Today: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in the morning…then slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s inland…in the upper 80s coast. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index readings 102 to 106.
Tonight: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.Details here.
Today’s fire danger is moderate. Flagler County’s Drought Index is at 348.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: paraffle, n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.
Today’s Briefing: Quick Links
- First Light
- In Flagler and Palm Coast
- Local News Recap
- Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
- In State Government
- In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
- The Day’s Best Reads
- Fact-Checking the Knaves
- Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
- Local Road and Interstate Construction
- Cultural Coda
“Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.”
–Barbara Tuchman, “The Guns of August” (1962)
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.
Ongoing Early Voting in Flagler County for a slew of local, state and federal offices leading up to the Aug. 30 primary. Early voting is mandated from Aug. 20 through Aug. 27, but county supervisors of election have the discretion to begin sooner. Flagler’s is among 24 counties choosing to do so. Though it is a primary, numerous races appear on the ballot in which all registered voters are eligible to cast a ballot, regardless of party affiliation, including for Palm Coast City Council (if you’re a Palm Coast resident), for judges, for school board and for Supervisor of Elections. Early voting hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day through Saturday, August 27, at the following locations:
1. Flagler County Public Library
At the corner of Belle Terre and Palm Coast Parkway.
2500 Palm Coast Parkway N.W. Palm Coast
View this location on a map
2. Palm Coast Community Center
At the corner of Clubhouse Drive and Palm Coast Parkway.
305 Palm Coast Parkway NE Palm Coast
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3. Supervisor of Elections Office
Located in the Government Services Building.
1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Suite 101 Bunnell
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All the information you need is at the Supervisor of Elections’ website.
Tuesday through Thursday: Navy training schedules indicate live bombing will take place at the Pinecastle Range Complex in the Ocala National Forest Aug. 15 through Aug. 18, using live ordinance, each afternoon starting at 1:30 p.m. until either 3:30 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. The telephone number for noise complaints is 1-800-874-5059, Fleet Air Control and Surveillance Facility, Jacksonville. For additional information, call (904) 542-2415/5588.
The Flagler County School Board holds three meetings today. The first is at 2 p.m., it’s closed to the public, enabling the board to talk strategy in its negotiations with one of its unions. The board meets in open session for a workshop at 4:30 p.m. to discuss its legislative platform and “properties held by the district.” The board meets at 6 p.m. for a regularly scheduled meeting, where it will approve the school year’s bus routes.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall in Town Center. It will hear a Zika virus update from Flagler County Health Department Administrator. It will also ratify the city’s contracts with its firefighter and utility an d public works unions. The council is also expected to approve a $215,000 repair contract to fix sand bunkers at the Palm Harbor Golf Club.
The Flagler County Centennial Committee meets at 1:30 p.m., 3rd Floor Financial Services Conference Room, Government Services Building.
Free computer distribution at Old Kings Elementary School, grades 4-6, 4 p.m.
Food Truck Tuesday in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from 5 to 8 p.m. Today’s Food Truck benefits the Palm Coast Arts Foundation.
Updated jail bookings and day and night shift incident summary reports are available here.
Woman Dies From Gunshot in Apparent Suicide on Palm Coast’s Llanes Place, 3rd in 4 Days
DeBary mayor Clint Johnson wants removal hearing in larger venue
Palm Coast council candidates share similarities
State Revenue Cut By $132 Million This Year, and By $135 Million the Next
Volusia-Flagler judge candidates unusually critical in race for 7th Circuit seats
Chamber Poll: Flagler’s Trump Country; Cuff, Lenhart, Holland, O’Brien and Conklin Win Big
In Florida and in State Government:
Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel.
Workers’ Comp: The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will hold a hearing on a proposal to raise workers’ compensation insurance rates by 19.6 percent. The proposal, filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, stems largely from a Florida Supreme Court ruling that overturned limits on attorneys’ fees in workers’ compensation cases. (9 a.m., 412 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
The Florida Elections Commission is scheduled to start a two-day meeting. (9 a.m., 110 Senate Office Building, the Capitol.)
The University of West Florida Presidential Search Committee will meet to discuss the search for a replacement to outgoing President Judith Bense. (Tuesday, 9 a.m. Central time, UWF Conference Center, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola.)
–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
♦ Aug. 19: The latest pre-trial hearing in the case of Florida v. Kimberle Weeks, continued from July 22, is scheduled for 3 p.m. before Circuit Judge Margaret Hudson in Courtroom 402 at the Flagler County Courthouse. Weeks now faces nine third-degree felony counts, down from 12, stemming from allegations that she illegally recorded various individuals in her capacity as supervisor of elections and in her private life. Weeks resigned that post in January 2015.
♦ Aug. 25: First of two town hall meeting giving the public a chance to weigh in on the Flagler County school district’s strategic plan, the school district’s goals for the next five years, which the district’s Strategic Plan Steering Committee has been working on for the past few months. 5:30 to 7 p.m., Third Floor main conference or training room 3, Government Services Building, Bunnell.
♦ Sept. 7: The Flagler Youth Orchestra holds its open house for all new or prospective students who’d like to join the county’s largest (and free) music program. The open house is at the Indian Trails Middle School cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. Any Flagler student, including homes chooled students, in grades 3-12, are eligible to enroll (must be 8 years old by Sept. 1, 2016.) Students may elect to play violin, viola, cello or doublebass. One-hour classes are held at Indian Trails Middle School Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3 to 6 p.m., with students enrolled in the hour block appropriate to their skill level and schedule. The first class for first-time students is Sept. 19. (Auditions for returning students start on Aug. 22, the first class for returning students is Aug. 31.)
♦ Sept. 8: Second of two town hall meeting giving the public a chance to weigh in on the Flagler County school district’s strategic plan, the school district’s goals for the next five years, which the district’s Strategic Plan Steering Committee has been working on for the past few months. 5:30 to 7 p.m., Third Floor main conference or training room 3, Government Services Building, Bunnell.
♦ Sept. 10: African Art: Ancient Egypt to the Contemporary World, a pair of presentations by Bertrand Green, former chairman of African American studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. The first session is from 10 a.m. to noon, the second session from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Hilton Garden Inn, Palm Coast. $20 for PCAF members, $25 for general admission. Call 386/225-4394 or email [email protected] to reserve your seat.
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— ProPublica (@propublica) August 15, 2016
Lies, Lying Liars, and Donald Trump https://t.co/i7BrLwPYOE
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 15, 2016
London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones https://t.co/9NBCqpfe9o
— Pierre Tristam (@PierreTristam) August 15, 2016
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— Pew Research Race and Ethnicity (@pewidentity) August 15, 2016
Why, and how, are British Jews considering the once unthinkable: becoming German citizens? https://t.co/6iZalXXAOT pic.twitter.com/uiA5E91pdL
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Fact-Checking the Knaves:
Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through July 15 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):
Click to access week-in-review-july1.pdf
Road and Interstate Construction:
Sunflowers: Wynton Marsalis Septet at Jazz in Marciac 2010
Previous Codas:
- John Williams: Olympic Fanfare and Theme (1984)
- Dvořák’s American Quartet, Performed by Prazak Quartet
- Werner Herzog Narrates Pokémon Go
- Arthur Rubenstein Performs Brahms’s Piano Concerto in D Minor with the Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam
- The Last Bookstore
- Agustin Barrios: La Catedral, III
- Mabuhay Singers-Planting Rice-Magtanim Hindi Biro
- Ray Bradbury on Violence, Laughter and Sadness
- Bill Evans Live, ’64, ’75
- Leonard Bernstein Conducts the Boston Symphony in Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
- The Minnesota Orchestra in Cuba
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830, Edward Neeman, Piano
- Festival Next Generation 2015: Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
- James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
- Philadelphia Orchestra Performs La Marseillaise
- J.S.Bach’s Concerto for Three Violins, BWV 1064, Julia Fischer Leading
- Cremaine Booker Performs Barber’s Adagio for Strings, By Himself in a Four-Cello Arrangement
- Juan Diego Florez: Besame Mucho
- Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- Aaron Copland Conducts His Own Fanfare For The Common Man, After Leonard Bernstein Gives a Brief Lecture on American Music
- President Warren G. Harding’s Erotica
- Anaïs Nin Reads from her Diary
- Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, Murray Perahia, Piano
- Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, op. 74. Anna Paulová at the Clarinet
- Charles Dickens in 10 Minutes
- Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, for Soprano and Alto, With Les Talens Lyriques
- Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson, Together, Live, in 1972
- J.S.Bach’s Fantasia and Fuge in G Minor BWV 542, John Scott at the Organ
- Schubert’s Piano Sonata No 20 D 959 in A major Performed by Alfred Brendel
- Gabriel Faure’s Requiem, Orchestre de Paris, Chen Reiss, Matthias Coerne
- Mozart’s Oboe Concerto, Moscow Virtuosi
- Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K 450, Robert Levin, cond.
- How Disney Cartoons Were Made
- Chopin’s Piano Concerto Nr. 2, Rosalía Gómez Lasheras at the Piano
- Edward MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
- Hilary Hahn plays Ernst’ s Grand Caprice on Schubert’s Der Erlkönig, Op. 26
- Telemann’s Fantasia for Solo Violin in B-Flat Major, Cynthia Freivogel on the Baroque Violin
- John Field: Nocturne No. 10 in E Minor
- Respighi’s Pines of Rome
- Schostakovich’s Best Waltz, for Guitars
- Happy Birthday Ray Charles: Georgia On My Mind
- Eugen d’Albert: Klavierstücke op. 5, Performed by Koji Attwood
- Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light, a Movie on his 93rd Birthday (He Died in 2004)
- Wilhelm Kempff, Schumann’s Papillons Op. 2 Parts 1 and 2
- Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Performed by Evgeni Koroliov
Anita Moeder says
Enjoying a replay of Wynton Marsalis Sunflowers then to Bachs Goldberg Variations. Cod as makes for a very fine playlist!