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‘Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough’: Flagler Marks Pulse Nightclub Massacre at Year 5 with a March and Vigil

June 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler's second Pride march as it set off over the Flagler Beach bridge Saturday evening, before a vigil at Veterans Park on the other side. (© FlaglerLive)

It has been five years since a gunman ended the lives of 49 people and injured 53 others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Saturday night the Flagler community honored the dead with a march across the Flagler Bridge and a vigil at Veterans’ Park.

Tornado Warning Issued for Bunnell and State Road 100 to Flagler Beach Until 4:15 p.m.

June 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The tornado warning was issued at 3:45 p.m.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning until 4:15 p.m. for the area of State Road 100 from Bunnell to Flagler Beach.

Palm Coast Fire Chief on Joe Mullins: a ‘Wrecking Ball’ who ‘Disgraces the Hard Working Men and Women of Flagler County Fire Rescue’

June 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The Touch-a-Truck event Palm Coast organized in late May, where the city's fire chief, Jerry Forte, said he was approached by County Commissioner Joe Mullins, who spoke to him about Palm Coast taking over the county's fire services. (Palm Coast)

After County Commissioner Joe Mullins spoke to Palm Coast Fire Chief Jerry Forte about Palm Coast taking over county fire services, Forte ripped into Mullins in a scathing email to the county administrator and his deputy, calling Mullins a “hack” who seeks to incite hostility when he “stay in his own lane.”

For Whispering Meadows Ranch, a Slow But Likely Trot Away from John Anderson, to New Site at County Fairgrounds

June 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The five horses at Whispering meadows Ranch on John Anderson Highway, and their many students, may have a new home, if negotiations with the county proceed as constructively as they have in the past few weeks. (© FlaglerLive)

If negotiations between Whispering Meadows Ranch’s owners and county government officials continue on the constructive course they’ve followed for the last few weeks, the ranch appears headed out of its 13-year location at a residential property on John Anderson Highway and will be recreated on the grounds of the Flagler County Fairgrounds off of County Road 13.

One Man Rapes a 13-Year-Old Girl and Walks Free. Another Raped a 16-Year-Old Girl and Is Serving 12 Years in Prison.

June 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Tonda Royal, left, and Bo Sirrine. They each were accused of raping minor girls. Royal is serving 12 years. Sirrine is free. (© FlaglerLive and Flagler jail)

Bo Jeremiah Sirrine, 23, and Tonda Royal, 55, once shared a cell at the Flagler County jail. They also shared a predilection for underage girls and were both charged with raping girls–a 13 year old, in Sirrine’s case, a 16 year old, in Royal’s case. Sirrine walked out of the Flagler jail a free man weeks ago. Royal is serving 12 years in state prison.

Flagler Administrator Jerry Cameron Ends Tenure, Interim Salinas and New Fire Chief Mike Tucker Start July 7

June 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Jerry Cameron, fourth from right, at a recent county event, standing next to Jorge Salinas, the chief of staff and incoming interim county administrator. Cameron is ending his tenure in that role after two years and four months. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Interim Administrator Jerry Cameron will end his tenure at the end of the month and be replaced by Interim Jorge Salinas, as the county commission is uninterested in a search for a new administrator, while new Fire Chief Mike Tucker will take over on July 7, but not before an interim fire chief–Palm Coast’s Bradd Clark–serves at the county until then.

From Drag Queens to Sister Bunny Juju, Throngs Exult in Pride, Joy and Freedom at Flagler’s 2nd Annual LGBTQ Festival

June 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Drag Queen Brittany Moore during her performance at Central Park Saturday evening. (© FlaglerLive)

Saturday’s Flagler Pride Festival and its crowds, which by 9 p.m. had totaled between 600 and 800 people, put the lie to the county’s presumed homogeneity: Palm Coast, a city started in the late 1960s as an integrated, post-racial subdivision, is still more diverse than perhaps assumed, and if anything growing more so.

Flagler Community Paramedic Caryn Prather Honored with Red Cross’ Heroes Among Us Award

June 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Red Cross Space Coast Chapter Executive Director Rebecca DeLorenzo with Caryn Prather. (Flagler County)

Flagler County Community Paramedic Caryn Prather on Friday was bestowed with the honor “Heroes Among Us” as a frontline worker by the American Red Cross of Central Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The award was presented for her work during the 2020 calendar year to develop a plan for a mass Covid-19 testing site, and later by continuing to individually test residents.

Covid Almost Down, Hurricane Season Up: Flagler Emergency Chief Jonathan Lord Reassures: ‘We’re On the Ball’

June 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Jonathan Lord, who heads Flagler County Emergency Management, is barely done dealing with the covid emergency. Hurricane season is up next. He has a few words of advice, and some reassurances. (© FlaglerLive)

In briefing previewing the hurricane season, Jonathan Lord detailed how Flagler County, fresh from winding down its covid emergency, is ramping up preparations for hurricane or tropical storm emergencies and urging against complacency–or too much attention to statistical probabilities, which mean nothing if that one storm hits.

County Administrator Jerry Cameron as Palm Coast Interim Manager? City Enfevered With Contingency Scenarios.

May 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

County Administrator Jerry Cameron, right, had invited Palm Coast City Manager Matt Morton to a county commission meeting in July 2015, a few months into either man's tenures in their jobs. Cameron is now being discussed as an interim replacement for Morton, who resigned this week. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler TV)

The speculation about Cameron is fueling the feverish politicized atmosphere in Palm Coast, an unbridgeable rift on the council, rampant apprehension within city staff ranks, and the manipulative hands of elected officials on and off the council, all in the context of a special election for mayor in less than two months and the government’s budget season starting even sooner.

Flagler County Considering Michael Tucker, a Former Florida and Southeast Fire Chief of the Year, as Fire Chief

May 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Mike Tucker in an image from from E-One, the Ocala manufacturer, in a tweet.

Michael Tucker, 53, has principally been superintendent at Florida State Fire College for the past five years. He’d maintained roles as a consultant for the Oregon-based International Association of Fire Chiefs and as an adjunct instructor at Lake Sumpter State College over several years.

Company Buys Derelict Country Hearth Inn on Old Dixie Highway, Pays Off Fines and Pledges Rehabilitation

May 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Improvements at the Old Dixie motel property this month. (Flagler County)

Two months after Flagler County government took unusual steps to demolish the long-disused and derelict Country Hearth Inn on Old Dixie Highway, a new owner closed on the 8.6-acre property and on May 24 paid off tens of thousands of dollars in health department and code enforcement fines plus back taxes.

Flagler County Public Library celebrates ‘Tails and Tales’ this Summer, kickoff party on Saturday

May 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Flagler County Pblic Library on Palm Coast Parkway. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Public Library is embracing all children’s furry friends with its “Tails and Tales” Summer Reading Program that begins with a kickoff party Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Palm Coast Main Branch Library.

Joe Mullins Responds to Lawsuit’s Claims of Fraud and Breach of Contract With List of Denials

May 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Joe Mullins. (© FlaglerLive)

Responding through his attorney, Joe Mullins denies the allegations of a $2.4 million lawsuit and moves for a partial dismissal. The motion argues that the claim fails to state a fraud claim or that RICO was violated.

Rays of Promise: Boston Whaler Marks Reopening of Boating Plant, Projecting 400 Jobs and Orders Into 2023

May 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Ready to go: where Boston Whalers boats are readied for shipping. The plant reopened gradually starting in winter, with its first boat set to ship later this month. (© FlaglerLive)

Brunswick Corp. and Boston Whaler executives today formally reopened the former Sea Ray plant that shut down three years ago, projecting to ramp up over the next 12 to 24 months back to 400 jobs, and likely more beyond that: boat-buying is brisk and demand for Boston Whaler is back-ordered well into 2023, the executives say, ensuring the stability of the plant for years to come.

Flagler Unemployment Flat at 5.3% But Floridians Become a Bit More Optimistic

May 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Flatness was the order of the month in April in Flagler County: The unemployment rate didn’t budget from 5.3 percent-a zone where it’s hovered, with bare ticks up and down, for eight months. The number of people on the unemployment rolls barely changed (2,519), so did the number of people with jobs (45,194).

NOAA Predicts Up to 10 Hurricanes and 20 Named Storms as Flagler Emergency Chief Cautions Against Assumptions

May 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

This image from NOAA's GOES-16 satellite on September 14, 2020, shows five tropical systems spinning in the Atlantic basin at one time. From left to right: Hurricane Sally in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Paulette east of the Carolinas, the remnants of Tropical Storm Rene in the central Atlantic, and Tropical Storms Teddy and Vicky in the eastern Atlantic. A total of 10 named storms formed in September 2020 — the most for any month on record. (NOAA)

For all the predictions, Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord cautions that the numbers and forecasts may all be irrelevant, since a single storm can end up severely impacting the community in the quietest–or worst–season, making all else forgettable.

County Authorizes Eminent Domain Action Against Second Property Owner in Quest for Dune Easements

May 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Flagler County authorized its attorney to begin eminent domain proceedings against Leonard Surles, the homeowner at 2732 South Ocean Shore Boulevard in Flagler Breach, to secure an easement that would allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with a long-awaited dunes-rebuilding project.

At County Memorial for Lives Lost to Covid, a Solidarity of Grief Near and Far, and Thankfulness for Essential Workers

May 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler County officials and several members of the local clergy from various denominations stood almost shoulder to shoulder at today's ceremony commemorating lives lost to the covid pandemic, the first such government commemoration in the county. (© FlaglerLive)

Eulogies personal and universal were among seven invocations that seven clergy members delivered in the county’s–or any local government’s–first memorial devoted to the losses of the 15-month-long covid-19 pandemic this afternoon in front of the Government Services Building in Bunnell.

Tabling Tonight’s Hearing, Whispering Meadows Ranch and County ‘Very Close to an Agreement’ as Talks Continue

May 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Prompted by an outpouring of support for Whispering Meadows Ranch and talks started this weekend, the county is delaying for at least a month the hearing that had been scheduled for this evening’s County Commission meeting, where the commission was to decide whether to grant the ranch a permit to keep its operation on John Anderson Highway or force it to end operations there.

Whispering Meadows Ranch’s Fate Hangs on a County Commission Vote Monday After 14 Years of Serene Service

May 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

Serenity in the balance: at Whispering meadows, calm is the rule for riders, teachers and horses. (© FlaglerLive)

On Monday, the Flagler County Commission will decide whether to allow Whispering Meadows Ranch to continue operating as it has for nearly 14 years, as an equine therapy retreat for disabled children and veterans, or whether it will be shut down. But none of the commissioners have visited the ranch. Here’s a profile of Whispering Meadows.

Flagler County Airport Will Restrict Operations in May and Close For a Few Days in June to Accommodate Runway Work

May 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The view from the tower at Flagler Executive Airport. (© FlaglerLive)

A full closure at the Flagler Executive Airport will be required from 7 a.m. Friday, June 4 to no later than 7 p.m. Monday, June 7. The scope of work for this phase includes milling, paving, and airfield electrical work within the intersection of Runway 11-29 and Runway 6-24.

Flagler County Hosts Candlelight Vigil in Remembrance of 111 Residents Lost to Covid-19

May 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The vigil will take place in front of the Government Services Building in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County is hosting a candlelight vigil at 4 p.m. Monday (May 17) to remember those residents who lost their lives to Covid-19. The ceremony will take place in front of the Government Services. It is the first such commemoration by a local government in Flagler. 

‘Precipitous’ Drop Down to Just 129 Vaccinations a Day in Flagler Raises Concerns About Hesitancy and Immunity

May 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

An inmate getting his second Moderna covid vaccine at the Flagler County jail today. (FCSO)

Average daily covid vaccinations have fallen from 480 in late February to 413 in the first two weeks of April to just 129 a day for the past two weeks from all locations, public or private, in Flagler County, while the proportion of the population that’s had at least one shot is at 46 percent, well short of herd immunity.

Planning Board Refuses to Call 240-Boat Storage Facility in Hammock a “Marina” But Will Seek to Define the Word

May 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

A rendering of the Hammock Harbor redevelopment proposed for the 4 acres next to Hammock Hardware. The building would be larger than the White House or the proposed Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell.

The 240-boat storage facility proposed for a 4-acre parcel on the Intracoastal in the Hammock two years ago ran into its latest setback tonight as the county planning board refused to define the facility as a marina, as its developer wants to do–not yet, anyway. The board wants to craft an ordinance that would define the word “marina,” potentially reopening the door to the boat-storage facility.

‘Enough’ Is Not Enough: Flagler’s Dangerous Leer at Extremism

May 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 67 Comments

What happened on Tuesday at the Palm Coast City Council is indefensible and dangerous. But it’s nothing new. We’ve simply not been paying attention to a perilous degradation of public discourse and behavior. We are slowly becoming a crueler community debased by primitive instincts, because no one in charge, or too few people in charge, are standing up and saying enough.

Fire Rescue, Emergency Management and Growth Management Departments Hold Open House June 17

May 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler County Fire Rescue took delivery of 400 Narcan doses from the Flagler Health Department. (© FlaglerLive)

The open-house style event scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. June 17 at the Hidden Trails Community Center in Daytona North will provide information about the various programs and services available to residents.

Almost 3 Years Late and $300,000 Over Budget, County Finally Opens Palm Coast Precinct for Sheriff

May 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly, by the [podium, during the flag-raising in front of the Sheriff's Office's new Palm Coast Precinct this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast Precinct at 14 Palm Harbor Village Way was originally supposed to open in 2018 but fell victims to delays and successive changes of plans before reverting back to its original intent.

‘Warehouse’ or ‘Marina’? Battle Lines Are Drawn Again Over Dry Boat-Storage Facility Along Scenic A1A

May 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Demonstrators opposng the redevelopment of a former boating manufacturing facility into a boat-storage warehouse have been holding weekly protests in front of the acreage in question on State Road A1A, next to Hammock Hardware. (HCA)

A developer wants to turn an old boat-manufacturing facility into dry storage for 240 boats along with a restaurant on 4.3 acres next to Hammock Hardware. He calls it a “marina.” The Hammock Community Association calls it a warehouse and says it’s not allowed in the Scenic A1A overlay area.

County Sends Stronger Signals that It’s Finally Getting Serious About Getting Broadband to West Flagler

May 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service may be a key to underserved areas on Flagler County's west side finally getting strong connections. But the service isn't cheap. (SpaceX)

Flagler County government is looking to the $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, a separate federal fund through the Federal Communications Commission and potential subsidies for money that may finally underwrite expansion of broadband internet service to some 400 West Flagler households that have been clamoring for service for years.

Flagler Government Lifts Masking Rules But Flagler Beach Commissioner Warns Mullins: ‘Don’t Tell Us What To Do’

May 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Flagler County government is lifting covid-related masking requirements on entering the Government Services Building in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach Commissioner Jane Mealy twice told county commissioners this morning, specifying Joe Mullins, “don’t tell us what to do,” reasserting why the city is not holding July 4 festivities even as a county commissioner has been harping on it to reverse course.

Flagler County Makes a Little History With Its First Aerial-Ignition Prescribed Fire at Princess Place

May 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Flagler County FireFlight, the county's emergency's helicopter, during Friday's operation. (Flagler County)

A successful prescribed fire, sometimes also referred to as a “controlled” fire, removes the hazardous level of fuel in a given area. Unplanned wildfires have a greater risk of being destructive, because the accumulation of vegetation serves as the fuel for these hotter, faster moving fires.

Flagler’s Population Increases at Fastest Pace in 13 Years as Housing Inventory Shrinks Despite Construction Boom

April 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Flagler County's population has been increasing at the fastest pace since the housing crash a decade and a half ago. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County in 2020 added 3,538 residents, after an almost equally strong gain in 2019. The gains are still less than half what they were at the peak of the county’s boom years, but they are remaking the landscape. The boomlet is reflected across other indicators–property values, the shrinking available inventory of single-family homes, and the sharp rise in permitting for new single-family homes.

Flagler County Human Resources Director Pamela Wu Adds Feather to Leadership Cap

April 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Pamela Wu. (Flagler County)

Flagler County government Human Resources Director Pamela Wu has added a feather to her leadership cap, as earlier this month she graduated from the National Association of Counties (NACo) High Performance Leadership Academy.

Contrary to Commissioner’s Claim, Flagler County Is Not at Herd Immunity, Health Officials Warn, Only Nearing It

April 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Local health officials cautioned against ending covid-19 precautionary restrictions in response to a false claim by Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins that herd immunity has been reached, and that he would call for an end to restrictions at the next county commission meeting. Mullins often writes or speaks falsehoods or makes misleading statements about covid-19 and numerous other matters.

Stop Trash-Talking the Unemployed

April 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

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Misinformation and distortions by businesses and some politicians, echoed by media, are blaming the unemployed for staying home to live on government checks. The evidence says otherwise, though belittling workers and lampooning government is part of the continuing war against better wages and stronger worker-safety protections.

Prospects Dim, Higher Fees Loom for Belle Terre Swim Club as Long-Shot Investor’s Demand May Be a Road Too Far

April 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

It's not looking hopeful for the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club. (© FlaglerLive)

An investor is interested in taking over the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club but only if he can cut a new road through the P-Section, a very unlikely possibility, leaving the club facing mounting deficits and no interests from other governments to help.

Joe Mullins Faces $2.4 Million Federal Lawsuit Alleging He Defrauded Company of Augusta Masters Golf Tickets

April 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins at the commission this evening. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler County TV)

Joe Mullins, the Flagler County Commissioner and business owner, faces a $2.4 million federal lawsuit over allegations he defrauded a golf vacation-package company by delivering either invalid tickets to the 2018 Augusta National Masters tournament or failing to deliver tickets in 2018 and 2019, costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars and lost customers and ruining the company. 

There Are No Transgender “Issues” in Flagler Schools. A Small, Noisy Group Is Fabricating an Issue Anyway.

April 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Some 14 months ago LGBTQ debates drew heated reactions from the likes of Charlene Cothran and her followers. A workshop Tuesday afternoon may revive the theater. (© FlaglerLive)

There are no transgender bathroom issues in Flagler schools, no issues with transgender athletes, no issues with a student of one birth sex supposedly using their transgender status to leer at students of the other. But to hear it from some, it’s a crisis warranting a reversal of policies and procedures. The School Board hears a presentation on the current state of the law and procedures Tuesday. A crowd is expected.

‘Don’t Be a Holdout’: Flagler Aims for 1st In State in Vaccinations, With 40.7% Inoculated So Far and Youth Shots Ahead

April 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

It's worth the selfie. (Gretchen Smith/Health Department)

Flagler County’s vaccine supply is now exceeding demand as health officials step up their outreach to restaurants, local businesses, schools and children 16 and 17 to get vaccinated in hopes of vaulting the county’s vaccination rate to the top of the state’s chart. Flagler is 7th or 8th best in the state in vaccinations.

Flagler and Florida’s Unemployment Rates Flat As DeSantis Amplifies False Claims About Unemployment Benefits

April 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The downward trend has flattened out somewhat. (© FlaglerLive)

Some local officials, members of the business community and, today, Gov. Ron DeSantis, are without evidence other than anecdotal, attributing a dearth of job-takers to the claim that workers are staying home to cash in on unemployment benefits. The claim is largely false.

Covid-19 Daily Data for Florida and Flagler: Cases, Testing, Locations, Hospitalizations and Deaths

April 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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Florida’s and Flagler’s complete daily reports by the Health Department of Covid-19 data including county-by-county infection numbers, testing, people monitored and deaths.

Key Victory for Venerated Whispering Meadows Ranch as County Board Recommends in Its Favor in Emotional Hearing

April 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Whispering Meadows Ranch on John Anderson Highway survived a key vote this evening as the Flagler County Planning Board recommended approval of a special zoning use of the grounds, enabling the ranch to keep operating. That’s assuming the County Commission follows suit when it considers the matter in coming weeks. Absent the special exception, the ranch will face closure.

Flagler Airport Will Delay Building Its New Terminal Another Year to Build More Money-Making Hangars

April 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

More such t-hangars are on the way. (Flagler Executive Airport)

The Flagler County Commission agreed to delay building the long-awaited $6.5 million terminal at the county airport, agreeing instead to a $560,000 project to build 42 new hangars, which the airport director says will make the airport $212,000 a year.

Attention Flagler: Your County Commission Wants You To Know That It Believes in (Most of) the Constitution.

April 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

They support the Constitution. Most of it. (© FlaglerLive)

A Flagler County commissioner wants the commission to approve a resolution affirming support for the Constitution, but in his enumeration of rights, he excluded the right to free speech and a free press.

A Carefully Contrite Kim Weeks Offers $20,000 Settlement, But Commissioners Don’t Buy the Act–or the Trifle

April 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Kimberle Weeks in a court hearing last July, when she Zoomed herself in, before she was ordered to jail to serve the 30 days of her sentence on felony convictions for illegally recording several individuals. (© FlaglerLive)

Facing a judgment of well over $130,000 owed Flagler County government in reimbursements over her reckless ethics complaints, ex-Elections Supervisor Kim Weeks offered a $20,000 settlement, only to hear commissioners ridicule the offer and the sincerity of her contriteness, and reject it unanimously.

Affordable Housing Under Attack: Flagler Realtors Join Opposition to Decimation of Housing Trust Fund

April 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Affordability is essential to the workforce. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Realtors are joining forces with state counterparts to oppose a proposal that would gut the amount of money the state will spend on affordable housing, by limiting Sadowski trust fund expenditures to that end to 33 percent of the fund’s total.

Dog Found Agonizing in a Ditch, Possibly Victimized as Bait Dog, Has Died; Answers Sought and Reward Offered

March 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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Grace, a 7 or 8-year-old pit bull, was discovered Sunday in a ditch in Espanola in agony and bearing signs of being a bait dog. By Monday morning she had died, but galvanized efforts to find her abusers. A fundraiser before she died raised $8,000 for her care.

Sheriff’s Detectives Had Friday Shooting Suspect Brenan Hill, a Fugitive, in Custody Within Hours

March 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Brenan Robert Hill.

Brenan Robert Hill, 32, wanted on felony charges from Pennsylvania, was the man who drove the woman who was shot Friday near the Microtel in Palm Coast, and is a suspect in the shooting, though the Sheriff’s Office is not yet saying so.

Bike Week, Spring Break and Doffed Masks Blamed for Latest ‘Worrisome’ Covid Spike Even as Vaccinations Spread

March 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The Flagler Department of Health's vaccination clinic at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church this morning. The group to the left was awaiting the Moderna shot, which was administered behind the white pane. The group to the right, on the other side of the row of white tables, waited the required 15 or 30 minutes after the shot to ensure that no adverse reaction takes place. (© FlaglerLive)

Local public health officials and physicians are imploring residents not to relax their covid-safety measures and warning of stubbornly persistent infections even as vaccinations have made large inroads in the local population.

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