Today: Showers likely in the morning…then showers likely and slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Showers likely and slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Details here.
Today’s fire danger is moderate. Flagler County’s Drought Index is at 453.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: prie-dieu, 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
“Lying there in New York Hospital, my first definitive act on this planet was to vomit. And vomit and vomit and vomit. For the first four weeks of my life I lived to projectile vomit. My mother later told me with great pride: ‘They would feed you and you would shoot formula clear across the room. You couldn’t keep anything down.’ And I still can’t. This remarkable inability to hold anything back and to spew it across a public space has served me well my whole life.”
–George Carlin in “Last Words” (2009).
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.
The Flagler County Land Acquisition Committee meets at 3:30 p.m. in the First Floor Conference Room of the Government Services Building.
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. in the Doug Cisney Room at the library on Palm Coast Parkway, with an update on the construction grant Library Director Holly Albanese is submitting to the state.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at city hall, 201 West Moody Boulevard. Dominic Guida, formerly a deputy at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, will be sworn in as a new Bunnell Police Department officer. Russell Rouson and Steven Dozier will receive the Outstanding Citizen Award. The city commission will discuss a proposed county ordinance that would establish a civil citation program for pot users arrested for the first time. Bunnell has been generally opposed to the proposal.
Sheriff’s candidates: The News-Journal hosts an election forum featuring the candidates for Flagler County sheriff, at the Buddy Taylor Middle School cafeteria, 6 p.m.
Free computers distribution at Flagler Palm Coast High School for grades 9 and 10, 3 p.m.
Freshman orientation at Flagler Palm Coast High School, first session at 4:30 p.m., second session at 6:30 p.m.
Updated jail bookings and day and night shift incident summary reports are available here.
2 Found Dead at Slowdrift Turn Home in Palm Coast, Where Homeowner Had Threatened to Kill Cops
Palm Coast’s Opelka Reaches First ATP Pro Semifinal in Atlanta With Win Over Top-60 Foe
Moonshine to modern times, Flagler sheriffs reflect history
Happy 100th birthday to Naomi T. McLaurin
Saying Trump Panders to Fear and Hostility, Joe Biden Plans Florida Swings for Clinton
In Florida and in State Government:
Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will appear at a campaign rally in St. Petersburg and also is expected to attend an event in Orlando. She is expected to visit Miami on Tuesday. (3:30 p.m., The Coliseum, 535 Fourth Ave. North, St. Petersburg.)
–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
♦ Aug. 10: School resumes for all students in the Flagler County School District, two weeks earlier than last year, but with a new calendar that enables students to complete their coursework ahead of high-stakes exams, that ends quarters more logically with holidays, and that restores a full week’s holiday around Thanksgiving, Nov. 21-25. See details here.
♦ Aug. 11: Gun buy-back hosted by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Flagler County Association of Realtors building, 4101 State Road 100 in Bunnell.
♦ Aug. 11: Flagler Votes Hob Nob, the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce’s pre-election event for voters to meet candidates, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Flagler County Association of Realtors’ building, 4101 E Moody Blvd in Bunnell. Participating candidates must pay $150 a table for their space, but it’s otherwise free to attend. As part of their free admission, attendees will enjoy light snacks, great conversation and a ticket to vote in an electronic “straw poll,” the results of which will be revealed at the end of the evening. Beer, wine and water will be available for nominal cash donations.
♦ 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.
♦ 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. 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.
NYT journalist wonders why politicians are putting their hands over their hearts all of a sudden. https://t.co/VUt3QeZMNR
— Gawker (@Gawker) August 7, 2016
If Donald Trump wins, many of Barack Obama’s accomplishments would be under threat. https://t.co/Q8Rd1EofoA
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 7, 2016
Part of Scalia's legacy: He made it difficult for people to bring cases to court https://t.co/gPOyHllAYx pic.twitter.com/8DbhYiZuTO
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/762380094501376000
Obama has done more to save energy than any other president https://t.co/rrAROxuOH8
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 7, 2016
The most beautiful library in each US state https://t.co/Zs8uU5AqRm pic.twitter.com/fxdJt9iqFE
— Goodreads (@goodreads) August 7, 2016
Everything I Know: 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller’s Visionary Lectures Free Online (1975) https://t.co/5aKkNs1VAx pic.twitter.com/46z9hSxOs9
— Open Culture (@openculture) August 7, 2016
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:
Werner Herzog Narrates Pokémon Go
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- 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
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- Wilhelm Kempff, Schumann’s Papillons Op. 2 Parts 1 and 2
- Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Performed by Evgeni Koroliov
- Mozart at His Most Bach-Like: The Piano Suite in C Major, K 399
- Bach’s Keyboard Partita No.1 in B flat major, BWV 825, Performed by Daniel de Borah
