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A special mayoral election for the position will be held July 27. The election was called after the sudden resignation of former Mayor Milissa Holland in May. The public is invited to attend the debate, which will be held at Buddy Taylor Middle School, 4500 Belle Terre Parkway. The debate will begin at 6:30 p.m. Doors will open at 5 p.m. Citizens who have questions to suggest for the debate can send them to pat.rice@news-jrnl.com.  Its a winner-take-all mayoral race, meaning there will not be ...

Alan Lowe. (© FlaglerLive) On June 29, Alan Lowe, one of six candidates for Palm Coast Mayor in the July 27 special election, posted a 60-second campaign message on his Facebook page. The video bears fact-checking as an example of Lowe’s tenuous relationship with facts or truth, because in 168 words, Lowe manages to fit in at least three falsehoods, make four misleading or deceptive statements and violate the state’s campaign rules twice.  Lowe is running in a field of six candidates. One...

Palm Coast Mayoral Candidate Alan Lowe is accusing the publisher of the weekly Palm Coast Observer of trying to push him out of the mayor’s race with threats of unleashing dark money against him. Lowe filmed a video he posted to YouTube last week in which he stands in front of the “Observer Plaza” sign and asserts the newspaper’s publisher tried to keep him from entering the mayor’s race because the publisher favors David Alfin. Lowe does not name the publisher, but he is John Walsh....

Doug Courtney, Palm Coast Mayor Candidate: The Live Interview Doug Courtney. (© FlaglerLive) Last Updated: June 30, 7:42 a.m. Doug Courtney, 67, is one of six candidates in the July 27 special election for Palm Coast mayor. The election was required by charter following the unexpected resignation of Milissa Holland  in mid-May, less than a year into her second term. The candidates who filed to run, all of them paying the $1,140 qualifying fee, are: David Alfin, Kathy Austrino, Carol Bacha, Co...

The News-Journal is pleased to announce that it will host and moderate a debate between all six candidates for Palm Coast mayor on Tuesday, July 6. Cornelia Manfre, Alan Lowe, Doug Courtney, Carol Bacha, Kathy Austrino and David Alfin are vying to be the next mayor of the city which was incorporated in 1999. A special mayoral election for the position will be held July 27. The election was called after the sudden resignation of former Mayor Milissa Holland in May. News-Journal Editor Pat R...

Kevin Cichowski paid a $1,440 qualifying fee to run in the special election for Palm Coast mayor scheduled on July 27.

A candidate dropping out of the race for Palm Coast mayor after qualifying ended created a bit of a problem for elections officials, who had already sent their ballots to be printed. (© FlaglerLive) Kevin Cichowski’s brief candidacy for the special July 27 election for Palm Coast mayor ended today as oddly as it began a week or so ago–with cryptic statements, a back-handed endorsement of candidate Alan Lowe, and the proposal for an “active shooter system” in the schools. Dropping out t...

The Palm Coast Pride Festival starting at 5 p.m. in Town Central's Central Park, with music, food and speakers.

A crowd of candidates are seeking to fill the vacuum of a fallen era at Palm Coast City Hall. (© FlaglerLive) It’s a free-for-all: The qualifying window for the special election for Palm Coast mayor doesn’t close until next Monday. But eight candidates–from the obscure to the esoteric to the expected–have already filed to run. Six candidates are Republicans, two are Democrats. It’s a non-partisan election, but only ostensibly so. Three of the candidates are Realtors. There is no lim...