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VOLUME 12, NO. 22

PCLL 11U TEAM HEADED TO STATE PAGE 14 THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2021

Councilman Danko denies charges in HR inquiry Preliminary findings stated that Danko ‘inappropriately attempted to influence staff’s administrative duties.’ PAGE 3

Candidates present views at Tiger Bay Mayoral Forum Austrino and Lowe skip forum; remaining candidates share their visions for Palm Coast PAGE 4

INSIDE READING RESULTS Reading scores dropped during pandemic, but Flagler third-graders exceeded state average PAGE 10

FIREWORKS AND FUN

SURF & RESCUE Flagler Beach Ocean Rescue is hosting lifeguarding and beach camps throughout the summer.

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Traffic pattern released for ‘Fireworks in the Park’ on July 3 PAGE 9

Photo by Jake Montgomery

Tyler Mulvey, 8, and other young locals learn lifeguarding and ocean safety skills at several camps hosted by Flagler Beach Ocean Rescue.

AGREEMENT IN REACH BETWEEN COUNTY, CITY?

The county government has offered to share the cost of moving the city of Palm Coast’s utility lines.

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STUDYING PLANS

Proposed new county library to feature community meeting space, vaccination site PAGE 2

INSIDE

No match for Matilda!

Flagler Performing Arts Academy brings book to life PAGE 11

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INDEX

Briefs..................... PAGE 8 Business...............PAGE 15 Sports...................PAGE 13 Real Estate...........PAGE 16 Your Town.............PAGE 12

CONGRATS DAD! Photo by Jake Montgomery

The Flagler Performing Arts Academy presented “Matilda” over the weekend at the Social Club of Palm Coast, located at 51 Old Kings Road. Aiden Wise played Agatha Trunchbull.

Two lucky dads were chosen as this year’s Observer Father’s Day contest winners.

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Proposed new county library to feature vaccination site Other ideas include a cafe, outdoor stage and technology classroom.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Flagler’s new southern library branch won’t be just a library.

Instead, County Administrator Jerry Cameron said at a County Commission meeting June 21, it will be a community gathering place with a facility for vaccination and pandemic testing.

“The architect is following directions to try to give us what we call a prototypical library of the future,” Cameron said, “and that’s going to look a lot different than traditional warehouses for books.”

The library branch, which will replace the existing Bunnell branch on Moody Boulevard and will be built near the county’s Emergency Operations Center off Commerce Parkway, will also feature a “forum for the arts” and a space for technology education, Cameron said.

The public health portion of the building would be designed for flow-through testing and vaccination, he said, while another portion could be converted into an emergency voting center.

The County Commission at the June 21 meeting unanimously approved a contract with Rhodes & Brito Architects for an amount not to exceed $42,116 for archi-

“Libraries have come a long way.”

ANDY DANCE, county commissioner

tectural and engineering services.

A county staff document summarizing the agreement refers to the planned library as the “Flagler County Library Administrative Headquarters and Bunnell Branch and Public Health Mitigation and Prevention Center.”

To be built on 4.8 acres near a planned new Sheriff’s Operations Center, the proposed library would become the center of the county library system’s administrative functions.

Minutes from county staff’s meetings with the architectural firm indicate that the county expressed interest in the creation of a building of about 16,000 to 20,000 square feet, with study rooms, a technology classroom, outdoor stage, commercial kitchen, youth services area, drive-through book drop-off/ pickup window, meeting place, self-serve kiosks, passport photo center and potentially a cafe/food court.

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University board sets rules for athlete pay

Surfside condo collapse could lead to legislation

Preparing for changes approved by lawmakers, the state university system’s Board of Governors on Wednesday, June 23, adopted regulations about athlete compensation and student disciplinary proceedings.

Gov. Ron DeSantis last year signed a measure that will permit student athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses. The regulations approved Wednesday will help carry out the law, which will take effect July 1.

Under the regulations, athletes will be able to hire agents and will be required to disclose to the universities any contracts for compensation. The law will require universities to provide a “financial literacy and life skills workshop” for athletes.

Under a bill (HB 233) that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Tuesday, each state college and university will be required to adopt a student code of conduct that provides “due process protections” for students accused of misconduct.

The Board of Governors already has a framework for handling allegations of misconduct at universities, General Counsel Vikki Shirley said.

However, she added the new law, which was passed during this year’s legislative session, introduces some “tweaks” to what’s already on the books.

State and federal legislation could be proposed to address construction or engineering issues after the deadly condominium-building collapse in Surfside, where crews continued to search the rubble Monday, June 28.

Addressing reporters, Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said they await information from forensic investigations that are proceeding alongside searchand-rescue operations at the Champlain Towers South, which collapsed early Thursday, June 24.

“I think the people of Florida want to understand, how could this happen?” DeSantis said.

“And then, what can we do to make sure it doesn’t happen again? So, we’ll be working on that for the long term.”

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, joined in structural reviews being conducted by Surfside and Miami-Dade County.

DeSantis said the federal agency’s involvement is somewhat unique, as it has typically investigated damage from such things as the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

The death toll at midday Monday had reached 10, with 151 people unaccounted for.

JUNE 19

PLAYING ‘TAG’ 10:17 a.m. Old Kings Road at Palm Coast Parkway.

Petit theft. A Volkswagen Passat was turning onto Old Kings Road from Palm Coast Parkway when a deputy noticed that the car had a license plate that had been reported stolen in South Carolina.

The deputy stopped the car.

The driver, from Massachusetts, said he didn’t know where the South Carolina plate came from or what had happened to his own Massachusetts plate.

The deputy asked him if he could help him look for the Massachusetts plate, and the man said yes. The deputy found it in the trunk. The man said he had no idea how it got there. The deputy filed charges against the man.

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HOLE IN THE WALL 12:20 p.m. 2300 block of Elder Street, Bunnell.

Weapons complaint. A man was in his house when three bullets struck the home from the east.

A deputy found one lodged in the wall of the laundry room.

Another had passed through a bedroom and stopped inside an artificial Christmas tree box. There was a hole from the third in the man’s bedroom close.

The deputy spoke to the man’s neighbor, who said he’d been outside shooting and admitted that the bullets looked like his own. The neighbor’s shooting area had thin metal targets, with no berm. There were holes through the metal.

The shooter admitted fault, and the victim declined to pursue charges.

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WHAT HAPPENED? City opened HR inquiry into Councilman Ed Danko after reports that he’d ‘exploded’ at employees JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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he city of Palm Coast opened an HR inquiry on City Councilman Ed Danko concerning reports that he’d “exploded” at or berated several city staff members. Danko denied the accusations.

The case was set aside during the city’s administrative transition and has not formally been closed — so there has not yet been a final determination made on the accusations against the councilman. A March 16 draft preliminary findings executive summary report, however, stated the following: “The evidence gathered during this investigation supports the finding that Council Member Danko inappropriately attempted to influence staff’s administrative duties.”

Council members are prohibited by the City Charter from interfering with city staff: The charter’s Article 4 (11) states that such interference “shall be malfeasance within the meaning of Florida Statutes.”

“This is absurd; it really is,” Danko said about the allegations.

“These things didn’t happen the way these people say it happened. ... At no time did I direct any staff member to do anything. And that is what this is all about: The charter does not allow us to direct staff members; that’s why there’s a city manager.”

Danko, asked for a story on June 22 whether he’d been the subject of a city HR investigation, had said, “No — that’s ridiculous.” He explained in an interview June 24 that he’d not been informed of the allegations until June 23, after the previous interview, and only learned of it because he’d asked the city attorney.

THE ALLEGATIONS

Then-City Manager Matt Morton, the records show, brought the staff members’ complaints to the attention of the city’s HR director, Renina Fuller, in an email on Feb. 3, telling Fuller that he was deal-

ing with an HR issue and wasn’t sure how to proceed.

“Mr. Danko ‘exploded’ at Virginia Smith before the Council Meeting last night in front of many employees (Doug, Brad and others) — she was insulted and humiliated and came to me in tears,” Morton wrote in the email.

Morton, in his email, had added that Danko’s behavior was a pattern; that Smith, the city clerk, feared retaliation from Danko, and that the matter “may require an independent analysis.”

In the Feb. 2 incident before the council meeting, Danko and Smith had been discussing the reading of proclamations at City Council meetings. Danko told Smith that he wanted more time to prepare before reading the proclamations, she wrote in her HR statement.

When he asked Smith who assigned the readings, she told him that the readings are in the agenda packet, sent to council members ahead of time, and that then-Mayor Milissa Holland assigned them.

Danko, raising his voice, replied that he would not read that day’s proclamation, Smith wrote.

“I said the mayor assigns the proclamations and if you want to know in advance who is assigned, you will have to request that under Council comment,” she wrote. “... He yelled interrupting me and said, ‘She is not my boss, I will not bring this up, I will give it back to her, I will just tell her when she gets here.’”

Smith told him he couldn’t do that because the matter was city business; discussing it with Holland outside of the context of the meeting would be a Sunshine Law violation.

Danko again yelled about Holland not being his boss, Smith wrote, and Smith replied to him that Holland was the one who controlled the meetings.

Danko, she recalled, then told her to tell Holland that he wouldn’t be reading the proclamation. Smith said she refused, telling him, “I will not tell her; I will not be your conduit, I will

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Palm Coast City Councilman Ed Danko.

speak with Mr. Morton.” Danko, she wrote, had replied, “Fine — so will I.” Danko, speaking to a reporter about the incident, said Smith had referred to Holland as his boss.

“She said, ‘Well, Mayor Holland wants you to read this, and Mayor Holland is your boss,’” Danko said. “I said, ‘Mayor Holland is not my boss: The citizens that elected me are my bosses.’”

He added, “All of the sudden, now I find that Virginia Smith filed a complaint because I told her Mayor Holland is not my boss?”

In another instance mentioned in the HR case, Marsha Lidskin, a writer who helps put together the city’s newsletter and has worked for the city’s communications department since 2005, reported in an email to Fuller that Danko had berated her when she was preparing his bio for the city’s website.

She’d asked him about organizations he’d served with, and he mentioned that he was president of the Trump Republican Club of Palm Coast, Lidskin wrote in the email. She told him she’d gladly mention the position, but would leave out Trump’s name to avoid making the newsletter political.

“He jumped on my response immediately,” she wrote. “He specifically asked me, ‘Who told me to say this?’”

She told him it was her decision; she’d been the newsletter’s editor for 15 years.

“He then said this to me: ‘What are you — some kind of liberal?’ I was astonished and got quiet for a moment,” she wrote.

She tried to change the subject, she wrote, but, “He interrupted me and said the following: ‘You know what? I don’t want to talk to you anymore. I don’t ever want to talk to you again. Nor do I want to ever meet you or work with you.’

He then hung up on me.”

She added, “No one whom I’ve ever worked with in the city of Palm Coast has ever spoken like this to me. I sat quietly for a

“These things didn’t happen the way these people say it happened. ... At no time did I direct any staff member.”

ED DANKO, Palm Coast city councilman

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moment, trying to keep myself from getting really upset and angry.”

Danko said the the incident with Lidskin had occurred before the election — before he was on the council or subject to the city’s HR rules.

When Lidskin had told him that the rule against including politics in the newsletter was her own rule, he said, “I said, ‘Wait a second. You have your own rules?

We’re a city. You don’t get to have your own rules.’”

He remembered asking her if she was “some kind of liberal.”

“I said, ‘You know what, I’m going to go above you: I’m going to call the city manager — goodbye,’” he said.

In the third incident, a public works employee, Greg Doston, “reported being accosted

by Mr. Danko in a road median — Mr. Danko was agitated and disrespectful and directing employee(s),” Morton wrote.

Handwritten investigative notes submitted by a city employee handling the HR case suggested that Morton’s language about that incident may have been too strong: Doston told the investigator that he “had [a] conversation with Mr. Danko, did not feel threatened, was not accosted.”

“Mr. Danko pulled up to the jobsite and in an unpleasant manner, he questioned the crew on why we weren’t directing traffic,” Doston wrote in a statement submitted as part of the HR inquiry. “During the conversation, he aggressively stated that he was a current member of the council and was going to inform the city manager about our lack of safety protocols.”

The employees, Doston wrote, told Danko that they were within the FDOT-required time limit for setting up a lane closure.

“He then proceeded to drive away aggravated,” Doston wrote.

Danko said he’d been concerned about the safety of the setup because the workers’ trucks were blocking drivers’ view of oncoming traffic, and the he’d only mentioned to the staff members that he was a councilman after he’d been treated rudely by an employee.

“I edge my way up and I stop and I say, ‘Perhaps you might want to put up a flag,’” Danko said. A staff member’s reaction, he said, was insulting. “I thought, ‘That’s no way ... to be treating our citizens.’

So I said, ‘I’m an elected councilman ... and I’m going to call Matt Morton and tell him about your nasty attitude.”

Danko said that he did so, “And that was the end of it.”

WHAT’S NEXT?

After the HR inquiry’s preliminary findings report was presented to then-City Manager Matt Morton’s administration, the report sat idle, and the city took no action, Kershaw said.

Morton announced on May 27 that he would be resigning. Former Mayor Milissa Holland had resigned May 18.

The City Council appointed Denise Bevan, then the city’s chief of staff over infrastructure, to the interim city manager position; on the City Council, Vice Mayor Eddie Branquinho is serving as acting mayor until the July 27 special mayoral election.

Kershaw said that the preliminary HR findings report on the Danko case hasn’t yet been reviewed by the city attorney.

“Our current administration is reviewing the process, and we’ll consult with our legal team as needed,” she said.

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Four candidates for Palm Coast mayor faced off in the nonpartisan Flagler Time Bay Club’s Palm Coast Mayoral Forum at the Palm Coast Community Center the evening of June 23.

Although all six candidates — David Alfin, Kathy Austrino, Carol Bacha, Doug Courtney, Cornelia Downing Manfre and Alan Lowe — had been invited to participate, Lowe and Austrino declined.

Questions posed by a panel of community members asked candidates about their background, vision for the city, experience handling large budgets, and their position on a handful of local controversies, including how to expand local mental healthcare initiatives and whether the city should change its code to allow for the parking of commercial vehicles n residential driveways.

One question mentioned the “divisiveness” and “grandstanding” on the current council, and asked candidates what they’d do to restore a more civil approach.

Alfin’s assessment of the current council was blunt. He said he’d attended the previous day’s council meeting. He wasn’t impressed.

“I’m here to say that the City Council is broken. There’s just no other way to describe it,” he said.

He said he’d been a soccer referee in the past. Watching the council members at that meeting, he said, “I saw two players on the left, two players on the right, and a reluctant referee — in the name of the city attorney — sitting in the center.”

He added, “There were important issues to be discussed yesterday, and the group — the team — was unable to perform, really, in any way. The role of mayor is to be a leader of that group. I intend, through collaboration, consensus, to earn the community’s confidence — to unify and to work forward on the important initiatives of the city of Palm Coast.”

Photos by Jonathan Simmons

Clockwise from top left: Candidates David Alfin, Cornelia Downing Manfre, Carol Bacha and Doug Courtney at the Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s candidate forum at the Palm Coast Community Center June 23.

Questions posed by a panel of community members asked candidates about their background, vision for the city, experience handling large budgets, and their position on a handful of local controversies.

Candidate Carol Bacha answered the same question by saying the city should “bring more people into the process.”

“We need to establish within our city more hands-on for every department, so that we can have a trained volunteer core with continuing education that doesn’t result in the efforts that the community can bring by downgrading their professionalism,” she said.

She gave some examples of successful volunteer projects, but ran out of time without explaining how they pertained to the Palm Coast City Council.

Courtney said he’d like to see a council roundtable.

“Let’s sit down and talk about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, and lets’ have a discussion about why we’re having such

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bad times back and forth,” he said.

Some contention is good, he added.

“Sometimes I wonder if the have the reason we have all that going on recently is because we have a group full of alpha males, and nobody’s listening to anybody else,” Courtney said. “And I also wonder at the same time if maybe a couple of those people should apply for the position of city manager, not city council member — a couple too many of them want to tell the city manager what to do, tell the city staff what to do, how to do it and when to do it and they don’t have that right.”

Downing Manfre, replying to the same question, said she’s a trained mediator and negotiator.

“The people that serve on this council right now, I applaud them for stepping up to be on the council,” she said. “We can work together. There always would be problems. This is the great American debate. But ... we’re being voted into office to find the solutions and work collaboratively.”

See the candidates’ answers to individual questions via the links in the online version of this story at PalmCoastObserver.com.

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After initial resistance, Palm Coast may work with county on $1.64 million utility relocation JONATHAN SIMMONS

City infrastructure sits in the way of a transportation project.

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Six months ago, Palm Coast was rejecting the county government’s call to pay to move city utility infrastructure that stands in the way of a $10 million county transportation project.

But now the county believes it’s on the cusp of an agreement with the city that would have both local governments sharing the cost.

“Although the state statute would require the city of Palm Coast to 100% resolve those conflicts ... this board, and I agree, had decided that they would like to be more equitable than strictly legal,” County Administrator Jerry Cameron told County Commissioners at a June 21 meeting.

The county, he said, has agreed to contribute $775,277 of the $1.64 million estimated project cost.

“It’s essential that it get done,” Cameron said. “Palm Coast is working closely with us.”

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The Marineland Acres area, between Bay Drive Park and Washington Oaks Gardens State Park.

Commissioners, at the meeting, unanimously approved the county’s side of an interlocal agreement for the work.

Under state law, utility providers must bear the cost of moving their infrastructure when it’s in the way of a transportation project.

Former Palm Coast City Manager Matt Morton had resisted doing so, saying that the city hadn’t budgeted for such a project and that the expense should fall on the people who’d benefit, not on the city’s utility rate payers. The County Commission had agreed to look into other options.

At the June 21 meeting, Commissioner David Sullivan noted the city’s former resistance.

“Does the interlocal agreement force a contribution from Palm Coast, or does it encourage them?” he asked.

“The state statute forces it,” Cameron replied. The agreement, he added, “seeks equity.”

“But it’s definite that they’re going to be contributing their share,” Cameron said. “There’s no question about that.”

The city plans to review the agreement at a council workshop on Aug. 10, and then vote on it at a meeting on Aug. 17.

“It’s essential that it get done.

Palm Coast is working closely with us.”

JERRY CAMERON, Flagler County administrator

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City performs smoke testing in ‘The Woodlands’ Palm Coast is smoke testing the sanitary sewer lines for homes in “The Woodlands” Bsection, according to a city of Palm Coast news release.

The testing will run through July 1 and occur on the streets between Old Kings Road and Colbert Lane, from Blairsville Drive to Oak Trail Boulevard.

This test forces odorless smoke into the sewer lines to check for defects. Smoke won’t enter homes unless the plumbing is defective or there are dried-up sink traps or drains.

If people in your building suffer from a heart condition or respiratory condition and are planning to stay in the building during testing, notify the city at 386-986-2371. Before testing, pour 2 gallons of water in seldom-used sinks or floor drains to prevent sewer gases, smoke or odors from entering.

If smoke does enter your home during testing, leave and notify the crews that are conducting the test or call the city.

City’s senior communications officer resigns

The Palm Coast city government’s senior communications officer, Brad West, resigned on June 23.

Palm Coast Director of Public Information and Engagement Brittany Kershaw said that West had accepted a job offer elsewhere.

West had worked for the city for less than nine months.

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ENDORSEMENT

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Alfin has the track record, leadership qualities to be next mayor

JOHN WALSH PUBLISHER

As a result of our former mayor of Palm Coast, Milissa Holland, resigning on May 18, voters of Palm Coast will be electing our fourth mayor in a special election in July.

Voting has already started with absentee ballots. Early voting runs from July 17 to 24, with election day on July 27. Six candidates qualified.

All six were invited to participate in an interview with the Palm Coast Observer. The topics and questions were consistent in subject matter, but the conversations varied for each candidate.

The full interviews of all participating candidates can be heard at https://www.palmcoastobserver.com/podcasts and or watched on YouTube at https:// www.youtube.com/user/PalmCoastObserver.

The interviews, in part, helped determine which candidate earns our endorsement.

Candidates David Alfin, Cornelia Manfre, Carol Bacha and Doug Courtney participated.

Two candidates declined: Alan Lowe and Kathy Austrino.

I personally asked Alan Lowe to participate three times. The final request was after a recent meeting where he and Palm Coast City Councilman Ed Danko attended together.

Lowe refused to answer my request directly. Instead, he deferred the question to Danko, who replied, “John, we’re the front runner; why would we want to participate?’’

Austrino declined my invitation, stating a conflict in scheduling, even though alternate dates for the interview were made available to her.

Declining participation in the Observer interview disqualifies them as candidates from our endorsement.

Neither Lowe nor Austrino participated in the Flagler Tiger Bay candidate forum at the Palm Coast Community Center on June 23.

To be transparent in this endorsement process: Of the four qualified candidates participating in the Palm Coast Observer interview and the Tiger Bay candidate forum, David Alfin and Cornelia Manfre are both longtime friends of mine.

I have known Doug Courtney for many years, just not socially.

I met Carol Mother Elizabeth Bacha for the first time during the interview.

Over the past several months, I got to know Alan Lowe better.

I do not recall ever meeting Kathy Austrino.

Alfin understands the fine balance between preserving our quality of life and making investments in our infrastructure through quality development projects.

For this endorsement, I wanted to focus on the candidates’ character and their positions on the issues facing Palm Coast — to select the candidate who will best preserve and enhance our quality of life and public safety; who has the leadership qualities, personal fortitude, and dedication to bring our community together rather than add to the incivility we have been experiencing; and who understands and will uphold our City Charter and the Constitution of the State of Florida and of the United States of America.

Based on those criteria, we are proud to endorse David Alfin as the next mayor of Palm Coast.

Alfin understands the fine balance between preserving our quality of life and making investments in our infrastructure through quality development projects.

His leadership qualities have earned him memberships on many area boards, including serving as the president of the Flagler Education Foundation.

He has also graduated from the Palm Coast and Flagler County citizens academies and from the

Political Leadership Institute, where he learned official expectations of an elected official.

Alfin has a track record and professional experience to successfully manage multi-million dollar budgets.

He has the experience it takes to hire the right executive as our next city manager.

He has leadership experience managing a large staff of employees and making those around him want to perform better.

Alfin is committed to strong public safety.

Alfin has experienced personal sacrifice, losing his son, FBI Special Agent Daniel Alfin, in the line of duty in a shootout in South Florida this past February.

His son David currently serves as detective for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and was the lead investigator of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting in February 2018, and his youngest son serves as an Army pilot and an instructor at the West Point Military Academy.

David Alfin is a professional.

He is a servant leader. He has made personal sacrifices for a better way of life for others. He is an experienced and proven leader in bringing people together for a common cause.

David Alfin is the right guy to lead Palm Coast forward. I endorse David Alfin for mayor of Palm Coast.

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Dear Editor: I truly appreciated your article, “Who should be Palm Coast’s next mayor?” published in the June 24 edition, and the letter to the editor from Ms. Diamond. Thank you.

Isn’t it strange that Mr. Lowe declined your interview and declined to participate in the forum on June 23 sponsored by the Tiger Bay Club? This speaks volumes about Mr. Lowe.

Hopefully the residents of Palm Coast will see past Mr. Lowe’s many signs and realize he is not the proper candidate to be our next mayor.

numerous and varied that it is difficult to get a full picture of who Lowe is or was.

However, one source voters can easily access online is the Flagler County court records, where there are multiple filings about Mr. Lowe’s past philosophy, his views on being a citizen, his religious beliefs, personal and business financial matters, and a clash with the IRS. Most of the documents were filed by Alan Lowe himself.

With little effort, voters can see and digest the controversy’s source documents themselves at https://flaglerclerk.com.

They can then decide if they feel comfortable with Lowe’s past or if the documentary evidence is job disqualifying.

LINDA HAUANIO Palm Coast

ROBERT GORDON Palm Coast

Check candidates’ backgrounds before voting

Lowe should answer questions

Dear Editor: In the community, on social media, and elsewhere, there has been a lot of controversy swirling around the past of Palm Coast mayoral candidate Alan Lowe, both last year when he made a failed run for mayor and recently with the upcoming special election.

The Observer, FlaglerLive. com, and the Daytona NewsJournal all reported on some of the controversies.

But the concerns are so

Dear Editor: Surprise, surprise. Alan Lowe declined to participate in a non-partisan forum at the Flagler Tiger Bay Club and an invitation for an interview with this paper’s publisher, John Walsh.

What could be more telling about this candidate? Does he know he can not defend his record of not voting in any election until 2020, or his past statements about being a “sovereign citizen?”

Instead he is relying on buying his way into being Palm

Coast mayor with an advertising campaign, plastering his name all over the place instead of answering questions.

Citizens should demand more than PR from a candidate.

WILLIAM CAMPION Palm Coast

Candidates should engage with voters Dear Editor: We attended the mayoral forum at the community center and were appreciative of hearing from the candidates, and the Tiger Bay Club for hosting it.

What is troubling is that there are two of the six candidates who have decided not to engage with the people they want to represent in person or by answering questions.

Alan Lowe’s fans decided to wave to us coming and going from the Community Center, but your candidate refused to engage with residents of Palm Coast by answering questions or meeting in person.

I hope residents take pride in Palm Coast and read about the candidates and vote responsibly in the mayor election.

COLLEEN BRIEDIS Palm Coast

Editor’s note: Lowe said that he had a prior engagement on the night of the Tiger Bay forum.

He attended a different forum hosted by a Republican group.

THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2021

Judge weighs constitutionality of social media law

Surfside condo collapse could lead to legislation

A federal judge on Monday appeared skeptical about a new Florida law aimed at punishing social-media companies that strip users from their platforms or flag users’ content.

Online-industry groups NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association this month filed a lawsuit challenging the law, pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis after Twitter and Facebook blocked former President Donald Trump from their platforms after his supporters rampaged at the U.S. Capital on Jan. 6.

Arguing that the law would violate social-media companies’ First Amendment rights and harm their efforts to moderate content, the industry groups have asked U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle to block the law from going into effect Thursday as scheduled.

The controversial law seeks to prevent large social-media platforms from banning political candidates from their sites and to require companies to publish — and apply consistently — standards about issues such as banning users or blocking their content.

The new law “is a sweeping attack on core First Amendment rights” of private companies “whose businesses revolve around hosting and presenting speech,” Brian Willen, an attorney who represents the plaintiffs, told Hinkle during the hearing.

State and federal legislation could be proposed to address construction or engineering issues after the deadly condominium-building collapse in Surfside, where crews continued to search the rubble Monday.

Addressing reporters, Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DFla., said they await information from forensic investigations that are proceeding alongside search-and-rescue operations at the Champlain Towers South, which collapsed early Thursday.

“I think the people of Florida want to understand, how could this happen?” DeSantis said.

“And then, what can we do to make sure it doesn’t happen again? So, we’ll be working on that for the long term.”

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, joined in structural reviews being conducted

by Surfside and Miami-Dade County.

DeSantis said the federal agency’s involvement is somewhat unique, as it has typically investigated damage from such things as the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

The death toll at midday Monday had reached 10, with 151 people unaccounted for.

As of Monday morning, no fraud complaints had been filed, Moody’s office said.

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Flagler among leaders in state for crime reduction The statewide 2020 Annual Uniform Crime Report, released this week by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, shows that Flagler County's index crime was down 18.4% compared to 2019, despite a population increase of 3,500 residents.

Flagler County has the fourth-lowest crime rate per 100,000 population in the state, according to the report.

The report shows that Florida's total index crime dropped 14.1% compared to 2019, and the total crime rate fell by 15.7%.

Flagler's clearance rate of reported crimes increased to 37.8%, while the state average is 25.5%.

"Reports like this one show that our crime reduction strategies work," Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said in a news release. "Total crime in Flagler County is down 47% since I became your sheriff in 2017, because I implemented a number of new and successful initiatives. Criminals outside of

our county are learning to not commit crimes here, as they are quickly arrested. I commend our entire team, along with our partners at Bunnell and Flagler Beach police departments and our community for joining with us in guardianship policing.

Our teams come to work every day with one mission in mind: to keep our community a safe place to live, work, and visit."

For more information on the FDLE's Uniform Crime Report, and to view the complete report, go to https://www.fdle. state.fl.us/FSAC/UCR/2020/ UCR-Crime-in-Florida-AbstractStatewide-2020A.aspx.

"This is a great example of deputies observing suspicious activity and investigating," Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said. "A deputy saw a suspicious car, investigated it, and the result is a stolen car being returned to a resident before they even realized it was stolen!

I hope these three juveniles learn from this experience and can turn their lives around. To our residents, I would like to remind them to please take all your valuables and keys out of your vehicles, lock your car doors and help prevent crime so you don't become a victim!

To parents, know where your children are and what they are doing, especially late and night and in the early morning hours.

Be the Sheriff in your home."

Three boys charged with stealing car

Woman charged after abandoning grandmother

Three 14-year-old boys stole a car in the early morning hours of June 21 after the owner left the car unlocked with a key in the glovebox.

Deputies caught the boys after noticing the car in Holland Park near 3 a.m., and contacted the car’s owner to return it before he’d even realized it was missing.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies have arrested a Deltona woman who abandoned her grandmother at a Palm Coast gas station, according to the FCSO Deputies responded to the

BP gas station on Palm Harbor Parkway June 26 about a suspicious incident.

When they arrived, the victim said that her granddaughter, 26-year-old Amber Dodd, had left her there when she refused to sign the deed to her home over to her.

When asked where she was coming from, the victim said her brother’s house in Virginia.

Dodd told deputies, “I told her I was going to leave her and she still didn’t get in the car, so I left her because I’ve been driving with her and my daughter for six hours and I have to get home.”

Deputies told Dodd to return and pick up the victim.

Further investigation revealed that Dodd lives with the victim in Deltona.

Because the victim did not know how she was going to get back home to her house, the Family Life Center in Bunnell advised they would take her in for the night.

Based on the fact that Amber Dodd abandoned the victim in a foreign area with no means to eat food, drink water, have shelter, or transportation to her residence, to coerce her

into signing over her residence, charges were forwarded to the States Attorney’s Office for elderly abuse and neglect.

The Department of Children and Families was notified of the incident and will be conducting an investigation. There is no further information to report at this time.

Mosquito spraying may expand in western Flagler The East Flagler Mosquito Control District will present the Flagler County government with a plan for expanded mosquito control coverage in western portions of the county.

A proposal that won the EFMCD commission’s 3-0 vote of approval at a recent board meeting recommended that the district offer to add mosquito traps so that technicians can monitor mosquito populations weekly, and increase communication with residents in western Flagler.

The County Commission will consider the proposal at a future meeting.

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Flagler announces closures for holiday JULIE MURPHY FLAGLER COUNTY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER

The offices of the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners will be closed July 2, reopening on July 6. Bunnell Library’s hours match those of the County Commission, but the Palm Coast Main Branch Library will be open July 2.

“Both locations — Bunnell and Palm Coast — will be closed on that Saturday, July 3,” said Library Director Holly Albanese. “We fully reopen on July 6.”

BRITTANY KERSHAW PUBLIC INFORMATION DIRECTOR, CITY OF PALM COAST

Get ready to celebrate Independence Day with Palm Coast’s “Fireworks in the Park” on Saturday, July 3, at Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Fireworks will be set off around 9:15 p.m. next to City Hall, featuring more than 1,000 exploding shells.

The 20-minute-long pyrotechnic show is produced by Santore, and the fireworks are funded by a grant from the Flagler County Tourist Development Council.

There is no charge for entry, parking or participation. Food and drinks will not be available for purchase, so please feel free to bring along your own food, chairs and blankets for your picnic in the park.

The city of Palm Coast is planning several strategies related to traffic flow, temporary road closures, and parking.

Beginning at 5 p.m., City Place north of Lake Ave and Lake Ave east of City Place will be closed off. That area at the back side of Central Park is where the fireworks will be set off at 9:15 p.m.

Parking around Central Park will be first come, first serve. Overflow parking will be available in the grass lot east of Park Street by the lake. There may be additional grass parking depending on the

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At 7 p.m. in Central Park, the Palm Coast City Council, joined by elected officials from Flagler County, will take part in the reading of the Declaration of Independence during an Independence Day ceremony.

The Palm Coast Fire Department Honor Guard will present the colors and the Palm Coast Community Band will perform the Star Spangled Banner.

For those visiting Freedom Fest

at the airport before Fireworks in the Park, please plan to make your way to Central Park by 8 p.m. Anyone not in place by 8:15 p.m. may not have access to the show.

As of 9 p.m., roads will be closed down, and no one will be able to leave until the conclusion of the fireworks event. Vehicles will need to remain in their parking spaces until public safety officials open the roads.

After the event, traffic will be routed out of Town Center in two directions: Park Street will be

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Reading scores dropped during pandemic, but Flagler third-graders exceeded average Scores in Flagler County dropped 9 points from 2019, but Flagler Schools surpassed the state’s average by 5 percentage points.

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The mailer

Lowe mailer prompts response from RPOF An Alan Lowe for Palm Coast Mayor campaign mailer featuring a photo of Lowe standing next to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has prompted the Republican Party of Florida to request that candidates seek the governor’s permission before using his image.

“We certainly don’t want people to give the wrong impression, that the photo with the governor is an endorsement,” said Helen Ferré, executive director of the RPOF. “We would like people to request the governor’s permission to use the image, so we can decide if it’s appropriate or not.”

The Lowe mailer doesn’t state that DeSantis endorsed Lowe: Such an assertion, by law, would have required the Lowe campaign to secure the governor’s written permission. But, Ferré said, people viewing the mailer

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could be forgiven for making that assumption.

Lowe, asked by a reporter via email about the mailer and the RPOF’s reaction, responded to a different question contained in the same email, but did not address the campaign mailer.

The other question had asked Lowe about City Councilman Ed Danko’s relationship to the Lowe campaign, in light of a comment Lowe left at FlaglerLive.com stating that Danko is not his campaign manager: Lowe’s email reply stated that Danko is a campaign adviser, and that Lowe has always been his own campaign manager.

Danko, asked about the mailer, said he hadn’t been aware of any requirement for permission to use a photo of the governor.

“I don’t know that you need somebody’s permission,” Danko said. “Alan met with Ron DeSantis; they took a photograph.”

Danko noted that the mailer didn’t state that the governor had endorsed Lowe.

For the first time in two years, third-grade students across Florida took part in state assessments. On June 22, the State Board of Education released the results of the English/Language Arts Florida Standards Assessment given to third-graders this spring.

Overall, 59% of Flagler Schools third-graders scored a level 3 or higher on the FSA Reading test, which is a ninepoint drop from 2019.

However, it surpassed the state’s average by five percentage points.

Flagler Schools was prepared to see a dip in the scores, coming off one of the most challenging years seen in education.

“I believe this shows how i m p o r ta n t fa c e - to - fa c e instruction is for our students,” Flagler Schools Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt said.

“Just 78% of our third-graders were physically in a classroom this past spring. Fortunately, we have identified students in need of additional supports, and many of them are now taking part in our Summer Reading Program.”

LaShakia Moore, Flagler

“With our students back in our buildings, I am confident that through explicit, systematic instruction and progress monitoring implemented by our highly qualified educators, our students will regain the momentum we experienced pre-COVID.” LASHAKIA MOORE, incoming director of teaching and learning

Schools incoming director of teaching and learning, said the district is already addressing the challenges some of our students face following the 20202021 school year.

“With our students back in our buildings, I am confident that through explicit, systematic instruction and progress monitoring implemented by our highly qualified educators,

our students will regain the momentum we experienced pre-COVID,” Moore said.

During the 2020-2021 school year, Flagler Schools offered three learning environments.

In addition to the 78% of thirdgraders in “in-person” learning, 17% took part in our innovative, or “RemoteLive” option, while 5% enrolled in the iFlagler Virtual Franchise.

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Remembering Dr. Gary Shelton: the smile that helped thousands of animals AMY WADE-CAROTENUTO

YOUR TOWN YOUNG VISITORS HELP CLEAN UP BEACH

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Mike Cohen and his family.

Veterinarian Dr. Gary Shelton

and who introduced us to Dr. Andrea James, who became our lead veterinarian for several years.

We drove many a shelter dog to his hospital for him to perform hip surgeries or knee surgeries. The dogs that he did that for would probably not have been adopted had it not been for his help.

After he married his wife Nena in 2015, they would travel to Thailand and he would perform spay/ neuter surgeries and provide other veterinary care to animals in need. He did this all as a volunteer.

Dr. Shelton was one of a kind.

He did more for animals than just about anyone I know. And he did it all with a smile and a great, contagious laugh.

Children often collect things at the beach — shells, rocks, driftwood — but it’s not as often that one sees them collecting trash that includes fishing line and other plastics, as well as a sand and sediment loaded tire.

But that’s what Tanner Jones, 10, and Emily Dampieta, 11, were doing during a beach visit with their grandparents at MalaCompra on Father’s Day. “These two kids were trying to remove a tire with a little adult help,” said County Attorney Al Hadeed, himself a beachfrequenting environmentalist. He didn’t admit to whether he was the adult helping the youngsters wrestle the tire out of the water.

Once they wrangled the tire out of the waves, the children rolled it up the dune to the walkover mat

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Two lucky dads were chosen as this year’s Observer Father’s Day contest winners: Palm Coast resident Mike Cohen and Ormond Beach resident Marc Schwartz.

Congratulations to our winners and a special thanks to our sponsors for supporting this contest and supplying the prizes. Our sponsors were so that county staff could more easily remove it from beach.

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The animals lost a dear friend last week when one of the hardest working, smartest, kindest veterinarians that I’ve ever met died unexpectedly from a heart attack.

Dr. Gary Shelton cared about every animal and every owner.

He opened three successful veterinary day practices, and, with several other veterinarians, founded The St. Augustine Regional Veterinary Emergency Center. He was a large animal veterinarian as well, and was involved with Flagler Humane Society for decades.

In the ’90s and early 2000s, he would visit the shelter anytime we needed extra help, even providing court testimony which helped us to gain legal custody of animals from their abusers.

In 2012 he was asked by a struggling FHS board of directors to help when we had no veterinarian, no medical staff and no executive director. He responded by bringing his expert medical team here.

Shelton and his assistant Shannon ensured that our veterinary department was staffed and running smoothly. He was the one who asked me to return to FHS,

TRIBUTES Robert Louis Ferrigno 1940-2021

Ensign Martine Montgomery U.S. Coast Guard

Robert Louis Ferrigno, 81 of Palm Coast, Florida and Hamden, Connecticut, died Tuesday, June 8, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital with his loving daughter and son in law by his side. Robert was born in New Haven, Connecticut, January 21, 1940.

Son of Louis Antony and Anna Manzi Ferrigno.

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Ensign Martine Montgomery graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Officer Candidate School in New London, CT on May 3, 2021.

ENS Montgomery completed seventeen weeks of intensive academic, physical and leadership training resulting in her assignment as a deck watch officer on the Coast Guard Cutter, KIMBALL, in Honolulu, HI. While in training, ENS Montgomery was appointed the coveted position of Platoon Commander while training on the historic sailing vessel CGC EAGLE and was honored with her selection by her peers as the Platoon’s Honor Executive Officer in the final stages of the program.

Prior to this, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering with a minor in Environmental Science. ENS Montgomery is the daughter of Phil and Lea Montgomery of Palm Coast, Florida.

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The family wishes to extend their gratitude to Woodlawn Care Center, Newport, New Hampshire, and the doctors and nurses at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, Lebanon, NH. and to his caring neighbors, Chris and Jean Fitton and his many friends.

He will be missed by all.

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Robert was a fiercely loyal family man and friend. He made friends wherever he went. He loved spending Sunday afternoons riding his motorcycle with fun loving friends and later spending early evenings in Florida at the dog park with a new group of friends. He loved his time with family and his greatest pride was his three grandchildren.

Robert is survived by his daughter, Lisa Ferrigno and son in law, Paul Brown of Newport, New Hampshire, his grandchildren, Timothy Robert Brown, Zachary James Brown, and Grace Brown and many cousins, and friends. He is predeceased by his parents, his sister Phylis Ferrigno Lonetti, and his favorite uncle, Anthony Manzi.

Calling hours were held at Hamden Memorial Funeral Home, 1300 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut on Friday, June 25th, 2021 5-7 PM. Burial was held at Beaverdale Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut at 10 AM on Saturday, June 26th.

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Flagler Beach’s Junior Lifegaurd Camp, open to students 6 to 15, emphasizes physical fitness and teamwork and teaches CPR, first aid, ocean safety, basic ocean rescue and surfing, according to a program brochure.

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Beach Camp introduces campers to ocean safety through fun beach activities, according to a program brochure.

Camps cost $80 per student per week.

For more information about Flagler Beach’s summer camps, contact the city of Flagler Beach at 386-517-2000 or email tgillin@cityofflaglerbeach.com.

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he Palm Coast Little League 11U softball team won their sectional tournament games in Port St. John last weekend and will head to the state tournament, where they’re set to play in Rockledge on the weekend of July 10.

The 11U team is one of eight teams remaining in the state, according to PCLL President Peter Schoembs.

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The Freedom Week tax holiday is part of an overall $196.3 million tax package.

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State economists acknowledge the upcoming “Freedom Week” tax holiday is uncharted territory when it comes to estimating reductions in tax revenue.

Lawmakers approved the first-of-its-kind tax holiday, which will run from July 1 through July 7, to help spur people to get outside after being cooped up during the pandemic.

During the holiday, people will be able to avoid paying sales taxes on tickets purchased for such things as live music, athletic contests, in-theater movies, cultural events and entrance to museums and state parks.

Tickets could be purchased during the week for events that occur later in the year, including annual passes. The holiday will also provide sales-tax exemptions for such outdoor equipment as tents, grills, bicycles, kayaks and fishing supplies.

“It’s hard to know (the impact on tax revenues), because we’ve never done this before. And this is a brand new time of year for us,” said Amy Baker, coordinator of the Legislature’s Office

of Economic & Demographic Research. “So, we don’t know how much attention it will get during that period. But I still, as we add stuff, I think there’s more opportunities for businesses to have collections of items and try to get some synergy from, ‘Hey, when you’re here buying this, buy this and this and this,’ because they’re all subject to the new sales tax holiday.”

Economists initially projected the period would reduce state and local revenue by $54.7 million. The tax holiday was part of an overall $196.3 million tax package that also included more traditional tax holidays for back-to-school shoppers and hurricane supplies.

One question posed by state economists is whether the tax break will cause people to rush out and buy kayaks, sporting goods or event tickets. A second, and bigger wild card, is whether businesses and shoppers know about Freedom Week.

“I know it’s being welladvertised in our office because we have ‘Freedom Week’ flyers all over the place,” Baker said.

“Hopefully, it’s being welladvertised elsewhere.”

Olga Wengert

Olga Wengert has joined Ameris Bank as branch manager of the Palm Coast location, according to Ameris Bank Market President Cecil Gibson.

Wengert will be responsible for building and maintaining banking relationships in the Palm Coast area and managing the daily operations of the branch.

With over 10 years of experience in the financial industry, Wengert is a skilled banking and lending professional.

Prior to joining Ameris, she was a branch leader and small business relationship manager at BB&T, now Truist.

“We are excited to have Olga join and lead our team in Palm Coast,” Gibson said. “Her dedication to her clients and community, combined with her financial knowledge and leadership experience, will be invaluable as we continue to grow and serve Palm Coast.”

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Wengert is proud of all the continued growth throughout Flagler County and enjoys supporting the flourishing community through various volunteer opportunities.

“I have a strong passion for serving my community, continuing my personal growth and being part of the solution for my clients’ needs,” Wengert said. “I am excited to join the Ameris Bank team and commit to the success of Flagler County.”

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Your Home Sold Guaranteed Realty recently welcomed two new agents: Deidre Vlassis and David Vlassis. They have been in the business for three years, but have recently joined the Jesse Warmka team.

“We are excited to demonstrate Second Mile Service and follow YHSGR’s mission — ‘to positively impact the lives of people, through second mile service, innovative systems, and charitable giving. Go serve big!’” Deidre said in a press release from the real estate firm.

Your Home Sold Guaranteed Realty opened an office branch in Palm Coast in January 2021.

Since then, YHSGR has already helped dozens of families with their real estate needs.

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house in Hammock Dunes was the top real estate transaction for the week of May 20-26 in Flagler County in the Multiple Listing Service. Salvatore and Jacqueline Butera, of Rio Verde, Arizona, sold 8 La Costa Way to Lourdes Planas, of Palm Coast, for $959,000. Built in 1996, the house is a 3/3.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,726 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $540,000.

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Pine Lakes Harald and Rosemarie Hansen, of Palm Coast, sold 38 Westcedar Lane to Ronald De Lay and Carol Van Camp, of Palm Coast, or $320,000. Built in 1989, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,205 square feet. It sold in 2012 for $185,000.

Following is a partial list of other transactions for the week.

Condos Robert Kiehl, individually and as trustee, sold 7 Avenue De La Mer, Unit 501, to Arthur Panoff and Sandra Swersky, of Katonah, New York, for $889,000.

Built in 2003, the condo is a 4/3.5 and has 2,840 square feet.

It sold in 2018 for $815,000.

Herman Vidal, of Atlantic Beach, sold 80 Surfview Drive, Unit 504, to Barbara Wilson, of Palm Coast, for $460,000.

Built in 2003, the condo is a 3/2.5 and has 1,640 square feet.

Paul and Joann Pelliccia, of Palm Coast, sold 54 Club House Drive, Unit 205, to Encarnacion Leon for $123,000. Built in 1977, the condo is a 1/1 and has 665 square feet.

Belle Terre Lumenes Isma and Marie Pierre

sold 34 Princess Rose Drive to Ian Hylton, of Palm Coast, for $299,000. Built in 2004, the house is a 5/2/1 and has 2,928 square feet.

Fuquay Steven Thomas, of Flagler County Holdings LLC, sold 1900 Palmetto Ave. S. to Laura and James Monday, of Flagler Beach, for $425,000. Built in 1980, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,552 square feet.

Grand Haven Morgan and Margaret Evans, of Palm Coast, sold 20 Flamingo Court to Glenn and Andrea Evans, of Palm Coast, for $405,000. Built in 1996, the house is a 3/3/3 and has 1,972 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $265,000.

Grand Reserve and Golf Club D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 645 Grand Reserve Drive to Jason

The house features three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a half-bath.

and Brittanie McMahon, and Daniel McMahon, of Bunnell, for $223,775. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,698 square feet.

Matanzas Woods Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 39 Londonderry Drive to Igline Henry, of Palm Coast, for $333,491. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,604 square feet.

Palm Harbor Nortex Developers LLC, of Palm Coast, sold 170 Frontier Drive to Matthew and Claudia Sherman, of Palm Coast, for $354,000. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,976 square feet.

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ACROSS 1 Longtime sporty Ford, briefly 6 Like a mostly negative review 13 Vietnam neighbor 17 Plaster mural 18 When a movie begins 19 Sina ___ (microblogging site) 20 Pack your tent and leave 21 Fab Five’s TV program 22 Underworld 23 Inverse (Across theme hint: In this answer, look down after letter 6) 25 Apt rhyme of “grab”

26 Fire-prevention bear 28 Glum 29 Green-lighted 30 ___ bag (expo giveaway) 32 Alley-___ 33 Do well 36 Common med. scan 37 Kerfuffle (... letter 3) 41 Apple on Apple Music 43 ___ vu 45 Where St. Louis is 47 Filming device, informally 48 Actor Guinness 51 Snip or clip 52 Tussaud’s title, for short 53 Feuding 54 Many kilt wearers

56 Unit on a utility bill 58 Hurdle over 60 Cribbage markers 61 Afro-Caribbean music genre 63 Angry 64 Quibble 66 Elite groups 69 “Taste the explosion!” candy (... letter 4) 71 Aquafina alternative 73 Photographer Goldin whose first name is palindromic 74 “How’s it goin’?”

76 Early Greek astronomer 78 Red-rinded cheese

Jean Henry, of Palm Coast, sold 13 Westlawn Place to Jocelyn Gordon, of Palm Coast, for $235,000. Built in 1990, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,497 square feet. It sold in 1990 for $106,800.

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79 Fine distinction 82 Cocktail with cranberry juice, casually 83 Kansas or Arkansas 84 Daisy support 85 “Minari” director ___ Isaac Chung 86 Follow a snowy trail 87 e-tron automaker 89 ___-Mex 90 Spot for a slippery bar 92 Fails to be 94 Strongly encouraged 96 “It’s fine!” (... letter 4) 97 Fishing implement 99 Compilation of bad takes?

102 “... man ___ mouse?”

103 App purchaser 105 Move like molasses 106 Beer hall option 109 Poolside hangout 112 “Te ___” 113 Place to order a beer (... letter 4) 116 Afikomen finder on Passover 117 New look 120 Morphine, e.g.

121 TikTok upload 122 Mr. Peanut’s brand 123 First act 124 Pester with emails 125 Nasal passages 126 Kind of code in 16-Down’s clue DOWN 1 Baobabs and birches 2 “Bachelor Happy Hour” host Kufrin 3 Parent’s words after “Because” 4 Ottawa law force, for short 5 Not disappoint (Down theme hint: Look right after letter 4) 6 Landed heavily 7 Sorrow 8 Olympian Jesse 9 Tan floor covering 10 Dress shirt clasp 11 Youngest sister in “Little Women” 12 “Mudbound” director Dee 13 Tightly sealed (... letter 6) 14 Helper 15 Follow orders 16 ...---...

17 Fireside chats prez 18 Cry of excitement 19 “My bad!”

24 Sooners’ capital, briefly 27 Desktop item that might have a wrist rest 31 “I want that!”

34 Some, in Spanish 35 Convert from code 38 Enjoying dinner for two, perhaps 39 Was the first to portray

Francis and Ashley Demaio, of Palm Coast, sold 22 Casper Drive to Veronica Vigo and Eddie Morales, of Palm Coast, for $320,000. Built in 1972, the house is a 4/3 and has a swimming pool and 2,448 square feet.

It sold in 2019 for $250,000.

Plantation Bay FF Florida Residential LLC, of Daytona Beach, sold 511 Wingspan Drive N. to Gerald and Lori Tarnacki, as trustees, for $754,921. Built in 2021, the house is a 4/3 and has 3,086 square feet.

Marcelo Tenorio and Kelli Lima, of Palm Coast, sold 81 Fellowship Drive to Jay and Michelle Lloyd, of Palm Coast, for $305,000.

Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,870 square feet.

Quail Hollow Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 49 Zebulahs Trail to Robert Cargain, of Palm Coast, for $237,317. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,413 square feet.

Pine Grove Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 4 Potters Lane to Efrain Garcia and Diana Bejarano, of Palm Coast, for $207,990.

Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,552 square feet.

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42 British electropop pioneer 44 Double Dutch need (... letter 5) 46 Muslim prayer leader 47 Channel with hearings 49 And so on (Abbr.)

50 Go dry, like lips 55 Airport agcy.

57 Skip the big wedding 58 Bounds along 59 Org. opposed to flavored cigars 62 Jazz musician’s joy 65 Smartwatch maker 67 Popular web portal 68 Old TV’s “The Ed ___ Show” 70 Actress/activist Watson 72 Complete group 75 Cobbler cousins 77 “If I Ain’t Got ___” (Alicia Keys song) 80 Ad-lib comedy (... letter 4) 81 India’s first prime minister 83 Address for a king 84 XXX-XX-XXXX ID 86 What accompanies a course list?

88 Fifth Amendment right (... letter 5) 91 El ___ (lost city) 93 Winery visitors 95 National park in Montana 98 Resident of Japan’s thirdlargest city 100 Their teeth are called cogs 101 Cori Bush or AOC 104 Plant stabilizers 107 Tilts 108 ___ Lauder 109 Guacamole scooper 110 Musical set in Egypt 111 Hypes (up) 114 Research on a political rival, briefly 115 Spanish for “to be” 116 Walgreens rival 118 Wong of comedy 119 Geese formation

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