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Palm Coast

Palm Coast’s Chrysler Dealership Burglarized, Jacksonville Thieves Descend on the City

December 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The burglar at the Chrysler dealership on S.R. 100 tried but fail to drive a car out of the service department. Deputies in unrelated incidents arrested three alleged retail thieves in Palm Coast, all of them from Jacksonville.

Palm Coast Data Parent’s Headaches: Diving Revenue and $22.5 Million Loan Due

December 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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At Palm Coast Data, revenue declined $10.9 million in the six months ending Oct. 31, a 22 percent decline from the same period last year. Palm Coast Data parent AMREP Corp.’s Southwest subsidiary owes a $22.5 million loan to be repaid on Dec. 16.

Video: Christmas Parade in Town Center

December 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

What was once a modest affair that took place in various spots around town this time drew some 85 floats and other entrants along a parade route in Palm Coast’s Town Center.

Despite Evidence, Palm Coast Hooks Up With Marathon Promoter With Troubled History

December 9, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Dean Reinke’s Reinke Sports Group has left a trail of severed relationships, disillusioned local officials and one law suit in several cities where Reinke has promoted his half marathons. Palm Coast is now embracing him.

That Grand Theft Auto Had Plenty of Chasing and a Crash, But Was No Game

December 8, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Palm Coast’s specialty for weird crimes carries on. The latest involves 18-year-old William Phillips, who saw an idling car, seized it, took off, and crashed into a garage before being arrested.

Burglar Unplugs Christmas Lights To Charge His Cell Phone. Breaks In. Gets Knocked Out.

December 6, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Either Robert Thomas Combs is trying to win himself a mention on David Letterman’s weird news segment or his sense of criminal proportion—make that alleged criminal proportion—is as lousy as his timing.

In a Victory for Palm Coast Firefighters’ Union, City’s Attempt to Split Bargaining Units Fails

December 3, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Lt. Jason Laughren is president of the Palm Coast firefighters' new union. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast city administration objected to lieutenants’ inclusion with rank-and-file firefighters in the collective bargaining unit. The state dismissed that objection, clearing the way for the unit’s formation.

Former School Board Candidate Raven Sword Joins Livingston & Wolverton Law Firm

December 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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In her first political campaign, Sword lost to John Fischer. By joining Jay Livingston and Jim Wolverton, the trio is now one of the larger law firms on Flagler County.

Fake Robberies, Fake Guns, Fake Threats Over Real Pizza, Gas and Cigarette Money

December 1, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Palm Coast’s James Linskey may not have much of a career as a pizza delivery man after the bogus crime stories he concocted to Flagler deputies. He’s not likely to have a better career as a fiction writer.

Palm Coast’s Secret Deal With Solar Company: Long Tax Holiday and Other Perks for 180 Jobs

November 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Dubbed “Project Iceman,” the deal calls for at least a $49 million investment and average wages of $34,500, though the fine print reveals exclusive perks and secrecy provisions that prevent public scrutiny of the deal’s implementation.

Bucking Long-Range Goals, Palm Coast Again Scales Back Cultural Arts Grants Funding

November 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Palm Coast is planning to award just $20,000 in cultural grants to 11 organizations this year, half the budget of three years ago, though the city is increasing the dollars and city resources it’s spending on its own special events.

Palm Coast’s BMX Gamble, Racism and Obama, Small Business Saturday Recap: The Live Wire, Nov. 29

November 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

BMX’s Renny Roker didn’t tell Palm Coast how checkered his financial past is, plus the best Congress money can buy, legacies of bullying, a naked tribute to Leslie Nielsen, Obama’s national security sham, and more.

2,000 Meals and More: Feed Flagler Feasts As County Breaks Thanksgiving Bread As One

November 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Feed Flagler exceeded its goal of serving some 2,000 Thanksgiving meals as 10 locations around the county turned into community feasts Wednesday, hundreds of families went home with a week’s supply of food, and food pantries stocked up.

Purple Heart Monument at Palm Coast’s Heroes Park Is Slammed Over in an Act of Vandalism

November 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The Purple Heart monument–a heavy, granite stone weighing a few tons–was dedicated less than two months ago at the city park along Palm Coast Parkway. A sheriff’s investigation is ongoing, with few clues.

Don’t Call Them Pill Mills: Palm Coast’s Pain Management Practices Recoil at Bad Rap

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

When Flagler Sheriff Don Fleming described three local pain management practices as “pill mills,” their doctors and practitioners were stunned and explained: Pill mills are a problem. Pain management clinics are not.

Former School Board Member and Realtor Eddie Herrera Jailed On a Battery Charge

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

Eddie Herrera served eight years on the school board, two as chairman. The Realtor’s fight with acupuncturist Scott Beat, with Herrera’s daughter in the car nearby, was over an accusation of infidelity.

Armed Robber Takes Hundreds of Oxycodone Pills from Winn Dixie Pharmacy on SR 100

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The robber, who used yellow gloves at the Winn Dixie pharmacy, handed the pharmacist a note just before noon Sunday, demanding the pills. He walked out the front door and drove off in a dark vehicle.

Video: Gobble Trot in Central Park Raises Dollars and Turkeys for the Needy

November 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Local residents with a spring in their step gathered Saturday morning at Palm Coast’s Central Park for the First Annual Gobble Trot Benefit walk to help provide Thanksgiving dinner to those in need.

Josh Crews, Long-Time Woody’s Bartender and Manager, Killed in Sunday Morning Wreck

November 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 60 Comments

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Josh Crews was 34 and had been a fixture behind Woody’s bar in Palm Coast and St. Augustine since 2005, and had once owned the restaurant with his brother Matt when it first opened in 1998.

9 Counts of Burglary, 8 Counts of Mischief and More for 3 Men

November 16, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

From left, Michael Andre Brick, Sean Ryan Fitzpatrick and Allen Gary Stefancik. (FCSO)

The three young men are accused of breaking into several cars at Westwind Contracting on U.S. 1 and at at McCharacters in St. Joe Plaza.

Starry Saturday: Theater, Art, Grit and Glitz from Bunnell to Palm Coast

November 14, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Staring with FPC’s courageous thespians, the visual and performing arts had a fabulous Saturday in Flagler, with two gallery openings and two local theater productions. That’s what the county’s unbound cultural scene should be about.

Another Violent Domestic Assault in Palm Coast Lands a Fugitive in Jail

November 10, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In the second violent domestic assault case in three days, a 30-year-old Palm Coast resident of Parkview Drive allegedly threatened to kill his girlfriend rather than let her leave him.

Flagler 911: The Live Crime Blotter, Nov. 2-5, 2010

November 9, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

When a homeless man is robbed and another jailed for hoping for a roof beneath his head, knife-wielding during an argument, boat larcenies, numerous burglaries and car break-ins, and more.

Palm Coast Man With Long History of Arrests is Charged With Kidnapping and Sexual Battery

November 9, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Major Harris III allegedly threatened to shoot his live-in girlfriend, then raped her, then forced her and two young children to go to DeLand.

Dueling Seafoods and Surfers: Video and Photo Gallery

November 7, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The dueling festivals are over and the images are in: a video report from the 2010 Tommy Tant Classic and a photo gallery from Tommy Tant and Palm Coast’s Seafood Festival.

Festival Filibuster: How Palm Coast Plays Hardball With Flagler Beach

November 7, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

If Palm Coast is serious about playing nice with its neighboring cities and not competing for “special event” visitors, why is it doing exactly that with signs greeting visitors exiting the Interstate?

Dog-and-Pony Powerpoints: Landon’s Stage-Managed Shows for a New Palm Coast City Hall

November 4, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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City Manager Jim Landon says the $10 million city hall project is different than the plan 82 percent of voters rejected in 2005. He’s right: residents won’t be allowed to vote this time, even though economic conditions are far worse.

Tommy Tant Classic Surfing the Weekend As Palm Coast Crashes In With Its Own Festival

November 3, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Now in its 11th year, the Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic will be a three-day event, including a food festival by the sea, a concert and two days of amateur and professional surfing competition.

Cultural Development Richer Than Economic: How to Grow Palm Coast Into a City With Soul

October 31, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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There’s more to a city than commerce, argues Hollingsworth Gallery’s JJ Graham in a column. Without cultural development and the youthful force that makes it possible, Palm Coast would be a city without soul.

Bowing to Pressure, Transportation Department Scraps Plans for a Weigh Station on U.S. 1

October 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Every local government had opposed a proposed $11 million weigh station that would have taken up the median of U.S. 1 at Royal Palms Parkway, at the intersection of Palm Coast and Bunnell. Opposition worked.

Holland Walks Out on Palm Coast Council As It “Rewrites History” Over Annexation

October 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Commissioner Milissa Holland had enough once Palm Coast City Manager Jim Landon took credit for bringing in the National Guard to a Flagler County airport site, which is at the heart of an annexation controversy.

Palm Coast Is Fighting Firefighters’ Union on Forming a Single Bargaining Unit

October 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The hearing Friday will decide whether lieutenants and rank and file firefighters can form a single bargaining unit, which the city–which objects to unionization–is opposing.

John Mica’s Politbureau: How the Chamber Endorses While Pretending Not to Endorse

October 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Flagler County’s Whigs and wigged coupled and clapped at the Palm Coast Yacht Club as John Mica accepted tributes and dispensed charismatic prepositions on his way to a 10th term in Congress.

Bold and Bolder: County Commission Bashes Landon and Coffey Over Annexation Proposal

October 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

County administrator Craig Coffey and City Manager Jim Landon worked out an annexation deal for the 55 acres to be filled by a National Guard center near the airport. That was news to the county commission.

Palm Coast Fire Department Takes Delivery of Versatile $1 Million Ladder Truck

October 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

The 59,000-lb., pump-equipped Sutphen truck can extend its ladder 100 feet high and fire water guns at 2,000 gallons per minute in winds of up to 50 mph. The $1 million truck was ordered two years ago from Sutphen’s Ohio plant.

Shetland Ponies Give Flagler Sheriff’s Deputies the Old Kings Run-Around

October 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies spent part of Wednesday morning rounding up 11 ponies that ran away from the Italian-American Club’s property on Old Kings, where they’ll be part of the weekend’s fall festival.

Burglaries Spike 44% In Flagler in 1st Half of 2010; Violent Crime Falls Locally and Statewide

October 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler County's top cops. From left: Flagler Beach Police Chief Dan Cody, Flagler County Sheriff Don Fleming, Bunnell Police Chief Arthur Jones. (© FlaglerLive)

Aggravated assaults and robberies are down, but Bunnell continues to record a disproportionate number of arrests for a town its size in the semi-annual crime report, which points to the year’s overall crime trends.

The Live Wire, Tuesday, Oct. 12: Pink Boots Lenny Keeps His Job, Hiaasen on Amendment 4

October 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Palm Coast’s Breast Cancer Awareness man of the week, Lenny Grocki, was not fired; Carl Hiaasen speaks truth to Amendment 4 detractors; Wall Street continues to rake it in, and much more.

The City of Palm Coast’s Problem With Breast Cancer Awareness Month? Not Regulation.

October 7, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 78 Comments

Lenny Grocki, a Palm Coast utilities employee, was told to go home and take off his pink steel-toed boots. When he switched to pink laces and pink socks, he was told he’d face disciplinary action for those, too.

Leery of Landowners and Litigation, Palm Coast Council Kills Latest Stormwater Proposal

October 6, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Property owners of large and vacant lands objected to paying a stormwater drainage fee in exchange for no discernible benefit. The two-year old attempt to rewrite the ordinance continues.

Bill Proctor and Doug Courtney Struggle To Out-No Each Other In Florida House Race

October 6, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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In the race for the Florida Legislature seat closest to Flagler residents, Republican incumbent Bill Proctor of St. Augustine is facing perennial candidate and Democrat Doug Courtney of Palm Coast.

Flagler 911: The Live Crime Blotter, Sept. 26-29, 2010

October 3, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A rash of stolen laptops all over the place, a rash of smashed up car windows and stolen purses left in those cars, an assault and battery, a suspiciously acting private investigator, and, unfortunately, more.

Palm Coast Hispanic Festival Ramps It Up From Puerto Rican Power to Colombian Folklore

October 3, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The fourth annual Hispanic festival, held at Town Center over three days, aimed to exceed last year’s attendance of 10,000 despite an eventful weekend in Flagler County.

Palm Coast Data’s Invitation-Only Picnic: Hot Dogs, Flattery and Suspended Disbelief

October 1, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 51 Comments

Half Palm Coast and the county’s elected officials and top administrators were invited to Palm Coast Data’s picnic. The public wasn’t. That’s not the main problem.

Sitter Who Ran “Chrissy’s Cottage” in Palm Coast’s P Section Is Charged With Child Abuse

October 1, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The 1-year-old child left in Cinelli-McFall’s care spent a month in a Jacksonville hospital following injuries he sustained on July 16.

“Economic Development” Tax Dies: Enterprise Flagler Wants It Removed from the Ballot

October 1, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Enterprise Flagler will ask the county commission to ensure that the voting on the troubled tax not be counted. Plan B: a sales tax proposal.

Census: Flagler’s Population Stalls at 91,600; 28% of Housing Units Vacant; Poverty Rising

September 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The 2009 population figures mean that Flagler will almost certainly not cross into six-figure territory when decennial census figures are announced. Figures on housing, income, poverty and insurance were also released.

Income, Employment and Labor Data for Flagler County and Palm Coast, 2009 Census Bureau Community Survey

September 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Detailed, charted table of the Census Bureau’s employment, income and labor data for Flagler County and Palm Coast, 2009 American Community Survey.

From Beirut to Bulldog Drive: Palm Coast’s Uncivil War Over Gus Ajram’s Property Rights

September 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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From escaping Lebanon’s civil war to building automotive businesses in New York and Edgewater, Gus Ajram never expected his biggest battle to be over his property rights in Palm Coast.

Palm Coast Consistently Beating Florida As Taxable Sales Indicators Continue to Improve

September 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Tourism and retail sales, and fewer people traveling elsewhere to buy goods, are keeping Palm Coast’s taxable sales among the most-improved in the state, compared with 2009.

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