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Appeals Court Affirms Rulings Against Kimberle Weeks, Who Now Owes County Over $170,000 in Fees

April 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Kimberle Weeks at one of her pre-trial hearings in 2018. (© FlaglerLive)

In a pair of one-word rulings on Thursday, the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee affirmed lower court decisions against Kimberle Weeks, the former Flagler County Supervisor of Elections, who has been contesting attorneys’ fees she owes the county from two frivolous and defamatory ethics complaints she brought against former County Commissioner Charlie Ericksen and county attorney Al Haddeed.

Flagler County Talks Up Affordable Housing Even as Lawmakers Yet Again Raid Dedicated Fund of $100 Million

April 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

But how affordable? (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission this morning approved a proclamation and heard a presentation on the county’s affordable housing efforts, coinciding with revelations last week that the Legislature again broke a promise not to raid the state’s 30-year-old affordable housing trust fund and use its money for other purposes, short-changing needs across the state.

A Day of Potentially Severe Weather Could Add Up to 1.5 Inches of Rain on Saturated Grounds

March 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The National Weather Service in Jacksonville is cautioning residents of a day of potentially severe weather, including heavy rain and strong wind gusts, through the middle of the afternoon. Palm Coast could get more than an inch of rain, adding to already saturated grounds.

If Spared DeSantis’s Veto, Flagler Would Receive $19.3 Million for 2 Major Public Works Projects and the Ag Museum

March 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

They delivered: Rep. Paul Renner, left, and Sen. Travis Hutson, whose districts include all of Flagler County. (© FlaglerLive)

If the governor signs without line-item vetoes the following items will be funded for a total of $19.3 million: the Septic to Sewer Conversion Project for the barrier island will receive $8 million ($1.6 million more than requested, which will allow the county to expand the original scope of work); the Florida Agricultural Museum Expansion Project will receive $4.5 million; and, Flagler Central Commerce Parkway will receive $6.8 million.

County Commission Declares ‘Dangerous’ 2 Dogs Who’d Been Terrorizing Hammock Neighborhood Since 2017

March 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Zelda, post-surgery. The dog is one of several that have been victimized by a pair of German shepherds in the Hammock that on Monday the Flagler County Commission declared dangerous. (Flagler County)

The Flagler County Commission Monday unanimously voted to approve an order declaring a pair of German shepherds in the Hammock “dangerous,” and requiring the dogs’ owner to abide by rules severely restricting the dogs’ freedom. The dogs had been terrorizing the neighborhood, injuring other dogs and their owners since 2017.

County Finally Ratifies School Board’s Higher Impact Fees After Months of Obstruction on Builders’ Behalf

March 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

It'll cost $1,850 more to build. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission late Monday night voted 5-0 to approve the first increase in school impact fees in 17 years, ending a seven-month confrontation between the commission and the school board as the commission refused to approve the board’s initial request for an increase and further pushed for exact concessions favoring home builders the school board was not willing to make. The new fees start in September.

In Place of Old Dixie Motel Relic, Developers Promise a Jazzed Up ‘Henry Hotel,’ With a Year’s Construction

March 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A rendering of the hotel on Old Dixie Highway, once completed, as presented to the Flagler County Commission this evening.

Representatives of the new owners of the long-derelict motel on Old Dixie Highway unveiled plans for a 96-room upscale hotel called “The Henry Hotel” that would be built in a year’s time, but some questions remain about the project’s timeline.

In Blow to School District, County Would Allow Unlimited Development Whether Or Not There Are Enough Schools

March 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

"It's very transparent to me what is happening right now, and totally not appropriate," School Board member Colleen Conklin told the county commission this afternoon, in referrence to a commission plan to end school concurrency requirements ahead of new development. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

The Flagler County Commission is considering ending a long-standing smart-growth rule: There would no longer have to be sufficient school capacity for new development to go forward. The plan was unveiled only today, drawing sharp criticism from School Board member Colleen Conklin.

‘Is Our Democracy At Risk?’ Answer Question in Flagler/Volusia ACLU Essay Contest; $850 in Prize Money

March 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

FlaglerLive is proudly joining the ACLU to sponsor this year's essay contest.

If you’re a high school student in Flagler or Volusia counties, here’s your chance to answer the question in an original essay of up to 2,000 words and participate in the ACLU of Florida’s annual essay contest, with cash prizes sponsored by FlaglerLive. The deadline is April 4.

Man Accused of Terrorism Embroils Palm Coast Organization in Controversy Over Ukrainian Orphans

March 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Matt Shea, a 47-year-old resident of Spokane, Wash., with ties to far-right militias and hate group, connected his trip to Poland with a Palm Coast-based organization that facilitates adoptions of Ukrainian children. He appeared in an interview on a Polish television station.

A Palm Coast non-profit called Loving Families and Homes for Orphans, caring for Ukrainian children, is being unfairly tarnished by the involvement with the non-profit of Matt Shea, a Spokane, Wash., man accused of domestic terrorism and tied to hate groups, the husband of the non-profit’s leader says. 

Confirmed: BJ’s Wholesale Club Is Lined Up for Palm Coast on SR 100 Near County Airport

March 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

Yes, it'll be a BJ's on State Road 100 in Palm Coast, near the county airport. (Mike Mozart)

In a deal close to completion, BJ’s Wholesale Club will build a 103,000 square foot store on SR100, with two restaurants, a gas station, a tire store and a few other businesses. Jay Gardner, the Flagler County property appraiser, who owns the land, confirmed the development on Friday, as did regulatory documents before the county planning division.

Palm Coast Fire Chief Jerry Forte, Unequaled in Local Leadership and Admirers, Will Retire in October

March 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Palm Coast Fire Chief Jerry Forte is looking to retirement in October. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast Fire Chief Jerry Forte, a managerial guru to some, a mentor and father figure to many, and the self-effacing, sure-handed leader of the fire and other city departments over the past several years, announced today in an emotional address to the City Council that he would be retiring in October.

We Bought a Home in the Hammock. Vacation Rentals Are Turning Our Street Into a Commercial Strip.

March 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 61 Comments

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Angela and David Bailus bought what they thought was their dream home on Hernandez Avenue in the Hammock. Now their short street is a cluster of vacation rentals that has changed the complexion of their residential serenity into a commercial zone.

DeSantis and Florida Republicans Discover Their Inner Soviet

March 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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It’s been a grim few weeks. Democracy, human rights and free speech are under assault as they’ve not been in generations. Misinformation and fabrications are carpet-bombing reality. Thought policing is muzzling expression and rewriting history as a worship-jerk. Individual freedom is in retreat. Authoritarianism–bullying, vengeful, exultant–is triumphant. 

On 2nd Anniversary of Pandemic, Flagler Health Department ‘Winds Down’ Covid Operations in Dearth of Cases

March 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler County's covid case load fell to its lowest weekly level since mid-June 2021. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County recorded just 36 confirmed cases of covid in the week ending today, the lowest weekly total since June 18. Just three patients were at AdventHealth Palm Coast on a primary diagnosis of covid. But the county’s total number of deaths attributed to covid rose by 20 in the last two weeks, to 331.

Flagler Planning Board Rejects 1,200-Home Eagle Lakes Development Over Unresolved Differences

March 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Michael Chiumento III, the attorney representing the Eagle Lakes developer, at a December neighborhood meeting on the proposal, when opposition was apparent. The focus and tone of the opposition has not changed since. (© FlaglerLive)

The county and the developer have a 126-home difference on how many homes may be built, traffic questions affecting Old Kings Road remain, and several planning board members felt the Eagle Lakes application was not ready. But the matter now goes before the County Commission, which may vote on the development on April 4.

Cell Equipment Worker Atop Hammock Water Tower Falls Inside Cylinder, Triggering High-Wire Rescue

March 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Technical Rescue TEam at work. (Flagler County)

A 26-year-old employee of a communications company working on maintenance of cell tower equipment on the Hammock water tower Tuesday evening fell inside the tower an unknown distance and was rescued through a technical rescue team operation before a trauma evacuation to Halifax hospital.

Mealy and Newcomer Sherman Win in Flagler Beach, Incumbents Barnes and Schultz Win in Bunnell

March 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

The candidates this morning in Flagler Beach : from left, Rick Belhumeur, James Sherman and Jane Mealy. (© FlaglerLive)

Long-time Commissioner Jane Mealy, one of the city’s more popular elected officials for over a decade and a half, again won handily, with James Sherman second, while in Bunnell incumbents Bob Barnes and Tina-Marie Schultz won, surprising recently retired FHP Cpl. Pete Young, a distant third.

Race, Gender, Wealth, Books: It’s All in “The Personal Librarian,” Flagler Reads Together’s 2022 Pick

February 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Flagler Reads Together’s choice this year is a historical novel about Belle da Costa Greene, the Black woman who passed herself as white as the J.P. Morgan librarian for 43 years.

Signal Shift: Flagler Health Department Ends Covid Testing As Cases Fade; Deaths Increase by 15 in 2 Weeks

February 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The end of operations at the airport–or at the department itself–signal the Health Department’s shift back to what it is calling “normal,” pre-pandemic operations, exactly two years after mobilizing for the first covid surge.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

A City Seeks to Purchase Motels as Affordable Housing Instead of Letting Developers Demolish Them

February 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The derelict motel on Old Dixie Highway has been a thorn in the side of Flagler County government for years. But there are no alternative plans, despite difficulties with two successive owners. (© FlaglerLive)

The mayor of Reno is proposing to buy and rehabilitate motels through the Reno Housing Authority to accommodate low-income residents, moving quietly to buy two shuttered buildings, including one with a history of code violations that is now part of an estate sale.

Single-Engine Plane Crashes on I-95 South of State Road 100, Two Occupants Only Scratched

January 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Cessna that crashed on I-95 this afternoon rolled over into the shoulder on the side of the highway. It is is registered to a Port Orange owner. (© FlaglerLive)

Two occupants of a single-engine Cessna suffered only minor injuries when their plane crashed on I-95’s northbound lanes a little before 1 p.m. today, between the State Road 100 and Old Dixie Highway exits.

Property Appraiser Will Hold Saturday Hours for Homestead Filings and Other Needs Feb. 12

January 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The Flagler County Property Appraiser’s Office will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 12, at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, to accommodate homestead exemption filings as the March 1 deadline approaches. 

Retiring Nice-Guy Approach, Flagler County Will Sue 2 Flagler Beach Property Owners Over Dunes Project

January 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

One of the three dune "remnants" at the center of the county's impending eminent domain action against two property owners in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Facing an ultimatum from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the county will sue two Flagler Beach property owners to secure beachside easements necessary to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with a long-delayed dune-rebuilding project along 2.6 miles of beach in the city. The county had been threatening just such action for 15 months, but was hoping to avoid it.

With One Exception, Flagler Beach Commissioners Leery of Alternating July 4 Fireworks With Palm Coast

January 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A traffic volunteer at a Flagler Beach July 4 celebration, just before the city's Independence Day parade. (© FlaglerLive)

Between logistics and tradition, five of the six members of the Flagler Beach City Commission, including the mayor, are either hesitant or opposed to giving up on July 4 fireworks even if Palm Coast wants to hold them on that day only in alternate years. But officials are also saying the whole discussion may be premature, given the impending disappearance of the Flagler Beach pier for two years, when July 4 fireworks will likely have to be in Palm Coast anyway.

County in Talks with Coastal Cloud to Buy $1.5 Million Parcel on A1A for Future Visitor Center

January 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Flagler County’s tourism bureau is in discussions to buy a corner lot on State Road A1A and South 9th Street in Flagler Beach for a future visitor center. The 0.37-acre lot, owned by Coastal Cloud (the Hammock-based tech company), is listed at $1.5 million.

Florida Lawmakers Look to Spend $400 Million on Broadband in Underserved Rural Areas

January 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Broadband pipes on Royal Palm Parkway. They're needed in the western part of the county. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County, using federal stimulus dollars already appropriated, is enacting a plan that would extend broadband service to underserved parts of western Flagler County. But the plan still needs additional funding to meet completion. The state plan would potentially make that possible.

Breaking 8 Years’ Standstill, Flagler County Will Move Ahead with $16 Million South Side Library

January 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

A conceptual rendering of the future south side library to be built in Bunnell, opposite the Sheriff's Operations Center.

The Flagler County Commission gave the go-ahead today for a $16 million south side library on Commerce Parkway in Bunnell, opposite the future Sheriff’s Operations Center, ending eight years of prevarications. But while several funding options are available, it is still not at all clear how the commission will pay for the 32,000 square foot facility, now slated to open in late 2024.

Flagler County Has Been Promising a South Side Library Since 2014. Commission Will Promise Again Next Week.

January 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The site set aside for the hoped-for south-0side library, opposite a sign announcing the new Sheriff's Operations Center, which is well under construction. Only weeds are growing behind the library sign. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission next week will examine plans for a $14 million, 32,000 square-foot library that’ll also include a conference center and a portion of the building for the county’s Health and Human Services division. But as has been the case since 2014, and absent a surprise, the money for the project may be lacking yet again.

Flagler’s Covid Cases Near 1,500 in a Week, Shattering Record Even as Peak Is in Sight; 3 More Deaths Bring Total to 288

January 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler this week shattered its earlier covid-positive total, with 1,469 new cases. Click on the graph for an uncompressed view. (© FlaglerLive)

Like most communities across the country, Flagler County this week shattered its weekly covid-infection total, with 1,469, exceeding last week’s record of 1,166, though emergency-care clinics’ numbers suggest that the region is near or at its peak of this latest wave, driven mostly by the astonishingly infectious but less lethal omicron variant.

Flagler Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord Wins State Award for ‘Dedicated, Unselfish’ Service

January 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord on Wednesday, during a multi-agency exercise his department in large part coordinated, at Princess Place Preserve. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord will be presented the Florida Emergency Preparedness Association (FEPA) “Gary Arnold Award” at its annual meeting in February. This award is provided to an individual for dedicated, unselfish and enthusiastic service to improving the emergency management community in Florida.

Cops and Firefighters Discover Power of GIS in Search and Rescue Drill at Princess Place Preserve

January 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Sheriff's deputies during the morning briefing at Princess Place Preserve, before they were deployed for the exercise. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Fire Rescue personnel joined with Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies, Flagler County Emergency Management and the county’s IT and GIS teams this morning and into the middle of the afternoon at Princess Place Preserve for the first joint exercise in more than half a decade. Some 75 participants were involved.

Flagler Access Center for Mental Health and Substance Disorders Opens as Glimmer of Help in Crisis

January 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Ivan A. Cosimi, chief executive officer of SMA Healthcare, at today's ribbon-cutting for the new facility that SMA will run. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Access will provide guidance and services to people with mental health or substance disorders through a partnership involving SMA Healthcare and Flagler Health+, and mostly state funds, operating from the building that used to house the Bunnell Branch Library and Sally’s Safe Haven on State Road 100 and U.S. 1.

In Ultimatum, US Army Corps Tells Flagler It May Lose $17 Million for Now If Dunes Impasse Isn’t Resolved

January 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

One of the dunes remnants in play at the south end of Flagler Beach, near the Beachfront Grille. (© FlaglerLive)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told Flagler County that it is at risk of losing $17.5 million in federal funds earmarked for a 2.6-mile dunes restoration project in Flagler Beach if the county doesn’t show by early February that it has either acquired three remaining holdouts’ easements or that it will take the owners to court to acquire the easements.

Why We Are Appealing Flagler Court’s Decision Clearing the Way for Development of The Gardens on John Anderson

January 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

An aerial view of The Gardens development site in August, in an image by Preserve Flagler Beach and Bulow Creek.

John Tanner, the lawyer representing Preserve Flagler Beach and Bulow Creek, the organization opposing the 335-home Gardens development on John Anderson Highway, explains why the organization appealed a circuit judge’s decision clearing the way for the development. The appeal is pending at the Fifth District Court of Appeal.

Flagler County Firefighters Jon Moscowitz and Jimmy Melady Deliver Baby on New Year’s (Not Theirs)

January 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Proud deliverers: Flagler County Fire Rescue Lieutenant Jon Moscowitz and Firefighter/Paramedic Jimmy Melady. (Flagler County)

Flagler County Fire Rescue Lieutenant Jon Moscowitz and Firefighter/Paramedic Jimmy Melady started 2022 on a joyous, unplanned note this weekend, when they responded to mom-to-be Traci Kuehn’s call on New Year’s Day.

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