Today: Partly cloudy with chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers likely and chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. South winds 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent. Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index is at 51.
The OED’s Word of the Day: skitch, v..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.
Today’s Briefing: Quick Links
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- Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
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- In State Government
- In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
- The Day’s Best Reads
- Editor’s Tweets
- Fact-Checking the Knaves
- Palm Coast Construction and Development
- Local Road and Interstate Construction
- Cultural Coda
“The air began to grow fresh and cool, the distant mountains frowned more gloomily, there was a low muttering of thunder, and dense black masses of cloud rose heavily behind the broken peaks. At first they were gayly fringed with silver by the afternoon sun, but soon the thick blackness overspread the whole sky, and the desert around us was wrapped in deep gloom. I scarcely heeded it at the time, but now I cannot but feel that there was an awful sublimity in the hoarse murmuring of the thunder, in the somber shadows that involved the mountains and the plain. The storm broke. It came upon us with a zigzag blinding flash, with a terrific crash of thunder, and with a hurricane that howled over the prairie, dashing floods of water against us. Raymond looked round, and cursed the merciless elements. There seemed no shelter near, but we discerned at length a deep ravine gashed in the level prairie, and saw half way down its side an old pine tree, whose rough horizontal boughs formed a sort of penthouse against the tempest.”
–Francis Parkman, from “The Oregon Trail” (1849).
Previously:
Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.
The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 9 a.m. Commissioners are likely to hear an update on preparations for Hurricane Irma, approve several awards from the Tourist Development Council budget to various concerns, and vote on a controversial land use definition interpretation that affects how commercial and residential businesses in the Hammock are to be mixed. The proposal has drawn strong opposition in the Hammock, but not from businesses planning to develop there. For background, see the story: “In the Hammock, A Concern That a Small Rule Change Will Turn Rustic A1A Into Commerce Central.”
The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets at 10 a.m. at City Hall in Town Center.
The Palm Coast City Council holds a special meeting–a public hearing–at 5:05 p.m., the first of two, to adopt its 2017-18 budget. The second hearing is on Sept. 12.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5 p.m. for the first of two budget hearings to adopt the 2017-18 budget, at City Hall.
Open House for the Flagler Youth Orchestra, 5:30 pm in the cafeteria of Indian Trails Middle School. Enrollment is offered free of charge by the Flagler County School District. Students who are 8 years and older by September 1st, 2017, living in Flagler County (regardless of where you go to school) are eligible to enroll. Students may elect to play violin, viola, cello, or doublebass. Deadline to enroll for the 2017-18 season is September 16th for new beginners. Information on instrument sales and rentals from area music stores will be available at this event. All students planning to join or are interested in learning more should attend. Online enrollment form here. For questions about the program, instrument rentals or scholarships, call Cheryl Tristam at 386-503-3808, or send an email to [email protected].
Today and Thursday: Palm Coast’s Chez Jacqueline hosts two fashion shows to raise funds for The Sheltering Tree, Flagler County’s only cold-weather shelter for the homeless. The Shelter, at Bunnell’s United Methodist Church’s Fellowship Hall, is run by the Flagler County Family Assistance Center. The Fundraiser will be held Sept. 6 and 7 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. each day at Chez Jacqueline, 25-3 Palm Harbor Village Way in Palm Coast. Tickets are $20 each and should be purchased in advance. Tax deductible donations will be gratefully accepted. One hundred percent of the proceeds will benefit the charity. For reservations call the Shelter at 386-437-3258, X 1 05, or Chez Jacqueline at 386-447-1650.
Irma-Related Cancellations:
The Flagler County Republican Club‘s Meet & Greets in Flagler and St. Johns Counties with Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam has been postponed. There will be no Flagler County Republican Club meeting today. The next meeting will be on Oct. 4 at Palm Coast City Hall.
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In Florida and in State Government:
Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.
No significant events of note.
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
Oh my god the New Yorker found JARED KUSHNER'S HARVARD ADMISSIONS ESSAY: https://t.co/HJrkRrFOAm
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) September 4, 2017
The Idaho town that stared down hate – and won https://t.co/BDphNaTunT by @dougstruck
— The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor) September 5, 2017
A reminder that economic inequality runs deeper than wages. https://t.co/dtWTSC9oti
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 3, 2017
If there’s one person who has changed the political conversation more than anyone else in the past year, it’s Bannon https://t.co/N4loT1tZB9 pic.twitter.com/z47dlpz3rV
— POLITICO (@politico) September 5, 2017
How did religious freedom come to the West? Persecution simply became too expensive https://t.co/yiaxcTkI6T
— Arts & Letters Daily (@aldaily) August 31, 2017
Have you ever worked for this boss? https://t.co/Bu2JScVcXy
— Law Officer (@LawOfficer) September 4, 2017
Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
Updates of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast usually run here, along with a link to the city’s Week in Review. But the Week in Review, under the guise of being modernized, has become flashier and power-point like while becoming less substantive and dumbed down. We may or may not link to it in future.
Road and Interstate Construction:
Frescobaldi: Toccata in G, Magdalena Baczewska, harpsichord
Previous Codas:
- Willie Nelson: Full Concert, Woodstock, 1999
- How playing an instrument benefits your brain
- Mozart’s Requiem: Camerata Salzburg, Arsys Bourgogne, Cond.
- Repairing Willie Nelson’s guitar
- 100 Year Old Self-Playing Violin
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Symphony B minor, Christophe Coin Ensemble Baroque, Limoges
- Wynton Marsalis Septet: Sunflowers (From The Marciac Suite Album)
- Nikolai Kedrov: Otche Nash (Our Father)
- Ludovico Einaudi, “Elegy for the Arctic”
- Black Violin at Apollo Amateur Night
- Bach’s Beer Bottles: The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus 1
- Mozart’s Only String Trio, K563
- Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, Ida Haendel, Violin
- Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: Marcus Roberts Trio, Seiji Ozawa, Cond. (2003)
- Wynton Marsalis takes the Horn Challenge
- Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, Afiara Quartet
- K.D. Lang: The Mind of Love
- World’s Oldest Violin: Marco Rizzi Performs Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 on a 1566 Amati Violin
- Mark Knopfler on Guitars
- Bach’s Little Fugue in G minor, Performed by the Canadian Brass
- The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
- Macklemore Feat Skylar Grey: Glorious
- Edward Luce On the Retreat of Western Liberalism in the Trump Era
- Why Don’t All Instruments Sound The Same?
- Joachim Horsley’s “Beethoven in Havana”: What the Piano Can Do
- Bojan Cicic and Richard Egarr: Giovanni Carbonelli’s Violin Sonata No. 1
- Voyager: The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
- Bohemian Rhapsody: Brooklyn Duo and Ft. Dover Quartet
- Down in the River to Pray: University of Texas Tuba/Euphonium Studio
- Brahms : Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid in Conversation with Akhil Sharma
- “The Day After” (1983)
- Rui Arayama Performs Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas K.427 & K.455
- Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
- Angelina Jordan, 10 Years Old Norwegian, Sings the Blues: I Put A Spell On You
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Concerto in B Minor for five Recorders Op. 15 Nr. 4, Abateva
- Introduction to Bullshit
- Chopin: 24 Etudes for Piano Op.10 , Op 25, Lukas Genjušas, Piano
- Alike: The Best Short Film Ever
- Fauré’s Requiem, Performed by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Choeur Accentus
- Arthur Rubinstein Performs Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22
- Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, Reformation: Jérémie Rhorer Conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
