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Today at the Editor’s Glance:
In Court: The Kwentel Moultrie trial enters its final day. Moultrie is on trial for the second time on a charge of first-degree felony rape of a 16-year-old girl in Palm Coast in 2019. This is the second time Moultrie is being tried. The first trial in April ended with a hung jury. Moultrie, who has been at the county jail without bond, also faces separate charges of second-degree murder and armed burglary stemming from an unrelated incident resulting from a home invasion in the R-Section in late December, 2021. The jury will not hear about those charges. The trial begins at 8:30 a.m. with jury selection before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse. The trial is expected to take three days, including jury selection.
- Mistrial in Case Against Kwentel Moultrie, Accused of Raping 16-Year-Old Girl, as Jury Deadlocks
- Moultrie’s Defense in Rape Trial: He Was Framed in ‘Cover-Up’ By 16-Year-Old Girl, But His Lies Uncloak Him
- Moultrie’s Trial on Rape Charge Begins After He Rejected a No-Prison Deal, and Got Charged With Murder
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM. Today, Dave welcomes all seven winners of local elections, including those advancing to runoffs.
The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets at the Supervisor of Elections’ office at 10 a.m., Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The meetings are open to the public. Members of the board are County Judge Andrea Totten, County Commissioner Dave Sullivan, Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart, and alternates are County Commissioner Andy Dance and County Judge Melissa Distler. See detailed primary schedule and times here, and the general election schedule here.
Keep in Mind: The Flagler Youth Orchestra Strings Program, a special project of the Flagler County School District, is launching its eighteenth season. Visit the string program’s website at www.flagleryouthorchestra.org to enroll online. Enrollment is open now and until Sept. 14. An open house and information session will be held August 31 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler Auditorium, 5500 State Road 100, in Palm Coast. Flagler County’s public, private, charter and home-schooled students, 8 years old and older, may sign up to play violin, viola, cello, or double bass. Beginner, intermediate and advanced musicians are welcome. Tuition is free. Limited instrument scholarships are available. Students will learn about the enriching world of classical music and many other genres while receiving comprehensive string instruction in a player-friendly environment twice a week after school. One-hour classes are held at Indian Trails Middle School on Mondays and Wednesdays between 3:30 and 6:30 p.m., depending on your child’s time slot. Some scheduling restrictions apply. Attend the August 31st orientation at the Flagler Auditorium to learn more about the strings program and how to get started. For more information about the program, call (386)503-3808 or email [email protected].
Notably: Today is the birth anniversary of Julio Cortazar (1914), the Argentine novelist and author of Hopscotch (1963) who had a lot in common with Rousseau and was not fond of the United States (see below). It is also Christopher Isherwood’s birth anniversary (1904). From his wartime diaries: “One morning on deck, it seems to me, I turned to [W.H.] Auden and said: “You know, I just don’t believe in any of it any more–the united front, the party line, the antifascist struggle. I suppose they’re okay, but something’s wrong with me. I simply can’t swallow another mouthful.” And Auden answered: “No, neither can I.” In a few sentences, with exquisite relief, we confessed our mutual disgust at the parts we had been playing and resolved to abandon them, then and there. We had forgotten our real vocation. We would be artists again, with our own values, our own integrity, and not amateur socialist agitators, parlor reds.”
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September 2025
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Former U.S. Prosecutor Roger B. Handberg
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
“Conversations in American Democracy” Celebrates Constitution Day
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Central Avenue Comeback Bash at Barnhill’s Cafe Bar and Grill
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council Members
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
There is something diabolical in thus taking advantage of the good will and unconscious complicity of so many people who go on innocently believing that the spread of culture is the best way to peace and progress. In this sense, Life‘s friendly overtures could be as diabolical as the most aggressive behavior of the State Department, especially in that many of its editorial staff and the great majority of its readers almost certainly believe in the democratic and cultural value of its pages. For my own part, a single glance at any number of Life is enough to show me the true face hidden behind the mask. For instance, let my readers look at number 11, for March 1968: the photograph of North Vietnamese soldiers on the cover displays a laudable desire for objective information; inside, Jorge Luis Borges speaks admirably and at length about his life and work; only on the back of the cover does the true face appear: an advertisement for Coca-Cola. There is an amusing variation in the number for June 17 of the same year: Ho Chi Minh on the cover, and Chesterfield cigarettes on the back. Symbolically, psychoanalytically, and capitalistically, Life gives us the key to the cipher: the cover is the mask, the back, the true face gazing toward Latin America.
–From Julio Cortazar’s interview with Rita Guibert in Seven Voices (1973).
Alphonse Abonte says
Congrats to everyone who didn’t have college debt, now you do………
Simon Says says
I’m relatively new to “Flagler Live” as a result of the recent primary election, but judging from your political cartoons, I don’t expect to be here long. They’re ridiculous.
Pierre Tristam says
Aren’t they though? Just like our times.
Whathehck? says
Myself and my children do not have college debts because we were lucky to have been transferred to countries where education was important, Universities, Technical Schools and Trading Schools were free. But I am glad my taxes are going to help our own American youth to be able to have an education and compete with the world.
Mary Fusco says
My children and I had college debt. Amazingly, we paid it all back. Debt is Debt. YOU owe it. Unfortunately, we have raised a generation of idiots that think everything is free. Nothing in life is free except for the “single moms” that ride the ride for 18 years.
James Mejuto says
Yes, Republicans love to condemn those who are not blessed with fortune. I paid off my student loans after graduation
in the 1960’s and I do not regret doing the right thing, forgiving student loans, this day in a country once led by an
insurrectionist who never worked a day in his miserable life.
By the way, how are those Republican politicians up in D.C. making out with their PPP loans . . . all forgiven by the way?
Norris says
The text in the speech bubble should’ve indicated some mumbling and studdering. Also Biden wouldn’t have referred to Trump as Trump but probably Bush or Reagan or “that guy” even.
Judith B says
Flagler Live is a pretty far left leaning publication. Flagler County leans conservative. I read the articles here just to see what the other side says. During elections Pierre Tristam does ask the same questions to all candidates so you do get to see some fairness there. The mixture of people in Palm Coast makes it a wonderful place to live. I moved her in 2005 and would never live anywhere else.