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Weather: Partly sunny with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Canvassing Board resumes its meeting at 9 a.m. after recessing at nearly 1 a.m. today, continuing its recount in two races to determine the winner of two close races–the County Commission race between Pam Richardson and Ed Danko, and a Palm Coast City Council race for second place, and a spot in the November runoff, between Ray Stevens and Dana Stancel. See: “Ed Danko’s Chance of Flipping Result Is Remote as Provisional Ballots and Recount Steps Ahead Are Mapped Out,” “Ballot Review Doesn’t Change Outcome: Richardson Beats Danko, Stevens Holds 2-Vote Lead,” and “Longer Than Expected Recount Recesses at 1 AM to Continue Saturday at 9.” The proceedings are open to the public.
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The special guest today is City Manager Dale Martin.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 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.
| 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: Some of my ultimate-favorite people in that picture, taken at my Parnassus barely a year ago: my Aphrodite-Anchoress on the left, the only mayor to have a New York City tunnel named after her (it’s about time), the only man I can talk lit with before dawn (and the man who legally made Palm Coast possible. But miracle of life: he endures my atrocious writing), and the reason for this intrusive diary entry: our beloved Colleen Conklin, who’s had a bit of a challenge in the last few days, the kind all of us in that picture, and the one taking it, have had or continue to have–with Milissa’s exception, unless she’s keeping a secret from us–because age at our age is a massacre, as Roth put it, and there’s no let up. It’s a fucking massacre, and there’s no excuse: whoever concocted us had a screw loose. To be so cruel, so sloppy, so cavalier. So damn incompetent, really: you foresee all, but you can’t foresee this? This annual holocaust? “When, as occasionally happens,” writes Bill Bryson, “a cell fails to expire in the prescribed manner, but rather begins to divide and proliferate wildly, we call the result cancer.” Or the greatest literal crime against humanity. We’re all Gazans in its wake. Colleen announced after her surgery that all went well. We cheer, we exult, we raise fists in the air the way Tommie Smith and John Carlos did at the Mexico Olympics did even though it has nothing to do with it, and even the least-believing among us pray, because she prayed for us in our difficult times: Colleen’s heart is the size of Ireland. Incidentally, it’s no secret why she got it: that school board has been lethal for years. (My wife can attest. Those bastards.) She’s leaving just in time, though it was good to see that her seat remains in Conklinish hands. Until the next cell fucks up.
—P.T.
Now this: From the Luka collection (and he had no idea what it would be paired with.)
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Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast City Council Final Budget Hearing
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler County School Board Meeting
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
For the full calendar, go here.
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don’t you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be. Bacteria, never forget, got along for billions of years without us. We couldn’t survive a day without them. They process our wastes and make them usable again; without their diligent munching nothing would rot. They purify our water and keep our soils productive. Bacteria synthesize vitamins in our gut, convert the things we eat into useful sugars and polysaccharides, and go to war on alien microbes that slip down our gullet.
–From Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003).
The dude says
MAGA is very confused, and a little scared, at the outright display of genuine love from a son to a father.
Their orange would be great MAGA king would never indulge in such trivial matters such as love, or being loved.
Ed P says
You know what would be refreshing? Leaving family members out the the Arena. More policies and less rhetoric.
Ray W. says
The Cool Down reports that in 2016 an Icelandic geothermal drilling team unexpectedly hit “supercritical fluid” (magma) 1.5 miles into a planned three-mile-deep bore. It is estimated that the superheated rock can produce 10 times the electrical power produced by a normal geothermal plant.
A research team, expecting that technology innovations will yield equipment that can operate at the expected higher temperatures of the supercritical fluid and funded by a $105 million budget, plans to bore the first of two test wells in 2026 near the Krafla volcanic caldera.
Make of it what you will. Me? There are 8 billion people on this earth. Many if not most of them want Western comforts, i.e., climate-controlled homes, personal transport, personal communications, etc. These comforts require ever-increasing production of energy in its many forms. According to the article, one billion of us live within 60 miles of a caldera. There are billions of intelligent and motivated people who, if educated and given the opportunity, would provide the ideas for the many needed technological innovations to provide the extra energy we all demand. Yet many in the political class oppose innovation, both here and abroad. Some say, “Drill! Baby! Drill!” to the exclusion of other forms of energy. Others say the alternatives are too pollutive, so don’t even try.
Dodge, 99 years after GE rolled out the first diesel-electric locomotive, then designed with efficiency and maintenance in mind, is finally rolling out its 690 HP EREV (extended range electric vehicle) “Ramcharger” truck series using electric drive motors. No transmission. A V-6 detuned from 305 HP to 174 HP to generate electricity when the plug-in battery runs low. The holdup all these years? Battery technology? Perhaps. Yet GE made the idea work in 1925! What or who held back the development of battery technology? We used solid-state batteries during the Apollo space program. Was it truly a lack of imagination? Possibly. Perhaps it was a lack of inertia. Possibly. Could it be that political thought often outweighs the value of pragmatic thought? Or that business thought, focused primarily on short-term profits, can be blinded to the possibility of long-range profit?