Daily Briefing

The cold-weather shelter opens again tonight, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, China’s nuclear boom, a scene from “The China Syndrome,” Sarah Orne Jewett.

Flagler County Legislative Delegation meeting featuring Tom leek and Sam Greco, the Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, and why Donald Trump is right: America’s airports are awful.

The Cold-Weather Shelter opens again tonight, the Bunnell Planning Board takes on the rezoning of Reserve at Haw Creek, the Palm Coast City Council meets, Sydney Shlenker’s pyramid, an I.M. Pei’s.

Flagler County Commissioners make appointments and re-appointments to the planning board and vote on a dangerous-dog designation, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, memories of Baalbek.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Peter Kuper on global smoking, on Breaking the Silence, the organization of whistleblowing veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Grace Community Food Pantry, on the Soap Museum in Saida, and Barbara Ehrenreich talks candidly about cleaning up other people’s crap.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks, on the beauty of Maine’s flora, Steinbeck and Charley discover Aroostook County.

The Bunnell Coty Commission and its Planning Board hold a joint workshop on the pending rezoning application by Reserve at Haw Creek, on golden ageism, Philip Glass and the cosmic calendar.

It’s back to 1954 in Florida, launching a new year on a few thoughts by Pascal, a song suggested by Andy Montgomery (the poor have too much money), and Sabbath’s Theater.

Nothing doing around Palm Coast and Flagler County except shopping for Veuve-Cliquot, a few meaningless predictions for 2025, the absurdity of crystal balls, a final word by Voltaire.

Clay Jones on Jimmy Carter, last Night for Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Nar-Anon Family Groups, a few thoughts about Byblos, its etymology and history, goodbye Demis Roussos.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, next-to-last night of Fantasy Lights in Palm Coast’s Town Center, on the price of denying love to children, and the rewards of providing it.

Gamble Jam, Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden walks of the last 11 years, Ian Frazier takes te F and reflects on Brooklyn and its smells from coffee to fingernail polish to eucalyptus.

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival, recalling Apollo’s orbits around the Moon at Christmas 1968, and Time Magazine’s year of culture.

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival continues for a few more days in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Bachfest, a few reflections on Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs and the 100 best books of the 21st century.

Nothing doing today, and beside the chestnuts roasting on a natural gas fire and the remains of yesterday’s fog, it’s time for Bachfest and the smell of Christmas in “The Plot Against America.”

Clay Jones is rightfully upset that Disney kissed Donald Trump’s ring with that settlement, on the origin of St. Nick, Nicholas of Myra, and a spin around the world with Satchmo.

The Bunnell City Commission hears an appeal from a developer who thinks less open space should be fine, a few thoughts about harsh parents, and the Little Prince.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, remembering Eleanor Roosevelt’s utopian Arthurdale.

Miracle on 34th Street at Daytona Playhouse, the Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meets, Syria’s refugees and their mistreatment, school shootings and Clay Jones.

Flagler and Florida unemployment numbers are released,Miracle on 34th Street at Daytona Playhouse, a 21st birthday celebration, trillions upon trillions of tiny marine organisms.

Marineland talks about Ragga Surf Cafe’s pending eviction, Model Yacht Club Races at the pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Drug Court’s last session of the year, the American judiciary’s reputation falls to historically low levels.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club features Jeff Hoffman, the global entrepreneur, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, Buc-ee’s happy place, a few thoughts from Casanova.

The Palm Coast City Council and the School Board hold their last meetings of the year, taking a dive into Country Highway, America’s best new newspaper, a few words from Walter Kirn.

A pair of meetings of the Flagler County Commission, including an earful on the Ragga Surf Cafe mess, Holly Albanese on the Nexus Center, Bach’s Fifth French Suite gives Chuck Berry a run for his trills, Rabih Alamadeddine on memory.

The Palm Coast Holiday Boat Parade is scheduled for 6 p.m., Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Rad Assal corrects New York Times headline writers, Riadh Alamadeddine with a key bartending observation, Bach’s sublime English Suite in A minor.

Palm Coast’s Starlight Parade in Town Center, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, Gamble Jam, dreaming of Las Vegas, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park.

Christmas in Bunnell, Shop with a Cop, Sen. Tom Leek on Free For All, a new Chopin waltz is discovered, Chechnya banning music considered too fast or too slow.

The Flagler Beach City Commission holds its last meeting of the year and votes on annexing Veranda Bay, “From Jellyfish to Sharks,” the Evening at the Whitney lecture, Gore Vidal on Christopher Lehmann-Haupt’s reviewing.

The Cold-Weather Shelter opens again tonight, a few thoughts on a passage from Katherine Ann Porter’s “Leaning Tower,” Weekly Chess Club for Teens.

The Palm Coast City Council will discuss its procedures, accused wife-murderer Jermaine Williams is in court, the school board holds a workshop, the end of Hafez and Bashar el Assad and a remembrance of Hama Rules.

Lyonel Jeune, is sentenced for a hit-and-run death, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the library board of trustees meets, Fantasy Lights in Town Center, Pablo Neruda and metaphors, an excerpt from Wendell Berry’s “The Rise.”

‘The Country Girl’ at City Repertory Theatre, Handel’s Messiah at United Methodist Church, a Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, a response to December 7, Michael Sandel on Trump’s America, an excerpt from Orbital.

The Flagler Beach Holiday Parade, “The Country Girl’ at City Repertory Theatre, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Trump’s 49 percent and Pearl Harbor.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Clinic Open House in Bunnell, Free Family Art Night at OMAM, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, the death penalty conveyor belt and John Oliver’s take.

John Garrison Sentencing, Ashley Estevez at The Stage in Palm Coast’s Town Center, A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, the demolition of a Palestinian student’s life.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, weekly Chess Club for Teens, Maupassant’s “On the water,” and a brief history of the Seine.

The Palm Coast City Council holds its second business meeting since the election, Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets, on Joe Biden’s reprehensible Beau pardon.

The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, including its reorganization, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the origins of Burgess’s “A Clockwork Orange.”

A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, The Sarcoi, the Last Resort, and Dr Florian Willet’s imprisonment, plus that scene from MASH.

Peps Art Walk, holiday shopping edition, noon to 5 p.m. next to JT’s Seafood Shack, A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, memories of Madison Square Garden.

Ted Torres Martin as Elvis The Show at Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center (Flagler Auditorium), A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, Wendell Berry’s “The Long-Legged House,” Wim Statius Muller and Curacao.

A warmish day for Thanksgiving, with all government offices and most businesses closed, no trash pickup anywhere but in Flagler Beach, the thankful exception, Piazzolla’s Oblivion, Samantha Harvey’s Orbital.

Flagler County gradually shuts down for Thanksgiving, the Naxos label tries to sell “Classical for Cats,” Nicholson Baker’s “Books as Furniture.”

The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership meeting, Clay Jones on Pete Hegseth’s women problem, the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day late.

The Bunnell City Commission discusses and approves various annexations, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, an explanation of the 2024 election from a 1915 Willa Cather novel, Hillary Hahn performs Vaughan-Williams’s ascending lark.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, light up a house for the holidays, the United States aligns with the grimmer side of the world on anti-personnel mines.

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley and Acting Police Chief Lance Blanchette, Gamble Jam, reflections on parking lots, Elizabeth Kolbert, Earth’s genetically modified environment.

Flagler County’s cold-weather shelter opens tonight, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the JFK assassination.

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop to discuss its beach management plan, Flagler Tiger Bay Club welcomes Carlos M. Cruz, Voltaire’s daddy issues on his 330th birthday.