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Today at the Editor’s Glance:
In Court: Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
Glass crusher: The Flagler Beach city administration hosts a demonstration of its newly acquired glass-recycling crusher at the city’s utility plant, 2000 Avenue A, at 10 a.m. (see: “A Year After Giving Up on It, Flagler Beach Is Crushing Back Into Glass Recycling with $200,000 Machine.”)
Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin delivers the State of the City address at 5:30 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center. He will highlight the accomplishments of the city over the past year and give a glimpse of things to come. In-person attendees will receive a copy of the City’s Annual Progress Report.
The Annual George Washington Carver Foundation Auction begins Monday. The purpose of the auction is to raise money to go back into the development of the Carver Center in Bunnell. In order to participate in this auction you must register for a bidder account on this 32auctions website. To register click login in the top right corner and then click “Create an account now” if you have not yet made one. The system will then send you an email with a link to confirm the registration. Your bidder ID will be the first part of your email address. If you would like to change the bidder ID you may go in to account settings and pick a new ID. Please pick a username you don’t mind being displayed publicly. The username of the current bidder will be displayed with the item.
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July 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
I consider that in the majority of cases people are revolting to look at when they are laughing. As a rule something vulgar, something as it were degrading, comes to the surface when a man laughs, though he is almost unconscious of the impression he is making in his mirth, as little in fact as anyone knows what he looks like when he is asleep. One person’s face will look intelligent asleep, while another man, intelligent in waking life, will look stupid and ridiculous when he is sleeping. I don’t know what this is due to: I only mean to say that people laughing, like people asleep, have no idea what they look like. The vast majority of people don’t know how to laugh at all. It is not a matter of knowing how, though: it’s a gift and it cannot be cultivated. One can only cultivate it, perhaps, by training oneself to be different, by developing and improving and by struggling against the evil instincts of one’s character: then a man’s laugh might very likely change for the better. A man will sometimes give himself away completely by his laugh, and you suddenly know him through and through. Even an unmistakably intelligent laugh will sometimes be repulsive. What is most essential in laughter is sincerity, and where is one to find sincerity? A good laugh must be free from malice, and people are constantly laughing maliciously. A sincere laugh free from malice is gaiety, and where does one find gaiety nowadays? People don’t know how to be gay (Versilov made this observation about gaiety and I remember it). A man’s gaiety is what most betrays the whole man from head to foot. Sometimes one will be for a long time unable to read a character, but if the man begins to laugh his whole character will suddenly lie open before you.
–From Dostoevsky’s “A Raw Youth,” or “The Adolescent” (1875).
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Steve says
Talk about the old saying “You gotta pick your Battles” geez. Thing is I would Vote for Mickey over DUHSantis
Regulator says
What makes WDW any better than all the other parks. Don’t worry they are not going anywhere.
Mark says
Because every single business, realtors, restaurants to tourist agencies etc., in this State can thank Disney in one way or another. Politicians can thank them too. DUH-Santis just won’t admit he’s taken their money gladly as well as other GOP hanger ons for decades, now they want to bite the hand that has fed them. What comes around goes around, they’re just blind to their little whiny base.
coyote says
@ Steve
Heck, I would vote for *Goofy* over DeSantis. Or Huey, or Louie, or Dewey. Or even Pluto.
Bob says
So sad that a corporation based in California tried to intimidate ur Duh Santis. They lost. Go Gov.