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Weather: Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
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. You can watch it live below:
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Flagler County Public Library Book Club meets at the Meeting Room of the Palm Coast Branch Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast, from 2:45 to 4:30 p.m. No reservations are required, but please call to verify the date and time of the meeting. New members are always welcome so just show up to join in the literary fun. Today’s book: Isabelle Allende’s Japanese Lover.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
| In Coming Days: Oct. 10: Groundbreaking for Fire Station 26 in Seminole Woods: Palm Coast government hosts a groundbreaking for the future Fire Station 26 at 72 Airport Commerce Center--the road opposite Ulaturn Trail in Seminole Woods--at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend. The brief ceremony, lasting approximately 30 minutes, will be held at the site. Parking will be available along Airport Commerce Center Way, and attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes due to the site’s terrain. Wharton & Schultz is the lead construction firm for the project, which is expected to be completed within 12 months. Funding for Fire Station 26 comes from fire impact fees and a $5 million state appropriation of public dollars. Oct. 10: Town Hall with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri, 6 p.m. at the Southern Recreation Center, 120 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. This event is free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to ask questions and discuss issues that matter to them in an open forum. Residents are encouraged to join this important conversation to help strengthen community ties and ensure that every voice plays a role in shaping the future of Palm Coast. Pontieri will discuss economic development in the city and answer questions from attendees. Don’t miss the opportunity to engage and share your thoughts. Oct. 16: Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. For more information about this event, please call 386-319-9483 ext. 0, or email [email protected]. |
Perth Postcard: We interrupt regular programming to bring you a pictures from the man responsible for getting just enough independents and Democrats registered Republican at the last primary to affect a couple of final results. He and his wife went to Australia to see family. The picture above is a beach on the Indian Ocean, at Safety Bay–which has its own Waikiki–a bit south of Perth, that Nice, or niece, of the Indian Ocean and glen of Glenns (see below). It’s the sort of place that makes you wonder why a visitor would want to return here. Then again, it’s not as if our beaches, reconstituted though some are, have much to complain about. The emptiness looks ravishing, as does the color of the ocean. A quick glean of the news from Perth tells us that the city had a $1.8 billion plan (Australian dollars) for a world trade center that just collapsed. And columnist Gary Martin tells us that the “Desire to be liked makes us lose touch with who we are.” Suddenly Perth doesn’t seem so far off. Then there’s this, below.
—P.T.
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Groundbreaking for Fire Station 26 in Seminole Woods
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Palm Coast Democratic Club Meeting
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Town Hall with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company
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Notably: The lights of Perth are burning late again these nights. This city which blazed with light to help John H. Glenn Jr. mark his path in space as he orbited the world in 1962, now marks Christmas with a dazzling electrical display. Until the Glenn flight, Perth was always much prouder of its natural illumination than its electric lights. It boasts that it gets more sunshine than any city in the world, an average of eight hours a day. The Tourist Bureau still calls Perth the “City of Sunshine.” The light bulb, however, is rapidly eclipsing the sun as the city’s symbol. A “City of Lights” theme was first used officially in decorations for the British Commonwealth Games held here in November 1962. The same decorations were used that Christmas. […] Residents are still surprised at how far their city’s new reputation has carried. One television station here called Dallas police headquarters last month, on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. The sergeant who answered the phone could not understand the Australian pronunciation of Perth, so the caller, spelled out the name. “Oh, the city of lights,” the sergeant exclaimed.
–From a J. Anthony Lukas article, “Light Bulb Eclipses Sun as Symbol of Australian City That Aided Glenn,” The New York Times, Dec. 28, 1963.
Ray W says
Harvard University recently hosted Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler, according to Barron’s.
She told her audience that “[w]hile future actions … will depend on data we receive on inflation, employment, and economic activity, if conditions continue to evolve in the direction travelled thus far, then additional cuts will be appropriate.”
According to the author, Gov. Kugler “sees a resilient-but-slowing U.S. economy that the Fed doesn’t want to weaken any further.”
“Moderation in the labor market has slowed wage growth, she added, helping to slow inflation in other services prices. Monthly hiring has slowed this year, as the unemployment rate has increased. The latter is largely a function of an increasing supply of workers, rather than layoffs or other job losses, Kugler said. Immigration has added millions of working-age people to the U.S. economy, while others who left the workforce during the pandemic have slowly returned.
“‘After a couple of years in which labor demand exceeded supply, the labor market has come into balance, reflecting an economy that has moderated in part due to tighter monetary policy, Kugler said.'”
Make of this what you will. Me? Gov. Kugler states the obvious. Over the past couple of years, millions of immigrants entered the country, and it still wasn’t enough to meet the demand for more and more workers created by American businesses. She said that for a couple of years the labor market was out of balance, due to too many unfilled job openings. It was the drag on the economy caused by higher lending rates that has finally brought the labor market back into balance. Gov. Kugler predicts future lending rate cuts if things keep going as they are now going.