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More Than Half of Flagler’s Seniors Have Been Vaccinated, But County’s Covid Deaths Now at 92

March 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The percentage of people vaccinated in Flagler, Florida and the United States as of March 1. The proportion of vaccinated people 65 and over for the U.S. as a whole is not available. (© FlaglerLive)

So far 19,311 of Flagler County’s 36,500 people who are 65 and over have been vaccinated with at least one shot, representing 53 percent of the senior population (age 65 and over), up from 45 percent seven days ago.

County Administrator Leaves in June. Four Commissioners Aren’t Interested in Planning for Replacement Yet.

March 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Andy Dance last fall, accepting a plaque from his colleagues recognizing his service on the School Board since 2008. He may be wistful for the "process" he was familiar with on that board. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron announced last month he’d be retiring by June’s end, a relatively short time as far as finding a replacement is concerned. Commissioner Andy Dance is interested in starting a process for his replacement. Dance’s colleagues, in a startling rebuke of deliberate planning, aren’t interested yet.

A Driver’s License and a Beer: Tax Collector Will Open New Location Next to Brown Dog Pub at St. Joe Plaza

March 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The new Tax Collector's branch location in Palm Coast will open at St. Joe Plaza, immediately adjacent to the Brown Dog pub. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Tax Collector will replaced its closed branch location at the Staples shopping center with a new branch at St. Joe Plaza on Palm Coast Parkway later this month.

School Board Will Not Sell the County 20 Acres of Pristine Hammock Land It’s Owned Since 1984

February 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The school board's land extends in the shape of a trapezoid from Pamela Parkway--the dirt road to the right--south to Yacht Harbor. (Google)

Flagler County government’s Environmentally Sensitive Lands program began showing interest in the district’s 20 acres on the Intracoastal around the same time that a flood-control issue had arisen at nearby Pamela Parkway, involving residents there.

County Administrator Jerry Cameron Prepares to Leave by End of June and Pushes Internal Succession

February 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Jerry Cameron is preparing to leave. (© FlaglerLive)

Jerry Cameron, 75, left the door open to stay longer but is pushing for a successor from within county staff. The County Commission was to have been looking for a permanent successor since his hiring as an interim two years ago but has yet to start a process. 

Janet McDonald Again Hawks False and ‘Dangerous’ Claims About Masks and Vaccines at School Board Meeting

February 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

School Board member Janet McDonald has repeatedly used her seat on the board to disseminate false, unsupported or misleading information. She did so again Tuesday, regarding the pandemic. (© FlaglerLive)

Calling for rejecting “outside” guidelines on the pandemic, Janet McDonald said communities with mask-wearing have more virus transmission than those without and claimed the covid-19 vaccine “is not a vaccine.” She spoke at a school board workshop, and offered no evidence.

As Captain’s BBQ Case Against County Nears Trial, Details Emerge of Bitter Conflicts, Jockeying and Blunders

February 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Captain's BBQ at Bing's Landing. (© FlaglerLive)

As Captain’s BBQ’s breach-of-contract case against Flagler County government slowly moves to trial, Circuit Judge Terence Perkins today opened the door to having County Attorney Al Hadeed and County Administrator Jerry Cameron deposed by Captain’s attorneys, a move the county has strenuously resisted. But there are conditions.

Controversial Vacation Rental Proposal All But Eliminating Local Regulation Advances in Senate

February 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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The ongoing battle over short-term rental regulation is of special interest to Flagler County and its local government, which last decade initiated the movement that led to the 2014 law granting local governments the power to regulate short-term rentals up to a point.

Flagler’s Covid Deaths Reach 85 But Cases Fall; 39% of County’s 65 and Over Have at Least 1 Vaccine Dose; Flagler 12th in State

February 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

For the first time in three months, Flagler County's weekly case load of new covid-19 infections fell below summer peak levels. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s pandemic situation is improving on every front–falling case loads in the community and in the hospital, increasing vaccine deliveries, rising proportion of the county’s elderly already inoculated, and nothing but more voluminous vaccine deliveries ahead.

Kevin Guthrie, Flagler’s Former Emergency Manager, Will Take Over State Emergency Management

February 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Kevin Guthrie was Flagler County's emergency management chief from 2013 to early 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

Guthrie changed the emergency management culture in Flagler, transforming a static division that had been reined in by the county administration and hampered by checkered leadership into an energetic, forward-looking division. But the administration thwarted his broader plans.

In Flagler Beach, the Two Finalists for City Manager Are a Contrast of Experience and Personalities

February 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Dru Driscoll, left, and William Whitson, seen here during their Zoom interviews with the Flagler Beach City Commission, are the finalists for the city manager's job. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

William Whitson has managed four cities and was assistant manager of Port orange for eight years, Dru Driscoll has worked 22 years in Daytona Beach, the last few as deputy city manager and fire chief. They are seeking to replace the late Larry Newsom, who died in August.

Once Again, Florida Lawmakers Move to Scrap Local Governments’ Vacation Rental Regulations

February 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Bedding down with the right legislators. (Robert Stinnett)

A years-long effort to block local governments from regulating vacation rentals is on the move again, as House and Senate leaders revive a proposal to prevent cities and counties from inspecting and licensing properties offered on platforms such as Airbnb.

Flagler Health Department Issues First Rabies Alert in 11 Years, for Bunnell and Southern Part of the County

February 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

"Raccoons are amongst the most intelligent of Florida’s wildlife," the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says. They control rodents, but are also nuisance animals, and can be rabid. (FWC)

The Health Department issued the rabies alert for Bunnell and the Korona community in response to a raccoon that tested positive on Tuesday after attacking a dog. The center of the alert is near Old Cemetery Road in Korona, an unincorporated community north northeast of Favoretta on US 1 and south of Bunnell.

Walmart Starts Covid Vaccines Friday But Not in Flagler, Volusia or St. Johns; 9% in Flagler Have 1st Shot

February 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Walmart will start providing covid vaccines on Friday in select stores around Florida, but none in Flagler, Volusia or St. Johns counties. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida residents may get vaccinated at any Florida Walmart location of their choice, regardless of their home address. The Flagler County Health Department meanwhile continues to administer about 800 first shots per week.

Flagler’s Covid Deaths Up to 73 as Obstacle Race To Vaccines and Herd Immunity Continues

February 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Flagler County's very high weekly load of coronavirus infections is persisting despite somewhat of a decline, and remains almost triple where it was during the summer spike. (© FlaglerLive)

Only a little over 6 percent of Flagler County’s population of 115,000 has been vaccinated, most in the 65-and-over group, as new infections continue to be recorded at almost triple the rate from the summer spike despite a slowdown.

All But 4 Easements Secured, Flagler Beach Dunes Project Will Go Forward as Will Court Action Against Holdouts

February 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The 2.6-mile length of the U.S. Army Corps project to rebuild dunes will parallel much of the length of the state Department of Transportation's repair of the beach, with boulders, in the wake of Hurricane Matthew in 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

A year-long effort between Flagler County government and a grass-roots group and its Go Fund Me campaign to secure easements from 13 hold-outs so 2.6 miles of shore can be rebuilt with ample dunes in Flagler Beach has paid off. Only three owners and holding four parcels remain. All others have signed.

Renner Warns of ‘Massive Shortfall’ in State Budget Even as He Projects a Stronger Economy in Flagler

February 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Rep. Paul Renner represents Flagler and portions of Volusia and St. Johns counties. (© FlaglerLive)

While he warns of a nearly $3 billion state budget deficit, Paul Renner, the Palm Coast Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said Flagler is running out of houses to sell and the arrival of two universities and Boston Whaler will significantly improve the local economy.

Repeatedly Rebuked for ‘Knee-Jerk’ Decisions, County Retreats From Boat-Ramp Giveaway in Hammock

February 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The boat ramp at the east end of Pamela Parkway in the Hammock. (© FlaglerLive)

County Commissioner Andy Dance repeatedly spoke against making hurried decisions without study or community input as commissioners voted 4-1 to reject the administration’s plan to give away a public boat ramp and right of way on the Intracoastal in the Hammock.

Flagler County Government Will Host Weekly Feel-Good Show on Local Radio

January 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

It wasn't yet clear who will host the show--if any singl;e person--but Flagler Broadcasting General Manager David Ayres said the county had "effervescent" staffers lined up. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County commissioners haven’t discussed it publicly yet–or agreed to it–but the county administration is preparing to host a weekly radio show, or infomercial, on WNZF, the Flagler Broadcasting station, starting likely in February. The sponsored half-hour show would focus on feel-good stories, profiles of county employees, and highlights of county doings.

Two Flagler Beach Residents Arrested After Refusing to Comply With Mask Mandate at Commission Meeting

January 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

Michael Streit, standing, and Karen Streit, who was putting her cell phone into her purse, after their arrest by Flagler Beach police at the beginning of the city's commission meeting Thursday evening. (© FlaglerLive)

In a first at a local government meeting, two Flagler Beach residents were arrested Thursday evening after defiantly delaying a Flagler Beach City Commission meeting for 12 minutes, refusing to don a mask, in accordance with a city ordinance, and refusing to leave the commission room on their own. They were not arrested for a mask violation, but for trespassing after warnings.

Punting Responsibility, County Pits Hammock Neighbors Against Each Other Over Its Public Boat Ramp Giveaway

January 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The boat ramp at the end of Pamela Parkway, part of a 7,600-square-foot right of way Flagler County owns, and that it is seeking to give away to the two homeowners on either side of the ramp. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County government owns the unmarked, unguarded road segment of Pamela Parkway in the Hammock that ends as a boat ramp and that once cost a woman her life as she unknowingly drove into the Intracoastal. The county wants to give away the right of way to two homeowners in exchange for the homeowners building a seawall. Other residents object.

Flagler Government Planning Code Amendment Specifically to Permit Boat Storage Facility in the Hammock

January 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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After losing two court decisions, Hammock Harbour, the developer of a planned 240-boat storage facility near Hammock Hardware on State Road A1A, has filed a new application while the county is preparing an amendment to the Land Development Code that would specifically allow the business.

Flagler Sheriff Severs All Ties With Popular Christmas With a Deputy, Pivoting to Its Own ‘Shop With a Cop’

January 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The customary Christmas With a Deputy portrait of all involved in a previous year, with law enforcement officers from several agencies, the children and their parents, and Sheriff Staly and his wife Debbie near Santa. (Facebook)

Last week, the Sheriff’s Office’s relationship with Christmas With a Deputy abruptly and surprisingly ended. Part of the rationale is entirely logical and reasonable. Part of it appears less so.

Appeals Court Sides With Hammock Association Against County and Developer on 240-Boat Storage Facility

January 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Hammock Harbour wants to level the old hangar where boats were manufactured, and build a 240-boat storage facility. County government said yes. Two courts so far have said no. (© FlaglerLive)

The Hammock Community Association won another victory today as a district court denied the appeal by a developer of a lower court decision quashing redevelopment of a boat yard into a 240-boat storage facility next to Hammock Hardware on State Road A1A.

7 Days, 11 Additional Covid Deaths in Flagler, Totaling 68 as County Passes 5,000 Cases; 2nd Dose Vaccines Begin

January 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Public health and medical staffers preparing second-dose covid-19 vaccine shots this morning at the Flagler County airport grounds. (© FlaglerLive)

It was the deadliest seven-day stretch of the pandemic for Flagler County. Over the weekend the tally rose to 60, and today the Health Department reported eight additional deaths, all senior citizens, bringing Flagler County’s total to 68. Second-dose shot vaccines were set to begin this week, along with a new batch of first-dose vaccines.

Sea Ray Plant Will Reopen as Boston Whaler, Bringing Back 300 to 400 Jobs and Annexing Into Palm Coast

January 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Get ready for that familiar sight again as Boston Whaler will take over its sister Sea Ray's plant, abandoned two and a half years ago. (Rusty Clark)

Capping a whirling six months of major economic-development victories for Palm Coast, and two and a half years after the Sea Ray plant shut down off Colbert Lane, eliminating some 440 high-paying jobs, the plant will reopen very soon under the banner of Boston Whaler, a boat builder owned by Sea Ray’s parent, Brunswick Corp.

Almost 20 Years Later, Construction Begins on The Gardens Along John Anderson, But Lawsuit Looms

January 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Crews have been clearing land on The Gardens project since earlier this month. (© FlaglerLive)

Crews began clearing acreage for The Gardens, a development along John Anderson Highway first proposed under a different name almost 20 years ago, but the controversies and obstacles that have dogged the project since continue, including a lawsuit filed just weeks ago.

Flagler’s Covid Deaths Jump by 4, to 57; 800 New Vaccines Delivered; Second Dose Shipment Due Friday

January 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The number of new confirmed cases in Flagler were still staggeringly high in the week ending Saturday, but appear to have peaked. (© FlaglerLive)

As has become almost ritualistically routine since before Christmas, grimmer reports of covid’s toll are colliding with more hopeful if fitful news. That was the case again today in Flagler with a new vaccine shipment and the first decline in confirmed covid cases in five weeks, though case loads remain very high.

2 Covid Deaths Raise Flagler’s Total to 52; State Emergency Management Chief Rips Federal Vaccine Rollout

January 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz addressing the the newly created House Pandemics and Public Emergencies Committee today. (House video via Florida Channel)

Bob Snyder, who heads the state-controlled Flagler County Health Department, said he expects some more doses next week, but he doesn’t know how many, while the head of state emergency management blamed the federal government’s rollout, detailing its obstacles, in unusually blunt language for a member of the DeSantis administration.

Sedition Is Not a 1st Amendment Right, and There’s No Comparison With BLM Marches

January 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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Mob participants claim they were only exercising their First Amendment right to protest, and that Black Lives Matter protests and riots didn’t draw the same scrutiny. Both narratives are factual and moral frauds that hide behind liberal rationales to perpetrate reactionary lies and justify the unconscionable. 

10 Republicans Join Democratic Majority to Impeach Trump for 2nd Time Over Insurrection; Waltz Votes No

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The vote this afternoon., in a still from the House's video feed.

U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, the Republican representing Flagler County and surrounding areas, voted No. He had been among 125 Republican members of Congress and others beyond Congress baselessly calling the election of Joe Biden fraudulent.

Covid Vaccine Now Available to 65 and Over at 4 Publix Stores in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

The Publix store in Palm Coast's Town Center is one of four Publix locations where vaccines are being made available, by appointment only. (© FlaglerLive)

Publix Supermarkets is making “a limited number of Covid-19 vaccines” available at four Publix stores in Flagler County starting now. But as has been the case with vaccines offered by local health departments in Flagler and elsewhere, all available vaccine appointments were snapped up as soon as they were made available. 

‘Zero Doses’ of Vaccines for Flagler This Week, ‘Few If Any’ Over Next 5 as Covid Surges Amid Warnings of Bleak Months

January 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There were 398 confirmed new cases in Flagler in the week ending Saturday, by far a new record, with no letup in sight and no vaccines ahead. (© FlaglerLive)

The state is sending what little supply of vaccines it has elsewhere for the next five weeks: The Villages qualify, Flagler does not. So even people due for their second shot may not get it as Flagler County’s Covid numbers surge to their worst levels yet. Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler County Health Department, spoke as if at a wake when he updated government officials this morning, and in many ways it was.

Flagler Commissioners Again Give Defiant Mullins a Pass as Dance’s Call to Talk of ‘Behavior’ Gets Tepid Reception

January 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Flagler County Commissioners at today's meeting. From left, Dave Sullivan, Joe Mullins, Donald O'Brien, and Andy Dance. Greg Hansen, who is ill, was absent.

County commissioners–who three times last year refused to discipline or censure Mullins–again mostly declined to address his recent talk of beheading liberals or sponsoring a trip to Washington, with one exception: newly-seated Commissioner Andy Dance recommended a commission “retreat” to discuss “commission norms, expectations and behavior or procedures.”

Ken Bryan, the Flagler Beach City Commissioner, Says Joe Mullins Violated Oath By Sponsoring Trip Before Insurrection

January 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Flagler Beach City Commissioner Ken Bryan at a community meeting in 2019, before his election to the commission, under a banner that called on the audience to vote. (© FlaglerLive)

Addressing the Flagler County Commission this morning, and with Joe Mullins on the dais, Bryan said Mullins should resign his commission seat after calling on fellow-citizens to be beheaded and sponsoring a group of dozens to Washington last week, where the Capitol was overrun by a mob in an insurrection that went from rhetorical to violent.

Jon Netts, Longest-Serving Palm Coast Mayor and Council Member, the City’s Towering Founder, Dies at 78

January 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Jon and Priscilla Netts in the backyard of their F-Section home in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Jon Netts, whose 15 years on the Palm Coast City Council shaped the young city and set the standard for measured, commanding and dignified leadership, died this evening at AdventHealth Palm Coast of complications from Covid-19. He was 78. 

A Day of Grim Covid Records in Flagler County and the Nation as Local Hospital Is in ‘Red Status’ and Vaccines Dry Up

January 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Flagler County Health Department staff providing Covid-19 testing to 100 people at the Flagler County Airport grounds this afternoon. See next week's testing schedule below the story. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s coronavirus case load broke another record this week for the fourth successive week, with a quarter of the pandemic’s cases confirmed in just the last four weeks, overburdening local hospitals and triggering a “red status” there, meaning a triage system for certain procedures. Their vaccine supply depleted, Flagler officials have “no idea” when it will be replenished.

Flagler Emergency Chief on Vaccines: ‘We Are Doing Our Best with the Resources that We Have’

January 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord at the County Fairgrounds vaccination site on Saturday. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord explains the county’s covid-19 vaccine response, its constraints, what it’s learned from the experience and what lies ahead in the rollout.

Trump’s Fascism and Republican Responsibility

January 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

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By the time Trump was spitting sedition and inciting violence Wednesday he’d had five years of encouragement from the same Republican charlatans who would later stand on the floors of the Senate and the House to declare themselves shocked, shocked that the rioters they’d courted had desecrated and bloodied their little sanctum. 

Flagler Commissioners Strongly Repudiate Mullins Letter On County Letterhead Disputing Biden Election

January 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 82 Comments

Joe Mullins, left, next to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office's Mike Lutz, who spoke to a group of local residents protesting Congress' certifying the election of Joe Biden, election of protesters whose trip to Washington Mullins was sponsoring

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins used commission letterhead, without other commissioners’ approval, to plagiarize a letter and send it to Florida’s congressional delegation, repeating baseless, false, misleading, conspiratorial and widely discredited claims that Biden’s election was fraudulent. 

Flagler Vaccine Slots Run Out Within Minutes as Callers Overwhelm County; New Local Cases Rage Out of Control

January 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 62 Comments

Weekly case counts of Covid-19 in Flagler County have again shattered previous records for three successive weeks.

Appointments for a little over 900 vaccine doses available in Flagler for people 65 and over were snapped up within minutes this afternoon, leaving thousands disappointed, angry and questioning the rollout, though Flagler health and county officials are not responsible for the shortage of vaccines distributed locally so far.

On WNZF, Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins Calls for Beheading Liberals

January 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 114 Comments

Joe Mullins in a WNZF promotion of his infomercial on the radio station.

A few minutes into his latest weekly infomercial on WNZF radio Saturday morning, Joe Mullins, the Flagler County commissioner, called for the beheading of liberals while decrying responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

600 Are Vaccinated at Flagler County Fairgrounds in 1st of Many Rounds As Crush of Cars Stretches to U.S. 1

January 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 61 Comments

The Covid-19 vaccination station at the Flagler County Fairgrounds this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s first large-scale vaccination event drew health care workers and people 65 and over. No one was turned away at the Flagler County Fairgrounds, where the next round is expected Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but by appointment only.

Festive New Year Atmosphere as Flagler County’s 1st Responders and Health Department Workers Get Vaccines

December 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Caryn Prather, Flagler County Fire Rescue's Community Paramedic and one of the leaders of the county's 10-months-long Covid-testing program, getting her first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday at the Emergency Operations Center. She was one of about 20 people inoculated. (© FlaglerLive)

It was a festive atmosphere Tuesday afternoon in a classroom of Flagler County’s Emergency Operations Center, temporarily converted into a shooting gallery: over the course of an hour, some 20 people, most of them firefighter-paramedics, some of them Department of Health employees, sat for their first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna edition. 

In-Person Jury Trials Suspended in Flagler Until at Least Late January as Covid Trolls

December 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Precautions aren't enough: Flagler County's judicial personnel will not be holding in-person trials until at least the latter end of January due to Covid-19. (© FlaglerLive)

There will be no in-person jury trials in Flagler County until at least January 19 due to the very high incidence of coronavirus cases in the county. The county in the week ending last Saturday broke yet another record in confirmed cases for the previous seven days, with a total of 270, and a cumulative total exceeding 3,500.

More Than 1,000 Covid Vaccines Arrive at Flagler Health Department, Inoculations of 1st Responders Start Tuesday

December 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Flagler County Health Department Chief Bob Snyder, right, with Dawn Kamen, the registered nurse who oversees the department's immunology program

The Flagler County Health Department on Monday took delivery of more than 1,000 vials of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. Inoculations begin Tuesday and Wednesday with first responders and health care workers. It’s still not exactly known when doses will arrive for people 65 and over, who are next in line for the vaccine, but it’ll be soon.

Ahead of Frigid Christmas Nights, Beachfront Grille Cooks Up 150 Meals for Homeless and Needy

December 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach teamed up with the Sheltering Tree, the cold-weather shelter for the homeless, and Mayor Linda Provencher to provide 150 Christmas meals for the homeless and the needy.

Going Against CDC, DeSantis Orders Vaccine Priority for 65 and Older, Not Teachers and Other Essential Workers

December 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis addressing reporters today in Pensacola in a still from a WFLA video posted on the Governor's Facebook page.

The DeSantis order contradicts Centers for Disease Control guidelines issued on Tuesday that recommend that, once health care and long-term care workers and residents have received the vaccine, the next groups should not be defined only by age, but also by critical front-line jobs, including teachers and school employees, and underlying conditions.

Internal Tally Puts Flagler’s Covid Deaths at 50, Two More Than Public Dashboard; 4 Connected to Social Club

December 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Coronavirus temperature checks at the Government Services Building in Bunnell, where some officials have occasionally boasted of the county's lower Covid numbers, relative to the rest of the state. (© FlaglerLive)

The internal Florida Health Department spreadsheet, obtained by FlaglerLive, consolidates some previously undisclosed information and much information that had been disclosed to some extent in different ways and places previously.

Covid Deaths in Flagler at 47, Week’s Positive Cases Shatter Record in Evidence of Thanksgiving Spike as Vaccines Arrive

December 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The week ending Dec. 19 shattered the record for positive cases in Flagler County, with a total of 220 confirmed. (© FlaglerLive)

The 220 confirmed positive coronavirus cases in Flagler County in the week ending Saturday set a new single-week record in the county since the pandemic began in February. Local health officials caution that the numbers may get worse with Christmas and cold weather ahead, and broad-based vaccination still weeks away.

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