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Mask-Wearing Is Not About Personal Liberty but Communal Health, Palm Coast Town Hall Experts Say

May 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 77 Comments

If society is to effectively stave off resurgences of Covid-19 infections, masks are not an option but a universal necessity, experts say.

Is wearing a mask in public too much to ask for as Palm Coast and Flagler reopen? Does it infringe on individuals’ liberties? Two physicians, the Flagler Health Department’s chief and Palm Coast’s fire chief give an unequivocal No.

“Idiots” Remark Comes Back to Haunt Jack Howell as Fellow-Councilman Branquinho Berates Him

May 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Eddie Branquinho. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast City Council member Eddie Branquinho excoriated fellow-Council member Jack Howell for six minutes at the end of Tuesday’s council meeting, over an article Howell wrote, proposing financial measures in light of the Covid-19 emergency. Branquinho said the article was politically motivated.

Florida as Sports Hub: DeSantis Wants Professional and Youth Teams to Resume Playing in State

May 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Awaiting the ball. (MLS/Facebook)

The Washington Post reported that Major League Soccer is looking to house players in large resorts near Disney World as a way for games to resume for all 26 teams in Orlando.

Caesar DePaço, Portugal’s Honorary Consul in Palm Coast Since 2014, Resigns Indignantly

May 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Caesar DePaço, right, during the ceremonial opening of the honorary consulate in Palm Coast in 2015, with José Cesário, Portugal’s secretary of state of Portuguese Communities Abroad, left. (© FlaglerLive)

Citing “unacceptable conduct” and “irreconcilable” differences with the Portuguese ambassador to the United States, Caesar DePaço resigned abruptly Tuesday evening, leaving the future of the honorary consulate in Palm Coast in doubt.

Flagler Beach’s Plan to Buy $571,000 Fire Truck Draws Opposition Over Timing and Recent History

May 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The fire truck the Flagler Beach Fire Department is looking to replace, in a picture from 2013. The truck has since been renamed Engine 111. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach Fire Department’s proposal to buy a $571,000 fire truck is triggering the sort of opposition mobilized against the 2015 purchase of a $600,000 “quint” fire truck, an odyssey that took 18 months. That truck was eventually delivered.

Manhunt in Palm Coast’s E-Section After Man Pulls Gun on Wife and Son Over a Dog

May 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Deputies close in on Larry Briggene Batson Saturday night after he surrendered in the E Section, in a still from footage from Air One.

Larry Briggene Batson, a 41-year-old resident of 31 Ebb Tide Drive in Palm Coast, had allegedly pulled a gun on his wife because she would not turn the car around so he could go fetch his dog.

Flagler Beach and County Commissioners Call Out Joe Mullins Over a Baseless, Inflammatory Claim

May 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Parking along Flagler Beach's boardwalk and pier has been closed as a means of controlling large gatherings of people. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins over the weekend made unsubstantiated accusations that unnamed Flagler Beach officials are hurting business and tourism in the city with their “stay on your side of the bridge mentality.” City commissioners corrected him.

500 Images and Videos of Child Sexual Abuse Found in 46-Year-Old Palm Coast Man’s Tablet

May 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The investigation reveals the extent to which law enforcement and at least some online platforms and internet service providers are cooperating with police to tip off, track down and facilitate investigations of individuals involved in child exploitation or abuse.

Florida Adds Covid-19 Into Its Hurricane Preparations

May 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The special needs shelter at Rymfire Elementary school in Palm Coast ahead of Hurricane Irma in 2017. IOt'll have to be reconfigured, should it be needed, to accommodate for the precautions over Covid-19. (© FlaglerLive)

Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz said last week his agency is redeveloping plans about evacuations and shelters, while also adding facemasks to the state’s stockpile of storm supplies.

The Bailout Is Working — For the Rich

May 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The S&P 500 is now up 30% from its lows in mid-March and back to where it was last October, when the outlook for 2020 corporate earnings looked sunshiny. Companies have sold record amounts of debt in recent weeks for investment-grade companies. Junk bonds, historically dodgy during an economic swoon, have roared back. (© FlaglerLive)

The economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving, and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring dramatically higher. That tells you who investors think is the real beneficiary of the federal government’s massive rescue efforts.

Palm Coast’s Grand Oaks Rehab Rejects Health Department’s Testing of Patients and Staff, Then Relents

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Flagler Health Department's strike team, including members of the National Guard, at Market Street, the memory care facility in Palm Coast, today. The team conducted some 100 Covid-19 tests of residents and staff there. (© FlaglerLive)

After its corporate office overrode local resistance, Grand Oaks Rehab in Palm Coast agreed to have its 100 patients and 100 staff members tested for Covid-19 next week. The Flagler Health Department’s strike teams conducted 200 tests today at two other large nursing home facilities.

Terry McManus, Who Runs Flagler Beach’s City Golf Course, Wanted on Felony Insurance Fraud Charge

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Terry McManus addressing the Flagler Beach City Commission in 2017, when his company, which was running the Ocean Palms Golf Club, was in a dispute with the city. (© FlaglerLive)

Terry McManus, the 54-year-old operator of Ocean Palms Golf Course, the Flagler Beach-owned 9-hole course, is accused of making up a bogus insurance claim and lying about a Caterpillar Skid Steer allegedly stolen at the golf course.

2 Suspects Face Felony Charges in BB Gun ‘Shooting Spree’ On I-95 in Palm Coast, Volusia and Jacksonville

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

21-year-old Deon Jones (DOB 9/2/1998) and 22-year-old Tiyana Anderson

Deon Jones, 21, and his girlfriend Tiyana Anderson, 22, are accused of shooting BB’s that shattered drivers’ vehicle windows and frightened them as they drove along I-4 and I-95 in Flagler, Duval and Volusia counties.

Economy Loses 20.5 Million Jobs in April, Unemployment Rate at 14.7%, Worst Since 1939

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The April figures are an undercount, as they represent only a partial survey of actual job losses in April. Those losses are closer to 30 million or more, according to the cumulative total of first-time unemployment claims filed over the past few weeks.

Flagler Health Officials Pledge to Keep Up Covid Testing as AdventHealth Phases Out Drive-Up Sites

May 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A nurse with the Florida Department of Health explains the process of specimen collection to a nursing home resident in northeast Florida last week. The Flagler Health Department has deployed strike teams to 71 local assisted living facilities and nursing homes to examine compliance with Covid-19 recommendations and provide material support where needed. On Friday, the department will conduct 300 Covid-19 tests of local facilities' residents and staff. (Michael Baltz)

There is some confusion about how much testing should take place–2 percent of the population per month or overall–and whether it will be available to the extent recommended as society reopens. The guideline from the federal government of testing 2 percent is a monthly goal, not an overall goal.

Florida’s Universities Weigh What May Be an Altered Reopening This Fall, With Emphasis on Remote Classes

May 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The University of Florida and other universities are weighing how and when to reopen this fall in light of the coronavirus emergency. (Facebook)

FSU Provost Sally E. McRorie told faculty members in an email that it is likely the school will only offer in-person courses that cannot be done remotely. Many universities are considering keeping at least some instruction online.

Richard Adams, Who Carried Palm Coast’s Water for 43 Years, Retires as He Worked: Quietly

May 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Richard Adams, Palm Coast’s towering but famously modest utility director since 2003 and a presence in the city’s water infrastructure for 43 years, retired at the end of last week to remote accolades and an honorary flush.

DeSantis Is Right on Cautious Reopening, Wrong on Models

May 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at last week's announcement on reopening.

Gov. Ron DeSantis took a wisely cautious approach on reopening, but his caution contrasted with his ridicule of models that predicted grim outcomes for Florida in March. His criticism reflects a simplistic misunderstanding of models’ purpose, especially when they have their intended effect: to minimize loss of life.

Flagler Health Department and Palm Coast Mayor Recognize Heroes of a Pandemic: Nurses

May 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

American Red Cross volunteers during the flu pandemic of 2018. (Oakland Public Library)

The Flagler Health Department is joining Palm Coast and thousands of organizations across the country in celebrating National Nurses Week starting today and through From May 6 through May 12.

A Woman Disputing Social Distancing Rules at Local Clinic Clashes With Cop and Faces Felony Charges

May 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Claudia Avello Munzo after she was placed in a patrol car. (FCSO)

It was an incident out of Covid-19’s unwritten playbook, escalating from a simple social-distancing request at the Florida Health Care Plans office off Palm Coast Parkway to a scuffle, a woman’s arrest and felony charges and an injury to a Flagler County Sheriff’s sergeant.

Florida Supreme Court Weighs Wording of Recreational Marijuana Ballot Proposal

May 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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An attorney for Make It Legal Florida, said the proposal “piggybacks” on a system resulting from a 2016 constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana in the state. Lawmakers and groups such as the Florida Chamber of Commerce trying to block the measure.

Lumber Truck Driver Killed, Woman Seriously Injured in I-95 Crash North of Matanzas Interchange

May 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 61 Comments

The scene of the crash this morning. Lumber was strewn on both sides of the highway before it was swept from the northbound lanes first, to the right. (© FlaglerLive)

A lumber truck driver was killed and a woman was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of I-95 early this morning (May 6), just north of the Matanzas Woods Parkway intersection.

Flagler’s Covid-19 Deaths Rise to 4 But New Positive Cases Slow as Broader-Criteria Testing Increases

May 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The last six weeks of testing and positive cases in Flagler County.

Flagler’s deaths add to a statewide tally approaching 1,500 as one of the models most closely watched by state and federal officials revised significantly upward its estimate of deaths for Florida now that the state has begun reopening.

‘Like Someone Went to Class and Didn’t Come Back’: Florida Universities Contend With Students’ Belongings

May 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Universities across the state will allow students to have items delivered to them or return to campus at a safe time to pick up belongings. Some universities are even preparing to dispose of unwanted items at the students’ request.

The Joe Mullins Smear

May 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

Joe Mullins during today's county commission meeting. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Joe Mullins is a distasteful man whose behavior as an elected official is dangerous and should be held to account. But not by reporting as unsubstantiated as the allegations it’s based on. To play into them without strict and uncompromising authentication legitimizes them and gives journalism a bad name.

Eligible for Re-Trial, Dorothy Singer Pleads in 2017 Murder of Her Husband and Is Sentenced to 32.5 Years

May 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Dorothy Singer during her plea hearing today as she sat at the Flagler County jail, connected via Zoom to Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

She was eligible for a new trial. But facing daunting evidence against her, Dorothy Singer, formerly of west Flagler, pleaded to second-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband Charles in 2017.

Surprise Proposal to Raze Moldy Sheriff’s Ops and Build There Anew Introduces New Uncertainties in Projects

May 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The Sheriff's Operations Center off State Road 100 when it was close to completion, after its reconstruction from a hospital, in September 2015. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission chairman on Monday discussed the possibility of razing the building and constructing anew there–either a sheriff’s operations center or a south branch public library. That approach would nullify a recent agreement to locate both the operations center and a south branch library off Commerce Parkway in Bunnell. 

At Gargantuan Feed Palm Coast Food Drop, Tears, Solidarity, and the Reality About Those ‘Late-Model Cars’

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

No government, no military contingent, no church or any other private organization had ever attempted what Palm Coast government and Parkview Church did Saturday: the distribution of 5,000 boxes packed with a week’s worth of groceries, and thousands of additional boxes of snacks and Easter candy, for families that streamed through the two drop locations.

Palm Coast Reopens a Few Passive Parks and Trails Monday as Flagler Beach Weighs Limited Pier Access

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Pier's pilgrims await progress on reopening. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast and Flagler Beach governments are reopening a few of their more passive parks, trails and other outdoor amenities Monday while keeping major parks closed and maintaining a strict focus on safety and social distancing.

Hair Salons, Barber Shops, Bars, Gyms and Theaters Will Remain Closed for Now

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Epic loneliness. (© FlaglerLive)

The governor said more consideration of employee and customer safety is needed before he can give the go-ahead for salons and barber shops to turn on the lights again.

Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Coronavirus Antibody Test Results

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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There are questions about how accurate antibody tests are. And even with a very good test, it’s possible to test positive for antibodies even when you don’t actually have them. Watch this video to learn why.

Palm Coast Plan Will Allow Restaurant Use of Sidewalks and Parking Lots For Less Restricted Outdoor Seating

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Taking a creative approach that lessens the emphasis on code rules while maintaining an emphasis on public health, Palm Coast wants to see many signs like this reviving its restaurant sector starting Monday. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast government is devising a plan that, in its broad outlines issued late this afternoon, would significantly relax rules on restaurant use of sidewalks and even parking lots, enabling restaurants to place tables there and compensate for the loss of business they would otherwise continue to suffer if they were limited to the 25 percent rule.

Saturday in Flagler: 3 Massive Food Drops at 4 Locations In Unprecedented Reflection of Aid and Hardship

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Thousands of families will line up in cars for food distributions at Palm Coast City Hall, Parkview Church, on Education Way off U.S. 1 and at Wickline Center in Flagler Beach in a day of aid reflecting the crushing needs provoked by the coronavirus emergency.

Graduates, Start Your Engines: FPC and Matanzas Will Have In-Person Graduation at the Speedway on May 31

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The plan is for Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast Graduates to drive their cars across the finish line in a graduate ceremony at the International Speedway on May 31. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School will hold their graduation ceremonies on May 31 at the International Speedway in Daytona Beach following a committee’s work on devising an original plan to ensure a safe, in-person event despite the coronavirus emergency.

Brave New Covid World at AdventHealth: Your Car as Waiting Room, Phone Check-Ins, Mandatory Tests and Masks

April 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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AdventHealth physicians outlined how the system’s hospitals, including AdventHealth Palm Coast, will operate from here on, with significantly new procedures for patients, visitors, staff and physicians and a heavy emphasis on technology, social distancing and the isolation of anything Covid-19, including air.

More than a Fifth of Americans Unemployed as 1st Time Claims Keep Surging and Checks Keep Lagging

April 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The total number of first-time claims filed in Florida since the start of the coronavirus emergency totals 1.6 million in a civilian labor force of 10.5 million, placing the state’s unemployment rate at over 15 percent.

Facing Bankruptcy, Flagler County Chamber of Commerce Prepares to Dissolve, Ending 60-Year Run

April 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Diana Minotti in a screen shot from the liquidation sale she was conducting for the Chamber of Commerce since last week. She tood in the familiar lobby of the chamber, which will no longer operate at the Airport Road location.

The Flagler County Chamber of Commerce board is meeting this afternoon to dissolve the 60-year-old organization as the coronavirus crisis tipped it into bankruptcy. The move follows several years of struggles, downsizing, and layoffs as recent as early February, before the crisis struck. 

Restaurants Can Reopen at 25% Capacity, Many Restrictions Will Remain as Florida Moves to Reopening on Monday

April 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at today's news conference.

Citing Florida as weathering the coronavirus crisis much better than many other states, especially those hardest hit, Gov. Ron DeSantis today said the state will begin reopening starting on May 4, except for three South Florida counties. But many existing restrictions will remain in effect.

County Elections Supervisors Describe Struggles With Felons’ Voting Law and Lack of Reliable Data

April 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Waiting for voters: equipment at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections' office. (© FlaglerLive)

The state lacks a single database where felons, lawyers or elections officials can determine whether people have outstanding court-ordered financial obligations. Florida’s new but restrictive felon-voting law is the subject of a nationally watched trial this week.

Reality Check: What Antibody Studies Can Tell You — and More Importantly, What They Can’t

April 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Coronavirus antibody studies and what they allegedly show have triggered fierce debates, further confusing public understanding, especially about fallacies about herd immunity. Here is some clarity and fact-checking around these crucial surveys.

FPL Customers’ Bills Will Drop 24% in May, Resulting from Lower Fuel Costs

April 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The savings stem from lower-than-expected costs for natural gas to fuel power plants. Utilities are required to pass along savings to customers when fuel costs drop, but the money typically goes to customers gradually.

With $57,000 Raised and Tons of Food Boxed, Plan to Feed 5,000 Families Turns Palm Coast City Hall Into Relief Central

April 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Some 1,200 booxes, each with a week's worth of groceries for a family of four, are warehoused on the first floor of City Hall, in preparation of the food drop on May 2. The city's Tyler Jarnagin is by the door. (© FlaglerLive)

Feed Palm Coast has turned City Hall into a warehouse for a massive food aid operation relying on city staffers, volunteers and the donations of residents to feed 5,000 families with a week’s worth of groceries come May 2.

A Plea From Superintendent Tager To Telecoms: Students Need Reliable Internet Connections Across Flagler

April 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Superintendet Jim Tager wants every Flagler student's internet connection to be sharp and reliable. For now, students on the west side of the county are at a disadvantage. (© FlaglerLive)

As the Flagler school district went virtual in answer to the coronavirus crisis, it found that unreliable internet service in parts of the county puts some students at a disadvantage. Superintendent Jim Tager asks communications companies to address the gap.

2 Staffers at 2 Assisted Living Facilites in Palm Coast Test Positive as Local Covid Cases Rise; Antibody Tests On the Way

April 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Flagler’s Covid-19 cases now total 127, two of them at assisted living facilities, as local officials caution against a too-swift relaxation of precautions or too high hopes on antibody testing on its way. The testing will be focused on health workers.

Rumor Control is Critical and Time-Consuming for States, With No Help From Trump or His Likes

April 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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In addition to battling the coronavirus, states and localities are spending time and increased effort batting down rumors and myths — everything from President Donald Trump’s suggestion last week that injecting poisonous disinfectants might help to rumors that National Guard troops are enforcing stay-at-home orders at gunpoint.

How Many Deaths Can We Live With?

April 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There was no hesitation in sending them to their death so others could live: the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, in Normandy. (© FlaglerLive)

The coronavirus emergency is raising ethical questions as communities reopen: how many deaths are we willing to live with, and whose deaths? The questions are at the heart of the debate on reopening, but are not being confronted honestly.

Anti-Vaccine Activists Latch Onto Coronavirus To Bolster Their Movement

April 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Conspiracy theorists and anti-vax activists generally run in, or are, the same circles. (Fibonacci Blue)

While most of the world hungers for a vaccine to put an end to the death and economic destruction wrought by COVID-19, some anti-vaccine groups are joining with anti-lockdown protesters to challenge restrictions aimed at protecting public health.

Flagler Beach and County Reopen Beaches 24 Hours Sunday Morning, Maintaining Limits on Activities

April 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

Nancy Rivero of Palm Coast earlier this week, the first morning the beaches reopened. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County and Flagler Beach have agreed to reopen all 18 miles of beach in the county 24 hours starting Sunday at 7 a.m., while maintaining restrictions only on certain activities on the beach: “for leisure, no, for exercise, yes,” as Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney put it this afternoon.

Reopening Palm Coast: City Issues Cautious Plan Stretched Over Four Seasons, With Some Permanent Changes

April 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 134 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland, right, with City Manager Matt Morton, center, and Fire Chief Jerry Forte at this afternoon's briefing on the city's phased plan for resuming activities in the city. (© FlaglerLive via Palm Coast's YouTube Channel)

Palm Coast government today issued a recovery plan that anticipates a three-phased reopening of the city and its economy over the next year, cautiously, gradually resuming mostly normal activities while permanently maintaining new norms such as the wearing of masks in public and re-configuring certain interactions.

Lost to Car Crash Last Week, Williams Family Will be Celebrated at Saturday Service in Palm Coast

April 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Wilma Williams and her daughters Mozella and Kaleigh, in a Facebook photo. Their lives will be celebrated at a service on Saturday at Palm Coast United Methodist Church's north campus.

Wilma Williams and her two daughters, Mozella and Kaleigh, 12 and 13, will be celebrated on the north campus of Palm Coast United Methodist Church Saturday at 11 a.m. in a drive-in service that will combine the requirements of social distancing with the ceremonial spirit of the solemn occasion.

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