’s 26 miles of saltwater canals, the second since 2005 in the canals’ half-century history, revealed to some surprise that the canals are in better shape than expected. While that diminishes the urgency, breadth and cost of necessary dredging, dredging would still be necessary and expensive regardless. 

Flagler Schools Drop AP Psychology as State Sends Conflicted Signals Over Gender and Sexuality Unit

August 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Manny Diaz Jr., R-Hialeah, would “preempt” regulation of vacation rentals, including licensing and inspection, to the state.

In Flagler County, where students returned to school today, AP Psychology, one of the more popular courses in Flagler Palm Coast High School’s accelerated curriculum, will no longer be taught. Students have been automatically shifted to the IB course in a pre-emptive move against the state’s conflicting messages about whether the AP course was legal to teach in its entirety of not, and a local school board with members eager to fuel the state’s culture wars.

Palm Coast Disarms ‘Forensic Audit’ Talk as Council’s Klufas Asks ‘Where’s the Fire?’ and Cautions Against Pandering

August 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Palm Coast City Council member Nick Klufas, standing by City Manager Denise Bevan, and the city administration. (© FlaglerLive)

Led by Council member Nick Klufas, the Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday decidedly stepped back from its posture a week earlier, when it appeared ready to call for what would have been a very expensive and accusatory “forensic audit” of city finances, seemingly at the behest of one, significantly misinformed resident.

Cascades Development, Revived from 2005, Calls for Up to 850 Homes on 375 Acres in Seminole Woods

August 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

The tip of the required sign announcing the coming hearing before the Palm Coast Planning Board on the land use changes that would enable the development of up to 850 residential homes and apartments on acres off of Seminole Woods Boulevard. (Palm Coast)

After a nearly two-decade hiatus, the massive Cascades development planned for Seminole Woods is back, and is more than double its original size: up to 850 single-family homes and apartments on 375 acres. If built out to that cap, the Cascades would be, along with Coquina Shores on Old Kings Road–a 750-home development just rezoned for the purpose–one of the largest developments in the city.

Palm Coast Council Chickens Out of Modest Pilot Program for Backyard Hens, But May Survey Residents

August 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 66 Comments

Not any time soon, not in Palm Coast, not legally, anyway. (Palm Coast)

The Palm Coast City Council today shot down a two-year pilot program that would have permitted up to 25 properties to have backyard chickens in answer to a growing movement across the country toward more self-sufficiency and more natural foods. The most the city will do for now is possibly survey residents on their opinions about backyard chickens.

Impacting Services, Palm Coast Cuts $2.7 Million from Initial 2024 Budget to Comply with Council’s Lower Tax Rate

August 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Palm Coast's acquatic center will close in December and January as part of the budget reductions presented today. (© FlaglerLive)

While these are budget cuts only in relation to the initially planned budget for next year, they nevertheless will have the effects of actual budget cuts in many regards, because they go against the grain of growth in the budget intended to maintain services and what City Manager Denise Bevan referred to as the city’s customary forward-looking approach.

Ahead of His Sentencing to Life in Prison, Attorneys for Monserrate Teron File Motion for 3rd Trial

August 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Monserrate Teron faces life in prison when he is sentenced in October. (© FlaglerLive)

Attorneys for Monserrate Teron, the Palm Coast resident a jury last month found guilty on all counts of raping and molesting his 7-year-old niece, on Monday filed a motion for a new trial, what would be Teron’s third on those charges. They make several claims, most of them previously made in pre-trial motions and denied by Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. He is not likely to rule differently now. He is sentencing Teron on Oct. 11.

Education Officials Want Lawsuit Over Gay Penguins Book Tossed Out, Claiming It’s Moot. Litigants Disagree.

August 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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“And Tango makes Three” had been banned for students up to third grade by Lake County schools, then allowed in libraries. It tells the story of two male penguins who raised a penguin chick at New York’s Central Park Zoo. In a filing last month seeking a preliminary injunction, attorneys for the plaintiffs disputed that the case is moot. They argued, in part, that the district could reverse course again and restrict access to the book in libraries.

County’s Sales Tax Hike Rings Hollow as Attorney Defends Commissioner’s Unilateral Request for Delay

August 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

County Attorney Al Hadeed, from where he usually sits during commission meetings. (© FlaglerLive)

Reeling in a school’s worth of red herrings, County Attorney Al Hadeed today fervently defended the authority of County Commissioner Dave Sullivan to ask Flagler Beach government a week and a half ago to pull from discussion a request from the County Commission for support of a proposed increase in the sales tax.

Sheriff’s PAL Is Not Taking Over Carver Center Or Changing Its Name, County and School District Assure Community

August 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Carver Center in Bunnell is a lot more than a community center to its neighboring residents. (© FlaglerLive)

Contrary to rumors and fears, the Flagler Sheriff Police Athletic League is not taking over the Carver Center in South Bunnell, nor is the Carver Center losing its name, its governing structure its staffing by the school district, the chairman of the Flagler County School Board and the county administrator say. But PAL is seeking to have a significant presence there.

Child Nicotine Poisoning Hit All-Time High as Vapes Flood the Market

August 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Cases of vaping-related nicotine exposure reported to poison centers hit an all-time high in 2022 — despite a 2016 law, the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act, that requires child-resistant packaging on bottles of vaping liquid. In what doctors call a major oversight, the law doesn’t require protective packaging on devices themselves.

4 Suicide Attempts, 6 Baker Acts, No Disputes About Mental Health Needs, Yet He’s Sentenced to Prison on Minor Violation

August 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

L'Darius Smith. (© FlaglerLive)

L’Darius Smith is a a troubled man prone to confrontations, delusions, depression, and self-harm who twice avoided prison in high-profile trials in Flagler in the last five years, but minor probation violation resulted in a prison sentence Thursday even though the court acknowledged that he suffers from deep mental health problems and needs treatment.

Candidates Lining Up to Run for Dave Sullivan’s County Commission Seat, Including Kim Carney and Nick Klufas

August 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Kim Craney, left, and Nick Klufas. (© FlaglerLive)

Former Flagler Beach City Commissioner Kim Carney joins a growing field for the District 3 seat Dave Sullivan will be relinquishing. The field so far includes two other Flagler Beach residents, Bill Clark and Tom Hutson, and does not yet formally include the race’s heavy-hitter: Nick Klufas, the two-term Palm Coast City Council member, who will soon announce.

Florida Prisoners Broil in 115-Degree Heat in Buildings Without AC, and No Plans for Structural Relief

August 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Many Florida prisons have no air conditioning, leaving prisoners broiling in an ongoing heat wave, and the state has no plans to change the fact beyond cosmetic allowances. (© FlaglerLive)

Many prisons are decades old. Installing air conditioning would be expensive and take years. Some facilities can’t be retrofitted for AC. Temperatures inside buildings without air conditioning can soar 15 degrees higher than the temperature outside. That means temperatures over 100 degrees last month put the thermometer above 115 inside prisons in some regions.

Army Corps Issues Permit Notice for New, 828-ft Flagler Beach Pier, Detailing Construction and Seeking Public Input

August 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The old Flagler Beach pier may soon be a construction zone. (© FlaglerLive)

In what one of the designers of Flagler Beach’s new pier described as “a big milestone in the federal regulatory process,” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued notice that it is reviewing the permit application for the new pier, and soliciting public comment about detailed construction plans that had not been disclosed until now.

Flagler Beach’s Margaritaville Hotel Begins 18-Month Construction in September

August 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

Some 80 people turned up, including most of the city commission and its new manager, Todd Martin, to hear the developer and contractor of the coming Margaritaville Hotel describe how construction will mesh with downtown over the next 18 months. (© FlaglerLive)

Some 80 people turned up, including most of the city commission and its new manager, Dale Martin, to hear the developer and contractor of the coming Margaritaville Hotel describe how construction will mesh with downtown over the next 18 months.

At Budget Hearing, School Board’s Sally Hunt Reveals Alarming Ignorance of Tax Structure and State Funding

August 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Sally Hunt is confused. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler TV)

As she revealed at a budget meeting Tuesday evening, just before voting on what she did not know, Sally Hunt does not know how the school district’s budget is funded by a state formula. She does not know how the millage, or property tax, is set. She does not know whether to cheer or jeer lower school property taxes, even coming off a budget briefing on July 24, when she voted to approve advertising the budget.

Without Evidence of Wrongdoing, Palm Coast Council Orders Expensive, Unprecedented Forensic Audit

August 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Ken McDowell Tuesday evening "demanded" that the Palm Coast City Council conduct a forensic audit of city finances, and the council agreed. (© FlaglerLive via Palm Coast TV)

The Palm Coast City Council Tuesday evening agreed to an unprecedented and very expensive forensic audit of city finances, the sort of audit usually predicated on suspicions of wrongdoing, despite a lack of evidence of any wrongdoing and routine, annual audits and a finance department that just as routinely wins annual awards for transparency. The council was responding to public demands driven more by ideology and general dissatisfaction than facts.

Next Flagler School Superintendent’s Salary May Be As High as $200,000, a 48% Jump in Last 3 Years

August 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Acting Superintendent LaShakia Moore, left, at today's workshop of the Flagler County School Board. Board attorney Kristy Gavin walked the board through its next steps in its search for a new superintendent, including salary ranges and job description. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler Schools)

Barely three years ago, the Flagler County School Board hired Cathy Mittelstadt as its superintendent on a base salary of $135,000. The next superintendent may earn as much as $200,000. Flagler School Board member Sally Hunt wanted to go as high as $215,000, though the average salary in Florida is $174,000, and Flagler County is among the state’s smaller districts.

Without Authority, a County Commissioner Asks Flagler Beach to Table Sales Tax Increase Discussion

August 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

County Commissioner Dave Sullivan is mulling over different ways to push for an increase in the sales surtax Flagler County residents pay. He faces a very uphill climb made steeper by inaccurate county information. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach City Commission pulled from consideration for now a county proposal to raise the local sales tax, after Flagler County Commissioner Dave Sullivan requested that the item be tabled–even though he had not secured the County Commission’s authority to do that. It was the latest example of factual, political and procedural messiness surrounding the county’s sales tax proposal.

50-Year-Old Palm Coast Cyclist Is Killed in Crash While Crossing State Road 100 in Bunnell

August 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

That area of state Road 100 has seen its share of pedestrian and cyclist injuries and fatalities over the years. The above is a file photo. (© FlaglerLive)

A 50-year-old Palm Coast man on a bicycle lost his life Monday night in a collision with a car driven by a 77-year-old woman on State Road 100 just west of Commerce Parkway in Bunnell.

Two-Term Flagler County Commissioner Charlie Ericksen, a Stalwart of Civility and Grit, Dies at 80

July 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Charlie Ericksen, who served two terms as Flagler County Commissioner–two terms characterized by an immersive interest in all things Flagler, unfailing civility and understated wit–died today in Celebration, where he’d recently moved in declining health, to be closer to family.

Whispering Meadows Ranch Will Leave Flagler Over Next 2 Years For 9-Acre Tract in Ormond Beach

July 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Whispering Meadows Ranch operated off of John Anderson Highway for a decade and a half to great acclaim until neighbors began objecting a little over two years ago. (© FlaglerLive)

Whispering Meadows Ranch, the equine therapy non-profit that’s been looking for a new home for over two years, closed on a 9-acre tract in Ormond Beach, along State Road 40 just south of the Flagler County line, and will leave its John Anderson Highway location over the next two years. 

36-Year-Old Man Breaks Into Church’s Playground to Charge Phone and Pleasure Himself

July 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Eliezer Torres, 36, Saturday after he was accused of shoplifting at Goodwill, breaking into Christ the King Lutheran Church’s playground, destroying some property there so he could charge his cell phone, and masturbating at the entrance to the church.

Affordable Housing is a Human Right, Not a Handout

July 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Housing is more than a roof over our heads. It determines our ability to stay healthy, get an education, build wealth, and live longer. It is not merely a luxury commodity limited to those who can afford it. It is a right — and our government should start recognizing and treating it as such.

Health Care’s Familiar Symptoms: GOP Wants Less Regulation, Democrats Want More

July 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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GOP health plans would allow more employers to bypass the landmark health insurance overhaul’s basic benefits requirements and most state standards. Democrats want to limit short-term plans’ length before people go into ACA plans. Meanwhile, many still struggle to afford deductibles or other costs.

Why Are Florida Republicans So Scared of Higher Education?

July 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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Florida Republicans are scared of higher education. Colleges. Universities. Known hotbeds of wokery, Marxism, and foreign languages, they should instead focus on the one thing that matters to real Americans: training future cogs in the uber-capitalist machine and sports.

Teron, in 2nd Trial, Is Guilty on All Charges of Raping 7-Year-Old Niece; Will Be Sentenced to Life in Prison

July 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Monserrate Teron will be sentenced to life in prison. (© FlaglerLive)

In Monserrate Teron’s second trial in six weeks, a jury of four men and two women today found the former Army nurse guilty of raping and molesting his 7-year-old niece at his Palm Coast home in November 2019. The jury deliberated three hours, its decision finally, clearly clinched by the testimony of the child, now 11, whom Teron had victimized for years.

Facing Cash Crunch and Skirting Rules, DeSantis Appears as ‘Special Guest’ at His Own Campaign Events

July 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

DeSantis has been taking a measure of his diminishing campaign. (Team DeSantis video)

As DeSantis deals with a cash crunch, firing staffers, a super PAC required by law to keep its distance from him is now being assigned more campaign tasks, enabling DeSantis to take advantage of a loophole allowing a candidate to appear as a special guest at a super PAC event.

Prosecution Lets Glaring Falsehood, Key to Defense’s Arguments, Go Unchallenged as Rape Trial Goes to Jury

July 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark, left, showing the jury, during closing arguments, the murphy bed and the layout of the bedroom in the Palm Coast home where Monserrate Teron is accused of having sexually assaulted his 7-year-old niece in November 2019. (© FlaglerLive)

The prosecution and defense delivered their closing arguments in Monserrate Teron’s second trial in six weeks on charges he raped his 7-year-old niece in Palm Coast in 2019. The prosecution never challenged a key but medically false claim at the center of Teron’s defense: that since he suffered from erectile dysfunction, he could not have orgasmed as he was abusing his niece.

At African American Society, ‘Summer of 1969’ Exhibit Kicks Off Festival of Cultural Events

July 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Savannah Ryan, curator of the “Summer of 1969” exhibition at the African American Cultural Society, places dolls designed by Carmen Nibbs in a display case. (© FlaglerLive)

The art exhibit at Palm Coast’s African American Cultural Society, opening Saturday, and its numerous related programs, centers on “Summer of Soul,” the 2021 documentary film about the nearly forgotten Harlem Cultural Festival colloquially known as the “Black Woodstock.”

Palm Coast Man, 43, Is Killed in Rear-End Crash with Stopped Semi on I-95

July 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The crash took place in the northbound lanes of I-95 late Wednesday night, shutting down northbound traffic at Old Dixie Highway. (© FlaglerLive)

A 43-year-old Palm Coast man lost his life Wednesday night in a rear-end crash as traffic was stalled on I-95 near the Old Dixie Highway interchange.

Flagler County Uses False Information as It Asks Cities to Support Increase in Sales Tax

July 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

County government's claims are off. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County government is disseminating false information about the proportion of the local sales tax paid by visitors as it seeks letters of support from Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell and Beverly Beach to increase the county’s sales tax by half a percent.

AdventHealth Prepares to Open Palm Coast Parkway Hospital, Doubling ER and Patient Capacity

July 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The main entrance of AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway. The facility, with 100 in-patient beds, opens Aug. 2. An open house for the community will be held 1-4 p.m. Wednesday July 26. (© FlaglerLive)

The 158,000-sqaure-foot facility, which cost $167 million, includes 100 inpatient beds, which will double the inpatient capacity for Flagler County when added to AdventHealth Palm Coast, the hospital that recently marked its 20th anniversary at its campus on S.R. 100 just west of I-95.

Palm Coast Franchise Fee Killed Again as FPL Balks at Referendum; City Must Cut Budget $2.8 Million

July 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

City Council member Theresa Pontieri, right, had proposed adopting a new franchise fee on electric utility bills conditional on a referendum guiding the rate. Council member Ed Danko opposed the fee in any form. The fee proposal died today. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council is set to abandon the unpopular franchise fee it proposed adding to electric bills only last week. City Council member Theresa Pontieri said today she will withdraw the motion that she’d made on July 18. The reason, according to the city manager: Florida Power and Light won’t accept the city’s terms.

Waste Pro and Palm Coast Drop All Claims Against Each Other in Bingate Settlement

July 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Waste Pro and Palm Coast signed an agreement that will have Palm Coast release $153,150 owed Waste Pro. The city will also void the $66,350 fines the company had accrued. Neither side admits wrong-doing. Neither side will sue.

ACLU Accused Florida Supreme Court of Abusing Its Authority on Recreational Pot Initiative

July 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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In a brief supporting a citizens’ initiative to legalize recreational marijuana use, the ACLU accuses the Florida Supreme Court of abusing its authority to strike proposed state constitutional amendments from the ballot.

Jury Selection in Teron’s 2nd Trial Again Rattles Jurors

July 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Defense attorney Brook O'Sullivan with Monserratye Teron today during jury selection.

A jury of four men and four women, including two alternates, was seated late this afternoon in the trial of Monserrate Teron, his second in six weeks on charges that the 59-year-old Palm Coast resident and former Army nurse raped his 7-year-old niece at his home in 2019. The first trial ended with a deadlocked jury of 12.

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