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What White People Get Wrong About Black Dads

January 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

My dad in our neighborhood on our moped. (Dana James)

Society rarely shows good examples of Black fathers. Social media commenters often label Blacks as fatherless and cling to stereotypes that if Black dads are present, they’re somehow unloving, uninvolved or even abusive. Here’s a corrective.

DOT Will Seek Public Input on More Permanent Protection for A1A, But Options Are Limited

January 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole left only a sliver of sand between the high-tide waterline and State Road A1A at the south end of Flagler County. many other parts of A1A suffered the same fate. The state Department of Transportation has been rebuilding protections with rock revetments and sand. (© FlaglerLive)

After two months of closed-door sessions involving state, federal and local officials on how to more permanently secure State Road A1A in Flagler and Volusia counties from storm damage and rising seas, the Florida Department of Transportation will seek public input in two sessions later this month–one in Flagler Beach, one in Volusia County, and present a half dozen options or so.

Florida Democrats Seek Prison Release for Non-Violent Offenders After 65% of Time Served Instead of 85%

January 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

A Flagler County inmate getting processed, after his sentencing, for entry into the Department of Corrections system last May. (© FlaglerLive)

Calling the state’s criminal justice system “outdated,” Tampa Democratic state Rep. Dianne Hart filed a proposal this week (HB 115) that would allow non-violent offenders to reduce their mandatory time served from 85 percent to 65 percent through their successful completion of academic and other learning courses while incarcerated.

U.S. Economy Adds 223,000 Jobs in December, Easing Fears of Recession for Now

January 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The trend is down: job creation by month, in thousands. (© FlaglerLive)

The national economy is steadily losing power even as it continues to generate enough new jobs to lower the unemployment rate: 223,000 new jobs in December. That’s the lowest total in two years, but still nowhere near recession territory.

Brenan Hill Now Faces Murder Charge as Savannah Gonzalez, Victim in Microtel Shooting, Dies

January 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Brenan Robert Hill.

Brenan Hill now faces a second-degree murder charge in the shooting of Savannah Gonzalez near the Microtel in Palm Coast in March 2021. The State Attorney’s Office today filed the new charge. Hill is scheduled for an August trial.

Ex-Palm Coast Doctor Facing Rape and Deceit Allegations Says He Was Never Served

January 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Gerard Abate and Margaret Curro in an image Abate included among exhibits intended to show he was in St. Croix, the Virgini Islands, not in new Jersey, when a process server says he served Abate the lawsuit he faces in Flagler County Circuit Court.

A year and a half after a civil lawsuit was filed against him, claiming he deceived, drugged and raped a woman at a condo in Palm Coast, Dr. Gerard Abate says he was never served. A judge will decide whether Abate or a process server are telling the truth at a hearing next week.

Flagler Jail Eliminates All Hard-Copy Mail to Inmates as Scanning and Tablets Replace Paper

January 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The sort of tablets that have replaced almost all hard-copy communications materials at the Flagler County jail, from Smart Communications, streams movies, music, games and educational materials in addition to communications to and from home. (© FlaglerLive)

All hard-copy mail delivery to the Flagler County jail’s 225-some inmates has been replaced by scans of mail. It is part of a sweeping change in the handling of inmate mail across the state at least 14 other states as prisons and jails cut down on incoming materials. The switch has drawn sharp criticism from prisoner advocates and strong support by those implementing it, as in Flagler. 

3 Florida Republicans–Gaetz, Luna, Donalds–Among Opponents of McCarthy for Speaker

January 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, by DonkeyHotey.

Matt Gaetz of Fort Walton Beach, Anna Tuesday Paulina Luna of St. Petersburg, and Byron Donalds of Naples joined 17 other conservative GOP members on Tuesday, and again in today’s first round, to oppose McCarthy from taking the top job in the House.

DeSantis Invokes Bible, Gun Analogies and Anti-Wokism in Inaugural Pitched to Ambitions

January 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Inaugural grounds included all the trappings of an event with more than itself in mind: Ron DeSantis is widely believed to be preparing a presidential run. (Danielle J. Brown)

The governor vowed to “stand our ground” in defense of low taxes, parental rights in education, “law and order,” and more — although Democrats, independents, and overall progressives in Florida would likely beg to differ. The theme and tenor of the speech suggests that DeSantis spoke to a larger goal: running for president.

In Putnam, a 38-Year-Old Man Is Sentenced to Die, Again, and a 21 Year Old Will Serve Life in Prison

January 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Anthony Foxx, left, and Timothy Wayne Fletcher.

Timothy Wayne Fletcher, 38, was sentenced to die at the state’s hand for the murder of his stepgrandmother Helen Googe in 2009. Anthony Foxx will serve life in prison without parole with the stabbing death of his Ayana Belton, who was 16.

A Defendant Says he’s Going to Prison for Doing What His Domestic Violence Classes Told Him to Do

January 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Leon Marcus Criswell making his case after he was found guilty, with his public defender, Spencer O'Neal, at his side this morning before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

Leon Marcus Criswell was sentenced to 17 months in state prison in a domestic battery case, but he says his case was aggravated because he did just what his counselors in domestic violence classes taught him to do: he sped away from what he saw as trouble before it got physical.

Divided Appeals Court Rejects Protection for Transgender Bathroom Use in St. Johns School Case

January 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A setback with local consequences. (© FlaglerLive)

After a five-year legal battle, and reversing a lower court ruling, a sharply divided federal appeals court upheld a St. Johns County School Board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys’ bathrooms at a high school.

American Impressions 9 | South Dakota: Crazy

January 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The face of Crazy Horse carved in 1952 out of Ponderosa Pine by Korczak Ziolkowski. The white sculpture visible through the rain-streaked window pane is a scale model of the mountain sculpture of Crazy Horse.

For the Sioux of South Dakota it’s been a tragic, unresolved legacy of exploitation in the Black Hills. The rape of the mountains by gold and uranium prospectors was followed by the carving of Mount Rushmore and, for the past 75 years, the ongoing desecration of the hills in the name of Crazy Horse–what was to be the largest sculpture in the world, but has turned into a lucrative tourist trap.

American Impressions 8 | North Dakota: A Life in Missiles

January 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Virginia Lillico, one of the heroes of my travels, never worried much about the missile field around her. “I was too busy raising children and taking dinner out,” she says. (© FlaglerLive)

Virginia Lillico and her family spent their life in their homestead on land in the shadow of an ICBM missile silo in North Dakota at the height of the cold war and beyond. She never took safeguards seriously, thinking it was pointless.

American Impressions 7 | Montana: Ghost of the Prairie

December 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The unfinished, colossal PAR site--Perimeter Acquisition Radar--in the distance on the Montana prairie, one of the most massive buildings in the state, even in unfinished form, one of its most absurd, and one of the remarkable monuments to cold war futility on the planet. It's near Ledger, Montana. (© FlaglerLive)

It rises from wild grasses in Montana’s Golden Triangle, at the western extremity of the Great Plains, a massive hulk of concrete that makes no sense, that is as out of place as could be, and that will be there for thousands of years. It is a ghostly monument to the follies of the nuclear age.

American Impressions 6 | Montana: Backtracking Lewis and Clark

December 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Lewis and Clark traveled the longest distances of any state in Montana. Backtracking their trail is an exercise in contrasts: Indian voices could now be heard as they couldn’t then, but so can those of Lewis and Clark, vividly, wonderfully and sometimes disturbingly, while the landscape has either been remade or remains as intact as it was then.

American Impressions 5 | Alaska Highway

December 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

It was about 1,500 miles of this on the way back as a storm accompanied me from Alaska to Alberta. Ditched trucks were more frequent than passing cars. (© FlaglerLive)

The endless Alaska Highway is a famed road shrouded in impossible isolation and amnesia, where boundaries disappear into a twilight zone of the beautiful and the bizarre. It is an endless wormhole where the unexpected and the sublime are so common that they become monotonous, where the emptiness is so complete that you can feel like the last person on earth.

GasBuddy Predicts Florida Gas Prices Will Climb Over $4.50 By Summer Before Falling Again

December 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Only two weeks ago prices had fallen well below $3 a gallon in some places. (© FlaglerLive)

The Boston-based GasBuddy, in an annual outlook released Wednesday, predicted that pump prices will peak at an average of $4.25 to $4.65 a gallon in Miami, $4.15 to $4.55 in Orlando and $4.10 to $4.45 in Tampa.

American Impressions 4 | Alaska: The New Suburb

December 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A deceptive calm lulls the fishing boats of St. Paul Harbor on Kodiak Island. Far from a frontier, Kodiak is an outpost of social and economic tensions that would be familiar to anyone in the “Lower Forty-Eights.” (© FlaglerLive)

Big, brutal, poetic, a hero among states, Alaska has always been America’s national park of the imagination, a 600,000-square-mile invention colonized by a few tracts of reality. An exploration of Kodiak Island defeats a few stereotypes and reveals to what extent even Alaska is becoming a suburb of the Lower Forty-Eights.

A Driver Is Killed on I-95 as Car Goes Under Semi Near Matanzas Woods Parkway

December 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 76 Comments

A woman was killed this morning when she drove her car under a semi truck in the northbound lanes of I-95 just south of Matanzas Woods Parkway.

American Impressions 3 | The Road

December 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Colorado National Monument's ecology predates time. (Guido Da Rozze)

The Colorado National Monument, Yellowstone, Salt Lake City and Wyoming frame reflections on the romance of the road, that essentially American love affair made of myths and wanderlust, and those insufferable RVs.

Jan. 6 Attack: 3 Florida Extremist Groups Allied ‘to Work Together to Shut This Sh** Down’

December 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The final report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol includes chilling sections about the force of extremist groups from Florida that formed an alliance, traveled to Washington, D.C., and stormed the Capitol.

American Impressions 2 | Heartland

December 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The contrasts of Cedar Bluff State Park in Kansas. (© FlaglerLive)

America is more paradox than exception, often more invention than reality, an invention as old as 1619 and as recent as the transformation of the American “heartland” into a utopia. The contradictions of Cedar Bluff State Park in Kansas tell a different story.

American Impressions 1 | The Day Before America

December 25, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

The Cedars of Lebanon. (© FlaglerLive)

In the first of nine installments of his American Impressions series–a reporter’s journey across the 50 states–Pierre Tristam fills in details that marked his youth in war-torn Lebanon and defined his outlook before migrating to the United States and beginning a process of discovery that continues to this day.

Gratitude on Christmas Eve

December 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

scott spradley moon over pier

For long-time Flagler Beach attorney Scott Spradley, an image he took of the moon above the pier’s A frame not long ago provoked a range of feelings and emotions and led him to reflect on the meaning of gratitude even in an age of stresses and sorrows.

Fred the Great Leapfrogs 10-Year-Old Palm Coast Girl Into Young Children’s Book Author

December 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Bella Soumokil with her first published book.

Fifth Palm Coast fifth-grader Bella Soumokil several years ago started writing and drawing what became “Fred the Great,” a 56-page book for children about humility and family, published locally and selling on Amazon.

Is Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin Running for Paul Renner’s Seat? Maybe.

December 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin in his office at City Hall, with a mechanical contraption made of as many parts as there are city employees. It wasn't working just then, perhaps aware that Alfin may not be there to oil it much longer. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin is considering a run for Re. Paul Renner’s House seat, which is up in two years. Alfin, who revealed Machiavellian political instincts in a lengthy interview, will make his decision by the end of January, depending on whether other viable candidates are lined up for the seat.

It’s Groundhog Day for Deficit-Ridden Belle Terre Swim and Racquet as School Board Again Dithers Over Fate

December 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

belle terre swim and racquet club

The Flagler County School Board for the latest of innumerable times could not decide what to do with the money-losing Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club, now projected to run a $169,000 deficit, other than ask for yet more information. But the district’s administration is making clear that it is getting tired of carrying the club with subsidies better spent elsewhere.

Flagler’s Visual Arts Struggle for Visibility With Seeming Demise of Art League and Gargiulo Foundation

December 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Since Tom Gargiulo's death and Arlene Volpe's departure for North Carolina, Palm Coast's visual arts scene has not been the same. The demise of the Flagler County Art League hasn't helped. (© FlaglerLive)

Their apparent demise during the past year — the Flagler County Art League from the pandemic’s economic pressures, the Gargiulo Art Foundation from the death of artist and co-founder Tom Gargiulo in February — coupled with the retreat of JJ Graham’s Salvo Art Project and the disappearance of several exhibit spaces and other smaller galleries is leaving many area artists feeling like the proverbial tree that falls in a forest with no one to hear it.

Based in Palm Coast, Global Support Group for Rare Disease Gets Awareness Boost from Celine Dion Diagnosis

December 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

stiff person syndrome

Palm Coast resident Mike West started the Stiff Person Syndrome support group almost 20 years ago. It now has 1,700 members in 34 countries, and on Dec. 7, with Celine Dion announcement that she has SPS, the disease got the broader awareness people like West have been seeking.

Should There Be Armed Civilians in Schools? Flagler District Will Survey Employees and Residents

December 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Sheriff's deputies go through extensive training. (© FlaglerLive)

With numerous questions still unanswered–and some unanswerable questions–the Flagler County School Board is moving forward with gauging interest from school employees and residents in arming civilians in schools as a presumed addition to the security provided by the Sheriff’s Office’s school resource deputies.

DeSantis Stokes Culture Wars at the Expense of Bright Schools and Free Speech

December 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The public library remains a ban-free zone. (© FlaglerLive)

The culture war battles being waged in Florida are not only doing lasting damage to the public education system but to the basic constitutional rights of all Floridians. Freedom of speech protects the right to freedom of conscience, debate ideas and question authority.

School District Will Develop Policy on Stocking Narcan to Counter Overdoses, With Broad Availability

December 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Michael Feldbauer, who heads the Flagler County Drug Court Foundation, addressing the school board on Tuesday. The foundation is making doses of Narcan available to the district at no charge for at least the next two years. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board directed its administration to develop a policy and procedures that will make Narcan, the agent that neutralizes drug overdoses, broadly available in schools, enabling more than just school nurses to administer it if and when necessary. The district has not experienced a drug overdose among students or staff on campus in recent memory.

Mom Who Drew National Headlines Over Boy’s Beating Is Arrested for Selling Cocaine Near Day Care

December 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Ashley Ruffin.

Ashley Ruffin, the 32-year-old Palm Coast mother of four, drew headlines after her arrest and pleas of innocence in the alleged beating of a boy. She claimed she was defending her son. On Monday, she was arrested on a first-degree felony charge of selling cocaine near a child care center in Bunnell, where she is living in subsidized housing.

Bunnell’s Sizemore Welding Will Buy Former Sheriff’s Operations Building Ahead of Expansion

December 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Duane Sizemore has been growing his company since he started it when he was 24, four decades ago. He will be moving Sizemore Welding into the former Sheriff's Operations Center on Old Moody Boulevard. (© FlaglerLive)

Duane Sizemore of Sizemore Welding–Bunnell’s largest manufacturer–confirmed that his company will be buying the former Sheriff’s Operation Center off State Road 100, for just over $3 million. The 36,000 square foot facility will be expanded by 15,000 square feet, and will receive a $96,000 incentive from the city.

Planned Hospital on US 1 All But Dead, Mayor Says, as Advent, Baptist and Halifax Vie to Buy Flagler Health

December 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

The interiors of AdventHealth Palm Coast's new hospital on Palm Coast Parkway during an earlier phase of construction. AdventHealth used that hospital successfully to block a planned development of a Flagler Health Plus hospital at the edge of Palm Coast Parkway, off U.S. 1. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Health+’s plans to build a hospital on a 70-acre parcel west of U.S. 1 and Palm Coast Parkway appear to have died. And the St. Augustine-based company is on the market, with AdventHealth, Halifax Health and Jacksonville-based Baptist Health competing to buy it, according to Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin.

Flagler’s Cold-Weather Homeless Shelter Facing Staffing Challenge as 4-Night Freeze Coincides With Christmas

December 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

sheltering tree beds cold weather

Flagler County’s all-volunteer organization that runs the county’s only cold-weather shelter is facing a steep staffing challenge this week as the National Weather Service is warning of an unusually long, bitter cold spell starting Friday night and coinciding with the Christmas weekend, when many shelter volunteers are away, visiting family. The shelter is planning to open four nights in a row.

Sheriff’s Office’s Ultra-Modern Operations Center Is Dedicated, Ending 4 1/2 Years of Nomadic Existence

December 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A large crowd attended today's opening of the Flagler County Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff Rick Staly dedicated the $20 million, 51,600 square foot Sheriff’s Operations Center off Commerce Boulevard before hundreds today, ending four and a half years of borrowing space from the courthouse, among other locations, and closing an unhappy chapter in the county’s history.

To Combat Gun Violence, Artist Mykael Ash Turns Ammunition Into Art

December 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Mykael Ash sits in his studio in East St. Louis, Illinois. Ash uses bullet shells he finds on the ground as elements in his artwork to tell stories about racial violence, resistance, and history.

Mykael Ash is turning ammunition into art. Ash, who lives in East St. Louis, Illinois, frequently walks through parts of the city where bullet shells aren’t hard to find. The shell casings represent a cycle of inequality, Ash says, and the art he makes with it serves as a call to action.

Palm Coast’s Lee Ann Daley, 46, is Killed in Head-On Crash Caused By Man Going Wrong Way on US1

December 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Lee Ann Daley in a Facebook self-portrait.

Lee Ann Daley, a 46-year-old Palm Coast resident, was killed in a head-on collision on U.S. 1 in Palm Coast when a driver going the wrong way struck her car a little before 9 p.m. Friday. 

Democracy Has Its Place, But Apparently Not at the Florida Capitol

December 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Don't say Ron. Students protesting on the 5th floor of the Florida Capitol Building in March. (Danielle J. Brown)

Determined to keep the Free State of Florida the most incredibly free in the Land of the Free where freedom rings 24/7, Gov. Ron DeSantis is going to stop loud, tacky, possibly gay people from waltzing into his Capitol to “protest.”

Two Inmates at Flagler Jail Who Attempted Suicide Within 24 Hours Each Had a Disturbing Backstory

December 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

flagler jail inmate suicides attempts

On Dec. 8 and 9, in the span of 24 hours, detention deputies–and an inmate in the first case–intervened and halted the attempted suicides of two inmates, a man and a woman, in unrelated incidents. Each had a harrowing back-story, suggesting that the individuals’ attempts may not be their last.

Ten Big Issues in Florida’s Just-Enacted Insurance Overhaul

December 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

florida insurance overhaul

Florida lawmakers this week held a special session and passed a 105-page bill aimed at stabilizing the state’s troubled property-insurance system. The bill (SB 2-A) deals with numerous issues, including lawsuits, the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and critical reinsurance coverage. Here are 10 key issues that lawmakers addressed.

Perry Mitrano Elected Flagler’s REC Chair, Defeating Renner-Backed Jill Woolbright By Big Margin

December 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Perry Mitrano. (© FlaglerLive)

Internal party elections are not ordinarily newsworthy. This one, however, reflects political dynamics that reverberate beyond the party and the county, especially as Republicans control all but a handful of Flagler’s elected seats, when Renner is House speaker, and in his last term, and when Republicans are cleaved by fierce divisions, in Flagler as elsewhere, over the direction of their party.

Lawsuit Cites Splash Pad Contractors’ ‘Collective Negligence’ and Bond Company’s Refusal to Pick Up Pieces

December 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

palm coast splash pad lawsuit

The lawsuit Palm Coast government filed to recover damages from the broken splash pad at Holland Park names three contractor, accusing them of negligence, breach of contract and warranties, and violations of Florida’s building code. The lawsuit also names the bonding company, revealing that the company has allegedly refused to comply by the bond’s terms.

Jury Convicts Rene Laso In Smiles Bar Stabbing After Propositioning Woman; He Faces Up to 30 Years

December 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A jury on Wednesday convicted Rene Laso, a 56-year-old resident of Zachary Place in Palm Coast, on two counts of aggravated assault in the stabbing of a man and a woman at Smiles night club a year and a half ago. The incident was triggered after Laso propositioned the woman for sexual favors in exchange for $5,000.

Florida GOP and Insurance Companies Won Big ‘Bailout’ in This Week’s Special Session

December 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Florida House Speaker Paul Renner and key committee heads address the press on Dec. 14, following the conclusion of a three-day special session on insurance reform. (Michael Moline)

The Florida Legislature’s special session on insurance reform ended Thursday with final passage to a bill extending a $1 billion subsidy to insurance companies but doing little to decrease premiums any time soon or provide relief for ordinary homeowners.

Flagler Public Health Officials Reassert Efficacy of Covid Vaccines as DeSantis Intensifies Denialism

December 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his war on Covid vaccines. (© FlaglerLive)

In a sharp escalation of Covid vaccine denialism by a sitting governor, Ron DeSantis on Tuesday called on the state Supreme Court to empanel a grand jury to investigate alleged “wrongdoing” related to the vaccine, as Flagler County’s architects of the response to the pandemic reasserted the efficacy of the vaccine and relied on the latest science.

Flagler County Sues Cynthia d’Angiolini, Lone Dunes Hold-Out, And Her Attorney Wants Off Bankruptcy Case

December 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The two dune "remnants" at the heart of the dispute are little more than a few square feet of sloping sand from the right of way down to the beach. The land is not buildable. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to use the land to rebuild dunes there, as the beach has become critically eroded. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County government today filed a federal suit against Cynthia d’Angiolini, the lone remaining obstacle to a dune-rebuilding project intended to protest 2.6 miles of shore and State Road A1A in Flagler Beach, asking the court to revoke the discharge from bankruptcy d’Angiolini secured only a few weeks ago. The move occurs as other steps are severely complicating–and darkening–d’Angiolini’s posture against the county, including a motion today by her bankruptcy attorney to stop representing her. 

Florida Senate Approves $100 Million in Beach Erosion Aid, Part of $750 Million Disaster Relief Bill

December 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The bill includes $100 million for beach-erosion recovery, an amount certain to help boost Flagler County’s prospects for tapping many of those millions as it faces vast challenges on 18 miles of its eroded coast.

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