Today in the eyes of the editorial staff: Flagler County Commission holds a cutting workshop at 1 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The workshop and cutting are compulsory following the decennial census. The five commissioners of the commission are elected and serve in general, but must be elected in five different districts. The boundaries of these districts can be redrawn based on the latest population counts, ensuring that the districts are as demographically homogeneous as possible. Bunnell Town Commission meets tonight at 7 p.m. in his leaky Town Hall. The commission is expected to approve its budget and next year’s tax rate, a sharp increase of 23%. Robin Tyler is expected to be re-appointed for a three-year term on the city’s Planning Zoning & Appeals Board. Delories Hall, Kenneth Gordon and Joy Allen have applied to be reappointed to the Code Enforcement Board. The full agenda is here. In class: Chief Justice James R. Clayton announced late last week the resumption of face-to-face jury trials in Flagler and Putnam counties after a brief suspension. This comes after reviewing and discussing the relevant public health measures associated with covid. In-person jury trials now take place throughout the Seventh Judicial Circuit. With no subsequent resolutions or prosecutions, several trials are on the record of circuit judge Terence Perkins, including that of Joshua Charles Carver, a 34-year-old Putnam man accused of a hit and run involving death by Jonathon Raymond Rogers, 29 years old. The accusation is a felony in the first degree. Also on the agenda is the trial of Tessie Lynn White, the 29-year-old woman in Section B facing a felony charge of child neglect after her 2-year-old son was discovered wandering the streets of section B, unattended, in February. See: “Mother Arrested for Child Neglect After Toddler Wanders the Streets of Section B Alone for One Hour”. Free English lessons: Grace Presbyterian Church offers free English classes. Anyone wishing to learn English as a second language is welcome. Students will learn to speak, read and write English in a friendly community. Beginner, intermediate and advanced courses are available. Education is free. The students just have to buy their books. Registration will take place at 6:30 p.m. tonight in person at the church, 1225 Royal Palms Pkwy, Palm Coast. Students can also register throughout the semester, any Monday evening.
Calendar and information on Covid tests and vaccinations from the Ministry of Health until September 25:
Priority will be given to all students, faculty and school staff in public or private schools in Flagler County, followed by the general public, who must make an appointment for testing by calling 386-437-7350 ext. 0.
Monday September 27 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Tuesday September 28 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Wednesday September 29 CLOSED
Thursday September 30 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Friday October 1 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Please consider the following when testing with DOH-Flagler.
* Testing should take place at least 3-5 days after exposure. Testing earlier than this can result in false negatives.
* This is NOT a drive-thru test site. You will park and enter the cattle hall where the tests take place.
* Wear a mask inside the test facility. If your test is positive, you may be asked to leave the facility and wait for the rest of your group outside to avoid transmission.
* DOH staff continue to work extended hours to follow up on contact tracing and case investigation. We appreciate your continued patience. The DOH may take a long time to reach those who test positive for COVID-19. Take the initiative to self-isolate for at least ten days and encourage close contacts to watch for symptoms.
* If you are identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive, you may not hear from the health service if resources are not available.
* If you have been vaccinated (two weeks after your last dose), you will not need to quarantine yourself if you do not have symptoms.
* If you have symptoms, get tested as soon as possible.
* Students must self-quarantine at least four days after the exhibition date.
Monoclonal antibody treatments are now available in Flagler County at the Palm Coast campus of Daytona State College. Monoclonal antibody (MAB) treatments for COVID-19 can prevent serious illness, hospitalizations and death in people at high risk. People 12 years and older who are at high risk, who have contracted or have been exposed to COVID-19, are eligible for this treatment. Treatment is free.
Immunizations continue to be offered at 301 Dr. Carter Blvd on Mondays from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Dates are preferred; Walk-ins are welcome. The health service is awaiting instructions for the administration of booster doses. CVS, Walgreens, Publix, and Walmart offer boosters for people who are immunocompromised.
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“Man is not a political animal on purpose. The human male associates with his fellows less by desire than by habit, imitation and constraint of circumstances; he doesn’t like society so much as he fears loneliness. He associates with other men because isolation puts him in danger, and because there are many things that can be done better together than alone; in his heart he is a solitary individual, heroically pitted against the world. If the average man had had what he wanted, there probably never would have been a state. Even today, he does not care, equates death with taxes and aspires to this government which governs the least. If he asks for many laws, it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately, he is an anarchist without philosophy, and thinks the laws in his own case are superfluous.
– Will Durant, “Our Eastern Heritage” (1934).
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