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Circle K Murder Trial of Marcus Chamblin Is Set for April 8, With Co-Conspirator’s Trial Soon to Follow

January 30, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Marcus Chamblin, in the orange and white jail garb, at docket sounding this morning in court. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins today set April 8 as the trial date for Marcus Chamblin, one of two defendants facing a first-degree murder charge in the October 12, 2019 murder of Deon O’Neal Jenkins and an attempted murder charge in the shooting of a second victim, whose name authorities have not released. The shooting took place in the parking lot of the Circle K gas station and convenience store on Palm Coast Parkway, off of Belle Terre Parkway.

Veranda Bay Courtship: Flagler Beach Swiftly Changes Its Annexation Rule In Defensive Move Against Palm Coast

January 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

New homes have been going up at Veranda Bay. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach is in an annexation race with Palm Coast to win over Veranda Bay and its hundreds of homes along John Anderson Highway. To that end, Flagler Beach changed its annexation rule. By convincing it to annex into Flagler Beach, the city is hoping to limit development impacts on its rim. It fears that under Palm Coast standards, Veranda Bay could be an intense cluster of high rises and high-density developments. 

Brendan Depa’s Sentencing is Postponed as Lawyers Cite More Preparation Needed

January 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Brendan Depa, right, with his attorney, Kurt Teifke, in court last June. (© FlaglerLive)

Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the sentencing of Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School student who pleaded to a count of aggravated battery on a school employee, has ben postponed to an undetermined date, and may not be held until past mid-March.

Stabbing at Econolodge: Money Issues for Homeless Family Staying There Escalate Into Violence

January 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Tyland Chambers.

A juvenile girl apparently defending herself from being choked stabbed her mother’s boyfriend, 35-year-old Tyland Chambers, at the Econolodge in Palm Coast Sunday morning, before Chambers allegedly attacked another man who was trying to protect the girl. Chambers ended up hospitalized for treatment, and facing four charges, including two felonies. The girl was not charged.

Palm Coast’s Eric Galdabini, 56, Randomly Attacks and Stabs a Man After Attempting to Pick-Up His Girlfriend

January 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Eric Philip Galdabini, 56, of Palm Coast.

Eric Philip Galdabini, a 56-year-old resident of 126 Birchwood Drive in Palm Coast, had circled by a couple walking in the B-Section and asked a 21-year-old woman if she wanted a ride before he stopped the car and rushed her boyfriend. The two scuffled, Galdabini slashed at the man with a pocketknife, and was later arrested on an aggravated battery with a deadly weapon count.

On His Trial’s Eve, Marshall Thomas, 17, Is Arrested for the 3rd Time in 18 Months, This Time for Distributing Porn to Kids

January 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Marshall Thomas appearing in court from the Duval County jail last March. (© FlaglerLive)

Marshall Thomas, 17, has twice been released on bond since his original arrest in July 2022, and both times has re-offended, getting charged with serious felonies. Now, on the eve of his trial in Flagler County on charges of molesting a girl at Matanzas High School, and on two counts of stealing firearms, prosecutors in Flagler County are asking that Thomas’s bond be revoked following his latest arrest, in Wisconsin, on charges of distributing child pornography to other children.

County Commissioners Plan to Develop 4 or 5 New Economic Development Incentives to Diversify Tax Base

January 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

"Every budget session it weighs on our conscience the fact that we rely on our residential property tax base so heavily," Commission Chairman Andy Dance said during a workshop on eploring new economic development incentives earlier this week. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission is looking to step up its incentive programs for economic development, focusing on certain approaches more than others, as it looks to diversify the local tax base and expand on the availability of local jobs in a county where nearly half the working population of 51,000 people commutes out of county.

Flagler Beach Will Sign 3-Year, $94,000 Deal for New Year’s Eve Fireworks, But With an Escape Clause

January 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The New Year's Eve fireworks in Flagler Beach a few weeks ago. (Suzie Johnston)

The Flagler Beach City Commission will approve a three-year, $94,000 deal with My Three Sons, the fireworks company, to produce New Year’s Eve fireworks through 2026, assuming there’s a place from where to set them off. The deal stems from last New Year’s Eve fireworks display, the first in the city on that date, which My Three Sons produced to local acclaim.

At Joint Meeting of Local Flagler Governments, Homelessness Draws a Vague Pledge to Seek Funding

January 25, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A tent in what used to be a homeless camp on county acreage near the Flagler County Public Library, until the homeless were driven out by the county in 2019. (© FlaglerLive)

A joint meeting of Flagler County’s cities and the county again took up homelessness and again mostly deferred to non-profits and churches to pick up the pieces. But officials also agreed at least to explore state funding possibilities. More firm commitments to tackle the issue are still lacking.

Flagler Receives $15.7 Million from State for Beach Project, Making Dip Into Reserves Unnecessary

January 25, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Let the beach reconstruction begin. (FDOT)

Flagler County will not have to dip into its reserves for $15.7 million after all. The county administrator said late this morning that the Florida Department of Transportation had just wired money pledged to the county to cover the county’s share of the cost of the long-awaited U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ beach-reconstruction project in Flagler Beach, which begins in late spring.

Palm Coast’s Noah Michael Urban, 19, Faces 14 Counts of Cryptocurrency Fraud in Federal Indictment

January 25, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Noah Michael UYrban, 19, was briefly held at the Volusia jail after his arrest before his transfer to federal custody, where he remains.

A federal judge in Jacksonville on Monday signed an order to have former Palm Coast resident Noah Michael Urban held in prison pending trial, and finding him at risk of fleeing if he were released meanwhile. Urban is alleged to have stolen virtual currency from five victims’ accounts by fraudulently obtaining their personal identifying information, managing to take control of their cell phone numbers, and gaining access to their online accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts. 

Clarifying Its Own Roles, School Board Finally Approves Carver Gym Agreement with Expanded PAL Presence

January 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Carver Community Center will have a new controlling agreement on who and how it is operated, with the school district sharing responsibibilities with the county and the Police Athletic League. (© FlaglerLive)

It took half a year, but the Flagler County School Board Tuesday evening approved the new agreement that will revamp and control the operation of the Carver Center, or Carver Gym, in Bunnell, in cooperation with Flagler County, the City of Bunnell, the Sheriff’s Office and its Police Athletic League. PAL will have a much larger role running activities at the center. 

Parents Jailed on 6 Felony Counts of Child Neglect Over Abject House Conditions as DCF Takes 3 Children

January 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Michelle Sofia, 35, and Willie Lee London, 41, are facing three felony child neglect charges each in connection with Bunnell police discovering their three children living in abject conditions at 811 Hymon Circle, with no food, running water or sanitation. The children are an 11-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy.

School Board’s Sally Hunt Would Like You To Follow ‘Chain of Command’ Before You Contact Her

January 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Sally Hunt on Tuesday said she was not long for the school board. (© FlaglerLive)

The School Board’s Sally Hunt made the startling assertion toward the end of Tuesday evening’s board meeting, placing parents and constituents in a subordinate role to what she twice described as a a board as “super boss,” and in effect reversing the roles of elected officials and constituents: she as an elected official is the boss. She wants constituents, her subordinates, to follow the chain of command, starting at school and through the administration, before their case is elevated to her level.

Will Furry Claims Kristy Gavin’s Firing Was ‘For Cause.’ His Termination Letter Contains No Such Thing.

January 23, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Will Furry chairs the Flagler County School Board. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board Chairman Will Furry insisted today that the firing letter he signed on Monday and that went to Kristy Gavin, the former school board attorney, was “for cause,” as required by her contract. The one-page letter, obtained by FlaglerLive, contains no cause. The silence on the matter appears to be one more weapon in Gavin’s arsenal should she sue the district for breach of contract and wrongful termination.

Cell Towers Behind FPC’s Football Field Is Not a Health Problem, School Board Is Told, and May Be There Years

January 23, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

The School Board's cell tower, leasing space to two carriers, just behind the football field at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

A consultant the Flagler school district hired to survey and analyze the health hazards, if any, of the monopole cell tower behind the bleachers at Flagler Palm Coast High School had a simple conclusion today: the tower is not a problem. It’s not close to being a problem. And the School Board’s options with it are limited to none as it is leasing space at least until 2046.

School District Attorney Kristy Gavin Is Fired as Board Turns to Evaluating 2 Firms for New Legal Representation

January 23, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Kristy gavin's customary desk in the School Board's workshop meeting room, sitting empty today during a morning meeting of the board. (© FlaglerLive)

Ending weeks of uncertainty, Kristy Gavin, the Flagler County School Board’s attorney since 2006, was fired on Monday, a district spokesman confirmed today. The firing is ostensibly for cause, though it sets up a likely legal battle between Gavin and the district, which severed her contract 18 months before its end. Meanwhile this morning, the School Board evaluated two law firms interested in representing the board–GrayRobinson and the Douglas Law Firm.

County Forced to Approve $15.7 Million Stop-Gap for Dunes’ Army Corps Project, Leaving Reserves Threadbare

January 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

What the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project's beach-rebuilding is attempting to fix on a more permanent basis, to the extent that there is anything permanent along the shore anymore. (© FlaglerLive)

With its administration’s promise that it’s only for a short time–a matter of days–the Flagler County Commission this afternoon approved drawing $15.7 million out of its reserves to pay the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the county’s share of the cost of the long-awaited beach-rebuilding project south of the Flagler Beach pier. Flagler County had to do so because it had not yet received an equivalent amount from the state to cover the cost. But that leaves its reserves dangerously bare.

Objecting to County’s Control of Fees, School Board’s Massaro Not Ready to Sign Off on Carver Center Yet

January 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The School Board's Cheryl Massaro has one last issue with the pending Carver Center joint agreement with other agencies. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County School Board member Cheryl Massaro, who had formerly run the Carver Center, is not ready to sign off on a joint agreement in the works for months with the county, the Sheriff’s Office and Bunnell on running the facility, raising new concerns about the county taking over authority for setting rental fees there.

Defense Calls Out Sharp Inaccuracies in Arrest Account of Migrant Facing Manslaughter Charge in Death of Deputy

January 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

"After suffering various choke holds, being kneed to his ribs and tased multiple times, Virgilio's hands were cuffed," a motion describing the arrest of migrant worker Virgilio Mendez reads. (Still from body cam footage)

The defense lawyer for Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, the 18-year-old migrant held for over eight months on an aggravated manslaughter of an officer charge in the death of a St. Johns County deputy, is calling his arrest “legally insufficient,” describing his arrest report as a series of misrepresentations and misapplications of the law, and citing the medical examiner’s report to conclude that the death of the deputy was unrelated to the arrest.

DeSantis Is Kaput

January 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Something is terribly wrong here: Iowa, a far-off land of snow and butter, failed to give our Ronbo a win. Yet he did everything right. He visited all 99 counties. He shook hooves with every single cow. He displayed the depth of his feelings toward his wife when he gave her a warm handshake after one of the debates.

In Free Florida, the Dictionary Is Dangerous to Your Children

January 19, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

A simple pleasure Florida tends to deny its schoolchildren. "Out to Lunch," above, is by J. Seward Johnson Jr. (© FlaglerLive)

A few people who call themselves parents but are really frustrated bullies who want everyone else to lead the miserable lives they do, at least when they’re not engaging in threesomes, have successfully made black holes of Florida’s school and classroom libraries and further marginalized slews of children whose one solace might have been that one book. 

Mustering the Barest Majority, Jury Votes 8-4 to Recommend Death for Julio Rivera in Roberto Ovalle Murder

January 19, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Julio Rivera.

Concluding a weeklong sentencing trial, a Volusia County jury voted 8-4 today to recommend the death penalty for Julio Rivera, the 52-year-old former fugitive who shot and killed his friend at a DeBary self-storage facility on Dec. 8, 2019. The death penalty recommendation is one Florida’s first under a new standard that does not require a jury’s unanimity.

Flagler County Ends Year with 3.7% Unemployment, 12th-Highest Rate in Florida

January 19, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A very slight trend in the wrong direction. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County ended 2023 with an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent and an average unemployment rate of 3.5 percent for the year, down slightly from the average of 3.6 percent in 2022. It is the 12th highest in the state. While the monthly report indicates continued healthy employment, it also hints at a couple o concerning underlying trends, with a slow-down in the growth of Flagler’s workforce and a significant jump in the number of people collecting unemployment. 

Palm Coast’s Sen. Hutson Votes with Majority in Latest Bid to Scale Back Local Vacation-Rental Regulations

January 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Sen. Travis Hutson. (© FlaglerLive)

Almost every year since 2014, Florida lawmakers have been trying to reduce local regulatory control on the booming vacation-rental industry or shift it to the state–what’s called “pre-emption.” The state would then bar local governments from enacting many of their own regulations. A Senate panel today cleared the way for the latest such attempt, with Sen. Travis Hutson in the majority. The bill goes to the Senate floor next.

Graffiti on Bridges in Palm Coast C-Section Concern Residents and Prompt Talk of Surveillance Cameras

January 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

Some of the graffiti on bridges in Palm Coast's C-Section. (Palm Coast)

Residents of Palm Coast’s C-Section are concerned about recurring graffiti that’s been re-appearing on bridges on Colorado Drive and Colchester Lane, after city crews painted over a spate of graffiti there last year.

Taking Liberties: City Repertory Theatre Goes Beyond Boomer Musical with ‘Edges’

January 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

City Repertory Theatre’s production of the song cycle “Edges” stars, bottom from left: Phillipa Rose and Savanna Dacosta; top from left: Eric Barnum and Andre Maybin Jr. (© FlaglerLive)

“Edges,” that song cycle (not a traditional musical, mind you) crafted by two Millennials when they were both 19 years old, is not just for Millennials. Its 17 songs about navigating the crossroads of life will appeal to all generations, say the cast and director of the City Repertory Theatre production that opens Friday Jan. 19 at the troupe’s Palm Coast venue.

Palm Coast’s Richenbacker Drive Loses Its Aitch as the City Formally Abandons Spelling No One Respected

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Not even the city called it Richenbacker, even though that's how it's officially recorded in Palm Coast plat books. No more. The City Council adopted the K for ever. (Google)

In the annals of Palm Coast history–which dates back to the pre-history of its 1960s scrubland–this was huge: Richenbacker Drive was losing its h. Not only that. The h was surrendering to the less aristocratic k, because the street’s h never got any respect since ITT platted it as such a few decades ago: not the city, not the Post Office, not the Property Appraiser wrote it with an h. The Palm Coast City Council buried the old spelling in a unanimous vote Tuesday night.

Old Kings Village Development of Up to 210 Houses Clears Obstacle Course with Polo Club West as City Approves Rezoning

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The developer of up to 210 homes on a 62-acre tract adjacent to Polo Club West has agreed to keep the vegetation along Old Kings Road the way it looks today, with a 25-foot green buffer, so drivers will not see the development from the road. (Google)

The approvals followed weeks of wrangles between the developer, the city, the county and Polo Club residents. (See previous steps here, here and here.) The council had considered the items on Dec. 5 and Jan. 2, both times getting strong pressure from Polo Club property owners–and their attorney–to delay approval, pending the resolution of sharp differences with the developer.

Don’t Wave Gay: Long In Force in Flagler Schools, Bill Would Ban Pride and ‘Ideological’ Flags from Public Buildings

January 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

lgbtq flag ban

The Florida House today began moving forward with a proposal that would restrict the types of flags that can be displayed at government buildings and schools, including preventing the display of LGBTQ pride flags. That ban has long been enforced in Flagler schools, based on an interpretation of local policy.

Palm Coast Woman Accused of Using Her Pitbull as a Weapon as Ex-Boyfriend Is Mauled

January 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Jennifer Estella Flores.

Jennifer Estella Flores, 34, a resident of the Palm Pointe Apartments in Palm Coast, is accused of siccing her pitbull, Wasabi, on her ex-boyfriend after the two got into an argument over his other relationships. She faces four felony charges and is being held at the county jail on $50,000 bond.

Palm Coast Building Moratorium Fails After Fierce Debate But City Agrees to Citizens Advisory Board on Flooding

January 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

palm coast flooding

An attempt by Palm Coast City Council member Theresa Pontieri to enact a 45-day moratorium on home construction in Palm Coast’s “infill” lots failed today. But the council approved creating a citizens’ advisory board focused entirely on flooding problems tied top new home construction, while also approving the accelerated enactment of a series of related regulations Pontieri was urging. Pontieri, however, voted against that measure.

Hit-and-Run on U.S. 1 in Bunnell Caused Death of 2 Women and Critically Injured a Man; Driver Faces Charges

January 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

The three pedestrians were struck in the northbound lanes of U.S. 1, just north of State Road 100. The driver of the pick-up truck that struck them parked in the parking lot of Terranova restaurant, north of the blue building, but did not call authorities, instead telling his son of the incident before informing deputies of his location. (© FlaglerLive)

Charges are pending against Melvin Adona, a 51-year-old Palm Coast resident, in the hit-and-run collision with three pedestrians early Sunday that caused the death of two women and critically injured a Bunnell man on U.S. 1, just north of State Road 100.

Proposed Building Moratorium Addressing Flooding Concerns: An Exchange Between Home Builders and Pontieri

January 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

infill flooding development

Members of the Flagler Home Builders Association have been writing Palm Coast City Council members to urge them to vote No on a construction moratorium City Council member Theresa Pontieri has proposed for 60 to 90 days on so-called “infill” lots in the city’s sections platted by ITT. What follows is an exchange that took place today between a home builder and Pontieri on the proposal. The council meets Tuesday and may take up the issue then, depending on other developments.

Welcome to the Old South, The Myth that Refuses to Die

January 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

A Confederate memorial stands on the lawn in front of the Florida Historic Capitol building on April 27, 2022. (Danielle J. Brown)

In Florida, we prefer not to discuss ‘slavery’ unless we are enlightening the ignorant about how it was Not That Bad. You have only to read Miss Margaret Mitchell’s brilliant and perfectly accurate novel to see the Truth of this.

Elise Stefanik’s Immoral Compass, and Ours

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Elise Stefanik -

When Rep. Elise Stefanik grilled then-Harvard President Claudine Gay about her “moral clarity” about genocide and bullying on campus, Israel was in its eighth week of the most genocidal assault on Palestinians in the history of Arab-Jewish wars predating even the creation of Israel in 1948. None of it was relevant to Stefanik, because when Israel is the subject matter, there are no two sides to the story. There are no interpretations. There is no discussion. None permissible, anyway. There is only dogma. Anything else is heresy.

New Company Cleared to Take Over Ocean Palm Golf Course, Ending Tortuous Years with City

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

"It needs love at this point," the attorney representing a new company looking to take over Ocean Palm golf course in Flagler Beach says of the nine-hole course owned by the city. (© FlaglerLive)

Almost nine years into what’s left of its rollercoaster relationship with Flagler Golf Management, the company that’s run the city’s 34-acre, nine-hole Ocean Palm golf course, the Flagler Beach City Commission is nearing assigning that lease to a new company, entirely severing its ties with FGM and starting relatively fresh.

School Board Hobbles Toward Firing Its Attorney and Hiring New Ones, Mostly in Secrecy, as Lawsuit Looms

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

kristy gavin contract

Though School Board attorney Kristy Gavin remained on the job, her firing is imminent, but the required “causes” for that firing have yet to materialize. Meanwhile, the board is evaluating replacement attorneys, keeping those applicants’ proposals secret.

Sheriff’s Deputies Investigating a Death in Palm Coast’s L-Section, Likely Self-Inflicted

January 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Lewis Drive loops from London Drive. (Google)

Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a death outside of a house in Palm Coast’s L Section, on Lewis Drive, this morning. The death was very likely self-inflicted, Sheriff Rick Staly said.

Redefined Food, a Local Business, Wins Contract at Palm Coast’s Southern Recreation Center

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Southern Recreation Center off Belle Terre Parkway, opening soon. (Palm Coast)

The Palm Coast City Council has awarded Redefined Food Co., a 5-year-old business based at City Marketplace in Palm Coast, the lease to run the food and drink concession at the most anticipated new community destination since the original Community Center on Palm Coast Parkway had its own grand re-opening, with a much bigger footprint, in the spring of 2018.

Flagler Beach’s Eric Cooley Opts to Run for 3rd Term After All, ‘To Get All This Through’

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

After thinking about it, and rethinking it, Flagler Beach City Commissioner Eric Cooley has decided to run again. (© FlaglerLive)

After months of signaling that he would step down, Eric Cooley, the two-term Flagler Beach city commissioner and the commission’s current chairman, announced today that he is running for a third term in the March election, to “see through” too many initiatives begun on his watch.

FPC Freshman K’imani Gerven-McCoy’s Anthem Opening Legislative Session Draws 29-Second Ovation

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

K’imani Gerven-McCoy in the first of two performances of the National Anthem at the Florida Legislature Tuesday, as she stood next to a color guard from the Palm Coast Fire Department. Gerven-McCoy and the color guard were guests of Paul Renner, the House Speaker who also represents Flagler County. (Florida Channel)

K’imani Gerven-McCoy spent her first day back from the winter break a little differently than other Flagler Schools students: she twice sang the National Anthem at the opening sessions of both the Florida House and a joint session of the Legislature, ahead of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s State of the State address.

Charlie Esposito, Who Built Up Palm Coast’s Volunteer Firefighters and Fire Police, Dies at 95

January 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council recognized Charles Esposito's three decades of service for the city at a Council meeting in November 2021. (Palm Coast)

Charlie Esposito had built up Palm Coast’s volunteer corps before Palm Coast became a city in 1999, doing the same for the city’s Fire Police, and establishing safety and training protocols, including for the county’s emergency helicopter, that are still followed today.

The Brendan Depa I Have Come To Know

January 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Brendan Depa at his plea hearing in October. (© FlaglerLive)

Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School special education student who pleaded guilty to the beating of Joan Naydich, his paraprofessional, last February, will be sentenced on Jan. 31. Gene Lopes is a retired special education teacher who has spent the last several months tutoring Depa at the Flagler County jail. Here’s his experience.

In a Major Shift, Flagler Beach Government Would Subsidize First Friday Events With Up to $30,000 a Year

January 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Flagler Beach government is going all out to subsidize the showcasing of city businesses at the monthly First Friday event while also ensuring that the event’s manager, Vern Shank, who has complained of running a shoestring operation, makes more money and stays viable. The City Commission Thursday will consider a subsidy package that amounts to up to $30,000 a year for the operation Shank has run since 2021.

Palm Coast Will Spend $94,000 To Study Lower Speed Limits on City Streets, and Again Study Florida Park Drive

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

All studies lead to Florida Park Drive. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast will spend close to $100,000 on a pair of traffic studies–one to investigate whether speed limits may be lowered on many residential streets from the current 30 miles power hour, the other to investigate speeds and how traffic-calming medians could help improve traffic flow on Florida Park Drive, the most studied roadway this side of the Appian Way.

Reports of Flooded Properties Attributed to New Homes Rise to 148 as City Pledges Help, But No Sure Solutions

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palm Coast City Council members Ed Danko and Theresa Pontieri have led the way in turning residents' flooding issues into a city priority. (© FlaglerLive)

City staffers have visited 75 of the affected properties so far in hopes o analyzing problems and proposing fixes. They are hoping to have visited all 148 by the end of January, assuming the tally doesn’t grow much further. But while the city has addressed building rules that should reduce flooding problems in the future, it does not have a comprehensive, retroactive fix for existing residents who see their yards turn to ponds after rain events.

Tornado Watch in Effect for Flagler Until 6 PM; School District and Palm Coast Cancel Activities

January 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Flagler County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord is urging caution and alertness in preparation for a day of stronger-than-usual winds around midday Tuesday, then a squall lines of storms Tuesday evening, especially between 5 and 7 p.m. Relative to the Panhandle, the unsettled weather won;t be as severe in Flagler County, but the most important thing will be to be informed through an alert system, Lord said, as there is a small potential for tornadoes and hail.

Bulow RV Park Has 6 Months to Solve Compliance Crisis, Pledging Not to Evict Anyone. But a Solution is Elusive.

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

There will be no evictions at Bulow RV Park at least through the end of July. The Flagler County Commission extracted that concession from Bulow park management this afternoon in exchange for a stay on enforcing county regulations against dozens of RV sites that have become unregulated, permanent home, in violation of both county code and park rules. But park management doubts six months will be sufficient for a permanent solution, and county officials are finding their powers so limited that should evictions resume, there won’t much they can do.

Lawmakers File Bills to Prohibit Youths Under 16 From Having Social Media Accounts, and End Existing Ones

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Social media controls are a priority of House Speaker Paul Renner, the Palm Coast Republican. (© FlaglerLive)

The bills would require social-media platforms to bar minors under 16 from creating social-media accounts and use “reasonable age verification” methods to check the ages of people when accounts are created. The bills also would require social-media platforms to terminate existing accounts that are “reasonably known” by the platforms to be held by minors younger than 16 and would allow parents to request that minors’ accounts be terminated.

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