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Weather: Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values up to 112. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor commission conference room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join by zoom. Meeting ID: 823 5444 1058, Passcode: 565882
The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The developer of the Cornerstone strip mall is requesting a special exception to exceed the ratio of impervious surfaces at the development, though the developer also does not consider the request necessary. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here. See today’s full agenda here.
The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. 10 a.m. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.
In Coming Days:
September 16: Flagler OARS’ 3rd Annual Recovery Festival at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach, from 3 to 9 p.m., with live bands, food trucks, exhibitors, hosted by Open Arms Recovery Services. Vendor booth space and sponsorships available. Click here or contact [email protected].
Keep in Mind: The Belle Terre Swim & Racquet Club is open, welcoming and taking new memberships, and if you enroll before Sept. 1, you’ll beat the price increase kicking in then. Experience the many amenities including a lap pool, wading pool, tennis/pickleball courts, sauna, and a modern wellness center–all for less than what you’d pay just for a fitness center at your typical commercial gym. Friendly staff is available to answer any questions you may have about becoming a member. Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club is the sort of place where you can connect with fellow community members and experience the welcoming atmosphere that sets BTSRC apart. If you have any questions, feel free to call at 386-446-6717. If you would like to learn more about our club and membership options please visit online.
Notebook: “Now and then, especially at night,” writes Donald Hall, “solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.” We feel that loneliness, don’t we, more so in the middle of the night when nature, as if teasing us with its ultimate call, calls for more profane needs. We creak out of bed, we flirt with the darkness to make it around familiar objects without waking up our beloved (we forget, because we prefer to take these things for granted, to be grateful that she is still there, that we are not so tree-ringed that one of us has already left), we walk the few steps to the in-house, we either turn on the light or not, depending on how bleak it all feels, we irrigate the stillness with that audible reminder of our waste-producing selves (“my personal sewage system,” Hall called it), assuming it begins to flow with reasonable promptness (not the icy, not the life-giving, not the miraculous headwaters of the Missouri that Meriwether Lewis exulted in on Aug. 12, 1805), and we stand there, as if face to face with our finitude, as if that moment were a message from oblivion, a taunt, a pull, its gravity made heavier the further on we flip calendars’ monthly arraignments as our reverse probation toward that mandatory sentence nears its term. So we hurry back to bed, the last irony, “the foreshadow of death,” as Updike wrote in one of his Bech books, “the dab of poison we daily take to forestall convulsion.”
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Webcam:
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August 2025
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
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
Now I understood how death and desolation fit into the riotous joy and laughter at the Music Hall in Portsmouth. The emotional intricacy and urgency of human life expresses itself most fiercely in contradiction. If any feeling makes a sunny interminable sky, the feeling is a lie and the sky is a lie. If at a moment of sun a part of the landscape collapses in earthquake, then feeling may establish itself. In any apparatus of art, there is no north that is not also south—not in Gilgamesh, not in Doonesbury, not in Henry King’s “The Exequy.” Paradiso validates Inferno. Yes no. No yes. Several times in my life when I have concluded a poem, satisfied with its language, I feared that it failed because it thrust in one direction only. Several times I have later discovered that the love was so overwhelming and so monumentally carnal that in my poem love suffered death. Mortality interrupted ecstasy to embody emotion. W. B. Yeats has the Bishop tell Crazy Jane to live in a heavenly mansion, and Crazy Jane responds, “But Love has pitched his mansion in / The place of excrement.” Catullus told Lesbia, “Odi et amo.” Only the wrenching apart permits or reveals the wholeness. Enantiodromia. Up and down. Down and up. Way way down, way way up. A carnival of losses.
–From Donald Hall’s A Carnival of Losses (2018).
Pogo says
@In the end
Skibum says
It should not take a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist’s intellect to grasp the ethical and moral truth that ANY type of slavery is and always has been wrong, wrong, wrong. Some people are trying to mince words and interject idiotic concepts like there were supposed benefits to those who were victims of slavery. Of course, it is very easy to fantasize how those who were enslaved might have perceived their own fates now that they are dead and buried, but I would be willing to bet anyone would have had a very difficult time finding a slave who would have said anything favorable about their own slavery or touted even a single “benefit” to being a slave, despite what moronic DeSatan would love for Americans to believe. That being said, I believe the most important fact that a lot of people are missing in this horrible history of American slavery is that NO person had any right whatsoever to “own” another human being as their personal property, PERIOD, end of discussion!