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With 99.05% of Dunes Project Shoreline Secured, Flagler Extends Hold Harmless Branch in Bid to Secure Last 3 Easements

October 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

What it's all about: one of the three dune "remnants" still in contention along State Road A1A in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

With $25 million still sitting idle, awaiting a go-ahead to rebuild 2.6 miles of dunes in Flagler Beach, Flagler County government is down to securing signatures for easements from just two hold-outs after two years of efforts. The county is hoping it will keep its 104-year streak going of never having to invoke eminent domain proceedings against a county property owner.

Why is the Flagler County Commission Holding New School Construction Hostage?

September 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Flagler County Commission is posing an unexpected and unnecessary challenge for Cathy Mittelstadt, the Flagler Schools superintendent. (© FlaglerLive)

Pandering to home builders, the Flagler County Commission is rashly scuttling the school district’s plan to double impact fees on new construction for the first time since 2005, even though the county is doubling its own impact fees. It’s an unjustified and hypocritical assault on district planning and future student needs.

Flagler Commission Expected to Approve Marinas in Scenic Hammock, Clearing Way for Warehouse-Like Boat Storage

September 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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The Flagler County Commission is preparing to approve an amendment to a land-use ordinance that would allow marinas in the Scenic A1A district, opening the way for a 240-boat storage facility that court decisions and the Hammock Community Association have blocked for over two years.

Seven Flagler County Fire Rescue FireFlight Medics Complete Shallow Water Egress Training (SWET)

September 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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All seven Flagler County Fire Rescue FireFlight medics trained September 18 to complete their Shallow Water Egress Training (SWET) to ensure they can escape from the helicopter’s cockpit should an accident leave it and its crew upside down in the water.

County Goes Over Redistricting Boundaries in ‘Numbers Game’ That Will Barely Affect Voters, Maps or the Elected

September 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Flagler County's current districts, which apply both to the county commission and the school board.

The process is formal and obviously important as a reflection of fairness in elections and representation. But at the local level, it is far less consequential than at the state and federal level, especially in counties like Flagler, where school board and county commissioners serve at-large–meaning they are elected by voters across the county, not just by voters in their districts.

Hunger in 2020 Sharply Affected Even Middle-Class Americans

September 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The massive food distribution Palm Coast government organized on May 2, 2020. It would turn out to be the only one organized by a local government, though weekly distributions took place before and have continued to take place since through Grace Community food pantry on Education Way. (© FlaglerLive)

Americans in households with annual incomes from $50,000 to $75,000 experienced the sharpest increase in food insufficiency when the COVID-19 pandemic began – meaning that many people in the middle class didn’t have enough to eat at some point within the previous seven days.

‘We’re Running Out of People’: Flagler’s Covid Case Load Drops Sharply, But Vaccinations Also Plummet

September 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Just over 200 people were confirmed to have tested positive for Covid in Flagler this week, the lowest weekly total since early July. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County recorded just over 200 covid cases in the week ending today, the lowest total since early summer, but vaccinations have plummeted to a new low since after the initial rollouts. While school cases have also dropped, the Flagler school district is struggling through significant teacher and other staffing shortages.

Anti-Maskers Turn Another Flagler School Board Meeting Into Virulent, at Times Bigoted and Threatening Spectacle

September 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 53 Comments

Members of the Flagler County School Board in a huddle with Flagler County Sheriff's deputies before this evening's meeting as they were being cautioned--and directed--on following deputies' directions in case the meeting turned chaotic. It was an unprecedented caution. (© FlaglerLive)

Even though there was no chance of a mask mandate, the Flagler County School Board meeting Tuesday evening again devolved into an ugly spectacle of anti-mask militancy that at times turned threatening, homophobic, Islamophobic and covid-denying, and required the meeting again to be briefly recessed and board members sent to a safe room.

Flagler District Prepares to Re-Zone Schools for the First Time in Over a Decade in Face of Some Sharp Objections

September 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A hallway at Indian Trails Middle School, where, along with Buddy Taylor Middle, sixth graders will be attending starting next year. The shift is making the two middle schools the front runners in the district's rezoning. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board will vote on a rezoning plan in December, and on Tuesday will hear an updated, phased-in approach that will focus on the two middle schools first, where sixth graders will be shifted starting next year. Localized but intense opposition to rezoning plans compelled the administration to propose a more phased-in approach than a county-wide rezoning.

Covid Numbers Fall Across the Board in Flagler and Florida, Now Matching Winter Peak; Experts Stress Continued Caution

September 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The covid numbers are falling across the board: in the community, in schools, in hospitals locally and across Central Florida, but with a caveat: the numbers today, while falling, are at the exact point where they were at the height of the winter wave–the third and until then most severe wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

School District’s Request to Double Impact Fees Turns Into Hostile Inquisition by County Commission and Builders

September 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker, seen here in a different context, was left pleading last Tuesday with members of the County Commission to grant the district's request for a new schedule of impact fees. He did not get a warm reception. (© FlaglerLive)

In an unexpected turn, what the Flagler County school district thought was a mere formality before the County Commission turned into a 90-minute grilling by commissioners and a parade of doubt by builders who consider the district’s request to double impact fees ill-thought and ill-timed.

The Gardens Development Wins Key Battle as Court Finds County Commission Acted Properly in Clearing Project

September 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Preserve Flagler Beach, the grass-roots group opposing The Gardens development on John Anderson highway, had sued the county commission and the developer, charging that the commission’s Nov. 16 decision clearing the way for the development was illegal. Circuit Judge Terence Perkins disagreed.

Number of Potential Victims Up to 57 in Bob Newsholme Tax Fraud Case as Slew of Schemes Involving Big Sums Emerge

September 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Flagler Tax Services' storefront office at the Bunnell Business Center near the Chicken Pantry. Robert Newsholme owns the whole center. (© FlaglerLive)

Innumerable reports by his clients pointing to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud paint a picture of Bob Newsholme, the long-time owner of Flagler Tax Services, as a versatile but clumsy schemer. Newsholme seemed to have boxed himself in in a Ponzi scheme of his own making, hoping to stay ahead of the inevitable reckoning by enlarging his circle of fraud. But as it began to unravel, it unraveled very quickly. But his clients are now left to pick up the pieces–and pay what they owe to the IRS.

Sharp Drop in Covid Cases at Schools, Hospital and Community, But Flagler Deaths Have Nearly Doubled to 201 in 4th Wave

September 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Vaccinations are still lagging in Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

The fourth and gravest wave of the Covid pandemic has crested in Flagler County, with case loads in schools, at the hospital and in the community falling sharply, but at a heavy price: deaths from Covid-19 in Flagler have reached 201, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The county has coordinated a video PSA to push vaccinations, with the cooperation of every local government.

Gov. DeSantis, in Palm Coast, Opens Federally-Funded Monoclonal Center at Daytona State College Campus

September 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis appearing at Daytona State College's Palm Coast campous this morning, with Sen. Travis Hutson, right. (© FlaglerLive via TampaBay 10)

Continuing his tour across the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis this morning stopped at Daytona State College’s Palm Coast campus to announce the opening of a free monoclonal treatment center made possible by federal funds. The treatment will be open seven days a week starting Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The treatments do not require a prescription.

Can There Ever Be Common Ground in Communities Torn by Polarization? A New WNZF Show Attempts an Answer.

September 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, left, and "Common Ground" host Shelly Ragsdale, who heads the Flagler branch of the NAACP, in the radio show's first episode, which aired Sunday. (WNZF)

Flagler NAACP Branch President Shelley Ragsdale is hosting a new weekly show on Flagler Broadcasting’s WNZF called “Common Ground,” an exploration of bridge-like themes that may narrow the deep divisions cutting through communities.

Embrace ‘Prepare to Protect’ National Preparedness Month

September 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Hurricane Irma's wreckage in Beverly Beach in 2017. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County urges residents to do as it has and recognize September as National Preparedness Month, which is done to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time. This year’s theme is “Prepare to Protect.”

Leaders Gather to Film Groundbreaking at AdventHealth Palm Coast’s New Hospital, Now a Larger, $145 Million Project

September 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

AdventHealth's top executives after filming today at the 11-acre site oif the new, $145 million hospital and medical office building on Palm Coast Parkway. From right, AdventHealth Palm Coast COO Wally de Aquino, Central Region CEO David Ottati, AdventHealth Palm Coast CEO Ron Jimenez, Chief Nursing Officer Kathy Gover, and Chief Financial Officer Mark Rathburn. (© FlaglerLive)

AdventHealth executives, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin and County Administrator Heidi Petito gathered this morning at the construction site of the new hospital, now a $145 million project on Palm Coast Parkway, to film what will be a virtual groundbreaking ceremony airing on Sept. 14. Here’s a sneak preview.

Flagler Schools Have 3rd Highest Covid Infection Rate Among 38 Florida Districts Reporting Figures; Masked Districts Fare Better

September 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

The Flagler County School Board when it last considered a mask mandate, on Aug. 17, after the chamber was cleared when members of the public were deemed to have broken the board's decorum rules. No decision meeting is scheduled until the third week of September unless the board holds an emergency meeting (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County school district has the third-highest rate of Covid infections among students and staff out of 38 Florida school districts that are reporting their Covid numbers since the resumption of the school year less than four weeks ago, a FlaglerLive analysis finds. There is still no “appetite” for changing course and adopting a mask mandate, according to the school board member who tried enacting one two weeks ago, though data points to a direct correlation between masks and lower infection rates in Florida districts.

Covid Hospitalizations in Flagler Crest, But Schools See 173 Infections in 3 Days and County Adds 10 Deaths

August 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Covid testing at the Flagler County Health Department on Friday. That day, the county recorded 107 positive confirmations. (Health Department)

Admissions at AdventHealth Palm Coast hospitals in central Florida, which had reached record levels in the fourth Covid wave, crested seven days ago, and have been falling each day since–slightly, but visibly. Covid deaths in Flagler and school district infections are another matter.

Lawmaker and Non-Profit Sue Department of Health Over Its Refusal to Release Previously Available Covid Data

August 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The Florida Center for Government Accountability and House Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, an Orlando Democrat, late Monday sued the Florida Department of Health and Surgeon General Scott Rivkees over the department’s refusal to provide Covid-related statistical records it used to make public daily.

Flagler County FireFlight and Paramedics Practice Marine Rescue Techniques in Intracoastal

August 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

FireFlight in a previous exercise. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Fire Rescue Marine Rescue Team and FireFlight last week (August 25) practiced marine rescue techniques on the Intracoastal Waterway to hone their skills should they be called out to save a swimmer or boater. Would-be rescuers also used the county’s jet ski as part of the training exercise.

Flagler Lands 25 projects on State Transportation’s 5-Year Project Priority List, Many in Western Flagler

August 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The projects include paving, resurfacing, and reconstruction of roadways, as well as traditional bridge replacement among other projects – many of which are in the western reaches of Flagler County. county.

Covid’s Casualties: Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Luciano Dies in Flagler, Circuit Judge Steven Henderson Dies in Volusia

August 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

The Flagler County Sheriff's Paul Luciano, left, and Circuit Judge Steve Henderson.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Correction Deputy Paul Luciano was 60. Volusia County Circuit Judge Steven Henderson was 49. Both were still in their prime, at work as professionals and at home as family men. Neither fit the profile of Covid casualties, at least not of previous covid waves. Henderson died of the disease on Thursday at a hospital in Volusia County. Luciano died the same day at AdventHealth Palm Coast.

Judge Rules DeSantis Had No Authority to Ban School Mask Mandates or Punish School Boards That Adopt Masking

August 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The judge issued his ruling in a zoom hearing today. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Judge John Cooper of the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court of Florida ruled today that Gov. Ron DeSantis had no legal authority under the recently-enacted Parental Bill of Rights to prohibit local school boards from adopting mask mandates that did not include opt-out provisions. The judge found DeSantis’s order “capricious” and not based in evidence, but rather based on an incomplete reading of the Bill of Rights.

Flagler Schools Covid Cases in 3 Weeks Exceed All of Last Year’s; County Shatters Weekly Record; Florida Adds 1,727 Deaths

August 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Flagler County shattered its record of weekly cases this week, with 936 confirmed cases. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

The county recorded 936 confirmed cases of covid in the week ending today, breaking last week’s record by over 200 cases. The health department is unable to conduct systematic contact tracing because it’s overwhelmed by the numbers. As of Thursday, 155 Flagler County residents had died of covid since the beginning of the pandemic, 41 of them in the last four weeks.

In Maskless Flagler, We’re All Covid’s Sitting Ducks

August 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

The prevailing mood at last week's Flagler County School Board meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County is in the worst public health crisis it has known in its history, with at least 10 covid deaths a week as many school infections in 3 weeks as all of last year combined, yet the debate remains immobilized by a war on masks that defies science and daily grim realities.

Carla Cline’s New Project: Raise 1,000 Local Restaurant Gift Cards of $20 for Hospital’s Overworked Health Care Staff

August 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Carla Cline, the Flagler Beach philanthropist, is raising a thousand $20 restaurant gift-cards to distribute to health care workers at every level at AdventHealth Palm Coast (and beyond) in an effort to counter the indifference and “nonsense” that has overwhelmed the public debate about the pandemic.

Florida House Rep. Sabatini Threatens Flagler School Board of Legal Action in Letter Laced in Fabrications Over Covid Rules

August 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

His colleagues know to be masked. (Florida House)

Florida House Rep. Anthony Sabatini wrote a letter to Flagler Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt and the school board today falsely claiming Indian Trails Middle School students are “being deprived of their right to a public school education,” and building on fabrications about the illegal quarantining of a child at Indian Trails Middle School that began pinballing around local social media pages last week.

8 Days After Revealing Daughter’s Infection, Commissioner Joe Mullins Says He Has Covid–Again

August 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

County Commissioner Joe Mullins embraces Gov. Ron DeSantis's militant opposition to masking or other covid-safety mandates, calling them a choice. He revealed today getting his second covid infection this year. (© FlaglerLive)

Mullins revealed that he is a so-called breakthrough infection–getting infected with covid despite having been vaccinated in March and April. He boasted of changing his car’s tire just before getting monoclonal therapy treatment.

Flagler Beach Appoints Committee to Rethink July 4 Fireworks While Aiming for a Show on New Year’s Eve Too

August 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Picture it reading 2022 on New Year's Eve. (© FlaglerLive)

Five residents and the mayor make up the committee that will study the continued feasibility of July 4 fireworks, while the city will ask the county’s tourism bureau for twin allocations of $25,000 next year, to pay for both July 4 and New Year’s Eve fireworks.

Flagler’s Legislative Delegation Meeting Set for Oct. 1

August 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Sen. Travis Hutson, right, and Rep. Paul Renner are Flagler County's legislative delegation. (© FlaglerLive)

The purpose of the meeting is to elect a Chair and Vice Chair of the Flagler County Delegation and take public testimony on legislative issues, appropriations and local bills.

In a Victory for Public Beach Access, Federal Court Rules in Favor of ‘Customary Use’ of Sands on Private Portions

August 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Flagler County's customarily public beaches. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County in 2018 passed an ordinance similar to the town ordinance the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld today. The court’s decision backed the county over property owners who argued a 2018 Florida law gave them the right to exclude beach-goers from the dry portions of privately owned beach.

School Board Members Term Janet McDonald on ‘Witch Hunt’ and ‘Dangerous’ as She Guns for Board Attorney in Wake of Tuesday Tumult

August 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Flagler County School Board member Janet McDonald had been sharpening knives before, during and especially after Tuesday's tumultuous meeting of the school board. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board member Janet McDonald called for what would have been an unlawful, closed-door meeting to review the school board attorney’s contract, then called for any special meeting to review last Tuesday’s meeting, when the chamber had to be cleared because of the crowd’s rule-breaking. Two board members–Colleen Conklin and Cheryl Massaro–responded with withering criticism of their colleague.

Covid Deaths in Flagler Reach 140, an Increase of 26 in 3 Weeks; 90 Hospitalized in Palm Coast, ‘All ICUs at Capacity’

August 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Mask stations like this one, along with mask and vaccine messaging, have sprouted in local government buildings in a reflection of a more concerted recent effort to encourage residents to mask and take precautions against the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus. (© FlaglerLive)

Local infections and hospitalizations for covid continue to break records. Data is emerging that points to vaccines losing their efficacy over time, underscoring the push for booster shots in a significant shift from earlier guidance. The reason: the delta variant of the coronavirus, far more infectiously virulent, has radically changed the landscape, making so-called “breakthrough” infections of the vaccinated more common than originally thought and forcing public health agencies to adjust.

No, Indian Trails Middle Isn’t Requiring Vaccines, Detaining or Banning Students, But Falsehoods Go Viral Anyway

August 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The case of a parent’s reaction to her son at Indian Trails Middle School being required to quarantine for at least four days illustrates how easily inaccurate information is misused to politically tendentious ends–it’s led to a call for a showdown before the school board this evening–or inflated into non-existent problems or false claims. 

County’s Budget Agreement Nets Sheriff 10 of 15 Requested Deputies and $400,000 Mobile Command Vehicle

August 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Flagler County Commission today approved pulling $400,000 from its reserves to enable the purchase of a new mobile command center for the Sheriff's Office. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission this afternoon agreed to lower the county’s property tax by a symbolic decimal point next year, though county revenue will still grow by nearly $6 million and the sheriff will get an additional $2.2 million, ensuring the addition of 10 new deputies and a $400,000 mobile command center.

21 Flagler Residents Have Died of Covid in Last 2 Weeks, 1,600 Deaths in Florida, But State Is Masking the Figures

August 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

Flagler County set yet another record in confirmed infections last week, at just shy of 700, for a total of 2,000 infections in the last three weeks--more infections in that span than in the first 10 months of the pandemic last year. click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler’s death count was released only after a public record request. The state Health Department is masking death counts for the state as a whole, just as it has been fudging vaccination figures to make them seem higher than they are, just as it has eliminated daily reports of case counts, whether for the state or the counties, in an apparent effort to downplay the intensity of the crisis.

Flagler Mosquito District Will Expand in Plantation Bay and Palm Coast But Scraps Plans to Cover the Whole County

August 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Flagler Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord speaking to the East Flagler Mosquito Control District board this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

The East Flagler Mosquito Control District voted this morning to expand its spraying boundaries slightly west and south to include an area of U.S. 1 and all of Plantation Bay. But the district abandoned further plans to phase-in spraying of the entire county, opting instead to revert to a 2003 agreement with the county to continue spraying West only on an as-needed basis.

Free Computer Classes and Mobile Technology Classes Offered at Flagler County Public Library

August 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Still the best deal in town by far. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Public Library continues to help residents connect globally by offering a variety of free mobile technology and computer classes focused on teaching and improving the skills necessary to stay in touch remotely.

Why We Must Fund Public Safety: The Sheriff’s Office’s Response

August 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly, left, and Chief of Staff Mark Strobridge. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Chief of Staff Mark Strobridge responds to Thursday’s “Overfunding Police” column, citing misinterpretations of a UNF study on which the sheriff is basing a request for 25 additional deputies from Palm Coast and Flagler County.

AdventHealth Physician Sounds Alert to Increase of Children in Hospital for Covid, Renewing Call for School Masks

August 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The last week's total include six of the seven days' reporting, and reflect 584 confirmed cases and an estimated 100 additional cases based on the seven-day average. (© FlaglerLive)

AdventHealth Palm Coast had 82 patients admitted with covid, while the AdventHealth Central Florida division was reporting 12 children admitted as evidence continues to pile up: vaccines are an overwhelming buffer against hospitalizations, and masks are an effective buffer against infections, including in schools.

Palm Coast and Flagler at Risk of Overfunding Police

August 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Policing in Flagler has never been at risk of "defunding," nor have relations between police and the community lacked for cohesion and respect. (© FlaglerLive)

Policing in Flagler has never been at risk of “defunding,” nor have relations between police and the community lacked for cohesion and respect. But Sheriff Staly’s request for 25 additional deputies from Palm Coast and the county overplay a hand, while both governments are teetering on going along with what would be overfunding police, at the expense of other needs.

Opponents Call Approval of ‘Marinas’ Along Scenic A1A an Orwellian Ploy to Let Massive Boat-Storage Facility Rise

August 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Not exactly marina-like: a forklift at a boat storage facility. (HCA)

The Flagler County Planning Board on Tuesday determined that marinas are an allowable use in the Scenic A1A corridor. But Hammock residents say it’s an Orwellian word game intended to clear the way for a 240-dry-boat storage facility called Hammock Harbour, whose development was twice rebuffed by courts.

Man Who Killed Flagler Sheriff’s Deputy Chuck Sease in 2003 Wants Clemency, Half-Way of 35-Year Prison Sentence

August 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Deputy Charles Sease's name is one of five law enforcement officers' names engraved on the Flagler County Sheriff's memorial to the fallen, and the last officer to die from a hostile act in Flagler, in 2003. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and State Attorney R.J. Larizza have written the state clemency board stern letters opposing any commutation of sentence for Bruce Grove, the now-46-year-old former Palm Coast resident serving 35 years in prison for the killing of Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy Charles “Chuck” Sease in 2003 as Grove was eluding other deputies in a chase.

Again Indifferent to Process, Colleagues Dismiss Andy Dance’s Concern About County Commission’s Lack of Transparency

August 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

For County Commissioner Andy Dance, a familiar seat, but an unfamiliar process. (© FlaglerLive)

County Commissioner Andy Dance is concerned about the commission’s habit–unique among local governments–of holding special meetings and votes immediately after workshops, a habit that lacks transparency. As they have when he’s raised procedural issues before, Dance’s colleagues shrugged off the concern.

Flagler Commissioners Want to Cut Tax Rate, Give Sheriff 15 Deputies And Force Staff to Cut $2 Million in County Services

August 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

County Administrator Heidi Petito tried to defend her budget today. Some of the commissioners want it to subsidize the budgets of the sheriff, of the clerk of court and other constitutional officers.

A majority of Flagler county commissioners ignored their administrator’s and finance director’s numbers and proposals today and told their staff to find ways to cut $2 million from the county’s own budget while ensuring that the sheriff and other constitutional officers, such as the clerk of court and supervisor of elections, get all the budget increases they’re asking for.

Contradictory State Rule Upends Flagler Schools’ Plans for Rapid Testing of Teachers and Students

August 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A rapid home test for covid: the two lines show it's positive for covid. (© FlaglerLive)

Plans by Flagler schools and the Health Department to minimize quarantines through rapid testing were upended by an emergency rule issued by the state on Friday. The rule appears to pre-empt the right of local authorities to use rapid testing for at least four days, and up to seven days, during which individuals must quarantine regardless.

Flagler Records 154 Covid Infections Today as AdventHealth Palm Coast’s In-Patients Soar to 86, Another Record

August 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The outdoor Covid testing tent has returned outside the Health Department's office on Dr. Carter Boulevard in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

The 16-hospital AdventHealth network in Central Florida has 1,350 in-patients with covid, 400 more than it had during the highest previous peak of the pandemic last January. Patients who survive stay an average of 14 to 21 days at the hospital, averaging in age between 50 to 55–younger than in previous waves–but all ages have been seen in hospitals. Of the 1,350, some 350 are in ICU and on ventilators.

Expansion of Mosquito Spraying in Plantation Bay and Sawmill Creek Draws Mixed Reactions

August 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The workshop drew only 10 people, some of whom complained that it had not been announced broadly enough. (© FlaglerLive)

A workshop intended to gauge public sentiment about modestly expanding the East Flagler Mosquito Control District to Plantation Bay and to a small area west of U.S. 1 drew just 10 people Wednesday evening, some fiercely opposed, some wager for the spraying.

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