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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 110. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
The Palm Coast Democratic Club holds its monthly meeting at noon at the Flagler Democratic Party Headquarters in City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214, Palm Coast. The June speaker is US Congressional Candidate James Stockton. Noon 32164. Stockton, running to represent Flagler County in Congress. He is the eldest son of a public school bus driver and a heavy equipment operator. He was raised in a home of morals and values based on the principle of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” All are welcome to attend and meet Stockton. This gathering is open to the public at no charge. No advance arrangements are necessary. Call (386) 283-4883 for best directions or (561)-235-2065 for more information.
 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: This is the routine of the West Bank, where Israeli settlers’ terrorizing of Palestinians is a daily occurrence, as ordinary as Jim Crow terrorism in the old South. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel–the highet rate of Palestinian murders at Israeli hands since the last uprising of 2000. The video below is hard to view, even though it is among the lesser bouts of violence. It was released by B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, with this narrative: “On Friday, 19 July 2024, around 6:00 P.M., Ja’far a-Najar from the community of She’b al-Batem in the South Hebron Hills noticed a settler grazing his flock on land belonging to the Jabarin and Najar families, which lies next to community homes. A-Najar called the police twice and was told soldiers would come. Meanwhile, one of the landowners, Nizar Jabarin, went over to the settler and asked him to leave. The settler refused, and Jabarin then tried to drive the flock out. Four other settlers arrived, three of them masked and bearing clubs, along with two soldiers, one of whom the residents recognized as a settler named Yedidya Talia. The settlers and soldiers entered the community and started roaming among the homes and entering sheep pens, claiming a sheep had been stolen from them. Some of the settlers assaulted residents who were sitting outside their home. They hit a man and woman on the head with clubs, while Yedidya Talia fired in the air and threatened the residents with his rifle, enabling the assailants to leave. The soldiers arrested Nizar Jabarin and took him to the police station in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, where he was held until 11:00 P.M. and then released without charges. The two injured residents were treated at a hospital in Yatta. None of the settlers were arrested.”
—P.T.
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
“you have to understand that establishing outposts is like therapy for us,” explained Yehoshua Mor-Yosef of the Setler Council. “It is the appropriate Zionist response, and it is the most popular action among the settlers. People almost go out of their minds when settlers are murdered, and the only way to vent the anger and distress is to build an outpost. For us, an outpost is a living memorial, and this is the only language the Arabs understand. They know that we cling to the land no less than they do. This is our best revenge. For every drop of our blood, they will pay in land.”
–Idith Zertal, Akiva Eldar, Lords of the Land (2005).
Ray W. says
During the week ending August 2nd, U.S. energy producers set a new all-time record for crude oil production, according to the EIA: 13.4 million barrels per day. Extractions of natural gas have been breaking records this year, too. It looks like the current administration is all-time the energy king. If OPEC+ would stop manipulating the worldwide energy marketplace by cutting production among the 23 nations that comprise the bloc, we might see a drop in gasoline prices. If only. … OPEC+ nations just may have become so accustomed to the profits generated by their manipulations, so I don’t expect much in the way of change anytime soon.
The administration also raised royalty fees on crude oil extracted from federal lands, so more money is coming into the treasury. Of course, with technological advances in drilling processes, companies are concentrating on fracking in the Permian Basin, as it is more profitable to extract oil from already existing wells, so the federal lands portion of the overall picture is less and less relevant. Isn’t it great to have an administration that understands capitalism. How can the communism-callers among the FlaglerLive family deal with their cognitive challenges?
Laurel says
Where’s Pogo? I’m worried.