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Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Notably: It was on this day only in 2004 (I say “only,” but I am dating myself: that was 20 years ago) that Facebook launched. The war in Iraq was raging. George W. Bush and John Kerry were campaigning against each other, on the way to the Daily Mirror in Britain asking on its front page, on the day after Bush’s re-election, “How Can 51,054,087 Americans Be So Dumb?” That was supposedly before the age of disinformation. But disinformation, from WMD’s to al-Qaeda’s ubiquity, was the essence of a Bush re-election campaign built on fear and terror, as if we were about to be blown up any day, anywhere. Facebook for a while gave newspapers and media in general a big boost. The golden age lasted until a few years ago, when Facebook decided to stop giving news sites torrents of links. It’s been devastating to news organizations: Buzz Feed and others couldn’t survive the shock. Between that and artificial intelligence, numerous news sites have been in free fall, while Facebook somehow continues to command its tribunes of the trivial and ephemeral. Are we better off with Facebook today than we were in 2004? I doubt it. Facebook is like that TV show you think you could never live without, but the moment it’s cancelled, it’s as forgettable as yesterday’s Briefing.
—P.T.
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January 2026
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
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
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There was something in Lima that was wrapped up in yards of violet satin from which protruded a great dropsical head and two fat pearly hands; and that was its archbishop. Between the rolls of flesh that surrounded them looked out two black eyes speaking discomfort, kindliness and wit. A curious and eager soul was imprisoned in all this lard, but by dint of never refusing himself a pheasant or a goose or his daily procession of Roman wines, he was his own bitter jailer. He loved his cathedral; he loved his duties; he was very devout. Some days he regarded his bulk ruefully; but the distress of remorse was less poignant than the distress of fasting and he was presently found deliberating over the secret messages that a certain roast sends to the certain salad that will follow it. And to punish himself he led an exemplary life in every other respect.
–From Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge at San Luis Rey (1927).
James says
Btw… Facebook or Meta (or whatever it is called nowadays) has just hit a new high in market capitalization… and has even issued a dividend.
One might then ask, how can Americans be THAT dumb?
Just say’n.