Daily Briefing

Flagler schools and courts reopen, the Flagler County Commission recognizes Ryan Belhumeur, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the two Paul Renners: Policy Paul and Ideological Paul.

“Oliver!” the musical, at Flagler Playhouse and “Assassins” at City Rep. It’s Gandhi’s birthday and it’s World Communion Sunday, which lends itself to a few reflections about the eucharist.

It’s back to life for life’s sake: “Assassins” at City Rep Theatre, “Oliver!”” at the Flagler Playhouse, Americans spending like drunken sailors despite inflation, Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter.

Post-Ian recovery in earnest as schools and courts remain closed, but a breezy, cool fall day ahead. The vaporization of Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam, Nina Totenberg’s name-droppings.

Your windiest, rainiest, floodiest day of the year, Louis C.K. before his issues, H.L. Mencken on art.

Schools, courts, government offices and many businesses are closed or closing today in anticipation of the increasing intensity of Hurricane Ian’s local impacts. Stormy antidote: the Berlin Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the Pastorale, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test video.

Eight people, including Brennan Hill (attempted second degree murder) are scheduled for trial starting today but Hurricane Ian may have different ideas for them. A startling view into our limited water resources, Mo Amer at the airport.

The Bunnell City Commission considers its Charter Review Committee’s recommendations, Richard Dawkins tells us why we’re lucky to die, Yeol Eum Son reminds us that when all is gloom, there’s always a Mozart piano concerto.

Matinee day at local theaters, with Sondheim’s “Assassins,” at City Repertory Theatre, “Oliver!” at Flagler Playhouse, marking William Faulkner’s birthday and keeping an eye on Ian.

Free Health Clinic at Hidden Trails Community Center, keeping an eye on Hermine, a weekend of theater and disaster preparation continues, George Orwell at the public library, the John Marshall legacy.

It’s a weekend of theater: Sondheim’s “Assassins,” at City Repertory Theatre, “Oliver!” the musical, at Flagler Playhouse, “Pippin,” at the Daytona Playhouse, Brahms v. Radiohead, and The Inside Joke That Became Trump’s Big Lie.

The Flagler Beach City Commission takes on smoking on the beach, college admission interviews, Iraq, Iran and Ronald Reagan, and Henry James’s English Hours.

Palm Coast government’s final tax and budget hearing, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library, International Day of Peace, Bill McKibben’s “Small World,” mountaintop removal’s disasters.

A rare Jimmy Rice Act trial in Flagler court, The Palm Coast City Council makes planning board appointments, Freedom Readers Club at the Flagler County Public Library, Jelly Roll Morton.

The Flagler County Commission meets for a very busy, multi-layered meeting this evening, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at the public library, French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Haydn sonatas, Ian Frazier on the destruction of Baghdad.

Live Like Cameron’s 5th Annual Flagler Warrior Fun Run/Walk in Town Center, the anniversary of the Battle of Antietam and the 50th anniversary of the premier of M*A*S*H.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Safety Expo at European Village, Judge Andrea K. Totten on the 10th Amendment, Flagler Open Arms Recovery Services’s 2nd Annual Music Festival, the prosecutorial spirit against blue collar workers.

Luciana Celestin is sentenced on a second degree felony charge of neglect of a child, unemployment numbers, “Pippin,” at the Daytona Playhouse, “After the Massacre,” Bertrand Russell on happiness.

Drug court, “Pippin,” at the Daytona Playhouse, a tropical depression nearing the Leeward Islands is far from a tropical storm, William Howard Taft, John Hinkley and “Ideology Masquerading as Medicine.”

The Flagler County Association of Realtors hosts its 14th annual Meet the Mayors, Devandre Williams is in pre-trial, Dante in search of his own circle of hell, Adam Begley on Ian McEwan.

The Palm Coast City Council talks legislative priorities and meeting times, Kwentel Moultrie has a pre-trial, The Flagler County Planning Board meets, remembering, not fondly, John Rocker, the Number 7 subway line and Edward Gibbon’s echoes.

The Flagler County Commission meets to consider the latest budget-cut proposal by its administration in light of the tax rate reduction, on Alfred A. Knopf, America’s greatest publisher, Florian Ross’ Architexture.

The Palm Coast Fire Department’s Sept. 11 commemoration at heroes Park, “Pippin,” at the Daytona Playhouse, Walt Whitman on Manhattan’s resilience, Martin Amis on Mohammad Atta.

Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area, “Pippin,” at the Daytona Playhouse, Picasso, Niebuhr and Jesse Jackson react to men walking on the moon.

Desiree Rodriguez is sentenced, the sales tax holiday continues until midnight, “Pippin” at the Daytona Playhouse, when Russell Baker covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

The ILA oversight committee meets, the Palm Coast City Council meets in the first of two public hearings on its tax and budget proposals, as does the Flagler Beach City Commission, which also meets in a regular session after the hearing.

Sales tax holiday continues, Palm Coast’s code enforcement board meets, heat index up to 109 as tropical storms brew, the founding of Google, the shooting of Tupak Shakur and Moby-Dick.

The school board meets for the first time since the election, the Palm Coast City Council pays more for splash pad repairs, Lech Walesa at FIU, Samuel Alito’s crusade.

Labor Day then and now, the ongoing tax “holiday” for home improvement items, Babe Ruth’s first professional day, Darkness at Noon, Etta James.

The sales tax break on home improvement items continues, a Spectrum story on Flagler Beach’s erosion, why Black people distrusted Ronald Reagan, Richard Wright.

Sales tax suspension on tools and home-improvement items, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Qatar’s unfreedoms ahead of the World Cup, Mark Twain in King Arthur’s court, Charlie Sheen.

Princess Williams is sentenced for her role in a 2018 armed robbery and shooting, Clarence Murphy is back in court to argue he had poor counsel when he pleaded and was sentenced to life, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Jimmy Connors, James Agee on FDR’s death, Schubert’s 13th piano sonata.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board conducts its legally required manual audit of the primary election, DeSantis’s weird woke obsession, Prostate Awareness Month, Ninon de Lenclos, old age as a massacre.

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.