Some people were born to perform. Others would rather literally break a leg than go on a stage. You can guess which category Ann Paris’ students are in.
Ann Paris, who has been a theater teacher since 1987, poses with the medals won by her Buddy Taylor students in March. Courtesy photos
Paris, who has been teaching theater since 1987 since 2004 in Flagler Schools has learned that her Buddy Taylor Middle School students are capable “of crazy, amazing things.”
“I’m learning to do less and watch them do more,” she said.
For example, eighth-grader Ysa Boothman wrote a mini play for a Christmas performance. “It was so cute, and I didn’t change a thing,” Paris said. Other students contribute choreography.
Greg Schwartz at the Grand Canyon in a 2018 picture he posted to Facebook. He’s been named principal of Flagler Palm Coast High School.
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Flagler County superintendents’ recent habit of using Volusia County as an Eldorado of potential principals for its two high schools is continuing as Greg Schwartz, Principal at South Daytona Elementary, today was named principal at Flagler Palm Coast High School. Schwartz replaces Tom Russell, the popular and charismatic principal who’d led FPC for less than two years by the time of his death from covid last December.
Schwartz, one of 38 candidates to apply for the FPC post, is the fourth Volusia candidate in the last four years to be named principal at one of Flagler’s two high schools, starting with Jeff Reaves at Matanzas High School in 2016, followed by Bob Wallace–a former boss of Schwartz’s–and Russell at FPC. But Schwartz, an Ormond Beach resident, has intimate connections to Flagler and FPC in partic
Chauncey McCray after his crash on I-95, as he was being arrested by Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies. (FCSO)
It started with an apparent seat belt violation.
Chauncey McCray, 24, was at the wheel of a rented blue Toyota Camry, driving south on U.S. 1 around 1 p.m. When Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy Seth Green pulled up in a parallel lane, he noticed that McCray was not wearing a seat belt. The deputy slowed to get behind McCray’s car and initiate a traffic stop.
At first McCray, of 11 Kannapolis Place in Palm Coast, slowed as well. He was at the wheel of his sister’s car–she had rented it that day, she would later tell authorities–and was supposed to be on his way to pick up her child from school. But he then sped up, turning onto Kankakee Trail.