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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 71. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 56.
- 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 Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor Commissioner Conference Room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join virtually by computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting. Meeting ID: 276 236 998 121 Passcode: CyEKoW [Download Teams | Join on the web]
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. The discussion is focused on city manager candidates and may touch on the proposed utility rate increase. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Flagler County School Board holds a special meeting at 8:30 a.m. in Training Room 3 at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, to discuss the board’s bylaws. That meeting is open to the public. The board meets in a closed session at noon to discuss collective bargaining. The board meets again at 3 p.m. in an agenda workshop.
The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. Note: meeting start times vary from month to month. Check here to verify the time. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Notably: One day in 1910, in London, The New York Times reported the next day the following, at the top of Page 1 (this is the full article): “Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army has taken upon his shoulders the mantle of those sad prophets who from time to time have predicted the imminent dissolution of the world because of its wickedness. Addressing a meeting to-night, he said: “We have a world setting God Almighty at naught and rushing forward reckless of His wishes and threatenings as to their fate. Notwithstanding all that has been done in years gone by, men and women still pursue their wickedness to-day in all the nations of the earth. Not only one nation, but all nations, seem banded together as one great people of rebellion, transgression, and wickedness until some think–I believe a considerable degree of probability–that we may be approaching rapidly the end of all things, with similar results but far surpassing in magnitude as anything that has gone before: that all things may be wound up, but that instead of there being a deluge of water sweeping the world and its inhabitants there will be destruction by fire.” Now where have we heard that recently?
—P.T.
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March 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler Wellness Expo
Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
“Things are ending,” he told her. “This civilization; things are closing in on it. It has been quite a culture, brilliant and foul, cannibal and Christian, the glory of the world. We should celebrate it while we can; until night falls.”
–From Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses (1988).
Pogo says
@As stated
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“Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jim says
Elon Musk called Senator Mark Kelly a “traitor” this week. Why? Because Kelly visited Ukraine over the weekend. Apparently Mr. Musk thinks Americans supporting another democracy fighting for it’s survival and freedom are traitors.
SecDef Hegseth is pushing for the elimination of anything referencing LGBTQ, race, gender, DEI and anything else that sounds “woke” to MAGA. As part of that, the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan has been removed. Meanwhile, Ukraine struggles to resist Russia, China is watching us carefully for the right moment to pounce, Europe no longer trusts us but our Defense Department is making sure it’s priorities are right.
Trump kisses Putin’s ass while alienating virtually every ally we’ve got. Even Canada is turning their back on us. Europe will also. It may take some time but the USA will be kicked out of NATO, the G20 and G7 in time. As countries adjust to the new world order and strengthen their defensive capabilities sufficiently, they’ll cut their ties to the USA as far as they possibly can.
The stock market is tanking, inflation is rising, job growth has slowed dramatically, our GDP forecast is dropping and some of Trump’s sycophants say the market may drop over 20%. Trump says maybe we’ll have a recession, maybe not. (Leadership at it’s finest.) All this over tariffs, contradictory messaging, lack of planning and communication from the White House and the government in general.
Congress will pass a bill to reduce or eliminate Medicaid so we can give the top 5% another tax cut they so badly need. That’ll be glossed over by giving the vast middle class a cut of around $1k. We eat the crumbs thrown our way and react as though this is the way is should be.
I shudder to think what will be left of this country in four years.
Endless dark money says
A good forced depression will bring the prices down haha! Let’s go Russia!
Ray W, says
Per The Cool Down, ever since the introduction about two decades ago of Asian psyllids that bore into orange tree trunks and spread an “untreatable” bacterium that causes “citrus greening”, Florida’s orange harvest has dropped by 92%.
I remember early stories of entire groves being ripped out of the South Florida soil; they were then burned in an effort to stop the spread of the disease. Recalling these episodes reminds me of the similar methods employed by egg farmers who slaughter entire barns worth of hens to save the flocks contained in their other barns. Nothing seemed to work back then. The psyllids spread ever further north. Spraying antibiotics and pesticides risked contaminating the product.
Florida, of course, reimbursed grove owners and allocated money to study the bacterium. In 2025, Florida plans to spend $40 million on “infrastructure, research, and expansion of propagation and replanting efforts.” Who knows how much has been allocated to the psyllid eradication effort?
UF researchers now claim to have found a cure via genetic modification that creates a psyllid-deadly protein.
According to the reporter, OJ prices have increased by 80% since 2019, meaning the price rise began during the first Trump administration. American OJ distributors are having to import more and more foreign juice to mix with Florida juice.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have a longer memory than many of the more gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters who continue to blame the Biden administration for all manner of perceived ills. Even Trump injected new jargon into the issue in the last 24 hours: Biden left him an “economic disaster.”
Yes, FlaglerLive readers, both the Economist and the Wall Street Journal opined late last year that Trump was inheriting an economy that was “the envy of the world” and Trump says it was an “economic disaster.”
There exists at the top of one of our two political parties a professional lying class that relies on the gullibly stupid among us to launder their lies. Prior to the 2024 presidential election, we were better of in late 2024 than we were four years before. By far!
I read this morning that the USDA announced that egg prices have suddenly begun to drop. Since I agree with Mr. Tristam when he says he doesn’t believe in coincidences, I have to wonder if the recent DOJ missive to egg distributors and grocers to save their pricing records had anything to do with the sudden price drop.
The USDA has long been predicting that any restocking of the destroyed egg-laying hen population will take at least three months, and perhaps as many as six, so the drop in egg prices can’t be due to greater egg output.