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Trials of Circle K Murder Suspects, Derrius Bauer and Marcus Chamblin, May Not Be Until Next Year

March 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Derrius Bauer in court this morning. (© FlaglerLive via zoom)

Layers for the defense and the prosecution told Circuit Judge Terence Perkins this morning that they may not be ready for the trial of Derrius Bauer, one of two suspects in the October 2019 killing of Deon O’Neal Jenkins, known as the Circle K murder, until next January.

DeSantis Signs Massive Expansion of Subsidized Private Education at Public Expense

March 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis signs massive school voucher expansion on March 27, 2023. (Gov. Ron DeSantis Facebook page)

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed an expansive voucher law to provide public money for children to attend parochial, secular and other private schools across the state, despite previous skepticism about letting millionaire and billionaire families participate in Florida’s K-12 school voucher programs.

George Hanns, Defeated in 2016 After 24 Years, Plans Another Run for County Commission

March 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

George Hanns had served 24 years as a Flagler County Commissioner when he lost in 2016. He wants another run at it, this time as a Republican vying for the seat Donald O’Brien is vacating, and that Palm Coast Council member Ed Danko plans a run for.

Challenged in Flagler Schools: Ellen Hopkins’s Tilt, a Review and a Recommendation

March 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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In “Tilt,” Ellen Hopkins gives us the powerful coming of age story of three very engaging, very different American teenagers. The novel is on the list of books three Flagler County residents are seeking to ban. A Flagler Palm Coast High School committee discusses the challenge on Thursday.

DeSantis Is Destroying Florida Universities’ Hard-Earned Respect in the Name of White Nationalism

March 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

A student demonstration at the University of Central Florida last September. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida’s public universities have been gaining national prominence and respect, with U.F. and FSU ranked Nos. 5 and 19 among public universities. DeSantis’s assault on academic freedom in the name of a white-nationalist, America-first curriculum is demolishing that hard-earned respect and making an embarrassment of the state.

Behind Principal Paul Peacock’s $7,500 Grievance, a Roil of Politics and Sideshow Maneuvers

March 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Wadsworth principal Paul Peacock’s grievance appeal for a $7,500 supplement is not a complex issue for the School Board to decide on March 28. But it is taking place amid a peripheral stew of noise, politics, and maneuvering over the superintendent’s future, plus a threat of a lawsuit, all of which will challenge the board’s ability to stick to the merits of the appeal.

How a Palm Coast Organization Is Keeping Jazz Alive in Northeast Florida

March 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Established in Palm Coast in 1986 by Eugene (Jeep) and Muriel McCoy, the North East Florida Jazz Association (NEFJA) has been celebrating and promoting Jazz for more than 35 years. It’s marking Jazz Appreciation Month with an April 1 concert featuring trumpetist Longineu Parsons II.

Proposed 16-Home Beachside Development South of Surf Club Troubles Residents and the County

March 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Solitude at Matanzas Shores would be built on just under 4 acres of beachside land across from the Lakeside and Las Casitas developments, on State Road A1A. County commissioners are leery, and leaning against approving allowing 16 single-family homes there. (© FlaglerLive)

Solitude at Matanzas Shores would be built on just under 4 acres of beachside land across from the Lakeside and Las Casitas developments, on State Road A1A. County commissioners are leery, and leaning against approving allowing 16 single-family homes there.

Superintendent’s Self-Evaluation Is 2 Points Short of ‘Highly Effective,’ With Notable Gaps

March 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt's future in the district is more hidden than she would prefer. (© FlaglerLive)

If it’s not a done deal–which it may well be–the self-evaluations may be key to Flagler School Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt’s future, which can now fairly be called embattled as one school board member has been seeking her replacement, two have remained mum on her future, and only two have lent her support.

In less Than 24 Hours, an ‘Open Carry’ Bill Is Introduced then Re-Holstered, Disappointing Advocates

March 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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But a permitless carry bill proceeds. That bill, HB 543, would repeal the requirement that Floridians who carry a concealed weapon must get a license through the state. It would also mean Floridians would not have to take a gun safety and training course.

Sally Hunt Has Problems. The School District Is Paying the Price.

March 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

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Flagler County School Board member Sally Hunt has a problem with truth. She has a problem with transparency. She has a problem with process. She has a problem with judgment. And she has a problem with the law. She’s also our problem. She’ll either lift this district or drag it down. Right now it’s not looking up.

A1A Protection Plan in Flagler Will Rely on Beach Renourishment, and a Sea Wall at South End

March 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Much of the responsibility for the protection of Flagler County's beaches and State Road A1A will fall back on the county and the U.S. Army Coros of Engineers. County Engineer Faith al-Khatib, left, and the Army Corps' Jason Harrah, third from left, were at a public meeting Tuesday evening where the state Department of Transportation presented its latest plans for A1A protection. (© FlaglerLive)

The state Department of Transportation’s much-anticipated plan to protect State Road A1A will mostly rely on existing plans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild 2.6 miles of beach and dunes south of the pier, plans by Flagler County to rebuild beaches north and south of that stretch, and a DOT secant wall along the shore straddling the Flagler-Volusia county line.

Palm Coast Council’s Proposed Prayer Policy Draws Out Opponents, Who Urge Silence

March 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

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A few days after Palm Coast City Council member Ed Danko called a constituent a “piece of crap” for allegedly being an atheist and questioning the council’s proposed invocation policy, several people addressed the council this morning, mostly to recommend silence over invocations.

County Approves Spending Extra $500,000 for ‘Gem of a Site’ as Future Visitor Center on SR100

March 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A sketch by an unknown hand of the future visitor center on State Road A1A was included as part of the documents for county commissioners today.

Flagler County’s future visitor center got its biggest boost today on two grounds: The County Commission all but approved locating the center on State Road 100, next to the future pedestrian bridge and heritage trail. And it approved contributing an additional $500,000 as a local match for a hoped-for $8 million federal grant to build the center.

15-Year Justice Polston Resigns, Giving DeSantis Seventh Pick for Florida Supreme Court

March 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Supreme Court Justice Ricky Polston tendered a letter of resignation today, months after standing for retention. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

DeSantis has tended toward members of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy when selecting judges, which has made for a staunchly right-leaning court all too willing to reverse important precedents.

Judge Perkins Denies Further Hearings and Claim of ‘Manifest Injustice’ in Gaskin Death Penalty Case

March 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins this morning in Bunnell denied the defense’s motion for an evidentiary hearing on  Tuesday, ending Gaskin’s last possible effort to prevent his killing. The state Supreme Court and a last-minute commutation by the governor are the only remaining possibilities, but they are beyond the remote.

Ron DeSantis’ Amazing, Awesome, Heroic Life

March 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

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This is the book wrote by me, Ronald Dion DeSantis, aged 44-½. I wanted to call it “My Struggle,” but Casey said that wasn’t a good idea. So, we gave it the title “The Courage to be Free.”

Any Private or Home Schooled Student Would Be Eligible for $8,000 in Massive Expansion of ‘Vouchers’ at Public Expense

March 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

Reasons to smile: future weekday warriors get a leg up, yet again. (Eaglebrook School)

The Republican-controlled House passed a measure that would make every Florida student –in private school, religious schools or home-schooled–eligible for $8,000 in taxpayer-backed school vouchers, as Democrats and other critics slammed the expansion as a “coupon for millionaires.”

Belle Terre Swim Club’s Finances Are Not as Dire as Projected, Club Advocate Says

March 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club's fate has been uncertain for years, as it is again this year, and with it the ability of organizations like the Synchro Belles to use the facility's pool for training. (© FlaglerLive)

Doug Courtney, a member of the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club’s advisory committee, questions the school district’s claims that closing the club to public use would be a financial benefit.

Matanzas Aide Attacked by 17 Year Old Had Reported His Threats As Far Back as August

March 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Brendan Depa being led away at Matanzas High School after the Feb. 21 incident, in a capture from body cam footage.

Joan Naydich, the 58-year-old Matanzas High School paraprofessional attacked by one of her students on Feb. 21 had alerted the classroom teacher as far back as late August of the student’s aggression and belligerence, according to a petition for an injunction she filed at the end of February.

Scapino Walks This Way Into City Repertory Theatre’s Farce, Ameliorating Molière

March 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In the City Repertory Theatre production of “Scapino!,” the trickster Scapino (Beau Wade, center) with help from his minion Sylvestro (Trey King, left) schemes to help the love life of Ottavio (Austin Kelly, right). Photo by Mike Kitaif

In “Scapino!,” the servant Scapino schemes to manipulate his authoritarian master Geronte and a rival patriarch away from disrupting the romances of their offspring. It’s a “a free-for-all farce,” in the words of City Repertory Theatre Director John Sbordone.

Starting Palm Coast Council Meetings with ‘Invocation’ Would Be Unnecessarily Divisive

March 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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At a time when communities are divided enough by party, ideology, color and sometimes geography, the Palm Coast City Council’s proposal to start its meetings with a prayer, or invocation would add yet more divisiveness, when the council should be celebrating residents’ shared humanity and basic decency.

A Series of Frantic Hearings at Bunnell Courthouse Are Preceding State’s Killing of Louis Gaskin

March 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Louis Gaskin, right, who is to die by lethal injection on April 12, appeared by zoom from the state prison in Raiford for a court hearing in Bunnell before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

Nearly half a dozen hearings are taking place at the Flagler County courthouse between this week and next in the case of Louis Gaskin, who is scheduled to be executed by the state on April 12. The hearings are last-minutes attempt either to delay or to annul the execution, but the likelihood of success is beyond the realm of hail Marys.

6-week Abortion Limit, With 15-Week Rape Exception Only If Women Prove They Were Assaulted

March 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

The new bills would allow abortions up to 15 weeks of pregnancy in cases of rape or incest, but they would require women to present documentation to prove they were victims.

Sally Hunt Courted Ex-FPC Principal Dusty Sims for Superintendent Outside School Board’s and Public’s Purview

March 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Dusty Sims, left, when he was a principal at Flagler Palm Coast High School, and School Board member Sally Hunt. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County School Board member Sally Hunt has been courting Dusty Sims, the former Flagler Palm Coast High School principal, as a replacement for Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt, without the school board’s approval or knowledge, and before Mittlelstadt’s fate is decided. Hunt’s maneuvering contradicts pretenses of neutrality at school board meetings.

Janet Valentine, a Juror and Future Superintendent, Regrets Voting for Gaskin’s Death. Prosecutor Does Not.

March 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

John Tanner, still an attorney in private practice, seen at the podium here in a 2016 case, was for 16 years the State Attorney in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, and the prosecutor who tried the Louis Gaskin murder cases in 1990 before Circuit Judge Kim Hammond. (© FlaglerLive)

Janet Valentine, who would become Flagler school superintendent 20 years later, was one of the jurors who recommended the death of Louis Gaskin in 1990, a vote she now regrets. Gaskin is to be put to death in April. John Tanner, the State Attorney at the time, has no regrets for seeking the death penalty.

Lawmakers Move Closer to Scrapping Unanimous Jury Requirement for Death Penalty Recommendations

March 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Florida's actual death row. (Florida State Prison)

The House Justice Appropriations Subcommittee voted 8-6 today to approve a bill (HB 555) that would eliminate a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before death sentences can be imposed. Under the bill, judges would sentence people to death based on recommendations of eight of 12 jurors.

In Riveting Discussion on Prayers at Meetings, Palm Coast Council Defers to ‘Neutral’ Caution

March 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

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The Palm Coast council discussed a proposed prayer policy today  in what turned into an unusually absorbing and equally civil hourlong seminar on the First Amendment, the limits of expressions of belief in government settings, and the unintended and potentially offensive consequences of an open-invocation policy. 

Ignoring Constitutional Cautions, Florida Lawmakers Seek to Make It Easier to Sue News Organizations

March 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The presses aren't about to stop. (Bank Phrom on Unsplash)

Ignoring arguments that the bill is unconstitutional, a House panel on Tuesday approved a controversial proposal that would make it easier for people to sue news organizations for defamation. The measure seeks to limit the “actual malice” standard that for decades has protected journalists writing about powerful government officials.

Ky Ekinci, Champion of Small Businesses and Office Divvy Co-Owner, Dies at 53

March 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Doing what he loved with one of his closest friends: Ky Ekincy, right, with Mark Woods, outside the Humidor at European Village in 2015. (© FlaglerLive)

Kayhan Ekinci, the co-owner of Office Divvy and former co-owner of the Humidor, who was known to most as Ky, died on Sunday afternoon after he collapsed while jogging near Water Tower Road in the Cypress Edge area of Palm Coast. He was 53.

Louis Gaskin, Convicted for 2 Murders in R-Section in 1990, to Be 1st-Ever Execution of Flagler Resident

March 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Louis Gaskin marked his 56th birthday last week.

Louis Gaskin, a murderer known as the “Ninja Killer,” is set to be killed by lethal injection on April 12 for the 1989 murders of Robert Sturmfels, 56, and Georgette Sturmfels, 55, on Ripley Place in Palm Coast.

Would-Be Book-Banner Appeals Nowhere Girls Decision Even Before 14-0 Vote to Keep It

March 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

The 14-member appeals committee meeting this evening in Bunnell. It was facilitated by Lashakia Moore, the assistant superintendent. (© FlaglerLive)

A 14-member district committee voted unanimously this evening to recommend keeping Amy Reed’s “The Nowhere Girls,” a book deconstructing high school rape culture, on the shelves at Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School. The woman challenging the book filed an appeal to the school board even before the superintendent has weighed on.

Citing ‘Reason Above Prejudice,’ Superintendent Upholds Recommendation to Keep Sold on School Shelves

March 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

"Sold" was discussed at an appeals committee meeting on March 6. (© FlaglerLive)

Citing “principle above personal opinion and reason above prejudice,” Flagler School Superintendent Cathy Mittlestadt upheld the recommendation of a district appeals committee to keep Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” on human trafficking, on library shelves at high and middle schools.

Flagler District Wants Earlier High School Start Time Just as State and Research Go the Other Way

March 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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A disconnect is developing between the Flagler County School Board and a proposed state law to push middle and high school start times later. The Flagler board favors a later start time for middle schools. But it’s pushing an earlier start time for high schools.

Road Rage Stabbing on I-95 Leads to Arrest of Felon Out on Bond for Another Stabbing

March 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Michael Marsh in a state prison photo, left, and in his most recent booking photo at the Flagler County jail. He has been a frequent inmate there, and at the Volusia Brach Jail. He faces current charges in Volusia County as well.

Michael Marsh Jr., who faces a felony charge stemming from the stabbing of a truck driver on I-95, is a felon many times over in the past dozen years and a former state prison inmate who was out on bond at the time of the road rage incident–on an aggravated battery charge involving a stabbing.

Campaigning in Iowa, DeSantis Says Culture War Offensive Will Help GOP Elections

March 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

An apparently unaware Gov. Ron DeSantis, in Iowa to defend his culture war offensives, holds up what appears to be a snowflake gifted to him. A closer look reveals that the snowflake's arms are calligraphic versions of the word "Fascist." An Iowa Facebook page posted the picture with the following caption: "Little D Santis gets owned. My friend makes snowflakes to give to politicians who come to Iowa - there are special messages for odious Republicans--please look at the snowflake carefully 🤣😉"

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Iowa Republicans Friday that standing strong in the culture wars around issues like education, criminal justice and health care in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic will help their party win elections.

How Cupcake Café’s TikTok of Mr Keith’s Surgical Cake Order Went Viral in Whirls of Good Wishes

March 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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TikTok clips by Theresa Tazewell, owner of Cupcake Cafe in Palm Coast, went viral as she documented customer Keith’s wish to pay for his wife’s birthday cake in advance for fear that he might die during surgery. He survived, and was lavished with millions of good wishes from a round the globe through Tazewell’s TikToks.

Michael Rickman Performs Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto in Daytona Solisti’s Final Concert

March 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The Daytona Solisti Chamber Orchestra’s annual Beethovenfest concert on March 26 will celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven with the first full-length orchestral piece the composer ever wrote: Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring pianist Dr. Michael Rickman, an internationally acclaimed pianist.

Iowa Outdoes Florida’s ‘Parental Rights’ Abuses

March 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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GOP lawmakers pushing a “parental rights” agenda nevertheless think it’s just fine for gun owners to leave loaded weapons in cars in school parking lots, to loosen child labor laws, to cut unemployment benefits for parents with more than three children.

A Motorcyclist Is Killed, Another Is Critically Injured in Separate Crashes in Flagler

March 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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As Bike Week was entering its closing weekend, a motorcyclist was killed and another was critically injured Friday in separate crashes in Flagler County, the first in Palm Coast, the second in  Bunnell. 

Challenged in Flagler Schools: Amy Reed’s The Nowhere Girls, a Review and Recommendation

March 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Amy Reed's "The Nowhere Girls" was published in 2017. It has been frequently banned in various school districts and is facing an attempted ban in the Flagler County school district.

Amy Reed’s “The Nowhere Girls,” a 2017 novel on high school rape culture and three girls’ attempt to counter it, is a #MeToo manifesto for young adults. It’s up for banning from Flagler schools. This review is a guide.

The Winner of a Historic Landslide and Prodigal Everyman Get Busy on Diverse Flagler Beach Commission

March 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Scott Spradley's and Rick Belhumeur's swearing-in Thursday at the Flagler Beach City Commission drew more lenses than usual, as had the election: Spradley won with over 1,000 votes, nearly twice as many as Belhumeur in second place and more than any candidate previously. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach City Commission reconstituted with Scott Spradley and Rick Belhumeur Thursday. As a group, and with Jane Mealy still its reigning dean, the commission combines experience and youth, business, law, academia, real estate, labor and Belhumeur’s Everyman.

Future Ballot Measure May Ask Voters Whether School Board Races Should Be Partisan

March 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

It's not as if they're not already partisan. (© FlaglerLive)

Some Florida GOP lawmakers want to see if voters think local school boards should be partisan — meaning school board members could be Democrats, Republicans, or another signifier of political alignments.

School Board’s Sally Hunt Claims That She Resigned, Then, Bizarrely, Retracts the Claim

March 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Sally Hunt, center, had not developed a rapport with Superintendent Cathy Mittlestadt, left, and was leaning toward not renewing her contract. (© FlaglerLive)

Sally Hunt claimed this evening in her own words that she had resigned her Flagler County School Board seat, four months after her election. It was not necessarily true. Hunt has appeared increasingly conflicted by the glare she’s been attracting recently, glare only likely to intensify after the conduct she exhibited this evening.

Teens-In-Flight Makes Plane-Piloting Dream Come True for Terminally Ill 16 Year Old

March 9, 2023 | Michael Lewis | 8 Comments

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Austin Booth has been afflicted with numerous illnesses since birth and was given only eight or nine years to live. He’s now 16, and last week he took off from Flagler County airport at the controls of a Teens-in-Flight Cessna, making a lifetime’s dream come true.

School Board Will Decide Superintendent’s Fate in April as Back-Channel Jockeying Intensifies

March 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

School Board member Sally Hunt. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board agreed to vote on whether to extend or not renew Superintendent Cathy Mittlestadt’s contract on April 18, but each member will have filed evaluations and discussed them by April 4, when the superintendent’s fate should be clearer.

Lawmakers Seek to Cut Florida’s Abortion Ban to 6 Weeks, from Current 15

March 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Much of the bills would be contingent on the Supreme Court effectively upholding the 15-week law. The current limit has drawn criticism because it does not include exemptions for victims of rape or incest.

Scott Spradley Wins Big in Flagler Beach, Belhumeur Is ‘Re-Commissioned,’ Defeating Incumbent Phillips

March 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

It wasn't a congratulatory handshake just yet--the picture was taken about an hour before polls closed--but it might as well have been: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Ken Bryan, who decided not to contest his seat, all but passed the torch to Scott Spradley, left, whom Bryan had endorsed. (© FlaglerLive)

Attorney Scott Spradley won election to the Flagler Beach City Commission by a large margin Tuesday, an unsurprising result from an electorate looking for the analytical cool-headed approach Spradley represents, after a turbulent year in the city and the recent firing of a city manager.

Yet Another Book Survives Ban as 2 Flagler High School Panels Vote to Keep Novel of McCarthy Era

March 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The joint committees of Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School meeting this afternoon at Matanzas. (© FlaglerLive)

A joint high school committee’s decision today to retain Malida Lo’s “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” was the sixth book in a row in about as many weeks that survived a challenge either on MHS or joint MHS-FPC school-level committees, or at the district-level appeals committee.

Battle Over Vacation Rentals Resumes as Flagler Resists Lesser Regulation for 9th Year

March 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

A vacation rental company entered the Flagler Beach Independence Day parade in 2018. (© FlaglerLive)

For nine years, vacation-rental regulations in Flagler County have survived unscathed even as the short-term rental industry continues to grow in popularity and clout. Each year, local officials fear that era of local control may be over, as lawmakers attempt to pass de-regulation bills. This year is no different.

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