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Hindus offer meatless Thanksgiving meal

DAYTONA BEACH -- They came in cars and on bicycles and from off the streets. Some sat at tables with the simple meal. Others left carrying full containers in plastic bags. In the shade, a row of Indian women doled out spinach salad, biryani rice and ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  23 Nov 2009

Flagler finishes million-dollar scenic byway

MARINELAND -- For five years, scenic byway advocates and local governments have been working to beautify the Flagler County coastline. On Friday, they launched the final piece of the more than $1.1 million project puzzle with a much-improved 90-acre ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Anne Wilson

Memorial service planned for retired Capt. Grady Prather, 57

The Flagler County Sheriff's Office has lost a legendary lawman and the longest serving deputy in its history. Retired Capt. Grady Prather died Tuesday at his home in west Flagler County, surrounded by his family. He was 57. Before his retirement on ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Don Fleming

Hanns tapped as Flagler County Commission chairman

BUNNELL -- During the Flagler County Commission's annual reorganization, commissioners unanimously voted in George Hanns as the new county chairman. Hanns was nominated by Commissioner Milissa Holland on Monday night, a year after she took the gavel ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  18 Nov 2009

National Guard to build reserve center in Flagler

BUNNELL -- Flagler County officials gave Florida's Army National Guard the nod Monday for a $21 million, 80,000-square-foot armed forces reserve center just south of the county airport. Commissioners approved a 40-year lease for $10 a year between the ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: National Guard,  Michael Fleming

Bunnell struggles with raising utility rates

BUNNELL -- Apologies can be hard. But city officials weren't afraid to say sorry -- again and again -- in addressing public outcry over a recent utility rate increase. "It's something that had to be done and we're just so sorry that it had to be done ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Department of Environmental Protection

Local woman's scholarship search leads her to pageant

DAYTONA BEACH -- Dwarfed by the ballroom's silver chandeliers, a dozen beauties dot a couple dozen chairs in the big room's center, chattering nervously. It's the day before the pageant and the first time they've met each other, gotten a chance to size ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  8 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Charles Lee,  Mary McLeod Bethune

State dismisses ethics complaint against Flagler elections supervisor

PALM COAST -- The Florida Commission on Ethics has dismissed a complaint against Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Kimberle Weeks. The Aug. 17 complaint, filed by a former election office employee, accused Weeks of violating the state's ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  6 Nov 2009

Debris becomes art in couple's creative hands

PALM COAST -- The fuzzy brown pod amid the queen palm's lacy fronds isn't quite ready to come down. So Gary Andrews crosses the street to a friendly neighbor's yard and grabs a dry cabbage palm slat from off the ground. "It's just using the wood," ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  4 Nov 2009

Flagler firefighters get 2nd chance at certification

BUNNELL -- At least seven Flagler County firefighters facing termination or demotion after not meeting job requirements in time got a reprieve this week. County administrators and the firefighters inked a deal Wednesday extending the two-year ...

From KARI COBHAM, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  31 Oct 2009

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