Today: Showers likely and chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tonight: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent. Details here.
Today’s fire danger is moderate. Flagler County’s Drought Index is at 475.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: industrial revolution, n..
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Today’s jail bookings.
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- In Flagler and Palm Coast
- Local Media 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
“Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.”
–From Voltaire’s “Homélies prononcées à Londres” (1765).
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.
Election Day for a slew of local, state and federal offices. It’s a primary, but in many races–including school board, judges, supervisor of elections and Palm Coast (if you’re a Palm Coast resident)–all registered voters are eligible to cast a ballot, regardless of party affiliation. Polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Find your precinct here.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. for a workshop. Council members are expected to agree on a final property tax rate for the coming year. At City Hall in Town Center.
In Court: Tyler Harrison, 18, who faces three second-degree counts of statutory rape over sex acts with three girls, appears before Judge Matthew Foxman in a motion to have his name removed from sex-offender registration requirements. 9:30 a.m., Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse. His case is still making its way through the court.
The Flagler County Centennial Committee meets at 1:30 p.m., Third Floor Financial Services Conference Room, Government Services Building.
Bowling: Flagler Palm Coast High School v. DeLand High School, and Matanzas High School v. Mainland High School, at 3:45 p.m. at Palm Coast Lanes.
Updated jail bookings and day and night shift incident summary reports are available here.
Retired Palm Coast Nurse Accused of Suffocating Husband, a Cop, in Hospital Bed
In Palm Coast’s F-Section, a Man Stabs Another in the Back Then Stabs Himself in the Throat
Southern pine beetle infestations on the rise in St. Johns County and much of Florida
Greens For Teens to start first season in Flagler County
Flagler County firefighter heads west to fight wildfires
Palm Coast Data Parent Posts $10.4 Million Loss, Biggest Since 2009 as Revenue Drops
Florida Adds 15 Travel-Related Zika Cases for Total of 42
Palm Coast Prepares for 9th Annual Intracoastal Waterway Cleanup
In Florida and in State Government:
Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel.
UWV Interviews: A search committee will continue interviewing candidates to become president of the University of West Florida. Among the candidates scheduled to be interviewed Tuesday are state Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, and UWF Provost and Executive Vice President Martha Saunders. (7 a.m. Central time, UWF Conference Center, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola.)
Seminole judge reprimanded: The Florida Supreme Court will take up four cases, including issuing a public reprimand to Seminole County Judge Jerri Collins. The discipline stems from findings by an investigative panel of the Judicial Qualifications Commission that Collins “berated and belittled” a domestic-violence victim who did not show up to testify at a trial. Collins found the domestic-violence victim in contempt for failing to respond to a subpoena to testify and sentenced the woman to three days in jail. (9 a.m., Florida Supreme Court, 500 South Duval St., Tallahassee.)
–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
♦ Sept. 1: To pot or not: The Flagler County Young Republicans host a forum on Amendment 2, the proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Florida, which appears on the Nov. 8 election ballot. Representatives from United for Care, the sponsor of the amendment, and Vote NO on 2, will offer presentations, to be followed by an open question and answer period. All welcome. Hilton Garden Inn, Palm Coast.
♦ Sept. 3: Plein air artist William Lurcott, a Flagler Beach resident, is featured at Ocean Art Gallery in Flagler Beach from 6 to 8 pm during the opening reception of his month-long show “A Landscape Perspective.” The public is invited to this free event. During the reception, the artist will meet with guests and explain his artistic techniques. Light refreshments and live music will be available. The gallery is at 206 Moody Blvd., Flagler Beach.
♦ 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: Meeting of the Flagler school district’s Strategic Plan Steering Committee, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Third Floor main conference or training room 3, Government Services Building, Bunnell. Open to the public.
♦ 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.
♦ Sept. 17-18: Staged Reading of Neil Simon’s “Chapter Two,” at the Flagler Auditorium’s Black Box Theatre, directed by Bruce Heighley, a volunteer production to benefit the auditorium’s the Arts in Education Scholarship Fund and Temple Beth Shalom. Performance times are 7 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2 p.m. on Sept. 18. Tickets: $29 for adults, $18 for students. Call the Flagler Auditorium, 437-7547, for tickets, or go to flaglerauditorium.org.
♦ Sept. 26: The Flagler County Stamp and Coin Club meets at 6 p.m. at the VFW Post 8696, 47 N. Old Kings Road, Palm Coast. The public is welcome.
♦ Feb. 6: The great violinist Itzhak Perlman opens the 2017 season of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival with a 7:30 p.m. performance at First Baptist Church, 1600 South 8th Street in Fernandina Beach. Tickets here.
The US Just Met Its Goal of Admitting 10,000 Syrian Refugees https://t.co/vdhSzMDzdS
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 29, 2016
Poll: Majority of Israelis, Palestinians want peaceful solution https://t.co/uPqR0Kn7nA pic.twitter.com/JgwVIpt0BB
— The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor) August 29, 2016
Vaping as bad for your heart as smoking cigarettes, study finds https://t.co/JSz2cQqDYu
— Telegraph Breaking News (@TelegraphNews) August 29, 2016
Harambe the gorilla reveals Americans' hypocrisy about animal suffering: https://t.co/WIqfuh4cuD
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 29, 2016
Abe Lincoln trashes Clinton and Trump in this insane ad for Libertarian Gary Johnson: https://t.co/N4qt0ovAl2 pic.twitter.com/OOikBhn1o8
— ADWEEK (@Adweek) August 29, 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 August 26 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):
Click to access week-in-review-august-26-20161.pdf
Road and Interstate Construction:
Brasil Guitar Duo: João Luiz e Douglas Lora
Previous Codas:
- Branford Marsalis: A Full Concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1999
- Bach Partita BWV 831 in B minor, Céline Frisch, Harpsichord
- Mozart: Piano concerto no. 27 in B flat major, K 595, Trevor Pinnock and Maria João Pires
- Eight Writers on Facing the Blank Page
- Artistic Statement
- Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Complete), Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Sunflowers: Wynton Marsalis Septet at Jazz in Marciac 2010
- 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 Lecture
- 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)
