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With 33rd and 34th Deaths, More Flagler Residents Have Died of Covid in 7 Months Than in Car Crashes in Any Year

October 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Positive cases continue to accumulate at relatively high levels even after coming down from summer peaks. (© FlaglerLive)

The number of confirmed covid deaths so far means that the disease is the eighth leading cause of death in Flagler County, ahead of suicide and Parkinson’s, and about even with deaths from Alzheimer’s. At the current rate, covid is on pace to become the sixth leading cause of death this year, ahead of diabetes.

County Mixes Reassurances and Threat of Eminent Domain to Convince 11 Hold-Outs to Sign Off on Flagler Beach Dunes Project

October 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Flagler County government may have to start eminent domain litigation against two property owners even as the remaining nine appear close to signing easements allowing for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild dunes on 2.6 miles of shoreline in Flagler Beach.

All Palm Coast a Trail: Pink Army Run Transformed Into a Virtual ‘Parade’ Sunday, With Radio Kickoff

October 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The usual dawn gathering in front of AdventHealth Palm Coast for the October Pink Army Run will be replaced by a different event this year as participants will be encouraged to draw up their own 5K. (© FlaglerLive)

While the Pink Army run’s anchors will kick off the event with an hour-long program on the radio Sunday morning–The Beach FM, 92.7, and WNZF–residents across the county are encouraged to take part by creating their own walk, their own run, their own 5K anywhere of their choosing.

Denise Calderwood, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

October 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Denise Calderwood. (© FlaglerLive)

Denise Calderwood is an independent candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 5, facing incumbent Republican Donald O’Brien and independent Paul Anderson. All registered Flagler County voters may cast a ballot in the race regardless of address or party affiliation.

Paul Anderson, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

October 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Paul Anderson is an independent candidate for Flagler County Commission, facing incumbent Republican Donald O’Brien and independent Denise Calderwood. All registered Flagler County voters may cast a ballot in the race regardless of address or party affiliation.

Bunnell Resident Accused of Threatening Census Worker With Assault Rifle and Firing a Shot

October 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Michael Cooper is a 32-year-old resident of 4758 Clove Avenue in Daytona North, is accused of pointing an assault rifle at a Census worker then firing a shot after the worker got in his car to leave.

In Friendly But Sharp Terms, Flagler Beach Draws a Conditional Roadmap for the County on The Gardens Development

October 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Flagler Beach City Attorney Drew Smith produced a cogent document that explicitly and within a legal framework sets out conditions the city wants the county to impose on the developer of The Gardens, before approving the project. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach’s city attorney has drawn up a nine-page document that amounts to a roadmap for the County Commission as the county attempts to balance The Gardens’ development on John Anderson Highway with residents’ serious concerns about the plan.

3rd Covid Death Linked to Social Club of Palm Coast Superspreaders, and 2 More Bring Flagler’s Total to 32

October 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Less than two days after confirming three more covid-related deaths this week, the Flagler Health Department this morning confirmed three more, including a third death related to the August superspreader events at the Social Club of Palm Coast. The Club meanwhile has reopened and is advertising its social events on its Facebook page without a word about the victims.

State Extended Deadline After Online Registration System Crashed, But Voting-Rights Groups Say 1 Day Isn’t Enough

October 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The Flagler County Supervisor of Elections' office has not been innundated with new registrants in person, but online applications have been so brisk that the office is reporting a new record of registrants. (© FlaglerLive)

A meltdown of Florida’s online voter-registration system hours before Monday’s deadline to sign up to vote in the November election prompted Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to extend the deadline until 7 p.m. Tuesday, but voting-rights groups quickly filed a lawsuit alleging the state’s action didn’t go far enough.

Three More Covid Deaths Bring Flagler’s Total to 29 Even as New Infection Numbers Stabilize

October 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The continuing death toll is a reflection of covid’s unavoidable reality: while the number of new infections in the state and in Flagler have fallen and stabilized since the summer’s peak, the numbers have done so at a relatively high level.

Health Department Chief Rips Social Club of Palm Coast for Preventable Covid “Illness and Tragedy”

October 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The Social Club of Palm Coast's secretary was defensive and inaccurate as she told the County Commission that the superspreader could have happened anywhere. (© FlaglerLive)

The County Commission asked Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder to explain the superspreader event at the Social Club of Palm Coast that led to dozens of infections and two deaths, and Snyder did not hold back placing the responsibility for the “tragedy” squarely on the club’s non-enforcement of masking and social distancing rules.

Firefighter John Keppler Jr. Is Flagler’s Only Line-of-Duty Death. Florida and U.S. Honor Him. Flagler Does Not.

October 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

Even as John Keppler Jr., who died in 2002, has been previously honored by the state, Flagler County refuses to recognize his line-of-duty death–a recognition Keppler has received from two state memorials and one national memorial.

3 Flagler Residents Die of Covid, Raising Local Toll to 26; Health Department Expecting Rapid Tests Soon

September 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The rapid covid test the Flagler Health Department is expecting, from Abbott, looks like a credit card that's run through a small machine, providing results in minutes. (Abbott)

The latest Flagler County victims of covid-19 were 67, 73 and 77. There are 16 patients with a covid diagnosis at AdventHealth Palm Coast, though covid-related numbers have declined in Flagler schools, nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Flagler Beach Commission Will Lay Down 4 Conditions for The Gardens Development, Adding to County’s Pressure

September 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

An aerial view of some of the land that would be developed by The Gardens, a still from a video the group Preserve Flagler Beach and Bulow Creek showed at a Flagler County Commission hearing on the development last week.

Placing its full weight behind its new approach, the Flagler Beach City Commission will condition its support for The Gardens on more explicit assurances about road, utility, flooding improvements, and more certainty about a “cap” on future development.

Grinding Past “Mini-Surge,” Flagler Records Its 24th Covid Death as Florida Exceeds 700,000 Cases

September 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Flagler County continues to experience a significant number of infections, though totals have fallen for two successive weeks, down to 80 in the week ending Sept. 26, from 109 the previous week and 139 the week before that, with a little over 100 tests a day being administered on average.

DeSantis Lifts All Restrictions on Restaurants and Businesses and Prohibits Local Constraints

September 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

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DeSantis is decoupling for good the connection between science and public health on one hand and the economy on the other, opting exclusively for a focus on business measures in hopes of spurring consumer confidence. That confidence, however, continues to lag as individuals’ apprehensions continue to drive behavior.

Joe Mullins’s Cowering Enablers

September 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

County Commissioners Donald O'Brien, left, and Dave Sullivan. For the third time in nine months this week they bowed to Joe Mullins's indecency. (© FlaglerLive)

By refusing to censure Joe Mullins for insulting Greg Hansen and Charlie Ericksen, Commissioners Donald O’Brien and Dave Sullivan are cowering enablers of Mullins’s bigotry, his bullying, his indecency. They all demeaned the County Commission and the constituents they represent.

The Gardens Development Again Rebuffed as Commission Seeks More Answers and Residents’ Buy-In

September 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

John Tanner, arguing the case against approval of The Gardens' development application at a long County Commission hearing Monday evening. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

The Flagler County Commission on Monday opted unanimously to table The Gardens’ application for a 335-home development on John Anderson Highway, the latest in a series of obstacles the development has faced since reviving a plan first devised by developer Bobby Ginn a decade and a half ago.

Corinne Hermle, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

September 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Corinne Hermle. (© FlaglerLive)

Corinne Hermle is the Democratic Candidate for the Distritct 1 County Commission seat, facing Republican Andy Dance in the Nov. 3 election. All registered Flagler County voters may cast a ballot in the race regardless of address or party affiliation.

Flagler Sheriff’s New Real-Time Crime Center Merges Tactics, Technology and Powerful Surveillance Tools

September 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly and Chief Paul Bovino explaining the Real-Time Crime Center, operating since spring, and shown to reporters today. (© FlaglerLive)

The age of command, control, surveillance and crime-fighting in real time is here, and its nerve center at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, operational since spring, is the Real-Time Crime Center. The sheriff opened it to reporters on Wednesday.

Covid ‘Superspreader’ Night and Other Events at Social Club of Palm Coast Cause at Least 2 Deaths and Up to 50 Infections

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

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An August 28 singing night at the Social Club of Palm Coast on Old Kings Road, where people sang and socialized, many without masks or social distancing, triggered a rare covid-19 superspreader event whose toll in infections and deaths the Flagler Health Department is still tallying.

Andy Dance, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Andy Dance. (© FlaglerLive)

Andy Dance is the Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 1, facing Democrat Corinne Hermle, for the seat previously held by Charlie Ericksen. All registered Flagler County voters may cast a ballot in the race regardless of address or party affiliation.

Commissioners O’Brien and Sullivan Block Motion to Censure Joe Mullins Even as They Call Behavior ‘Unacceptable’

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Commissioners Don O'Brien and Dave Sullivan flanked Joe Mullins Monday night. (© FlaglerLive)

Don O’Brien and Dave Sullivan refused to censure Joe Mullins for insulting fellow-commissioners, saying it would be bad for Flagler’s reputation. Sullivan didn’t want to be the first chairman on whose watch a censure vote passed.

Flagler Beach Commission Makes It Explicit: The City Will Provide Water and Sewer to The Gardens Development

September 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler Beach City Commissioner Ken Bryan, setting up the discussion of The Gardens development at the commission's last meeting earlier this month. Mayor Linda Provencher is to the right. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Flagler Beach can and will provide water and sewer to The Gardens, one of the more controversial proposed developments on any local government’s agenda. Monday evening, the County Commission was set to hear The Gardens’ development applications in one of the last hurdles before it can start building.

With No Mention of Hansen or Ericksen, ‘Vague’ Joe Mullins Apology Contradicts Continuing Insults Online

September 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Joe Mullins, standing, right, conferring with Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan at a meeting in June. County Administrator Jerry Cameron is to the left. Mari Davis, his assistant, is in the center. (© FlaglerLive)

Joe Mullins’s brief apology today was more focused on back-patting and dissembling his role while never taking responsibility for the abuse he’s continued to heap on Commissioners Hansen and Ericksen. The email doesn’t materially change anything, Commission Chairman Dave Sullivan said, with a discussion about Mullins set for next Monday’s meeting.

Unemployment Falls to 6.7% in Flagler and 7.4% in Florida; Government Jobs Account for a Fifth of Gain

September 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The number of people with jobs in Flagler increased to 43,000, up 2,200 from the previous month, but still more than 4,000 workers short of where the labor force stood a year ago, suggesting that thousands remain on the sidelines.

Joe Mullins Again Erupts in String of Abuse Against Commissioner Hansen at 9/11 Event, Spurring Calls for Censure

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 58 Comments

Commissioners Donald O'Brien, in the foreground, and Chairman Dave Sullivan, in the middle. Mullins, third from left, has relied on them as a shield. (© FlaglerLive)

Less than 48 hours after insulting Commissioner Greg Hansen at a County Commission meeting, Commissioner Joe Mullins unleashed another string of worse abuse on Hansen, to his face–at an event commemorating the death of 3,000 victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. But Commissioners Sullivan and O’Brien are resisting saying whether they’d censure him.

State Claims Inspectors Won’t Go Easy On Bars and Breweries That Violate Covid Rules

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Socially-distanced drinking. (Steven Miller)

The state on Monday began allowing bars and breweries to again serve alcohol for on-site consumption, after a similar attempt ended in June because of a lack of compliance with safety rules.

31 Test Positive At Grand Oaks Rehab; Flagler’s Covid Death Toll Up to 21 as Cases Spike Again to Near Peak

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

It's not improving. (© FlaglerLive)

Two more covid-related deaths were added to Flagler’s tally and a serious spike in cases at the Grand Oaks rahab and nursing home, in schools and at social clubs has resulted in a return of near-peak case loads for the county.

Haunted by Covid, Palm Coast and Sheriff Prepare for Halloween With Balance of Tradition and Safety

September 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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While such standard events as the Palm Coast Fire Department’s Hall of Terror have been cancelled, Parkview Church’s mega trunk-or-treat event will unfold as a drive-through version, and the sheriff is adding a drive-through event in early October.

County and City Taxes Will Stay Flat for Most Homesteaded Properties Except for Spike in Bunnell

September 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Bunnell has seen booming construction in Grand Reserve, the sprawling subdivision that's also increasing the city's population. But it hasn't kept taxes down. (© FlaglerLive)

Residents of Flagler County and each of its cities will again see little to no change in their property tax bills next year as governments are adopting tax rates that either stay flat or roll back a little, with the exception of Bunnell.

Joe Mullins Fires Demeaning Personal Insults at Commissioners in a Meeting, Repeating ‘Dangerous’ Pattern

September 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 99 Comments

A flagler County Sheriff's deputy intervened as Commissioner Joe Mullins was insulting fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen, to the right of Mullins on the dais, Wednesday during a commission meeting. Mullins later wanted to lodge a complaint against a deputy even as he spoke from the dais about the importance of supporting law enforcement. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins called fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen a “fat sonofabitch” and Charlie Ericksen a “useless old man” at a meeting Wednesday just months after Ericksen had felt so threatened by Mullins that he called on Sheriff Staly for help.

Opponents of The Gardens Development Win Commissioners’ Concern Even as They Lose Appeal

September 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Preserve Flagler Beach, a group largely opposing the proposed 335-home Gardens development on John Anderson Highway, lost a procedural battle but gained commissioners’ sympathy and concerns on substantive grounds in a hearing Wednesday.

Heroes

September 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel, left, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia health departments, and Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler Health Department, a branch of state government. (© FlaglerLive)

If Flagler County had a Nobel Prize, Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder and Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director there, would have won it this year for their management of the coronavirus pandemic, absurd claims against them notwithstanding.

County Commission Meeting Turns Circus as Defiant Anti-Maskers Spread Falsehoods Before They’re Asked to Leave

September 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

A group of anti-mask militants was asked to leave the county commission meeting this morning unless its members wore mask. Some of them eventually addressed the commission, then were asked to leave the chamber. (© FlaglerLive)

A group of anti-mask militants held up the county commission meeting for 30 minutes today before addressing the panel in brews of misinformation, social media memes and alternative facts and calling for the removal of the Health Department’s Bob Snyder and Dr. Stephen Bickel. The commissioners explicitly rebuffed the militants in turn.

Flagler Sees 3 More Covid Deaths, New Spike in Cases and Hospitalizations; 14 Cases at Old Kings Elementary

September 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

There’s been 184 new cases in the last 14 days alone in Flagler, and 28 positive cases in the Flagler County school district through today since school reopened on Aug. 24, half of them at Old Kings Elementary, as a renewed spike has the local health department chief concerned.

State Puts Gag Order on Flagler Health Department’s Public Release of Covid Numbers in Schools

September 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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The state’s gag order falls as the Flagler health department was preparing to issue a weekly reports of cases in schools, and as a drizzle of covid cases continues to affect Flagler schools, with a few classrooms, individual faculty and students required to quarantine. The district intends to issue some of the information.

Jorge Salinas, a Transparency Ace, Appointed Deputy County Administrator In Largely Secretive Process

September 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Jorge Salinas is an assistant city manager in Albany, Ore. (Flagler County)

County Administrator Jerry Cameron appointed Jorge Salinas, 53, an assistant city manager in an Oregon town for the past five years, as his “chief of staff,” ending a largely secretive process that had involved the county commission.

16th Covid Death in Flagler; Old Kings and Bunnell Quarantine 2 Classes; District Will Issue Weekly Covid Report

September 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Case counts have fallen for five successive weeks in Flagler, as have testing totals. (© FlaglerLive)

In a series of development, and as a drizzle of cases continue to develop on local campuses, the Flagler Health Department and the school district will issue weekly reports detailing where in schools covid-19 cases have been confirmed, in contrast with Volusia County, where the district is refusing to disclose any such information.

Jerry Cameron, Chief of Sham

August 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

Jerry Cameron has his own horizon. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron put on a show behind closed doors of interviewing what may be his successor. Though 121 people applied, Cameron knew who he was going to pick from the start, skirting public record and open meeting laws along the way.

3 Covid Cases at Bunnell and Old Kings Elementary, 2 at FPC; 21 Cases at 7 Assisted Living Facilities

August 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Students at Matanzas High School earlier this week. (Flagler Schools)

Flagler County’s Covid-19 numbers have been trending downward for the last five weeks. But new infections have emerged in schools as faculty and staff returned to campuses and, after a long period of calm, in more than half a dozen local assisted living facilities.

Motorized March to Flagler Courthouse Friday Marks 1963 March on Washington and Justice Reform

August 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Linda Sharpe-Matthews, who heads the Flagler Branch of the NAACP, at a Black Lives Matter march in June in Palm Coast, will be among the speakers at Friday's motorized march. (© FlaglerLive)

After the motorized march wends its way into the parking lot, speakers on the steps of the Flagler County courthouse commemorating the 1963 March on Washington will talk on criminal justice issues, voting rights and police reform.”

County Administrator Jerry Cameron Maneuvering to Hire His Successor Behind Closed Doors, With Commission’s Complicity

August 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

The four internal or semi-internal candidates who made the shortlist for "chief of staff," the renamed position of deputy county administrator. From left, The five candidates are: John Brower, the county’s newly hired finance director; Heidi Petito, the county’s general services director; Jarrod Shupe, IT director for the county, the sheriff’s Office and Flagler Beach; Joe Saviak, the executive director of the Sheriff’s Office’s director of leadership, and Jorge Salinas, the lone outsider, a deputy city manager in Albany, Oregon, an inland city of 55,000. (© FlaglerLive)

Four local candidates have been short-listed out of more than 100 applicants for deputy Flagler County administrator in a hiring that likely lines up the next county administrator, but Cameron has been going about the hire with no public discussion, involvement or notice even though commissioners are interviewing the candidates Friday.

On 1st Day of School in Flagler, Excitement Balanced by Apprehension, and Far Fewer Students Enrolled

August 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

The picture tells the story: Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt, who visited every school today, led a welcome-back line at Buddy Taylor Middle School, where every facultuy member and employee and School Board member Maria Barbosa wore a mask, as per school district regulation--with the exception of School Board Chairman Janet McDonald, who has frequently denied the severity of covid-19 and is not a big mask wearer. (© FlaglerLive)

Fewer than half the district’s students took seats in actual classrooms and 10,000 attended one of Flagler schools’ three options overall, a 23 percent decline from the district’s usual enrollment. If there was a measure of excitement about being back, there was also apprehension, uncertainty, many unanswered questions.

Flagler Beach City Manager Larry Newsom Dies at 56 After a Series of Illnesses

August 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Larry Newsom began working for Flagler Beach as its city manager in 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

Larry Newsom, who Flagler Beach City Commission Chairman Jane Mealy termed the best city manager she’d worked with among a half dozen, died this afternoon at AdventHealth Palm Coast after seesawing between serious illnesses ad recoveries over the past year.

‘Salvation Is In Sight’: Army Corps Extends Deadline as Dunes Hold-Outs Take Money and Sign

August 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Impressed by a local, massive fund-raising effort intended to buy off 11 hold-outs, the US Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to extend the deadline in the long-sought, $25 million dune rebuilding project along 2.6 miles of shore in Flagler Beach.

Flagler’s Unemployment Back Up to 10.2%, Florida’s Up to 11.3% as Covid Surge Takes Economic Toll

August 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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After dropping sharply to 9.4 percent in June–down almost five points from the month before–Flagler County’s unemployment rate rose again, to 10.2 percent in July, a reflection of the coronavirus resurgence that began and June.

As Covid-Related Layoffs Hit Courthouse, Clerk of Court Gets, $250,000 Emergency Appropriation

August 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Clerk of Court Tom Bexley had to lay off personnel and ask the county commission for an emergency appropriation as a consequence of covid-related retrenchment. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Clerk of Court Tom Bexley said his office saw $600,000 in lost revenue, the reduction from 62 jobs to 54, including four actual layoffs, and uncertainties ahead, requiring a $250,000 emergency appropriation to stave off further cuts.

Conklin, Massaro and Woolbright Win School Board, Sullivan Survives, and Finally, It’ll Be Judge Alicia Washington To You

August 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Cheryl Massaro pulled the upset of the evening, defeating incumbent Maria Barbosa to win a seat on the Flagler County School Board. (© FlaglerLive)

Jill Woolbright and Cheryl Massaro won seats on the Flagler County School Board, and Colleen Conklin, at 20 years the longest serving elected official in the county, won her sixth term. Dave Sullivan won reelection to the County Commission. But the Palm Coast City Council is still very much in flux.

Last Day to Vote in Primary Began With 21,000 Ballots Already In and Historic Mail-In Count

August 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Voting by mail is breaking records, but in-person voting may not be very high today. (© FlaglerLive)

Though powered by the largest vote-by-mail volume in the county’s history, Flagler County’s 2020 primary election turnout would need a relatively strong in-person voting tally today to exceed 2018’s turnout of 30 percent. The 2016 primary turnout of 27 percent is a closer target.

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