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Local schools' enrollments show little change in second Count Day Local schools reported little change in enrollment from their fall count numbers on second Count Day of the school year Wednesday, Feb. 10.  Each year, the state requires school districts to hold two Count Days — one in October and one in February. These counts are used to determine how much funding districts get from the state — as schools are given state funding for each student.  In a typical year, the fall count determines 90 percent of a school’s per-pupil funding and the remaining 10 percent comes from the winter ...

£9.99 Hal Cullen is ex-military but more than that, he is a ‘vat’ soldier. The result of genetic manipulation, vat soldiers are bred specifically to become adrenaline-fuelled hyper-efficient, disposable killing machines.  After seven years of service, vat soldiers become unstable, so Hal and his natural born (‘nat’) captain, Ty, are discharged and decide to cruise the galaxy’s edge aboard the Lorshad, a salvage ship collecting the spoils of alien wars past. Having delivered their most recent haul, Hal and Ty find themselves coming to the aid of Vivi, a ‘tecker’ fresh from the ...

Responding to tragedy with a fight song, Flagler Palm Coast High School hosted a memorial event Dec. 11 for Principal James “Tom” Russell, who died Dec. 9 after a three-week battle with COVID-19. Dozens of cars lined up in the parking lot at FPC and honked their horns as they drove past the football stadium and listened to the band play the fight song. The plan was for the lights at the stadium to shine in the night for 20 minutes, 20 seconds in his honor. It was a fitting tribute, said Evana Fretterd, Student Government Association activities director. When the pandemic prevented student...