Daily Briefing

The Flagler Youth Orchestra holds its open house at the Flagler Auditorium for all interested participants at 5:30 p.m., John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” on its 76th anniversary, and how this is not your life.

The Palm Coast City Council get a presentation on the final $249 million budget proposal for 2022-23, the National Hurricane Center keeps an eye on a potential hurricane in the Atlantic, the Hellespont Swim.

The school board discusses its service union workers’ contract in a closed session, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s vapidity of values, Michael Jackson’s thriller birthday.

Grace Community Food Pantry, composer Peter Boyer’s Fanfare for Tomorrow, when Orwell watched a man hanged, a few more days before the open house of the Flagler Youth Orchestra.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Gamble Jam, celebrating Theodore Dreiser and celebrating Hegel a little less, but with a nice long lecture.

The final day of Kwentrel Moultrie’s trial, a canvassing board meeting, Christopher Isherwood reflects on anti-fascism in another time and place, Julio Cortazar reflects on the meaning of Life (magazine).

Brooke Anna Lorenzen is sentenced, The Kwentel Moultrie trial is in its fourth day, Meriwether Lewis reflects on his 31st year, the National park Service marks its 106th anniversary.

Flagler Cares Help Night for all people in need, the Kwentel Moultrie trial’s third day, Fingerprinting available at the Flagler Beach Police Department, Wittgenstein’s certainty.

Election day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Coffee with Kimberli Halliday, the Kwentell Moultrie trial’s second day, the end of Brian Stelter, The Road to Wigan Pier’s answer to J.D. Vance.

The Bunnell commission considers a 100-acre rezoning to accommodate a development of shops and apartments near Commerce Boulevard, the Kwentell Moultrie re-trail on a rape charge begins, American journalism in the nefarious age of Trump.

Grace Community Food Pantry. PEN America released a report on educational gag orders in which Florida figures more prominently than any other state.

Today is the last day of early voting, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Is Our Ethos of the American Independent Spirit Hurting Us? On the fragility of Salman Rushdie.

Next-to-last day of early voting for the Aug. 23 primary, Boutique at Emmanuel’s Closet Sidewalk Fundraiser, Celebrate National Senior Citizens Day at the Library, Willie Nelson ’till the day I die.

More theorizing about Joe Mulins’s amazing technicolor drug bust on Drug Court day before Circuit Judge Perkins, a few words from Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses.

Goodwill opens its newest retail store, the Palm Coast Planning Board takes on three self-storage facilities, Flagler Undercover, a few words about hands, and of course Django Reinhardt.

The Palm Coast City Council considers Ryan’s Landing, the Flagler County School Board holds a pair of meetings, Food Truck Tuesday, the last day of Elvis Presley.

The County Commission talks beach calamities and repairs, the sheriff asks for a raise for his troops, a candidate forum at Cattleman’s Hall, the coming California Megastorm, how Bassam al-Sheikh Hussain became a rare Lebanese hero.

Flagler’s LGBTQ youths rally for school board candidates, Grace Community Food Pantry, reflections on the stabbing of Salman Rushdie and the shock of the crime’s increasing ordinariness.

11th Annual Surfers for Autism in Flagler Beach, Sensory Storytime at the public library, the Gamble Jam, Kurt Vonnegut on banned books.

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin and Commissioner Dave Sullivan on Free For All, defunding the federal police appears to be OK with conservatives, Ricky Gervais and Moby-Dick.

The NAACP Flagler Branch hosts a forum for candidates for the Palm Coast City Council and the Flagler County Commission, remembering the Iowa State Fair, Bill Burr, Orwell.

The Flagler Beach City Commission holds a special meeting on beach erosion, John McWhorter on texting, Magellan from 1519 to 1990, on trashy novels.

The Palm Coast City Council is in workshop, The Community Traffic Safety Team meets, Remembering Nagasaki and wondering why there won’t be a moment of silence.

The Bunnell City Commission discusses how to go about filling another vacancy, highs only around 90 (pack a sweater), FYO open enrollment, beer bellies, lepers and conspiracy theories.

A view of American from abroad, Remembering Philippe Petit’s walk between the World Trade Center towers, the Gulf of Tonkin REsolution’s relationship to the Hatfields and McCoys.

It’s the annual Back to School Jam at Flagler palm Coast High School, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, The First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market, discovering Arturo Marquez and the Autum Concerto for trumpet, Octavio Paz on the Mexican exception.

Pleas and docket sounding in circuit court, First Friday in Flagler Beach, a few thoughts on prohibition, the Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Nothing’s the matter with Kansas.

The Oversight Committee discussing the inter-local agreement, or ILA, between the school board, the county and Flagler’s municipalities regarding school concurrency, meets, Louis Armstrong, America’s assassination of jazz.

The Flagler Woman’s Club’s election forum for county commission and school board candidates, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement board, Happy Birthday, James Baldwin.

The Flagler County school board outlines $165 million in school construction over the next five years, the Palm Coast City Council talks Lehigh Trail, a Melville Moby-Dick marathon.

The Flagler County Commission meets and will once again neither censure Joe Mullins nor require him to step down at least from the chairmanship, following his abusive encounters with law enforcement. Kemal Belevi’s “Suite Chypre,” Francis Fukuyama on Soviet Man, not to be confused with Florida’s parental Bill of Rights.

“Keep Palm Coast Clean” litter pick-up from 8 a.m. to noon, “Constellation” has its last performance at City Repertory Theatre, Milton Friedman, The Sewing Girl’s Tale.

“Constellation,” at City Repertory Theatre, Puppapalooza at James Holland Park in Palm Coast, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, reflections on Henry Ford.

Willy Wonka, Jr. at the Flagler Playhouse Ken Burns on Ken Burns, Wendy Kaminer on atheism, the last taboo, another call for the Veterans Park Fountain Design Contest.

The Flagler Beach City Commission may or may not hold an inquisition, Brooke Anna Lorenzen, accused of DUI manslaughter, pleads out, the Jan. 6 hearings and Shostakovich’s 10th symphony, fascism in the streets.

Panel Discussion of LGBTQ+ Issues and the Separation of Church and State at the Flagler County Public Library, Jules Verne and the Great Eastern, Teresa Carreño.

The Palm Coast City Council talks utility, stormwater and other special funds, the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, On Barney Frank, this endemic stage of Covid.

The Bunnell City Commission meets takes stock of a $275,000 for a surveillance-camera system trained at South Bunnell, the County Commission meets to talk about goals, Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival.

Cats and Dogs Alert: The Flagler Humane Society is at capacity and needs you help finding homes for cats and dogs, The Wacky Wonderful Oz, Toward the End of Time.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, “The Wacky Wonderful Oz” at the Daytona Playhouse, presiding party’s mid-term losses, a heat wave shuts down Congress, in 1912.

Kori Jones and Darius Watts, 17, are sentenced as adults for violent crimes they committed when they were 15, Alexander Calder in Grand Rapids, Werner Herzog on reading.

The WNZF political forum featuring county commission candidates, at the Community Center, The U.S. House Jan. 6 committee focuses on Trump’s 187 minutes of complicit silence, Marshall McLuhan.

A working group meets to discuss the inter-local agreement on school concurrency, the Flagler county Tourist Development Council meets to decide the fate of a $739,000 grant Palm Coast is in line for.

The Palm Coast City Council is expected to set the maximum, but tentative, property tax rate, the school board holds a pair of busy meetings, Food Truck Tuesdays, Pianist Alxeander Kantorow plays Saint Saens, Robinson Crusoe reflects.

A possible plea in the case of Jerami Talkington, Flagler County’s local mitigation strategy meeting, Nelson Mandela’s birthday and Nobel lecture.

It is National Ice Cream Day, so head to Sally’s Ice Cream in Flagler Beach. The colossal uselessness of the B-1 bomber, Thoreau sailing from Fair Haven.

Free Virtual Legal Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic, Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Amazon’s birthday, the Trinity atomic bomb test.

The sentencing of Dan Priotti on his third DUI conviction in 10 years, affordable housing in Flagler, Trump’s Pandora’s box, Jacques Derrida’s impenetrable deconstruction.

A working group meets to discuss the ILA on school concurrency, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets to discuss City Manager William Whitson’s future, speaking of insurrections.

A marble statue of educator and civil-rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is unveiled in the U.S. Capitol, a Captain’s BBQ hearing in court, Queen at Wembley for Live Aid, “Somebody cuts you? Where it doesn’t show?”