Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Patchy dense fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
In Court: The trial of Philip Martin on a life felony and a second degree felony counts of molesting the minor daughter of an ex-girlfriend is expected to conclude today, its fourth day, before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse. See background here.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. The commission will hear a happier update from County Attorney Al Hadeed on the Corps of Engineers’ dunes project (see: “Flagler Beach’s Tardy Dunes Project Is Down to a Single Holdout As Another Property Owner Signs Easement“). Commissioners will consider renting the pier for four hours to Salty Church for an Easter service on April 17, and consider a request from a business owner to open a tattoo studio within a needle’s prick of City Hall, at 213 South 2nd Street (City Hall is at 105 South 2nd).
Notably: Estonians, who briefly won their independence from the Soviets in 1918, and again in 1991, might want to celebrate their Independence Day today, as it could be their last. As for that Russia-China embrace of late, it was on this day in 1980 that the United States announced it would sell military equipment to China in response to the then-fresh Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It was also on this day that the House voted 386-12 to boycott the Moscow Olympics later that summer. Also, on the same day, Nelson Doubleday bought the New York Mets for $21 million, the sort of price that might be too low for certain houses in the region today.
Now this:
Rodney Dangerfield:
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January 2026
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
“Turtle Trail Artists of Flagler County,” at Expressions Art Gallery
Al-Anon Family Groups
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
“The highest aim of the school was to produce a perfectly obedient, militarist, puritanical moron who could play football.”
–From Wendell Berry’s “The Long-Legged House,” quoted in a profile of Berry in the Feb. 28, 2022 New Yorker.
Ray W. says
Thank you, Mr. Tristam, for the Wendell Berry link.
Andy B says
OK, now to present both sides of the abortion issue, are you going to show a cartoon of a doctor dismembering a fetus after pulling from a womb?
NO? WHY? TOO GROSS… of course your morning cartoons always only show the right-wing as the butt of the joke.
Dennis says
Great comment. The liberal media will never print something like that. To brutal, but very true. Abortion is murder.