To include your event in the Briefing and Live Calendar, please fill out this form.
Weather: Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Friday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
- 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:
Election Primary Early Voting is available today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at four locations. Any registered and qualified voter who is eligible to vote in a county-wide election may vote in person at the early voting site. According to Florida law, every voter must present a Florida driver’s license, a Florida identification card or another form of acceptable picture and signature identification in order to vote. If you do not present the required identification or if your eligibility cannot be determined, you will only be permitted to vote a provisional ballot. Don’t forget your ID. A couple of secure drop boxes that Ron DeSantis and the GOP legislature haven’t yet banned (also known as Secure Ballot Intake Stations) are available at the entrance of the Elections Office and at any early voting site during voting hours. The locations are as follows:
- Flagler County Elections Supervisor’s Office, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
- Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast.
- Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
- Flagler Beach United Methodist Church, 1520 South Daytona Avenue, Flagler Beach.
See a sample ballot here. See the Live Interviews with all local candidates below.
Flagler County School Board Derek Barrs, Dist. 3 Janie Ruddy, Dist. 3 Lauren Ramirez, Dist. 5 Vincent Sullivan, Dist. 5 Flagler County Commission Andy Dance, Dist. 1 Fernando Melendez, Dist. 1 Kim Carney, Dist. 3 Bill Clark, Dist. 3 Nick Klufas, Dist. 3 Ed Danko, Dist. 5 Pam Richardson, Dist. 5 Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin Peter Johnson Alan Lowe Cornelia Manfre Mike Norris Palm Coast City Council Kathy Austrino, Dist. 1 Shara Brodsky, Dist. 1 Ty Miller, Dist. 1 Jeffrey Seib, Dist. 1 Dana Stancel, Dist. 3 Ray Stevens, Dist. 3 Andrew Werner, Dist. 3 |
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today: it’s all about Town Center, with guests Jeff Douglas of Douglas Properties and Quint Studer, author of Building a Vibrant Community. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released: The state’s Commerce Department released the previous month’s preliminary unemployment numbers for Florida and its 67 counties, at 10 a.m. See the data releases page here.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
| In Coming Days: Sept. 16: NAACP Candidate Forum: The NAACP Flagler Branch hosts a candidate forum featuring local candidates in the Nov. 5 election for Palm Coast City Council, at 6 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. September 17: Celebrate Constitution Day With County Judge Andrea Totten, 1 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The special Constitution Day program features the Honorable Andrea K. Totten in the Doug Cisney Room. The event offers a unique opportunity to explore the significance of the United States Constitution and its impact on our lives today. Judge Totten will share her insights into the importance of upholding constitutional principles in our democracy. Engage in enlightening discussions, ask questions, and deepen your understanding of the Constitution's role in shaping our nation's history and future. Don't miss this enlightening and educational event at the heart of our community's civic engagement. Sept. 19: Sheriff's Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors, 3 to 5 p.m. at the Sheriff's Operations Center, 2101 Commerce Pkwy, Bunnell. Participants will benefit from a presentation about frequent scams and frauds, have access to free document shredding and paramedicine, and will get a tour of the Sheriff's Office Museum. The event is free to the public. Sept. 19: 988 Suicide Prevention Walk: 5:30 at Wadsworth Park, 2200 Moody Blvd., Flagler Beach. The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach will host an Awareness Walk to promote the 988 National Suicide Crisis Hotline at 6:00 p.m. on September 19, 2024. Participants will walk from Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach, over the Rt. 100 bridge to Veterans Park where we will gather for a brief ceremony. Anyone wishing to participate should arrive at Wadsworth Park at 5:30 pm. After a brief welcome, the walk will begin at 6 p.m. Participants are encouraged, if possible, to wear purple and/or teal, the colors of suicide prevention awareness. Advanced registration is not required. All are welcome at this cost-free event that aims to bring the community together to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and the critical resources available through the 988 hotline. Sept. 25: The Palm Coast Tiger Bay Club presents a candidate forum ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Sept. 25, 5 to 8 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The forum will feature the candidates in three runoff elections for mayor and Palm Coast City Council seats. The forum is free and open to the public, and will be simulcast on WNZF and live-streamed on FlaglerLive, among other media sources. |
Diary: Probably the most common and most evocative sound of my childhood was not the Pink panther theme, though it’s close, or any one of a few thousand children’s or pop songs from the 1970s, but this: the five beeps followed by a long beep followed by the orchestral introduction-theme to the hourly BBC World Service’s nine-minute newscast (it was nine minutes back then), which was on, it seemed, all the time at my house. The newscast was in English. I didn’t understand a word. My mother and father–mostly my mother, especially after my father died in 1976, though one never knows–listened, and probably learned all their English from it. Especially my mother. Especially after the war started in 1975, when reliable newscasts were not available in Lebanon, not without screeds or censorship. We knew even then that the Voice of America, which tried to compete with the BBC, was as lousy as our own militia radio stations. So we stuck to the BBC, which I continued to listen to, like a fiend, in my first year in boarding school in England in 1978. I was homesick–comatose with homesickness–and listening to the news brought me closer to home, since Lebanon was almost always in the news. That theme was like a nursery rhyme. The newscaster’s voice like a soothing lullaby. Strange, how we find our binkies. Stranger still how years, how decades later, we are reawakened to those years with something as startling as it is felicitous. So here I was, working on my usual daily productions for this site, when I noticed a new Deutsche Grammophon album posted to the Naxos Music Library, my everyday companion at work: Daniel Hope’s “Irish Roots.” I’m not bonkers for Irish music, but the violin on the cover seduced me, so I listened, and worked. Most of the time when I write, if I’m listening to music, the music tends to fade to an inaudible background as the material on the keyboard takes over. But then I was shocked out of my zone. Lightly plucked, airily plucked, deliciously plucked as if on a mandolin (but actually on Daniel Hope’s violin, by Daniel Hope), was the BBC World Service theme from 1975! I looked at the liner notes. I had no idea: all these decades, what I had been listening to was actually Henry Purcell’s New Irish Tune in G Major (Z. 646 if you’re into catalog listings). This time, without the news about the latest massacre, the latest beheading down the street, the latest usurpation by Syria, the latest violation by Israel, the latest rape of my sweet and hopeless land. Just Purcell. I still miss the old BBC theme though.
—P.T.
View this profile on Instagram
The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. You can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
2nd Annual Sheriff’s Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors
988 Suicide Prevention Walk
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released
Blue 24 Forum
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse
Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.
–From George Orwell’s “London Letter to Partisan Review,” April 15, 1941.
Pogo says
@Good morning Floridanam
DeSantis has a brainstorm — and can’t stop himself.
DeSantis says state will look into former UF President Sasse’s millions in expenses
The university’s student paper reported that Sasse’s office spent $17.3 million during his first year in office.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2024/08/15/desantis-says-state-will-look-into-former-uf-president-sasses-millions-expenses/