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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Monday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
Today is the deadline for filing your taxes.
- Prosecution Stumbles to an End in Chamblin Trial for Murder as Star Witness Confounds Both Sides
- In Chamblin Trial, 2 Prosecution Witnesses Puncture Its Own Claim that Catastrophic Argument Had Preceded Murder
- Defense Argues Cops Bought Testimony to Accuse the Wrong Man in Circle K Murder of Deon Jenkins
- Firearms, Circumstantial Evidence and ‘Eclipse Time’ Punctuate Jury Selection in Circle K Murder Trial
- Marcus Chamblin’s Defense Loses Almost All Key Motions It Sought Ahead of Circle K Murder Trial
- Circle K Murder Trial of Marcus Chamblin Is Set for April 8, With Co-Conspirator’s Trial Soon to Follow
- 2 Arrested in ‘Targeted’ Circle K Murder in 2019 Following Extensive Investigation of 15 Months
- Search Warrant in Palm Coast’s B-Section Suggests Target In Sight in Circle K Murder Investigation
- 2 People Shot in a Car on Palm Coast Parkway, 1 Killed, 1 Wounded, Assailant at Large
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: A little too much bad entertainment and violence in its bready circuses had something to do with the end of the Roman empire, at least in Rome. The decline and fall of the American empire (what John Updike described in Toward the End of Time as “the beer-blurred gleam of defeat”) cannot possibly be so entirely divorced from the amount of pisswater Americans choose to drink, pretending it’s beer. That Bud Light, Budweiser, Heineken and Coors still dominate half the top eight beers consumed is cause for a national commission on the order of the one Johnson called to study violence or the one that produced the Nation at Risk report in 1983. That we have never stopped being a nation at risk since, or amplified the risk in the last few years, coincides with the inescapable reality that too many Americans have bad taste in beer. The surge in mircobreweries was a good sign, and surely had something to do with Obama’s election, but it’s clearly not been enough. You need help, America.
—P.T.
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Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
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.
“The high metallic sheen of gin, the slightly more viscid transparency of vodka, the grain-golden huskiness of bourbon, the paler, caustic timber of Scotch, the spring of mint, the slice of orange, the chunk of lime, the column of beer with its rising flutes of bubbles, the hemispheres of white and red wine floating above the table on their invisible stems, the little sticky-rimmed glasses of anisette and Cointreau and B&B and green Chartreuse that followed dinner…”
–From John Updike’s story, “How Was It, Really,” in Licks of Love (2000).
Jim says
Marjorie Taylor Green is not the problem – she’s just a nuisance – like fly buzzing around you. Annoying but otherwise inconsequential.
Mike Johnson, however is the absolute worst Speaker of the House in the history of this country. He’s so job scared that he will not bring key critical votes to the floor for fear MTG will “oust” him. So, to hell with what’s best for the country – what is best for Mike Johnson?
Ukraine may start losing ground to Russia any day because the United States (i.e., Mike Johnson) will not vote to provide more aid to them to defend against Russian aggression.
Mike Johnson is a piece of s— and I’ve had it with him and his Republican fascist friends. He’s a fake Christian and makes most other politicians look reasonable and I didn’t think that was possible.
Sherry says
Right On, Jim!