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Flagler Beach is lining up–and lighting up–with vaccination sites. (© Rick Belhumeur) As vaccine supply edges past demand and the rate of those getting vaccinated is slowing, the Flagler County Health Department is shifting strategies and developing what one city commissioner described as a “ground game” in an effort to more broadly yet efficiently target new veins for inoculation around the county. To that end, the department is bringing four covid-19 vaccination opportunities to Flag...

Paul Harrington had been in the thick of Flagler Beach City Commission issues going back five years. He attended almost every meeting and twice ran for a commission seat. (© FlaglerLive) Flagler Beach city commissioners could see that Paul Harrington was not well. He was sitting in the front row at the April 8 meeting, as he usually did since he started attending almost every commission meeting five years ago. The meeting was into its third hour when he had trouble picking up his drink, which ...

Even deshingled and disheveled, the A-frame at the Pier could not hide its iconic letters spelling out the town’s name, as if tattooed on the structure for all eternity. (© FlaglerLive) Every city great and small has its iconic signature: Seattle’s Needle, Rome’s Coliseum, Alliance’s Carhenge, Paris’s Eiffel and Palm Coast’s water tower (give it a break, it’s a city in progress). For Flagler Beach, it’s the Pier and its sharply angled A-frame, its two sides’ 12 white letters ...

Suzie Johnston and Eric Cooley late this afternoon, a distance from the polling station at City Hall in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive) Last Updated: 8:10 p.m. Suzie Johnston will carry on her family’s long tradition of public service in elected office: in her first run for office, she was decisively elected mayor of Flagler Beach in today’s election, and will replace Linda Provencher, who chose not to run again after nine years as mayor and four years as commissioner. Eric Cooley, who ha...

Johnston won her three-way mayoral race with over 50% of the vote, beating out competitors Kim Carney and Patrick Quinn.

Paul Harrington is in his third run for a seat on the Flagler Beach City Commission. (© FlaglerLive) Last Updated: Monday, March 1, 5 p.m. See below for Harrington update. Paul Harrington, a candidate in next Tuesday’s two-way election for the Flagler Beach City Commission, was hospitalized last Sunday and has been largely incapacitated by a grave illness since. His illness has upended next Tuesday’s commission race in which Harrington faces incumbent Eric Cooley. Cooley says he has suspe...

The candidates in stills from the Facebook Live clips of the Woman’s Club forum last Tuesday evening. From left, Eric Cooley, Kim Carney, Pat Quinn and Suzy Johnston. (© FlaglerLive via Woman’s Club video) As it has done at every election, the Flagler Beach Woman’s Club Tuesday evening hosted the city’s only question-and-answer forum with candidates in the March 2 municipal election.  The pandemic had limited the number of people in an audience that usually draws standing-room crowds,...

Michael Streit, standing, and Karen Streit, who was putting her cell phone into her purse, after their arrest by Flagler Beach police at the beginning of the city’s commission meeting Thursday evening. (© FlaglerLive) In a first at a local government meeting, two Flagler Beach residents were arrested Thursday evening after defiantly delaying a Flagler Beach City Commission meeting for 12 minutes, refusing to don a mask, in accordance with a city ordinance, and refusing to leave the commissio...

Flagler Beach Commissioner Eric Cooley, seen here at the beginning of his first term, will run for a second term. Mayor Linda Provencher, after two terms as commissioner and three as mayor, is stepping down at the end of her third term in march. (© FlaglerLive) If you thought election season was over, think again: Flagler Beach’s is just beginning. With the city’s elections set for March 2, the first qualifying window opened today, and two candidates announced their intentions: incumbent E...

Flagler Beach city officials update city manager list, replace two that dropped out Erica Van Buren, The Daytona Beach News-Journal FLAGLER BEACH — City officials added two people to their list of city manager candidates during a special meeting Tuesday, replacing two that removed their names from consideration. © Erica Van Buren/News-Journal Flagler Beach city officials held a special meeting on Thursday to discuss the open City Manager position. Police Chief Matthew Doug...