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Good News for Flagler Property Owners: Most Home Values Will Barely Fall; Some Will Rise

January 30, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Flagler County Property Appraiser’s preliminary estimate sees a property value drop in “the low single-digits” at most, with taxable values rising in Grand Haven and Flagler Beach, among other spots, as the five-year collapse in values appears to draw to an end.

25 Homes in P-Section Under Boil-Water Advisory After Water Main Break

January 27, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Some 25 homes in Palm Coast’s P-Section lost their water connection for a few hours and remain under a boil-water advisory for the next 48 hours when workers serving a line today tapped into a water-main and split it

Debt, Divorce, Downsizing and Death: The Thriving State of Estate Sales in Palm Coast

January 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Estate Sales have been the lifeblood of Diana Minotti’s business in Palm Coast in the last four years, underscoring the extent–and occasional upside–of a recession as people retrench and sell off luxuries from fine art to historic furniture.

Flagler 911: Graffiti Slurs in the R Section, Men Attacking Cops and Bar Brawls

January 24, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

A violent few days as angry men are arrested for aggravated battery, including violence on (and biting) cops, a noise complaint leads to two arrests over an underage drinking party on Brooklyn Lane, and a rash of car windows are smashed around town, their contents stolen.

Grenade in a Tree in Woodland Home’s Yard Turns Out to be a Dummy as Bomb Squad Is Called In

January 24, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Updated Tuesday with latest:
A section of the Woodlands in Palm Coast was shut down to traffic and cordoned off after 7 p.m. Monday evening when authorities responded to an incident involving a pineapple grenade in the yard of the house on Blare Drive.

Don’t Ban Internet Cafés. Regulate Them.

January 23, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 10 Comments

Internet cafés may be a pest, and their proponents make laughable arguments when they claim they’re not about gambling. But it’s not government’s business to ban them while swinging from the lottery’s levers. Regulation is the key.

Jacques Brel, Alive and Well and Living At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre

January 20, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Starting Friday, the City Repertory Theatre will stage six performances of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,” the Eric Blau and Mort Schuman revue of the great Belgian troubadour, under the direction of John Sbordone.

“Hire a Hero” Program Designed to Spur Hiring of Veterans in Palm Coast and Flagler County

January 19, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Palm Coast Business Assistance Center and the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce are partnering to implement a new “Hire a Hero‟ program to encourage local businesses to employ local veterans and to guide new applicants through the intricate hiring process.

Palm Coast’s Business Assistance Center Offering Three Training Sessions in January

January 19, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The training sessions, ranging in themes on how to start your business to managing cash flow to developing a marketing strategy, are priced between $15 and $35.

New Garbage Contract: Hazardous Waste Option and Lower Monthly Cost, to Around $19

January 17, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Only very faint public objections were raised Tuesday to Palm Coast’s new 5-year contract with Waste Pro for garbage, which would add curbside hazardous waste pick-up and lower the overall cost, assuming fuel prices don’t rise.

No Surprise: Waste Pro Will Be Palm Coast’s Trash Hauler for Another 5 Years & $38 Million

January 12, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Residents may see a negligible difference in their roughly $20-a-month trash bill, if that, as the city council, convinced by Waste Pro’s low bid, complies with what the city administration had wanted all along.

Road Fatalities Rise Again in Flagler in 2011, to 24, As Pedestrian Kill Rate Exceeds Orlando’s

January 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

The more than 4 deaths per 100,000 population in Flagler means that the Palm Coast-Flagler County area was more dangerous for pedestrians than Orlando-Kissimmee, the most dangerous metropolitan region in the country.

Celico Way Is Dedicated On Late Deputy’s Birthday

January 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

King’s Way at Old King’s Road North was rededicated this morning as King’s Way Celico Way in honor of Frankie Celico, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Deputy felled by heart trouble on Sept. 9.

Col. Jack Howell, Teens-In-Flight Leader, Is Seriously Bloodied in Motorcycle Accident

January 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Update 2, 5:17 p.m. Jack Howell is recovering at home, and AmVets raised over $1,600 for Teens-in-Flight at today’s fund-raiser. Update, 2:45 p.m.: Jack Howell checked out of Florida Hospital Flagler just before 3 p.m., with a broken finger, a lot of bumps, bruises and lacerations and a sprained ankle, but no more serious injuries. […]

1 Architect, 1 Banker, 1 Health Consultant. Mix. Serve. Result: Thai Korner Restaurant.

January 2, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Palm Coast’s Thai Korner Restaurant, open one year, is the result of an unlikely partnership between three vastly different latter-day restaurateurs willing to defy a climate murderous to new businesses.

A Most Common Palm Coast Tale: A Burglary, But With a Christmas Sting

December 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Rhiannon Gross lives in a modest house in Palm Coast’s R Section with her two-and-a-half-year-old son. She came home earlier this month to a house robbed of presents under the Christmas tree and of all her electronics and jewelry.

Palm Coast Seethes as Flagler Ends Hammock Dunes DRI’s Obligations to County and City

December 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

The Flagler County Commission closed the books on the 28-year-old Hammock Dunes “development of regional impact,” angering Palm Coast over developer dollars the city contends should still be paid for widening Palm Harbor Parkway.

“Celico Way” Will Have Only Second Billing as Palm Coast Resists Full Name Change

December 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

The name will appear below “Kings Way,” in smaller letters. Friends and supporters of the late Sgt. Frank Celico, the Flagler deputy who died in September at 33, wanted to rename the street near the Dunkin Donut where Celico spent many of his waking hours.

Of Art and Soul: Erin Walker’s Pottery Studio For All Creators Coils Into Palm Coast

December 19, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Art and Soul Studio at 25 Pine Cone Drive in Palm Coast is recreational paint-your-own-pottery shop for all ages and many occasions, including birthday parties and Wednesdays’ Wine-d Down, a bring-your-own-wine ladies night.

Palm Coast Accepts Garbage Hauling Bids But Doesn’t Open Them Publicly

December 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

The method continues a pattern that’s been less than transparent since fall when the city manager recommended renewing the contract with Waste Pro and skipping the bidding process.

Flagler’s 7 Governments Gather to Hear How Well Their Economic Development Is Doing

December 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Despite enduringly high unemployment and a year of fraying rather than unity among local governments, the county hosted an intergovernmental summit Tuesday that piled back-patting on exclamation marks.

Palm Coast Would Underwrite Small Business Loans With Tax Dollars as New Incentive

December 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The city’s loan-guarantee program would set aside $55,000 for existing, for-profit businesses looking to expand–or survive. The program is part of a series of economic development initiatives centered around the seven-month-old Business Assistance Center.

“More Teaching, Less Yelling”: A New Spring Flag Football League for Palm Coast

December 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Developed by former NFL linebacker Sam Sword in conjunction with Palm Harbor Academy and Palm Coast, the $40-per-studen spring league is intended to be an affordable alternative for children intersested in playing. Palm Coast already has another, well-developed flag football league.

Cop Escapee Michael Testa Turns Himself In

December 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 57 Comments

Michael Testa, 21, who escaped from a cop car where he’d been held after being stopped on suspicions of dealing in stolen property, had just finished writing a statement and was complaining that his bond amount would keep him in jail forever.

Horse-Powered Trio of Neo-Expressionists Bring Their Brash to Hollingsworth Gallery

December 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Artists Pat Zalisko, Karlene McConnell and Melissa Mason, who share a reformed barn of a studio in New Smyrna Beach, exhibit all new work–energetic, serene and spontaneous–in a month-long exhibit at Palm Coast’s Hollingsworth Gallery, opening Saturday.

A Suicide in Walmart’s Parking Lot; Victim, 28, Was Connected to Tuesday’s Cop Escapee

December 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Mike Saunders, 28, was found dead in his car in the Walmart parking lot Wednesday, of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. He had been at the wheel of the same car, with Mochael Testa, when Testa was arrested near Marvin’s Gardens the day before–and escaped from a cop car.

Palm Coast’s Strathmore Deli Closes, Citing Overhead; Another Strip Now Stressed

December 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 75 Comments

Strathmore Deli, renamed Best Bagels & Deli, was the high-traffic anchor for the Parkway Plaza strip between Plam Coast Parkway and Cypress Point. Its abrupt closure four years after it opened is rippling with consequences.

Miser City: Palm Coast’s Support for The Arts Is 27 Cents Per Year Per Resident

December 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Palm Coast’s city council says the times require stinginess. Community arts and culture leaders say the city is short-sighted and doesn’t recognize the economic boost and improved city profile cultural events provide.

Charges Dropped: European Village Store Owner Was Falsely Accused of Gun Assault

December 2, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Dan Ferrena, owner of Palm Coast Gold Buyers at European Village, was falsely accused of threatening a customer and his children with a gun. Ferrena now faces a long road to expunge his record.

Palm Coast Lights Up Its First Communal Christmas Tree to Strings of Jazz and Joy

December 1, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The redcedar, 18 feet high when planted in January, towered and twinkled the moment Santa lit it to cheers and applause Thursday evening in Town Center what Mayor Jon Netts termed a new holiday tradition for Palm Coast.

Distracted Driver Kills Josefina Reid, 54, As She Jogs; 6th Road Fatality in 20 Days

December 1, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

Driver Antonio Castanheira, 35, was looking back at two children in the backseat of the car he was driving when he struck Josefina Reid as she jogged in broad daylight on Sesame Boulevard in the Seminole Woods section of Palm Coast Wednesday afternoon.

Palm Coast Opts to Keep Red-Light Cameras On Despite Legal Cautions and Dearth of Evidence

November 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

Despite little money generated from red-light cameras, potential legal challenges and no hard evidence that the cameras improve safety, the Palm Coast City Council decided to stick with its 10 spy-and-snap cameras for now.

Feed Flagler: Community-Wide Celebration Wraps-Up With 3,000 Meals Served

November 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

We’re reporting live this afternoon from various Feed Flagler locations as the community-wide Thanksgiving celebration takes place from 3 to 6 p.m.

Palm Coast Observer Bucks Bleaker Newspaper Trends As Weekly Nears 2-Year Mark

November 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The Palm Coast Observer’s latest audit shows a weekly print run of 25,000 and a household reach in Palm Coast exceeding 60 percent, compared with the News-Journal’s daily reach of 20 percent.

DeLorenzo and McGuire, Palm Coast Council’s Newest, Pick Up Where Pit Bulls Left Off

November 15, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Mayor Jon Netts and council members Jason DeLorenzo and Bill McGuire were sworn in today, and two brief, emotional speeches over, McGuire cast his first dissenting vote as the council took up mundane and mordant business.

Pit Bull Attacks, Mystery Traffic, Angry Neighbors: The Battle Over Farraday Lane

November 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Two dogs are dead following a pit bull attack on Farraday Lane, the second in four months, leading neighbors to mount a campaign against residents in a duplex on the street–who call the campaign unfounded and based on stereotype and hearsay. Residents are taking their case to the Palm Coast City Council Tuesday.

Lazy, Cheap, Irresponsible Palm Coast

November 12, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 35 Comments

This week’s dismal voter turn-out for the Palm Coast election is a reflection of a city and a council that mirror each other in laziness, misplaced penny-pinching and indifference to civic engagement where it actually matters.

Moorman and Cross Concede, McGuire Puts Landon on Notice: “He Should Be Nervous”

November 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council is gaining two outspoken voices at odds with the council’s laid-back make-up until now, while Jon Netts is the last member of the council who’d voted to hire Jim Landon, raising questions about the city manager’s future.

McGuire Ahead of Moorman by 54 Votes, DeLorenzo Ahead of Cross by 37

November 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Our earlier report that Holsey Moorman had won the election may have been premature. An additional tally by the Supervisor of Elections, this one including absentee ballots, shows McGuire beating Moorman by 54 votes, and Jason DeLorenzo beating Dennis Cross just under 40 votes.

Too Close to Call: Early Voting Gives Slim Lead to Moorman, Cross and DeLorenzo Closer

November 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Results of the Palm Coast City Council election between Holsey Moorman and Bill McGuire, and Jason DeLorenzo and Dennis Cross.

Turnout for Palm Coast Election Poor To Dismal Again as Polls Close; Results Soon

November 8, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

By 4 p.m., tallies–including early voting and absentee–had still not totaled the 5,248 voters who turned out for the mayoral election in September, the worst in the city’s history by turnout.

On Election Eve, DeLorenzo Contributions Surge–Including $100 from Waste Pro Rival

November 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The latest campaign-finance reports cover the last two weeks of October. The donation to DeLorenzo from waste hauler Republic’s marketing manager was recorded eight days after the one from Waste Pro.

Veterans Day Ceremonies in Flagler and Palm Coast’s Heroes Park

November 7, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

This Friday’s Veterans Day ceremonies will be held at 8:30 a.m. at Palm Coast’s Heroes Park and at 10 a.m. in front of the county administration building in Bunnell.

Flagler 911: The Live Crime Blotter

November 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A car stolen at Florida Hospital Flagler (and recovered), an arrest at McCharacter’s turns violent, a fight at Finn’s turns violent, too, horny Halloween teen shoplifters, and more.

Bill McGuire: The Live Interview

November 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Bill McGuire is running for Palm Coast City Council against Holsey Moorman. He answers 14 questions and a few follow-ups on a broad range of issues.

Palm Coast City Council Election:
The Live Candidate Interviews

November 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

For background on the Live interview, go here. For the Charlie Ericksen interview, go here. And if you’d like to take the Palm Coast mayor poll, or see those results, go here.

Jason DeLorenzo: The Live Interview

November 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Jason DeLorenzo is running for Palm Coast City Council against Dennis Cross. He answers 14 questions and a few follow-ups on a broad range of issues.

Dennis Cross: The Live Interview

November 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Dennis Cross is running for Palm Coast City Council against Jason DeLorenzo. He answers 14 questions and a few follow-ups on a broad range of issues.

200 Opponents of a Matanzas Woods Complex Tantalized By City Hints of a Solution

November 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Palm Coast Manager Jim Landon told opponents of the Sawgrass Villas project that the city might entice the bank that owns the land to open a branch on SR100, buying city land and enabling the city to buy the Matanzas Woods property.

Disses and Disclosures As DeLorenzo Agrees to Give Back Waste Pro’s $500

November 3, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 13 Comments

There’s nothing “fair and balanced” about local media’s failure to have reported on the $500 Waste Pro donation to DeLorenzo before it was pointed out to them–or continuing attempts to paper over the ethics and judgment breach with partial rationales.

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