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Flagler and Florida Schools Will Remain Closed Through April 15, But With Distance Learning; State Tests Cancelled

March 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Schools will remain closed until April 15. (© FlaglerLive)

All of Flagler’s schools’ physical campuses will remain closed at least through April 15 by order of Gov. Ron DeSantis, but distance learning will be instituted starting March 31. State tests are cancelled for the remainder of the year in response to the coronavirus emergency.

Flagler’s Businesses Bristle as Bars Are Ordered Closed for 30 Days, Restaurants Restricted and Beach Crowds Urged Limited

March 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

In Flagler Beach, it's spring break as usual, as was the case in midafternoon today, with mostly young people who are not mindful of virus concerns, according to Eric Cooley, the Flagler Beach city commissioner and owner of the 7-Eleven on the beach. He said he will bring up his concerns at a special meeting of the city commission this week, when the commission will declaring a local state of emergency. (© FlaglerLive)

Restaurant-bars like the Brown Dog and Moonrise Brewing in Palm Coast are facing difficult choices even as they’re allowed to remain open, while business on the beach has been brisk, but for a scarier reason, according to a business owner and commissioner there.

Flagler Schools Will Distribute Free Breakfast and Lunch Daily; Restaurants Implored to Offer Take-Out Only

March 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Superintendent Jim Tager speaking at a news conference this morning. (Flagler County via Facebook.)

The food distributions will be to all children up to age 18 regardless of qualification for free or reduced lunch, but children must be present and adults will not qualify for the free food, though arrangements with food banks are in the works to address those needs as well.

Why Flagler’s Covid-19 Cases May Not Be What They Are: Infected Non-County Residents Are Not Reported Locally

March 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

The Florida Department of Health has a new web page tracking coronavirus cases across Florida, but the numbers are less transparent than they seem.

Flagler County may well have one, two or three confirmed cases of coronavirus. If those cases were confirmed in non-Flagler County residents who happened to be in Flagler County, you will not know about them locally, according to Florida Department of Health rules.

Palm Coast Broadens and Extends Cancellations of Activities Through End of April as Florida Cases Rise to 155

March 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Six years ago local first responders and hospital personnel conducted the largest drill to date to practice for a mass casualty event involving contamination (above). Today, responders and hospital personnel are required to wear personal protective equipment, commonly known as PPE, in many encounters with patients or potential patients as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast was taking a more aggressive coronavirus-mitigation approach as measures against “community spread” of the virus were affecting all levels of local governments even as cases of Covid-19 remained, for now, at bay.

2 Flagler Sheriff’s Deputies, “Multiple” EMPros and AdventHealth Palm Coast Personnel on Quarantine as Protocols Evolve

March 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly meeting with his top staff and other law enforcement officials last May. Coronavirus has created a slew of new and uncharted challenges as the sheriff now has two of his deputies on self-quarantine. (© FlaglerLive)

The two Flagler sheriff’s deputies were on a death investigation involving a man who died of the flu. EMPros manages emergency departments in several cities in Volusia and Flagler. One of its physicians and the Assistant EMS Medical Director for all EMS agencies in Flagler County was placed under quarantine.

Palm Coast Paramedics Will Limit Responses to ‘Life-Threatening’ Medical Calls as City and County Declare Emergency

March 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

The Palm Coast Fire Department will limit responses to certain medical calls to minimize risk of exposure, though calls will still be handled by a mixture of Fire Rescue and department personnel. (© FlaglerLive)

Rather than double-up with county fire rescue personnel, Palm Coast firefighter-paramedics will limit their calls to “life-threatening” emergencies to reduce the chances of either being infected or infecting others with the coronavirus.

39 New Covid-19 Cases Raise Florida’s to 100 as Evidence of Exponential Spread Emerges; Flagler Still at Zero

March 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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The Flagler Health Department, under orders from the state Health Department, is not disclosing how many people have been tested locally. Nor is it disclosing how many people are under monitoring for potential exposure in the community.

Grace Community Pantry Steps Up to Offer Food Bridge to Flagler District’s Neediest Children During Emergency

March 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Ready for distribution at Grace Community Food Pantry in Palm Coast. The pantry distributes some 800 bags a week. (Grace Community)

Grace Community Food Pantry, Flagler County’s largest food operation for the neediest, is offering to provide substantial food aid during the coronavirus emergency for distribution to Flagler County schoolchildren who would normally get free or reduced meals at school.

Volusia Sheriff Chitwood Releases Numbers Health Department Is Censoring and Criticizes ‘Lack of Certain Information’

March 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood. (© FlaglerLive)

“When the public is kept in the dark and when their legitimate questions aren’t answered several days into a national emergency, that’s when we start to see panic,” Sheriff Chitwood writes.

Palm Coast Cancels All City-Sponsored Activities and ‘Non-Essential’ Meetings and Restricts Access to Fire Stations

March 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

No dropping in to visit your favorite firefighters for a while as Palm Coast shutters some operations and attempts to protect its first responders. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast government Saturday afternoon announced that all city-run activities at city facilities are cancelled from Sunday, March 15, at least through Saturday, March 21. The city will reevaluate scheduled events on a weekly basis.

Florida Coronavirus Cases Triple in 2 Days to 64; Floridian Dies in California; AdventHealth Announces Measures

March 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Coronavirus cases have jumped to 64 as of early Saturday morning, from just 21 two days ago, according to the Florida Department of Health, with nine cases in Florida unrelated to travel and 16 cases whose origins are still under investigation. Four Floridians have died from Covid-19, one of them in California.

Schools Closed Through March 30, Jury Trials at Flagler Courthouse Suspended as Coronavirus Fallout Continues

March 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The jury will not enter the courtroom. (© FlaglerLive)

All jury trials have been suspended at the Flagler County courthouse through March 30, and all public schools in the state have been ordered to remain closed through March 30 as well.

Biden and Trump Still Want You: Early Voting and March 17 Presidential Primary Still On in Flagler

March 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

early voting

Early voting for the presidential primary still has a day to go Saturday, March 14, and Election Day is still on the for primary next Tuesday, March 17, Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart says.

Weekend Briefing: Movies in the Park (Probably), Plant Sale (Maybe), Suffragettes (Cancelled), Fishing 101

March 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Suffragettes would know the score. (Library of Congress, Bain news Service, between 1910 and 1915)

Many events were scheduled for this weekend but patrons are advised to check with event organizers before they go as the coronavirus situation is causing cancellations.

Pick-Up Driver Deborah Perfetto, 60, Is Killed, Capping 4 Crashes Involving 9 Vehicles in 4 Hours on I-95

March 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

The crash that took the life of the pick-up driver was the fourth in the span of four hours in a four-mile stretch of I-95 in Palm Coast this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

It all happened within a four-mile stretch of I-95 northbound in Palm Coast between 3 and 7 p.m.: four crashes involving a combined nine vehicles, none with serious injuries until the fourth crash, which claimed the life of a pick-up driver.

Even in Flagler, Virus-Related Postponements and Restrictions Begin to Accumulate

March 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Not quite so dire yet. (whatleydude/Flickr)

The Flagler school district is scrapping out of state travel, the Sheriff’s Office is postponing the Safety Expo, Flagler College is moving classes online, Bethune Cookman is cancelling them, among other schedule disruptions.

Coronavirus Prevention Is Not Overreaction: Flagler Schools Should Extend Spring Break

March 12, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 47 Comments

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With the coronavirus and its many knowns and unknowns, what may look like an overreaction today is the most effective form of prevention, and should not be given the chance to look like playing catch-up weeks from now. 

Long-Awaited CDC Report on Disused Sheriff’s Operations Center Lands With Thud

March 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The disused Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell is receding in the county's rear-view mirror. (© FlaglerLive)

County and sheriff’s officials have moved on, making the recently delivered CDC report on the old Sheriff’s Operations Center essentially moot, and largely redundant anyway.

Bunnell Police Conducting Death Investigation in Shooting of Man in Duplex on S. Bacher Street

March 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Bunnell Police Chief Tom Foster speaking to one of his officers at the scene of a death investigation this afternoon at 203 South Bacher Street. (© FlaglerLive)

A man died of a gunshot early this afternoon at 203 South Bacher Street in Bunnell, in the nearby presence of two other individuals. The Bunnell Police Department was conducting what it was calling a death investigation.

Money Issues Raise New Questions on Locating Sheriff’s Operations Center Near Palm Coast Library

March 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

sheriff's operations palm coast

Architectural and engineering plans are continuing for the new Sheriff’s Operations Center in Palm Coast, but its location is again in question as the county faces new financial challenges and commissioners consider options.

Seemingly Spared So Far, Flagler School, Emergency and Health Officials Prepare for Likely Spread as Coronavirus Cases Jump to 21 in Florida

March 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Florida Department of Health's most immediate tips to residents in efforts to limit coronavirus.

Flagler school officials are discussing remote instruction and instituting deep cleanings, county and health officials are preparing businesses and government staffs for “social distancing” and other measures as they prepare for what they see as the likely spread of coronavirus locally.

Wednesday Briefing: Dorothy Singer Back in Court, 90/90 Challenge, Forum on Government and Public Policy

March 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Dorothy Singer, who was found guilty by a jury last year of murdering her husband Charles in 2018, is back in court for a pre-trail following an appeals court reversal of the conviction. See details below. (© FlaglerLive)

Accused murderer Dorothy Singer, who won her conviction’s reversal on appeal, at least for a new trial, is back in court for a pre-trial, Melanie Saltzman, reporter and producer for PBS NewsHour Weekend, presents “The Future of Food” at a Flagler College lecture.

Flagler School Board Chooses St. Johns’s Cathy Mittelstadt To Be Its Next Superintendent

March 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board this afternoon chose Cathy Mittelstadt, the assistant school superintendent in St. Johns County, to be the district’s next superintendent, starting July 1 in place of Jim Tager, who will end a three-year tenure.

Palm Coast Man Accused of Threatening Ex’s Life Over Food Stamps Card at Her Workplace

March 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Travis Montrell Williams.

Travis Montrell Williams, 40, is accused of going to his ex-girlfriend’s workplace at an assisted living facility in Palm Coast and threatening her life over the food stamps card she had. The sheriff assisted in the arrest.

AdventHealth Launches Coronavirus Information Line as Palm Coast Fire Chief Urges Fewer In-Person Dr. Visits

March 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

AdventHealth's coronavirus call center is focused on Florida for now, but may expand. (AdventHealth)

AdventHealth is launching a free phone service for Floridians who have questions about coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, including the opportunity to speak with a nurse as appropriate. The 24-hour line is in addition to a similar line operated by the Florida Department of Health.

Volusia/Flagler Chapter Marks ACLU’s Centennial With “Future Voters Essay Contest” and $500 Prize

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Lin-Manuel Miranda, his father Luis Miranda, and John James have a message on the ACLU's 100th birthday. (ACLU)

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ‘s Volusia/Flagler chapter is celebrating the ACLU’s 100th birthday with an essay contest open to all students, with a $500 prize and publication of the winning essay in FlaglerLive.

‘I’m Tired and Sorry to Pick This Way to Go,’ Elderly Palm Coast Man Writes Wife Before Suicide

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Robert Reinert had lived at his Ryerton Place house for over 20 years. (Google)

Robert Reinert, 88, of Palm Coast, wrote to his wife that he did not wish to end up in a hospital, hooked up to things just to prolong his life, before ending it on Feb. 6.

Public Responses to 4 Superintendent Candidates Draw Sharp Distinctions on Eve of Board’s Choice

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The superintendent candidates and school board members at Thursday's meet-and-greet at Buddy Taylor Middle School. From left,

there is no clear-out, absolute favorite in public responses, but there are certainly sharper opinions, good and bad and in descending order, about Earl Johnson, Vernon Orndorff and Cathy Mitteldstadt.

Surging Health Care and First-Responder Worker Quarantines Raise Concerns As Coronavirus Spreads

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

hospital absenteeism

The number of health care and first-responder workers ordered to self-quarantine because of potential exposure to an infected patient is rising at an exponential pace.

Monday Briefing: Mad Dogs, Sheriff’s Operations Update, Coronavirus Response, Women’s Equality

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Mad Dogs Palm Coast flag football ends its winter season and opens its spring registration, Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron provides an update on the Sheriff’s Operations Center.

Two Florida Seniors, in Lee and Santa Rosa Counties, Die From Coronavirus

March 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Coronavirus chill. (Davide Gabino)

One of the deaths involved a 72-year-old Santa Rosa County man who had previously been disclosed as having the virus. The other death involved a Lee County resident, whose case had not been disclosed.

Teacher and Ex-Matanzas Coach Ripley Faces Accusation of Excessive Force With Special Ed Student, 8

March 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

Robert Ripley, a special education teacher at Wadsworth Elementary and a district faculty member since 2004, in a 2015 screen capture from a Florida High School 7v7 Association video, when he was the Matanzas High School football coach.

Wadsworth ESE teacher Robert Ripley was caught on school video twice pushing an 8-year-old student, behavior deemed impermissible by the school board attorney, in an incident that took place just one day after another ESE teacher was fired for using excessive force toward a student.

False Coronavirus Alarm at AdventHealth Palm Coast Briefly Heightens Anxieties Before Case Is Ruled Out

March 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The investigation into a possible case of coronavirus is ongoing at the Cancer Center at AdventHealth Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

The case illustrated the heightened awareness–and fears–surrounding the outbreak, which has not yet spread to Florida with the exception of two cases in the Tampa area, and the knowledge gap that may be pushing some health workers too quickly to go on the alert.

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Earl Johnson

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Earl Johnson. (© FlaglerLive)

Earl Johnson has been the executive director of leadership and operations for Flagler County schools–a position similar to that of deputy superintendent–for the past three years.

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Cathy Mittelstadt

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Cathy Mittelstadt at the end of her interview. (© FlaglerLive)

Cathy Mittelstadt, an assistant superintendent for operations in St. Johns County for the past three years, spent the majority of her professional years, almost all of them in leadership positions, in Florida’s top-ranked school district.

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Janet Womack

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Janet Womack, a 2016 Alabama Superintendent of the Year and the second of four candidates the Flagler school board interviewed for superintendent today, spoke repeatedly of framing her leadership aims toward excellence: “What is the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae, what will set us apart from the rest?”

School Board Superintendent Interviews: Vernon Orndorff

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Vernon Orndorff, a 12-year veteran of Flagler schools who rose to the No. 2 administrative position before taking a job in a small Texas district three years ago, was first up this morning among four candidates for superintendent interviewing with the Flagler County School Board. 

Thursday Briefing: Equal Pay, Superintendent Interviews, Flagler PAL Open House

March 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The American Association of University Women – Flagler County has requested the City proclaim March 31, 2020 as Equal Pay Day.

The school board interviews the four superintendent candidates, then the candidates meet the public in a meet-and-greet, a Flagler PAL open house, “The Women.”

Misplaced Inquisitions: Mayor Holland, Coastal Cloud and the Palm Coast Observer

March 4, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 32 Comments

Mayor Milissa Holland anchored a 90-minute segment at Monday's Palm Coast City Council meeting, devoted entirely to refuting allegations about the city's relationship with Coastal Cloud, and the mayor's role. The mayor is a company employee. (© FlaglerLive)

Mayor Milissa Holland and Coastal Cloud Co-owner Tim Hale repeatedly–and unfairly–invoked Palm Coast Observer Editor Brian McMillan’s name in poor light during a 90-minute city council segment devoted entirely to refuting critical allegations about the city’s contract with the company.

Florida Agricultural Museum Is On Track with New Train, ‘Dirt Detectives’ and Other Projects

March 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Florida Agricultural Museum executive director Kara Hoblick says the horse Kaleb, who can be ridden by museum patrons, is “a big teddy bear. He is the perfect horse if somebody is timid about horses at all.” Kaleb and the museum’s other nine horses, as well as the ones boarded at the museum by private citizens, have a new horse arena where they can give rides along with the facility’s trails. (© FlaglerLive)

Four years ago the Florida Agriculture Museum at the north end of Palm Coast was heading for closure. Today, it’s bustling with a half dozen programs, including an equestrian boarding and riding program, and more ahead.

Wednesday Briefing: 90/90 Challenge, Clare Boothe Luce’s “Women,” Presidential Age

March 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A Hole in Mars:

Clare Boothe Luce’s “The Women”  is presented by the Flagler College Department of Visual and Performing Arts, a hole in Mars, and are presidents getting older?

Opponents Question Structure as State Approves FPL Plan to Add 20 Solar Farms By 2021

March 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

fpl solar farms

Opponents contended the program would have costs and financial risks for the vast majority of customers who would not participate. As an example, credits received by SolarTogether participants would come from money that all customers pay to cover power-plant fuel expenses.

News-Journal Lays Off London (Again) and Flagler Bureau Editor; News-Tribune’s Future in Doubt

March 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Aaron London stood by the paper for years. (© FlaglerLive)

The Daytona Beach News-Journal this week is laying off two of its four remaining employees in the Flagler County bureau–long-time reporter Aaron London and Nick Klasne, an assistant managing editor in charge of the Flagler Bureau.

2 Brothers Face Child Neglect Charges After Uncle Is Accused of Hiding Pot Stash in 11-Year-Old’s Underpants

March 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

A sheriff's deputy ran an individual's license plate while watching him pump gas at the Shell station, and found him to have an expired driver's license. That led to a traffic stop, which led to two arrests. (Google)

A man and his brother were charged with child neglect after the man’s brother hid a stash of pot in his 11-year-old nephew’s underwear before a traffic stop.

Tuesday Briefing: Flagler Free Clinic at 15, Thomas LeGault Case, Suicide Prevention, Palm Coast Connect

March 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Flagler Free Clinic just celebrated its 15th anniversary.

Former County Commission candidate Thomas LeGault’s debt to WNZF in a small claims case on the court docket, Mayor Milissa Holland and others may address the city’s arrangement with Coastal Cloud that gave rise to Palm Coast Connect, Chess on the Porch at the Humidor.

Judge Sets Stern Ground Rules Ahead of Keith Johansen Murder Trial in Shooting Death of Brandi Celenza

March 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Keith Johansen in court Friday. He faces a first-degree murder charge in a trial that starts in two weeks. (© FlaglerLive)

The trial judge admonished the families of both Brandi Celenza and Keith Johansen after a hearing where he’d ruled on admitting or limiting variously disturbing evidence-and prohibiting prejudicial courtroom antics in the gallery.

‘We Will See It In Our Community,’ Flagler Emergency Chief Warns of Coronavirus, Detailing Local Response

March 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Flagler Emergency Chief Jonathan Lord, in the foreground, spoke to the County Commission this morning about the coronavirus and local measures, along with Bob Snyder, head of the Flagler County Health Department.

Flagler Emergency Chief Jonathan Lord and Health Department Chief Bob Snyder briefed the County Commission on the creation of a local “pandemic working group” and measures in place to address the coronavirus, whose arrival locally is almost certain.

Two Espanola Parents Arrested After 5 Children Lived in Filth, Fear and Neglect for Years

March 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

A corner of the bathroom. (FCSO)

DCF took custody of five children–ages 12, 11, 7, 3 and 2–who year after year had been either homeless or living in a deplorable house in Espanola. Their parents, Tiffany Berry and Nicholas Carter, were arrested for neglect.

Monday Briefing: Vacation Rentals, County v. McDonald, ACLU Meeting, Detective Totten, Blanche Gardin

March 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

kyle totten Bunnell Police Chief Tom Foster last week swore in Detective Kyle Totten, as his wife, County Judge Andrea Totten, stood by his side--months after roles were reversed, when husband stood at his wife's side during her investiture for county judge.

A Senate panel takes up vacation rentals as opponents demonstrate against the bill, County Attorney Al Hadeed presents a response to Dennis McDonald allegations on the former Sheriff’s Operations Center, French comic Blanche Gardin.

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