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Today at the Editor’s Glance:
The Flagler County Commission meets in brief special session at 4 p.m. today at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, for the administration of the oath of office to Greg Hansen, who was re-elected, and Leann Pennington, who defeated one-term incumbent Joe Mullins in the Republican primary with 69 percent of the vote and defeated Jane Gentile-Youd in the general election with 73 percent of the vote to win the seat.
Jazz Ensemble II Concert at UCF, the group group performs a varied repertoire of standard literature as well as new pieces composed and arranged for big band. Free admission, no ticket required. 8 p.m. at UCF’s Rehearsal Hall, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando.
World Cup: Messi and Argentina go against Saudi Arabia, those paragons of freedom and human rights, at 5 a.m. Then it’s Denmark and Tunisia (birthplace of the Arab Spring), at 8 a.m., then Mexico and Poland at 11 a.m., and finally France, the defending world champions, and Australia at 2 p.m.
Notably: Today is Lebanese Independence Day. Also, a day that lives in irony.
Now this: A Bob Special from the From the Luka Collection:
Flagler Beach Webcam:
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
The Rainbow Bridge Dedication at Holland Park
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
Nature grows most desolate when history deserts her, like a bone without flesh; but wherever paths cross or the plough has carved a name the countryside assumes memories and is invisibly softened. The whole of Lebanon falls within this vale of recollection. There cannot be a knoll which is free from the past, and there are heights and valleys which have guided men and armies the selfsame way, as birds are ushered south in winter, one after another into oblivion. Beaufort is such a place, built by the Romans on the corridor which linked Damascus with the sea at Tyre and Sidon, a thousand feet above the Litani river. The Arabs raised a new fortress here long after, and King Fulk of Jerusalem took it from them in 1139 and gave it to the lords of Sayette, who built it again. From fifteen miles away the upsurge of its walls is a fable on the horizon, the round towers sharp with a metal clarity above the river. Visitors must be accompanied by two soldiers and only remain an hour, for the old fortress stands on a new frontier and from it one can see the Israeli village of Metulleh.
–From Colin Thubron’s The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon (1968).
Pogo says
@FlaglerLive, and Luka
Thank you. The Ron White video is likely the high point of this day.
Pierre Tristam says
Luka nodded. But still refuses to learn to moderate comments.