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Weather: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Monday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
- 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 three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 1:30p.m. to discuss goals, capital improvements and board funding policies.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here. The commission this evening is expecting to hear an earful about the River to Sea fiasco over Ragga Surf Cafe. See: “Ragga Surf Fiasco: How Flagler County Risked Losing River to Sea Preserve Over Botched Favor for a Private Business.”
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 55 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Notably: In the spirit of the 12 or so days of Christmas, this thought by Holly Albanese, Flagler County’s long-time library director (and assistant county administrator, among other duties), posted on her Facebook page, seemed worth sharing: “This is a source of pride for me! After almost 10 years of hard work, and grant writing it is finally coming to fruition. (If you know you know) The first wall of the new Nexus Center is installed on December 10, 2024. The Nexus Center will be a state of the art Library, Conference/Community Center and Health and Human Services Department.”
Now this: An eternal favorite. Hooks you from the poignant melody of those opening notes, that sense that yes, everything will be OK. And then that rip-roaring final movement that gives even Chuck Berry a run for his virtuosity.
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August 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
For the full calendar, go here.
Memory is the mother’s womb we float in as we age, what sustains us in our final days. And I seem to be desperately crawling on my hands and knees to get there.
–From Rabih Alamadeddine’s “How to Bartend,” Literary Hub, April 8, 2020, and Best American Essays 2020.
Joe D says
East Coast Drone sightings…
The Federal National Security Groups keep saying there is no national security risk …
Several former ( not current) government security experts are trying to calm people down:
-If someone was trying to illegally surveil your area, would they run the required safety lights at night?
-all drones over a certain size have to have a licensed operator, with a required minimum of training
-Homeland security officials would not say it wasn’t foreign based entities if they didn’t KNOW that to be true.
-if you listen to the CAREFULLY WORDED official government statements, they are not concerned about any safety threat
ALL of those statements combined (in my opinion), PROBABLY indicate that the government agencies KNOW where the drones are coming from, and they are likely testing new designs for either export to foreign defense partners, or for use domestically to provide extra security for large events like the poorly surveilled Trump Pa. RALLY where the gunman missed assassinating the President elect by a fraction of an inch. I think these are practice flights to train new operators or local police agencies gaining required training hours to get their officers licensed. I feel they are avoiding saying all this, because they thought ( in error) that people really wouldn’t notice the increase in drone flights, and they didn’t want to attract crowds of spectators.
My brother lives near the Pa. /Delaware border. He belongs to a model airplane and licensed drone flying club. Every time President Biden visited the Wilmington De. Area for holidays or weekends, the airspace (including small local airports) were CLOSED for specific days and specific times. If you accidentally flew your drone, or small private aircraft into that closed airspace, you would be IMMEDIATELY intercepted by Air force fighters to escort you to a local airfield, where you would be arrested for violating the airspace. Drones would simply be shot down. I was present at his home during one of these “accidental incursions” happened…and personally witnessed the two fighter jets flying over my brother’s home to intercept a plane (which we later saw on the news).
Believe me, if there were any REAL danger from these drone sightings , Army or Navy interceptors would be dealing with them.
As a side comment, since US laws are so far behind the times, drones currently are given the same protections as airlines, and if you illegally shot one down (even over your own property)…you could be charged the same as if you shot at an airplane.
Now I could be wrong about this, but Government security officials would not be so “laid back” about these drones, unless the KNEW where they were coming from, and KNEW why they were there. They just didn’t want to attract crowds.
As they say on TV police dramas…. “It’s on a NEED to KNOW basis.” That doesn’t exactly ease people’s minds in this day and age, unfortunately.