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School Board’s Jill Woolbright Says She’s in ‘Satanic Warfare’ Against ‘Evil Spirits’ at School District

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 88 Comments

School Board member Jill Woolbright, flanked by New Way Church Pastor Richard Summerl;in and his wife Kimberly Summerlin during a prayer-endorsement after Woolbright campaigned for seven minutes before the congregation during a service over the weekend.

Flagler County School Board incumbent Jill Woolbright, who is in a non-partisan race against Sally Hunt to be decided in the Aug. 23 election, says God placed her on the school board, that she is involved in “satanic warfare,” and that, in a reference to others on the school board and at the district office, she has “felt the evil spirits around me.”

Sheriff and County Administrator Duel Over Policing Budget Before Commissioners Nod Staly’s Way

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and County Administrator Heidi Petito dueled in front of a standing-room-only meeting room Monday night over the sheriff’s claim that the county was underfunding him, and the county’s counter that it has increased the sheriff’s budget by 48 percent since 2018, not including spending on facilities like the new Sheriff’s Operations center. But in the end, Petito’s bosses showed readiness to go Staly’s way.

Exorbitant Costs to Save Beaches, and Doing Nothing is Not an Option, Flagler Commissioners Are Told

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

A beach carved out: the area just north of the Flagler Beach pier on Sunday, after it had lost even more sand over the past week. (© FlaglerLive)

The county commission this morning heard the results of the $250,000 beach management study it commissioned last year, and was left with two certainties: doing nothing is not an option. Starting to do something is unaffordable for now, even with six options presented by Olsen Associates, the Tampa-based consultants the county hired for the study.

Sheriff Plans Show of Force, and Threatens Appeal to Governor, Over Budget Stalemate With County

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly will tell Flagler County commissioners this evening that his agency is losing deputies to neighboring agencies because the pay is not competitive enough. Staly is seeking to have a deputy's starting pay equal that of firefighters, at around $51,000 a year. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and the Police Benevolent Association, the union representing deputies, are organizing a show of force that would pack the county commission’s chambers this evening in hopes of swaying commissioners to give the sheriff more than the additional $4.45 million they are so far providing for next year’s budget.

Mothers Behind Book-Banning Campaign Claim Their First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated

August 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Students, teachers and parents protested an effort, partially successful, by Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright last fall to ban "All Boys Aren't Blue" and three other titles from school libraries. "All Boys" was removed. The other three were restored. (© FlaglerLive)

The self-dubbed Mama Bears filed a federal lawsuit alleging that by not being allowed to read sexually explicit material aloud at school board meetings, they themselves are being censored.

1st Early Voting Day Begins With Harmony and a Cross-Party Prayer. Then Joe Mullins Shows Up.

August 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

Commissioner Greg Hansen, to the right, near the Republican Club's tent, where Linda Hansen--sitting, speaking with candidate Denise Calderwood--had the altercation with Joe Mullins this morning, as Mullins sought to have his campaign literature under the tent. The Democrat's tent is between the Republican Club's and that of Alan Lowe. The tents were set up on the east side of the Flagler County Public Library for the first day of early voting today. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the public library early voting site this morning after Commissioner Joe Mullins got into a heated verbal altercation with Linda Hansen, wife of Commissioner Greg Hansen, who has himself been the target of Mullins’s insults. It was the latest burst from a mass of dark clouds that have increasingly cloaked Mullins week after week as he attempts to win re-election.

Study: Flagler’s Beaches Are Eroding Critically, and Will Cost County Alone $5 to $13 Million a Year to Slow

August 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

What was left of what used to be the sea wall at Varn Park, in November 2021. (Olsen)

The most comprehensive study to date about Flagler County’s beaches paints a stark picture of the consequences of climate change and sea level rise, accelerating erosion, potentially crushing costs to local taxpayers to slow down the erosion with beach renourishment, and few sources of funding to do so.

Titanic Erosion in Flagler Beach Uncovers an Anchor from Another Century, and Mottle of Secrets

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The anchor just north of the Flagler Beach pier. (© FlaglerLive)

The anchor was discovered just north of the Flagler Beach pier, site of drastic erosion over the past few weeks. A team from the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archeological Maritime Program was alerted and has been analyzing the find for its historical value and age since.

Schools Scramble to Fill Vacant Slots, Including 108 in Flagler District, as Enrollment Appears Up

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

At Insian Trails Middle School on Wednesday. (Flagler Schools)

Flagler County has 108 job postings as of today, according to its openings advertised online, including 32 instructional positions, among them six teaching openings at Buddy Taylor Middle School, six at Matanzas High School, and four at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Sheriff Staly Issues Statement Rejecting Any Suggestion of Endorsement of Palm Coast Candidates

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Proximity is not endorsement: Sheriff Rick Staly, with his wife Debbie, had briefly stopped to campaign at the VFW voting precinct off Old Kings Road on Election day in 2020, when an Alan Lowe campaign volunteer was also campaigning--at the time, for mayor. Staly has never endorsed Lowe, and said today he was not endorsing anyone in the Palm Coast council races. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff Rick Staly said today he has “not endorsed and will not endorse any candidate for Palm Coast City Coast City Council,” a statement prompted by Palm Coast Council candidate Alan Lowe featuring Staly in an ad by ex-felon Oliver North endorsing Lowe.

Denise Calderwood, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Denise Calderwood. (© FlaglerLive)

Denise Calderwood is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 2, facing incumbent Greg Hansen and Janet McDonald in the Aug. 23 primary. It is an open primary: all Flagler County voters are eligible to vote regardless of party affiliation.

Appeals Court Will Decide Whether You Can Pass Water and Food to People in Line to Vote

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Voters lining up for early voting at the public library in Palm Coast in 2012, when it was still legal to pass water or food to those in line. It no longer is. (© FlaglerLive)

Attorneys for the League of Women Voters of Florida, the Black Voters Matter Fund, the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and other plaintiffs filed a 67-page brief asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a district judge’s ruling that said increased “solicitation” restrictions near polling places violate speech rights.

Sims Jones, Palm Coast City Council Candidate: The Live Interview

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Sims Jones. (© FlaglerLive)

Sims Jones is a candidate for Palm Coast City Council, District 2, running against Theresa Carli Pontieri, Shauna Kanter and Alan Lowe. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Flagler’s Vote-By-Mail Total Already Far Exceeds All of 2018’s, With Primary Election 13 Days Away

August 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Flagler County Canvassing Board--Ciounty Judge Andrea Totten, in the foreground, County Commissioner Dave Sullivan, right, and Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart--along with others, who included County Judge Melissa Distler and Commissioner Andy Dance, went through thousands of mail-in ballots on Monday, the first day of canvassing, at the Supervisor's office. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Supervisor of Elections had tabulated almost 9,000 ballots turned in by mail or at its lone, now ostensibly “monitored” drop-box in Bunnell, exceeding by 1,150 the total number of ballots mailed in during the 2018 primary election cycle, the last off-year election.

Stark Numbers on Palm Coast’s Unaffordable Housing Crisis Emerge Behind a Routine Presentation

August 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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A housing report Palm Coast government is required to submit to federal authorities every five years, presented to the City Council today, opens an alarming window into the city’s most dire housing needs and stresses for middle and lower-income residents.

Appointed in 3-1 Vote, Pete Young Is a Bunnell City Commissioner Again, 14 Years Later

August 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Pete Young finally gets a little satisfaction. (© FlaglerLive)

The Bunnell City Commission Monday evening voted 3-1 to appoint Pete Young, who had served one term on the commission between 2006 and 2008, to the seat vacated by the resignation in July of Robert Barnes. It is the sixth time in four years that a seat has turned over on the commission, the third by appointment.

Massive Erosion Strikes North and South of Pier; Flagler Beach Commission Calls Emergency Meeting

August 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The beach north of the Flagler Beach pier has been carved out, without so much as a major storm. (© FlaglerLive)

Erosion north of the Flagler Beach pier and around 13th Street South has left portions of the shore without beach, with sheer cliffs of sand instead, as was the case along much of the Flagler shore following Hurricane Matthew. Yet there’s been no major storms. County and Flagler Beach officials are concerned, and examining options.

In Wake of Robert Barnes’s Resignation, Bunnell Commission Grapples With What To Do Next

August 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

In what would be his next-to-last public appearance as a Bunnell City Commissioner, Robert Barnes, left, participated in a school-concurrency meeting on July 8 at the Government Services Building, representing Bunnell with fellow-Commissioner John Rogers. (© FlaglerLive)

For the second time in 13 months, the Bunnell City Commission is grappling with a resignation and how–or whether–to fill the vacated seat before the next election, scheduled for March. The charter leaves certain parameters undefined.

FPL’s Covert Campaign Against the Free Press

August 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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FPL got a consultant to hire a private investigator who spied on a Florida Times Union reporter, his girlfriend, and their dog. FPL CEO Eric Silagy swears he didn’t do it. And, if somebody did it, he didn’t know about it.

Gov.-Appointed Florida Board of Medicine Targets Treatments for Transgender Youths for Ban

August 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Amid an outcry from the LGBTQ community and harsh criticism from a host of physicians and health-care professionals, the Florida Board of Medicine on Friday advanced a plan that would ban doctors from providing treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender people under age 18.

An Open Letter to Flagler County Voters Against Extremism, Buffoonery and Their Disturbing Candidates

August 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

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The abuse of position and process (particularly by school board members) is egregious. The wasted hours in all three elected boards’ meetings (school board, county commission, Palm Coast council) on ridiculous, petty–or worse: imagined–problems has been sickening to endure, Jake Scully argues in a plea for well-researched votes in the coming elections.

Developments Would Halt in Flagler, Devastating Economy, If County Voids School-Planning Accord

August 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Palm Coast City Attorney Neysa Borkert addressing the ILA Oversight Committee on Thursday. Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin is in the background. (© FlaglerLive)

If the Flagler County Commission makes good on bailing from a crucial joint agreement with cities and the school board on school construction on Sept. 1, without a new agreement in place, it would be potentially devastating to the local economy: many local developments would stop. People would be out of work. The local economy would be needlessly jolted. The commission will decide later this month whether to agree to a later deadline enabling a new agreement to be in place by then.

School Board’s Colleen Conklin Rips Into ‘Inappropriate’ Developers’ Involvement in Policy Negotiations

August 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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The long-simmering tension between the school district and home builders surfaced today as Conklin addressed it directly, challenging the way developers have sought to influence public policy in the county and on the school board.

Joe Mullins Declares Himself and His Companies ‘Insolvent,’ ‘Riddled with Debt’ and ‘Potentially Bankrupt’

August 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 153 Comments

Joe Mullins when he was first seated as a Flagler County Commissioner in 2018. (© FlaglerLive)

County Commissioner Joe Mullins in court pleadings and testimony claims he has a net worth of negative $675,000, that his companies are juggling debt, his Ferrari and Mercedes vehicles are under water, and that he may be bankrupt. The self-portrait of relative indigence contrasts with his claims as a successful businessman and steward of the county’s finances, and appear to differ from his financial disclosure form filed filed ahead of this year’s election.

First Lady Announces launch of Resource Site to Navigate Dizzying Realities of Cancer Care

August 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

First Lady Casey DeSantis announces a cancer resource website called Florida Cancer Connect on Aug. 3, 2022. Some cancer survivors stand behind her. (Florida Channel)

First Lady Casey DeSantis on Wednesday announced the launch of Florida Cancer Connect, an online resource site for cancer patients to hear from survivors and access information to help navigate the dizzying realities of battling cancer.

Greg Hansen, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

August 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Greg Hansen. (© FlaglerLive)

Greg Hansen is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 2 primary on Aug. 23. He faces Janet McDonald and Denise Calderwood. All registered voters in the county, regardless of party affiliation, get to cast a vote in this race, which will decide the next commissioner.

Matanzas High School Addition Leads $165 Million in Planned School Construction Over Next 5 Years

August 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The Flagler County school district is tentatively projecting to spend $18 million for an expansion of Matanzas High School, $70 million for a new middle school and $77 million for a new high school over the next five years, not including additional millions for ongoing maintenance.

We Need More Homes and Apartments in Palm Coast. A Lot More.

August 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 81 Comments

The view from the author's backyard in Palm Coast's P-Section: a Horton home under construction, and car speeding down Point Pleasant Drive, beyond which a 35-acre spread of scrubland is about to be leveld to make way for a 72-home subdivision. (© FlaglerLive)

With the median price of a home at $400,000 and fewer than six weeks’ inventory, Palm Coast is in an affordable housing crisis. Existing residents are exacerbating the crisis by opposing developments, opposing smaller-lot homes and opposing apartment complexes. It’s hypocritical and untenable.

Janet McDonald, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

August 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Janet McDonald. (© FlaglerLive)

Janet McDonald is one of three the Republican candidates for Flagler County Commission, District 2, facing incumbent Greg Hansen and Denise Calderwood in the Aug. 23 primary.

In Hammock, $1.4 Million Paving of Dirt Roads in Rustic Neighborhood Draws Sharp Opposition

August 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Hammock residents like their roads unpaved. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission in a 4-1 vote approved paving and building drainage improvements around some dirt roads branching from Apache Drive in the Hammock, a project several years in the making, even as hammock residents disputed the county’s claims of flooding issues and opposed paving.

Politically Appointed Florida Board of Medicine Will Weigh Blocking Transgender Treatment for Youths

August 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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The Florida Board of Medicine is slated Friday to consider a proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to bar physicians from providing treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking medication to transgender youths.

Sally Hunt, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

August 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Sally Hunt. (© FlaglerLive)

Sally Hunt is challenging incumbent Jill Woolbright in the District 1 race for Flagler County School Board. They are among seven candidates running for three seats on the school board. 

As Commissioner Andy Dance Again Cites ‘Lines of Decorum’ Getting Crossed, Don O’Brien Walks Off

August 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance, right, keeps discovering that he and his colleagues--in this case, Dave Sullivan--aren't necessarily on the same page when it comes to rules of decorum and procedures. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance today pointed to yet another crossing of “the lines of decorum” by fellow-Commissioner Joe Mullins, and again called for a retreat so commissioners could get on the same page of decorum and procedures, only for Don O’Brien to walk off the dais and other commissioners to ignore him. It was the latest example of a commission chronically enabling conflict and corrosion over respect.

Gas Prices Below $4, Big Oil Profits Set Massive Records, Flagler Commissioners Gripe of Higher Local Costs

August 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

At a gas station in Orlando Sunday evening. (© FlaglerLive)

Gas prices in Palm Coast are a shade under $4 and not far from the Florida average of $3.93 a gallon, though Flagler County Commissioners want an explanation from the agriculture commissioner as to why higher prices continue in the county. Oil company profits, meanwhile, again shatter records.

Recovery of 90% of Human Skeleton Ends Toscana Subdivision Dig for Mystery Remains

July 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly with Erin Kimmerle, a forensic anthropologist at the University of South Florida, explained the dig for human remains at Tuscan Gardens' development site earlier this week. (© FlaglerLive via FCSO video)

Sheriff Rick Staly announced that the dig was declared over after the effort recovered 90 percent of a human skeleton. The investigation now enters a different stage, with efforts focused on identification through the use of DNA technology. Staly said that every missing-person file at the Sheriff’s Office includes DNA samples against which the find at Toscana will be tested.

Suddenly, Florida Is a Haven for Abortion-Seekers in the South. But For How Long?

July 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

It gives Visit Florida a whole new meaning. (© FlaglerLive)

As of this week, most abortions are banned in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. Other states in the South also have strict abortion bans that are in flux because of court appeals. But on the geographical edge of this block of Deep South states, abortion is expected to remain legal in Florida and North Carolina, at least until the November elections.

Possible In-Patient Facility for Addicts in Place of Former Sheriff’s ‘Mold-Ops’ Raises Some Eyebrows

July 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The former Flagler County Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell after it was abandoned and sold by the county, seen here last February. (© FlaglerLive)

An in-patient drug-treatment facility that closed in St. Augustine is planning to re-open at the former, once mold-plagued Sheriff’s operations center off State Road 100. The sheriff had to abandon the building in 2018. The for-profit facility would be run by Dr. Duke Vinson.

Paul Renner’s Stunning Attack on Green Energy Is Bad News for Florida’s Climate Change Challenges

July 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

It's a sunny day in Miami, and another day for tidal flooding downtown. (Wikimedia Commons)

Sea level rise is just the most obvious manifestation of our climate change peril. Yet Speaker-designate Renner has barely even mentioned that when talking about Florida’s future as he keeps raking in campaign cash from power and coal companies.

There Will Be No Inquisition of Flagler Beach Mayor Suzie Johnston

July 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The Flagler Beach City Commission in a less stressful environment, at last April's dedication of a glass-crushing recycling machine. From left, Commissioner James Sherman, Devorah Phillips, Mayor Suzie Johnston, Commissioner Jane Mealy and Commission Chairman Ken Bryan. Commissioner Eric Cooley is not pictured. (© FlaglerLive)

Three Flagler Beach city commissioners had called for a special workshop to discuss what they perceived as Mayor Suzie Johnston overstepping her role. After conversations with City Attorney Drew Smith, the commissioners pulled back on holding that workshop this evening.

DeSantis and the Mis-Education of Florida’s Schoolchildren. With Test for Extra Credit.

July 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Ron DeSantis wants the young ’uns educated with no unfair criticism of the Greatest Country that Ever Was. To that end, he’s bringing in a curriculum from Hillsdale College, a righteous institution where they love the Lord, the flag, and capitalism — not necessarily in that order.

Over a Decade in the Making, Water Oak Road’s Paving in West Flagler Is Driving to Completion

July 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Former County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin, seen here in late 2018--just before he lost his seat--has reasons to smile today, now that the completion of the paving of Water Oak Road, a project he shepherded a decade ago, is coming to fruition. (© FlaglerLive)

Then-Flagler County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin had promised West Flagler residents that Water Oak Road would start getting paved in 2012. It did, but it’s only next month that the project he’d pushed for then will finally be completed with state and federal dollars.

City Repertory Theatre Hopscotches Through Love’s Multiverse with ‘Constellations’

July 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Phillipa Rose is Rowan the beekeeper and Austin Kelley is Marion the physicist in the City Repertory Theatre production of “Constellations.” (Mike Kitaif)

The play, running Thursday through Sunday at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, is a 2012 comedy-drama by British playwright Nick Payne about the romantic ups and downs of a beekeeper and a theoretical physicist. The couple in “Constellations” take a trip down the rabbit hole of the multiverse, that freaky theory that posits there are an infinite number of parallel universes which exist simultaneously, and may be quite similar to or radically different from the one you and I inhabit.

Four School Boards Sued Over Enforcing ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law, Charging Violation of 1st Amendment

July 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

This sign and others like it are now banned in Florida public schools. (© FlaglerLive)

The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Orlando, seeks to block the school boards in Orange, Indian River, Duval and Palm Beach counties from carrying out the law (HB 1557), which restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms. The lawsuit charges the law is unconstitutional.

Man Faces Felony for Forcibly Removing from Home 11-Year-Old Trying to Protect His Mother

July 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Charles Morgan Sanders, 42, faces a felony child abuse charge and a domestic battery charge after he forcibly removed an 11-year-old boy from a P-Section house. Sanders was in a confrontation with the boy’s mother when the boy tried to intervene, further angering Sanders.

Lance Alred, Flagler County School Board Candidate: The Live Interview

July 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Lance Alred. (© FlaglerLive)

Lance Alred is one of seven candidates in three races for Flagler County School Board in the Aug. 23 primary election, one of three in the District 2 race. He faces Will Furry and Courtney VandeBunte. All Flagler voters, regardless of party affiliation and address, may cast a ballot in these races.

Unexpected Death of Dr. Bulic, Medical Examiner for Flagler and 2 Other Counties, Triggers Key Process

July 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Dr. Pedrag Bulic readying to testify in a Flagler County court case, one of some 200 to 300 times he did so in his career as a medical examiner. (© FlaglerLive)

Dr. Predrag Bulic, the chief medical examiner for Flagler, St. Johns and Putnam counties–a position as low profile as it is critical to the justice system and families in the determination of the cause of death of thousands of individuals each year–died unexpectedly over the weekend of a severe stroke. His replacement’s highly political appointment will involve some of the top elected law enforcement and judicial officials in Flagler, St. Johns and Putnam counties.

Flagler Judge Melissa Distler Named President-Elect of Florida Conference of County Court Judges

July 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Flagler County Judge Melissa Distler was elected to the bench in 2012 and re-elected without opposition in 2018. (Seventh Judicial Circuit)

Flagler County Court Judge D. Melissa Distler, in her 10th year on the bench, was elected President-Elect of the Florida Conference of County Court Judges last week at the judges’ summer education conference in Bonita Springs. Distler will be sworn in in July 2024, presiding over the conferences 335 county judges from 67 counties. 

Monkeypox Declared International Public Health Emergency; Florida’s 260 Cases Rank 3rd in U.S.

July 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Saturday that the monkeypox outbreak that’s expanded globally is now a public health emergency of international concern. The Florida Department of Health shows monkeypox cases of 260 in 16 counties as of Saturday, none in Flagler.

Renner Embraces Anti-‘Woke’ Rhetoric and DeSantis Sees Red at GOP’s Sunshine Summit

July 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Incoming House Speaker Paul Renner (left) and incoming Senate President Kathleen Passidomo spoke Saturday during the Republican Party of Florida's Sunshine Summit. (NSF)

Renner, who highlighted continued work to expand school choice, also said more attention is needed to address corporate pushes toward what are known as environmental, social and governance principles, which often include favoring investment in green energy over fossil fuels.

Two Boys, 15 at Time of Brutal Armed Home Invasion in Palm Coast, Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

July 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

And yet both Jones and Watts looked and acted every bit their age if not younger--boys barely conversant with so much as conversing, let alone with maturity. They were glaring exhibits A and B in defense attorney Richard Price's by-then tragic understatement of the afternoon: "These juveniles, their brains don't work the same as adult brains."

They were 15 years old–15, when Korie Jones and Darius Watts left their separate homes to join Carlos Dupree and a fourth man on a criminal scheme: to terrorize, brutalize and rob a Palm Coast family at gunpoint. They looked and acted every bit their age if not younger as they sat for their sentencing in court this afternoon at the Flagler County courthouse.

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