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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.

With Project Share, Flagler Beach Rotary Brings Christmas to 1,300 of the Region’s Neediest Children

December 21, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Some 150 volunteers gathered at the Flagler County airport Wednesday to load three box trucks and five trailers with toys for 1,300 children, the work of Flagler Beach Rotary's Project Share. (© FlaglerLive)

Project Share was born 18 years ago after Roseanne Stocker drove through rural areas of deep poverty and teamed up with her father to provide toys for 30 children. The project has grown every year since.

Flagler Beach’s Christmas Parade Is Saturday, Starlight Parade in Palm Coast On Dec. 9

November 30, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Santa arriving at last year's Starliught Parade in Palm Coast's Town Center. This year's parade is scheduled for Dec. 9. (Palm Coast)

Flagler County’s two biggest holiday parades take to the streets over two successive weekends, with awards and peripheral events rich in photo ops with Santa.

For 100 Children, Christmas With a Deputy Is a $150 Shopping Spree to Jingle Bells of Sirens

December 9, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Larry Jones’s and the Sheriff’s Office’s Christmas With a Deputy this year is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 16 at City Centre at 145 City Place in Palm Coast’s Town Center. The event kicks off at 6:30 p.m.

Almost 40 Christmas Trees Stolen From Hollar and Greene Distributor in West Bunnell

December 5, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The facility at 3258 County Road 305 in west Bunnell has long been managed by Duane Weeks, the husband of the former elections supervisor, Kimberle Weeks. He put the loss of the two thefts at $2,000.

Flagler Beach Holiday at the Beach Parade Set for Saturday: Late Participants Welcome

November 27, 2016 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Santa parachutes down to launch the parade at 1 p.m. near the pier. (© FlaglerLive)

The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach is once again hosting the Holiday at the Beach parade this Saturday, Dec. 3, along resilient State Road A1A in the city and is welcoming last minute parade applicants this week. See the application below.

Tree of Remembrance Ceremony Scheduled for Dec. 4 at Craig Flagler Palms

November 11, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Patrick Juliano playing the bagpipes at his father's grave a few months ago, at Craig Flagler Palms cemetery. (© FlaglerLive)

People are encouraged to bring a favorite ornament in remembrance of their loved one to help decorate the tree. decorating will begin at 5 p.m.

Traffic Tickets as a Sleigh to Christmas Come True: Yes Virginia, There’s Santa Cop

November 20, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The Flagler Beach Police Department is issuing “toy waivers“ with warning citations for certain offenses to help Christmas Come True, Nadine King’s annual fund-raiser for poorer children that’s considerably short of its $40,000 goal this year.

Palm Coast Mayor and Flagler Sheriff Will Marshal Holiday Boat Parade

November 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The 13th annual Palm Coast Yacht Club Holiday Boat Parade is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. with the traditional festival of lights on the water to mark the beginning of the winter holidays (assuming you didn’t start your celebration immediately after Labor Day). 

Christmas Arch at Town Center’s Fantasy Lights Display Is Vandalized

January 6, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

For the second time in two years, Tiffany’s Fantasy Lights at Palm Coast’s Town Center were vandalized, this time when the Christmas Arch at the entrance of the park was toppled over.

Stars of Palm Coast: Tiffany’s Fantasy Lights

December 24, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Holiday Fantasy Lights in Palm Coast Town Center

From Evansville’s Fantasy of Lights at Garvin Park to Palm Coast’s Town Center: Tiffany Butler’s Christmas and how it became ours.

Woman In “Catholic Warrior” Shirt Vandalizes Satanic Temple Display at Florida Capitol

December 24, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Susan Hemeryck, 54, of Tallahassee, entered the Capitol at 11:23 a.m. and told an on-duty police officer that “she was sorry and had to take the Satanic display,” according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement charging affidavit.

Satanic Temple Display Approved for State Capitol, With Festivus Beer Pole and Nativity

December 5, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

The Florida Department of Management Services this week approved the proposed holiday display from the Satanic Temple, which a year ago was rejected because the agency said its proposal was “grossly offensive.”

Satanic Temple, Come On Down: Florida Eases Holiday Display Bids at State Capitol

May 14, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Rather than institute a new policy that would limit displays as some expected, the state Department of Management Services is trying to make the application process easier for groups seeking to put up temporary displays in the Capitol complex. The Satanic Temple will give Florida another chance after being blocked from putting up a holiday display last year.

In Wealth of Heart, Flagler County and Palm Coast Firefighters Fulfill Christmas Wishes of 58 Children

December 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Flagler County Fire Rescue’s Station 92 Sunday was transformed into a Christmas giveaway station for some 58 children thanks to county and Palm Coast firefighters who’d donated their own money and time to make it possible. The event was organized by firefighter Kyle Lockwood.

Putting Bach Back in Christmas

December 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Rather than cheat Christmas by limiting it to December 25, WKCR’s annual BachFest is a 240-hour celebration of the holiday through the music of Johan Sebastian Bach. It’s also a front seat at the Creation.

Deemed “Grossly Offensive,” Satanic Display Is Barred from Florida Capitol’s Christmas Gallery

December 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The state Department of Management Services on Wednesday denied an attempt by “Satanists” to put up a display in the Florida Capitol, which currently showcases a Nativity scene, a Festivus pole made of beer cans, posters from atheists, and a crudely-made Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1939

December 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

President Franklin D. Roosevelt Carving the Thanksgiving Turkey, November 30, 1933. (FDR Presidential Library.)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the date of Thanksgiving in 1939, moving it up a week, to accommodate merchants and business still reeling from the Depression. The full text of FDR’s proclamation issued on October 31, 1939.

White Christmas in Bunnell: Snow Falls And Hearts Soar as City Caps Centennial

December 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Bunnell marked the end of its centennial year Friday evening with the biggest Christmas celebration of its hundred years, including free barbecue, greetings with Santa, three musical groups and a surprise blanketing of snow.

Satanists Now Want to Join Beer Pole and Nativity Scene at Florida Capitol

December 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The state Department of Management Services has received three more applications, including two from atheist groups and one from satanists, to put up displays after approving a banner for the Freedom From Religion Foundation and an aluminum pole — made of empty beer cans– – to mark the parody festival Festivus.

Nativity Scene in Florida Capitol Will Share Space With Beer-Can Pole Celebrating Festivus

December 9, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A nearly 6-foot-tall pole made from emptied Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans, marking the Festivus holiday once parodied on Seinfeld, will be put up in the Florida Capitol this week as a not-so-subtle protest to the recent placement of a Christian nativity scene by the Florida Prayer Network.

Of Thanksgiving Day Parades and Friends in Exile

November 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS was a bit like being waterboarded, but matters improved very quickly when the channel changed and the aromas of the day began invading the house, along with just the right spirits: Praise be to Beaujolais Nouveau.

Dawn to Starlight: Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and the Hammock Warm Up Christmas Parades

November 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Palm Coast’s annual Starlight parade is scheduled for Dec. 14. Flagler Beach’s Holiday at the Beach Parade is scheduled for Dec. 7 at 1 p.m., and businesses in the Hammock will be lighting up A1A with special events, lights and Christmas cheer for the first two week-ends of December.

For Needy Children’s Christmas, Flagler Fire Fighters’ Union Answers the Call of the Year

December 22, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Kyle Lockwood, a firefighter-paramedic with Flagler County Fire Rescue, organized a gift drive for 42 of the county’s neediest children and, with colleagues, delivered the gifts to children and their families Friday in the courthouse parking lot.

Calling It “Grinching,” 3 Palm Coast Teens Vandalize Through F Section Ornaments

December 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Zachary Jacobs, Matthew Leslie Smith and James Joseph Rumph (the fourth), all 17, now facing felony charges for allegedly rampaging through Palm Coast’s F Section early Sunday morning, stealing Christmas ornaments, damaging mailboxes and smashing one car’s rear window.

For a Happy Saturnalian Christmas:
How To have A Good Time

December 24, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Joan Miró, 'The Two Philosophers' (1936), Art Institute of Chicago.

Fulton J. Sheen was that rarity of Catholic sermonizers: he was witty, earthy and unfriendly to religion’s two heels : dogma and doctrine. “How to Have a Good Time” is one of his most celebrated sermons from his “Life Is Worth Living” series, from 1957.

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.

Harping on “Christmas Come True” Charity Ball at Hammock Beach Saturday

November 9, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Nadine King had the idea of a Christmas charity ball back in the 1980s. She revived it in Palm Coast last year, helping 54 families better realize their Christmas. King hopes to double that number this year.

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