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Weather: Partly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 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:
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.
| 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. |
Notably: A sight from inside The Anchor in Flagler Beach the other evening, as the beach renourishment barge (one of two) swung by, feeding sand onto the beach near the pier. The project was nearing its end. It’s been as if an undersea volcano poured this million square yards of sand on the latest first day of creation. Worth the martini and mussels, god’s apéritif after his/her/their third day.
—P.T.
Now this: Continuing the Luka collection:
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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
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The pint bottle in my hip pocket must have showed, the way I was standing, for someone touched my shoulder and said,
“Pal, can you spare a drink outa that there bottle?” I turned around and looked at him, wondering if I should give him one and then take him into the tavern to give Charlie a gander at him. Bringing in my own prospect would be better, in a way, than picking someone up inside. But I decided against it. He was a bum and a wino all right, but a young one, and fairly husky, a hillbilly kid; a lot of them turn wino when they hit a city. He was red-eyed and had the shakes- a hopeless alcoholic who’d probably be better off dead- but why should we take the chance of picking someone who might fight back and give us trouble when there were so many complete wrecks to pick from, old geezers who couldn’t blow the foam off a beer? I told him to get lost and he got lost. At least, I guess he did; I never saw him again and he never knew what he missed.
—From Fredric Brow’s The Murderers (1961).
Pogo says
@We were the world…
Microplastics are invading our brains and even our pets aren’t safe
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/microplastics-are-invading-our-brains-and-even-our-pets-arent-safe/ar-AA1pkZgB?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Ed P says
When can we expect policies?
Ray W. says
Just a gentle reminder, Ed P.
I typed in 2024 Republican Party platform; it dropped on July 8th, after the Convention.
I typed in 2024 Democratic Party platform; it dropped on July 13th and was formally adopted in August at the Convention.
I thought the new Ed P was willing to investigate before posting. Please, you have shown your capabilities. Why backslide now? It took me only a few seconds to search. There they both were.
Of course, I have to consider the possibility that you looked and found the policies, yet you decided to engage in an act of overt disinformation. I like to think you didn’t, or wouldn’t, do that, but who knows? The election beckons for us all and the “pestilential” among us might be getting antsy.
If your goal was for you to try to control the narrative, please remember that when I was a prosecutor, I always controlled the narrative. I decided which witnesses testified when. I decided which narrative was discussed in the order of my choosing. I decided what to argue to the jury and how to argue it. The overall story developed as I intended it to develop.
I can’t help but think it probable that Vice-President Harris took the same position as a prosecutor as I did when I was a prosecutor. Maybe I am wrong. But no one can dispute the fact that the policies of both parties are out there for all to see, if only the people take the time to look.
Right now, the Harris policy might be to allow former President Trump to lie himself into a pretzel. Does it really hurt her candidacy when former President Trump so openly lies? For example, I recently commented on the fact that a few days ago Mr. Trump stood in front of a border wall built during the Obama administration. He pointed to a nearby portion of wall started but not finished during the Trump years and claimed that it was a “Kamala” wall. He called the Obama wall the “Rolls Royce” of walls, a “Trump wall”, only it was never a Trump wall.
The Washington analyzed “dozens” of recently aired different Trump ads, finding that the ads used “chaotic scenes that were filmed in 2018 under the Trump administration.” … “One commercial in particular showed footage of Central American migrants in Tijuana rushing the southern border. The voice-over and text blamed Democrats for the unrest, which actually unfolded during Trump’s presidency.”
Is it reasonable, under these facts, that one candidacy is actively seeking to mislead the American public through disinformation and tactics of fear?
And that the other candidacy is tightly controlling its narrative?
Sherry says
While Kamala Harris is repeatedly being ridiculed by Foxy Republicans for her laugh, her smile, her joy. . . just take a moment to gain a little insight into the trump White House:
General McMaster describes meetings in the Oval Office as “exercises in competitive sycophancy” during which Trump’s advisers would flatter the president by saying stuff like, “Your instincts are always right” or, “No one has ever been treated so badly by the press.” Meanwhile, Trump would say “outlandish” things like, “Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?” in Mexico or, “Why don’t we take out the whole North Korean Army during one of their parades?”
Republicans, is this kind of extremely dangerous chaos what you want in our Presidency again. . . even worse, this time without guard rails? Really?
Sherry says
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A shout out to Eileen Fisher for “Keeping It Real”!