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Resident Involved in Drug Deal Gone Bad Killed Zaire Roberts After Getting Shot, Reports Show

February 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Kwentel Lakelvrick Moultrie, a 23-year-old resident of 129 Brittany lane in Palm Coast, and Moultrie's girlfriend Taylor Renee Manjarres, a 19-year-old resident of 19 Luther Drive in Palm Coast.

Details have emerged revealing the drug-deal negotiations that preceded the home invasion on Regent Lane on Dec. 8, when the alleged dealer shot Zaire Roberts. He is not charged in the killing. Two alleged accomplices of Roberts’s are.

Palm Coast Man and Woman Are Arrested on 2nd Degree Murder Charges in Killing of Zaire Roberts

February 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Kwentel Lakelvrick Moultrie, left, and Taylor Renee Manjarres face second-degree murder charges in connection with the killing of Zaire Roberts in Palm Coast's R-Section in DEcember.

Kwentel Moultrie, 21, had bonded out on a 2020 charge of raping a 16-year-old girl. He and Taylor Renee Manjarres, 20, were jailed Friday on second degree murder and armed burglary charges in connection with the Dec. 29 killing of Zaire Roberts, 23, in Palm Coast’s R-Section. Prosecutors had asked that Moultrie’s bond be revoked last year. The court refused.

4th Person Killed in 7 Hours on Flagler Roads as Woman Crashes Off US1 in Bunnell

February 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Rescuers cut through the roof of the car to pull its occupant out. The car crashed on U.S. 1, across the street bfrom the Atlantis shopping center. (© FlaglerLive)

A fourth person was killed in seven hours on Flagler roads as a woman died in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 1 in Bunnell, in the noon hour today.

Resident of Blyth Place Arrested for Setting Room on Fire, then Caning a Deputy and a Chaplain-Firefighter

February 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The scene on Blyth Place last night. (Palm Coast Fire Department)

Mark Gregory McKerlie, a 48-year-old resident of 16 Blyth Place in Palm Coast, faces a first-degree felony arson count and two felony counts of assaulting firefighters or law enforcement officers following authorities’ response to the Blyth Place house, where McKerlie is accused of starting a fire.

Three People Killed in Two Separate Head-On Crashes in Heavy Fog on SR100 West of Bunnell

February 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The crash between the SUV and the van at SR 100 and Water Oak Road. (FCSO)

Three people have lost their lives in two unrelated car crashes within minutes of each other in heavy fog on State Road 100 early this morning, causing the road to be closed in both directions from the Putnam County line to County Road 305, Sheriff Rick Staly said.

Anti-‘Woke’ and ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bills Clear Florida House Following Emotional, Futile Debates

February 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith speaks on the Florida House floor. Feb. 24, 2022. Credit: (Screenshot/ Florida Channel)

Yet two hotly-debated bills — HB 7, limiting conversations about racism and sexism in schools and at work, and HB 1557, restricting classroom discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity — were both passed by the House on near-party lines Thursday.

Found Guilty on All Counts, Palm Coast’s Philip Martin, 56, Faces Life in Prison for ‘Massaging’ Girl, 11

February 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Philip Martin before he testified in a four-day trial that ended with his conviction on three counts today in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

A jury convicted Philip Martin, 56, guilty on three counts of molesting the 11-year-old daughter of his late girlfriend in Palm Coast over a long period, as he took to “massaging” the girl’s legs, back and other body parts while distracting her with his phone. He faces life in prison when sentenced in early May.

15 Year Old Arrested in Shooting Death of Jamey Bennett, 19, Near Matanzas Woods

February 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly, at the podium, speaking with the detectives of the Major Crimes Unit who resolved the case--from left, detectives Augustin Rodriguez, George Hristakopoulos, Chief Kim Burroughs, who heads the investigative division, detectives Jordan St. John and Daniel Laverne. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly this afternoon announced the arrest of 15-year-old Da’Mari Barnes, a 10th grader currently enrolled at Matanzas High School, on a manslaughter charge in the shooting death of Jamey “JuJu” Bennett, 19, during a bonfire party nearly three weeks ago in north Palm Coast.

Cost and Location Questions Arise Over County’s Push for Visitor Center on A1A and South 9th Street

February 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Flagler County's tourism bureau proposed buying this corner lot on A1A and South 9th Street in Flagler Beach when its director discussed it before the Tourist Development Council, but the site was left unmentioned in a presentation to the County Commission this week. (© FlaglerLive)

The chairman of the Flagler Beach City Commission and the chairman of the county’s tourism council, who also sits on the County Commission, both have questions about the location and the cost of building a potential visitor center the county’s tourism division is eying for South 9th Street and State Road A1A in Flagler Beach.

17 Attorneys Apply for Appointment to Volusia County Court Seat; Interviews on March 1

February 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Judicial Nominating Commission for the Seventh Circuit conducting interviews in Bunnell in 2019, when County Judge Andrea Totten was eventually selected. (© FlaglerLive)

Seventeen attorneys have applied for appointment to a county judge seat in Volusia that became vacant after the elevation to circuit court of Christopher Kelly of New Smyrna Beach late last year. Kelly replaced Circuit Judge Steven C. Henderson, who died at age 49 in August from Covid.

Residents of Hidden Lakes and Toscana Appeal Palm Coast Approvals of 2 Self-Storage Lots on Old Kings

February 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

A rendering of one of the two self-storage facilities proposed for Old Kings Road that residents of the Toscana and Hidden Lakes subdivisions are now contesting.

A group of Palm Coast residents in the Toscana and Hidden Lakes subdivisions off Old Kings Road have filed an appeal of a decision by the Palm Coast Planning Board clearing the way for a self-storage facility on Old Kings Road. The same group is preparing to file a civil suit in circuit court seeking to quash decisions by the planning board and the Palm Coast City Council clearing the way for both that facility and another like it nearby.

Dozens of Anti-Semitic Fliers Tied to ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Appear in Palm Coast and Ormond Beach

February 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Some of the anti-Semitic fliers in sandwich bags picked up in Ormond Beach on Tuesday. Some 50 similar fliers were picked up by Flagler County Sheriff's deputies in Palm Coast's C Section on Tuesday.

The fliers, which authorities and the Anti Defamation League do not consider criminal, have been appearing at least since December in neighborhoods in Surfside, Miami, San Francisco, Denver, Las Vegas, Kenosha, Wis., Cartersville, Ga., towns in Texas, and California, according to press reports and a tally by the ADL.

Full Federal Appeals Court Re-Hears St. Johns Schools Transgender Bathroom Case

February 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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In a case with local and national implications, a previous, three-judge panel of the court had ruled in favor of the student who was denied use of the boys’ bathroom. The St. Johns school district appealed to the full court.

Treasured, Embattled Whispering Meadows Ranch Has New Home as County Seals Partnership Deal

February 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Whispering Meadows Ranch has operated without controversy or objection from neighbors for 14 of the last 15 years. Things changed late in 2019. The ranch is moving to the county fairgrounds off County Road 13. (© FlaglerLive)

Whispering Meadows, the equine therapy ranch on John Anderson Highway treasured for nearly 15 years for providing a healing refuge to children with disabilities, veterans and others living with traumas, will move to 15 acres at the county fairgrounds as the County Commission unanimously approved a private-public arrangement through a special exception.

Florida Lawmakers Scale Back Broadband Expansion, Potentially Hurting Flagler Efforts

February 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

broadband west flagler

Flagler County has been making just such a broadband expansion a priority for its west-Flagler residents, who have been perennially underserved. The county was banking on both federal and state expansions, the federal portion proving not sufficient–so far–to reach the county’s goal of universal coverage. State lawmakers’ latest move, substituting federal dollars instead of supplementing state dollars, will likely be a setback to Flagler.

County’s Approval of Flagler Schools’ Impact Fee Increase Again Delayed, and Patience Wears Thin

February 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Flagler County School District and the county administration share the same building, and the same floor, but interpret construction's impact on school enrollment very differently. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School District and the county administration share the same building, and the same floor, but interpret construction’s impact on school enrollment very differently, thus causing one further delay that means the district will not see increased revenue from its development impact fees until a year later than it hoped.

Flagler Beach’s Tardy Dunes Project Is Down to a Single Holdout As Another Property Owner Signs Easement

February 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The last holdout: the small parcel above is one of two "remnants" on the east side of State Road A1A that still requires its owner to sign an easement so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can rebuild it into a more substantial dune than the eroded remains standing there now. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Attorney Al Hadeed Monday evening announced he had secured a long-sought easement from Flagler Beach property owner Leonard Surles, reducing the list of holdouts to a single property owner: Cynthia D’Angiolini.

The GOP Is Using ‘Parental Rights’ to End Public Education as We Know It

February 21, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 38 Comments

Florida's Parents' Bill of Rights capsizes ethical norms, placing parental rights ahead of those of children. (Stephen Harlan on Unsplash)

The Florida GOP is using the Parents’ Bill of Rights to weaponize a minority of insurrectionist parents against schools, giving parents the right to violate privacy and autonomy where it counts most at school: between students and teacher. No wonder there’s a teacher exodus. It’s just what the GOP wants. Destruction from within. 

Development Opponents Win Minor Procedural Step in Court Fight Over The Gardens

February 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

John Tanner arguing on behalf of Preserve Flagler Beach and Bulow Creek before the County Commission the night of November 16, 2020, in a meeting that stretched past the six hour mark and midnight to a 3-2 vote approving The Gardens development.

Preserve Flagler Beach and Bulow Creek, the citizens’ group opposing in the main the development of The Gardens, on Friday won a small procedural step in a court appeal that, so far, has been a losing battle against the proposed development of 335 homes along John Anderson Highway south of State Road 100.

Mondex Man Faces Life Felony in Accusation of Armed Burglary Against His Step-Father

February 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

William Scott Rubert.

A similar incident involving the same weapon would have ordinarily resulted at most in a second degree felony of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon against William Rubert, 32. But because of the circumstances, the charge was entered as a first degree felony of armed burglary. 

Where There’s Smoke: County Flagler Conducting Prescribed Fire at Bulow Creek Off Old Kings Road South

February 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

prescribed burn

Flagler County on Sunday (today) will continue to conduct a prescribed fire at its Bulow Creek conservation property, and residents living off of Old Kings Road South in the Bulow Plantation area may see smoke. Those living on Secretariat Lane, Steeplechase Trail, and Lexington Court may also see emergency vehicles there to monitor conditions.

Another Self -Storage Facility for Old Kings Road, a Car Wash Near Starbucks and Taco Bell on SR100

February 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

Car washes have been whirring their way into the Palm Coast market in the last few years, as have, even more intensely, self-storage facilities. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast Planning Board cleared the way for the third self-storage facility approved for Old Kings Road in the past four weeks, and a car wash near Aldi and Taco Bell on State Road 100. The self-storage facility was not permitted to have boats and RVs.

Daytona Solisti Chamber Orchestra Presents ‘Romancing the Strings’ March 6

February 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Violinist and concertmaster Olga Kolpakova will perform Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor when the Daytona Solisti Chamber Orchestra presents its annual “Romancing the Strings” concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at Lighthouse Christ Presbyterian Church in Ormond Beach. Photo provided by Susan Pitard Acree

A Franz Schubert sonata originally composed for piano and arpeggione, a now-rare, almost forgotten instrument, will be featured in an arrangement for viola solo and strings, when the Daytona Solisti Chamber Orchestra presents its annual “Romancing the Strings” concert March 6 in Ormond Beach. The concert also will feature music of Vivaldi, Bach and Holst.

New Bunnell Police Chief Dave Brannon Steps In as Interim Snead Offers Valentine of Firsts to City

February 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Brannon Snead receiving a token of the city's appreciation for his interim role as police chief, from Mayor Catherine Robinson, at last Monday's City Commission meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Dave Brannon, for 26 years a member of the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office and the commander of the DeLand and Deltona districts, will take-over as Bunnell Police Chief on Feb. 28 as Interim Chief Brannon Snead neared the end of his three-month tenure by presenting the commission with a series of firsts, including the department’s first-ever strategic plan.

A Flagler Palm Coast High School Student’s Message to Lawmakers: Stop Policing My Education

February 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

classroom surveillance

A spate of GOP bills in the Florida Legislature seek to sever the trust and safety inherent in the confidentiality of student-teacher discussions, putting the safety of students at risk and further accelerating an exodus of teachers and other education professionals from the profession at a time of critical teacher shortages in Florida.

Father Is Jailed Over Whipping 7-Year-Old Girl, 3rd Palm Coast Case of Parental Child Abuse in 10 Days

February 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Charles Nazworth, 69, of Palm Coast’s W Section on a charge of child abuse Tuesday after he was accused of whipping his 7-year-old daughter with a belt and causing her to run away from home. The girl was found bruised, shoeless and coatless on Pine Lakes Parkway Tuesday afternoon.

2 Dead Cats, a Malnourished Dog Result in 2 Felony Animal Cruelty Charges for 32-Year-Old Woman

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Michelle L/ Church turned up during the investigation into allegations of animal cruelty and neglect at her RV in the Royal Palms RV Park in Bunnell, above, formerly known as Thunder Gulch. (© FlaglerLive)

Michelle Lynn Church, 32, faces two charges of animal cruelty involving a death and a misdemeanor abandonment charge after the animals were found in her RV at the Royal Palms RV Park in Bunnell, formerly known as Thunder Gulch.

Metronet Adds Flagler Beach and Bunnell to Gig Cities as Broadband Wiring of All Neighborhoods Starts in Spring

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Metronet, the broadband company that announced it would make ultra high-speed service of 1 gig available across Palm Coast available by 2023, has now sealed similar agreements with Bunnell and Flagler Beach. Those agreements were secured with a lot less fanfare, if any, than the one with Palm Coast, which the city announced in mid-December.

Reimagining Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Night Before Assassination in CRT’s ‘The Mountaintop,’ Warts and All

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

City Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Mountaintop” stars Brent Jordan as Martin Luther King Jr., and Phillipa Rose as Camae. The play imagines MLK’s last night before his assassination. (Mike Kitaif)

“The Mountaintop,” Katori Hall’s 2009 play staged by Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre starting Thursday, imagines imagines King during his last night on earth, as a pretty motel maid named Camae visits him to deliver room service and finds the civil rights icon in a very un-glorious state: Smokin’. Cussin’. Drinkin’. Flirting. Stinky feet.

Palm Coast Approves ‘Shocking and Staggering’ Garbage Rate Increase as Mayor Warns Waste Pro

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Not necessarily: five years ago Palm Coast required Waste Pro to have an all-natural gas fleet. In the one-year contract extension the city approved today, the city agreed to let the company drive trucks powered by whatever fuel it chose, including diesel, despite Waste Pro now commanding a 47 percent rate hike from customers. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council this afternoon voted 4-1 to approve the one-year contract extension with Waste Pro with a 47 percent rate increase and several cut-backs on services and fines. The mayor warned the company that the rate will not be an acceptable starting point for Waste Pro’s expected bid for a five- or seven-year contract later this year.

Victor Barbosa Decides to Run for City Council Again, Abandoning County Commission Race Until 2026

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa, right, at today's council meeting. Ed Danko, who was hoping to see Barbosa's seat turned over to Danko ally Alan Lowe, is to the left. (© FlaglerLive)

In a nearly six-hour meeting rich in surprises and reversals, add Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa’s decision to drop out of his run for the Flagler County Commission and seek to keep his seat on the council instead.

Denise Bevan Is Appointed City Manager in Unanimous Vote, Aborting Palm Coast Council’s Search

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palm Coast City Manager Denise Bevan. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council appointed Denise Bevan permanent city manager in a unanimous vote, ending her eight-month role as interim and aborting a a search Mayor David Alfin called disappointing.

Palm Coast Council Sharply Reverses Course on Green Lion After Crush of Unanimity Against Severing Lease

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council chamber was at capacity this morning as hundreds of residents and supporters of the Green Lion restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club turned up to protest the city council's severing of the lease after five years. Sitting in the first row, to the left of the masked woman, are Carolyn Marlow, Tony Marlow, and Linda Provencher, the former Flagler Beach mayor who worked for the Marlows for 20 years. They also own the Golden Lion restaurant in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Faced with a rare, unanimous backlash against its arbitrary decision to end the city’s lease with the Green Lion restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club last week, the Palm Coast City Council executed a 179-degree turn Tuesday morning, dropping its order to sever the lease and opting instead to reopen negotiations with the restaurant, toward a five-year extension of the current lease.

Flagler County Tries to Buy More Time in Dunes Easement Dispute in Face of Army Corps’ Eroding Patience

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A segment of the dunes to be rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, at the south end of Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Faced with an ultimatum from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Flagler County government has outlined a timeline to the federal agency that it hopes will buy it more time before the Corps redirects $17 million earmarked for dune reconstruction in Flagler Beach.

33-Year-Old Father Faces Felony Child Abuse Charge for Throwing and Bruising Boy, 9

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Andrew Atkerson.

A week after a 33-year-old Palm Coast parent was arrested on a felony charge of abusing his high school son over the boy’s sexual orientation, another 33-year-old Palm Coast father with a history of violence was arrested on a similar charge after allegedly attacking his 9-year-old son over a purchase he made on an iPad. 

Tom Gargiulo, Palm Coast’s ‘Unwavering, Steadfast Champion’ of the Arts for 25 Years, Dies at 83

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Tom Gargiulo and Arlene Volpe. (Greg Volpe)

Tom Gargiulo, co-founder of the Gargiulo Arts Foundations and the Flagler County Artist of the Year award, prolific artist and patron to innumerable shows and artists, and the conceptual energy and fund-raiser behind Palm Coast’s Sculpture Garden in Town Center, died after complications from surgery Sunday in Palm Coast.

Flagler Beach Reduces Its Lifeguard Zone By Two Towers, and Asks County for More Money

February 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Flagler Beach lifeguards executing an actual rescue of a swimmer in distress, caught in a rip current, in an image captured by a woman who'd bought her camera that day and was experimenting with it at the Funky Pelican, the restaurant at the Flagler Beach pier. (Flagler Beach)

Reducing Flagler Beach’s lifeguard-protected zone by four blocks will save about $25,000 a year, but the city is still seeking more than the $84,500 it is getting from the county to run the $240,000 lifeguard program.

Your Garbage Rates Are Going Up 47% in June, Services Cut Sooner, as Bid Flub Forces Waste Pro Contract Extension

February 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 60 Comments

Weighing Waste Pro's value to Palm Coast, the city does not come out ahead in a contract extension through June 2023. (© FlaglerLive)

Waste Pro garbage rates for Palm Coast residents and businesses will go up nearly $10 a month starting June 1, some services will be reduced, and fines levied on Waste Pro when it fails on the job will be cut in half according to a one-year extension of the city’s contract with the hauler, required because a bidding process for a new contract went awry last year.

Calling it ‘An Embarrassment to the City,’ Flagler Beach Manager Issues 30-Day Ultimatum to Golf Operation

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson, left, and City Attorney Drew Smith at tonight's Flagler Beach City Commission meeting. (Flagler Beach video)

Flagler Beach City Manager sent a harsh letter to Flagler Golf Management, the company running the city-owned golf course at the south end of town, giving it 30 days to “cure” a long list of problems, including compliance with a requested audit of the company’s books. It’s the latest showdown in a seven-year history of showdowns.

In Sharp Retreat from County’s and Builders’ Barrage, School Board Adopts Much Smaller Impact Fee Increase

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

In inflation-adjusted dollars, the impact fee rate for single family homes the Flagler school board approved Wednesday–$5,450–is not an increase, but merely an adjustment in keeping with inflation. In constant dollars it is the same rate set in 2004. It was a major concession to home builders and the county commission.

Flagler School Bus Driver Carrying 40 Students Arrested on Drunk Driving and 15 Felony Child Neglect Charges

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

Mark McNeill has been driving buses for the Flagler County school district since 2017.

Flagler County school bus driver Mark McNeill, 60, who was involved in a bus crash on Monday, was arrested in a separate incident Wednesday on a drunk driving charge while driving the same bus and carrying some 35 students from Buddy Taylor Middle School.

Palm Coast Turns Nasty Against Green Lion Café Lease After 5 Successful Years and Turnaround at Palm Harbor Golf

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

The Green Lion Cafe's view on the Palm Harbor golf course is now in jeopardy as the Palm Coast City Council declared itself disenchanted with the restaurant's lease or even a proposed, sharp increase, though Green Lion has helped turn the golf course around in the past five years. (Facebook/Green Lion)

The Palm Coast City Council’s distempers have not been unusual, but council members’ attacks on the Green Lion Cafe’s proposed lease renewal at the city-owned Palm Harbor golf club was especially mean-spirited despite a proposed rent increase of over 300 percent over the next five years, and the restaurant’s key role in turning the golf club around since 2017.

Now Called ‘Radiant,’ 1,200-Home Ex-Eagle Lakes Development Fails to Clear Planning Board Just Yet

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The conceptual look of a 1,900-square-foot home on a 40-foot-wide lot at the proposed Eagle Lakes development, which would total some 1,200 homes, including homes on 50 and 60-foot lots. (Kolter)

The development’s name has been changed to Radiance rather than Eagle Lakes, but local residents’ objections to the proposed development’s smaller lots, its density, its variance with the ampler homes and lots proposed for the area a decade and a half ago remain the same, and caused the Flagler County Planning Board to table the proposal for a month.

Shut Up, Floridians: Sweeping Bill Would Criminalize Protests Near Politicians’ Homes, Parks, Sidewalks

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Protests like th Black Lives Matter protest at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach in June 2020 would be criminalized, if a bill in the Florida Legislature becomes law. (© FlaglerLive)

Protesters would be banned from picketing in front of the governor’s house, that of politicians or any residences. The prohibition would apply not only to private property but would extend to public parks, sidewalks and rights-of-way.

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Advances in Legislature as Speakers Are Told Not to Say Too Much

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

J. Marie Bailey speaking at a Senate Education committee meeting against SB 1834, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Feb. 8 2022. Credit: Screenshot/ Florida Channel

The bill allows parents to sue school districts if they are not privy to situations related to their children or if their students are encouraged to have discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity. Opponents fear the bill would bring a chilling affect to Florida classrooms regarding LGBTQ students, putting them at risk of bullying. Almost all who addressed a Senate committee today were opposed to the bill.

‘Normal Life’ Likely a Month Away in Flagler as Omicron Surge and Covid Risks Recede

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler' s cases since January 2021. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Health Department Medical Director Dr. Stephen Bickel expects a measure of normalcy to return to Flagler County in about a month as the covid pandemic’s latest surge tapers off. Hospitalizations have persisted even as new cases have fallen off, but hospitalizations always lag new cases by a few weeks.

Palm Coast Boy’s Father Brutalizes His Son for Wearing Make-Up; 2 Felony Counts, But No Hate Crime Charge

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Lomack J. Bennett in his latest photograph from numerous bookings at the Flagler County jail, left, and in his Florida state prison photograph, where he served a term that ended in 2017.

Lomack J. Bennett, 33, was allegedly angered by his high school son wearing make-up and proceeded to slap him repeatedly, choke him, throw him to the ground and bust his lip, according to the boy’s account. He faces a child abuse “without great bodily harm” charge and a battery charge, but no hate crime charge.

Vacation Rental Bills Would Eliminate Flagler’s Ability to Regulate Occupancy or Conduct Inspections

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A Flagler Beach vacation rental advertised on the site of Flagler County's tourism bureau.

Nearly identical Florida House and Senate bills that would all but eliminate Flagler County government’s authority to regulate vacation rentals are making their way through committees. The Senate bill started as more friendly to local regulations, and one committee approved it unanimously. But amendments have since pared that local regulatory power.

Cost to Save Beaches and Properties in Flagler from Rising Seas: $6.3 Million a Year, Year After Year

February 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

What Flagler County is hoping to prevent with a beach management plan yet to be written, or paid for. Above, Hurricane Matthew's demolition of the southern part of A1A in Flagler Beach. The state transportation department rebuilt the road at costs exceeding $30 million, including a temporary fix. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to rebuild the dunes along that way, at costs exceeding $25 million (including a state and local match). But there's no start date. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County commissioners and other local officials heard the sobering conclusions of a seminal beach management study today, and the large costs ahead that will fall on all local governments and residents if the beaches are to be preserved. That money is nowhere in place for now, nor is a management plan.

Nissan and School Bus Carrying 25 Students Collide on Old Kings Road North, No Injuries

February 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Crashes involving school buses are rare in Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

A Nissan Sentra and a Flagler County schools bus collided shortly after 4 p.m. today on North Old Kings Road at Fanshawe Lane, causing significant damage to the sedan but no injuries to the students on the school bus.

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