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The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, along South Daytona Avenue, 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.
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.
Notably: A footnote to Monsieur Nicolas, the fabulous memoir by Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne written between 1794–1797, explains his phobia at ending up in Bicêtre, the Evin prison of the day in France, even for children. As translated from the French: “Children aged seven to sixteen, guilty of various offenses and incarcerated at the request of their family or boss, were locked up at the Bicêtre Correctional Facility. In general, they were locked up until they reached the age of majority (twenty-five years). The footnote then quotes from Paul Bru’s 1890 History of Bicêtre (Histoire de Bicêtre, which you can find in the original in the Internet Archive or on Amazon): “Forced to work thirteen hours a day, these young prisoners had no rest except for the few minutes devoted to a meager meal or to singing hymns. At the slightest failure, at the slightest blunder, two guards removed the culprits, tied them by the hands, by the feet, by the middle of the body, to five iron cramps sealed in the wall, and warned the corrector who whipped them with a whip with long leather straps.”
—P.T.
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June 2025
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
Budgeting by Values: A Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
In Court: Zachary Tuohey Status Hearing
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Meeting
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
‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council Members
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It happened on the same day last week a double-header in Florida’s retrograde adventures in juvenile justice. A prosecutor in Charlotte County decided not to prosecute a 6-year-old boy who kicked his pregnant mother in the stomach. And a 14-year-old boy in Miami expressed remorse to a circuit judge for killing his favorite teacher with a bullet between the eyes.
The mother of 6-year-old Alex Ashley had had him arrested, handcuffed and booked in jail. She wanted him punished. A deputy state attorney said a courtroom is not the place to address a 6-year-old’s immaturity. No such leniency for 14-year-old Nathaniel Brazill. A day after his contortions, a judge sentenced Brazill to 28 years in prison without parole. The final result of the two cases is different. But in both cases a prosecutor replaced parents, judges, juries and biology to decide whether the boy in manacles should go on being a boy — punishable with one eye on rehabilitation and another on leniency — or whether he should be treated as a criminal. No one would dispute that Ashley and Brazill committed acts of depravity. But at what point, exactly, is depravity chalked up to rank immaturity, and at what point is it attributable to the premeditation of a criminal mind that guffaws at notions of childhood and stupidity? In most states, the law doesn’t presume to draw that line. The decision is left to judges, who themselves leave it to all sides involved to argue one way or the other. Not in Florida. Florida law automatically judges youths 16 or older as adults if they commit certain felonies. Florida also gives its prosecutors the power unilaterally to prosecute juveniles 14 and older as adults. The prosecutor doesn’t have to consult with anyone not with a judge, not with defense attorneys, not with counselors or child psychologists. It is a one-person decision, called “prosecutor’s discretion.” Florida prosecutors have had that “discretion” since 1994. The state through the 1990s transferred 7,000 children accused of crimes to adult court each year (the number dropped below 5,000 a year in the last couple of years). That’s how Nathaniel Brazill was declared an adult, and it’s how Lionel Tate before him, the Fort Lauderdale boy who killed a 6-year-old playmate while wrestling with her when he was 12, was declared an adult and convicted to life in prison without parole last March. Transferring a child to adult court at a prosecutor’s discretion essentially allows the law to take sides. It puts young defendants at a disadvantage from the start because the transfer itself is a branding of suspicion. It is as close as the law comes to presuming someone guilty until proved innocent. Not even adult defendants face such presumptions. Treating children as adults sounds tough, but it has nothing to do with deterring crime, let alone rehabilitating young criminals. It does the opposite. Every few years a new study shows how harsher laws against juveniles make for hardened criminals later, not redemptive citizens. The latest such study was released by Florida’s own Department of Corrections this week, showing that 51.3 percent of inmates younger than 18 were arrested again within two years of their release. The overall rate is 34 percent. Why, then, has there been no let-up of Florida’s iron-fisted assault on troubled children? The reigning answer is that get-tough laws are the simple response to a complicated problem no one wants to tackle. It is not all or nothing. Children do commit crimes and they should be punished, but not so barbarically as to graduate them into monsters for the rest of their life. Juvenile justice was first created by an Illinois court only a century ago, but for a very good reason: To ensure that “the care, custody, and discipline of a child shall approximate as nearly as may be that which should be given by its parents,” the court said. Soon after, juvenile courts sprang up all over the country until the retrenchment of the 1990s. With Florida leading the way, juvenile justice is considered old school. Even wimpy. Yet the principle of juvenile justice is just as valid today. It is ironic that Florida considers it outdated, when its alternative creaks with dark-age method and dogma.
–From an Aug. 3, 2001 editorial in the News-Journal.
The dude says
I see the orange stain has enlisted another of his supporters, Peter Thiel, to leverage his company Palantir’s AI to build and maintain a “list” of Americans and their activities.
So… think back about two years when MAGA absolutely freaked out when they found out the Sheriff’s office kept a list of troublesome addresses for the benefit of first responders… nevermind that MAGA was well represented in that list, anyway, this AI surveillance plan (utilizing a defense contractors AI) is way worse. By many many orders of magnitude.
Where’s MAGA now?
Oh yeah… cheering for it…
Dennis C Rathsam says
Funny, a few years back Mr Musk was a democrate favorite, he made the best electric cars ever known to man. Built rite here in the USA! Hollywood inbrased them, in LA they were a dime a dozen. Elon was at the big parties, rubbing shoulders with the president, & stars of stage & sceen. Then the democrates shifted to crazy ideas, taxes out the ass. He saw food prices skyrocketing, inflation killing American families….They open the border, & let in millions, murder & crime insued, Elon wasnt happy, he knew of a better way. Then along comes a fellow business man & they hit it off. The more they got to know one another they new they had to save America from the radical democrats, pushing socialism, & big government!!! Many Americans were fed up with the lies coming out of D.C. leading the way for a TRUMP landslide. Togeather they formed dodge & started cutting the WASTE of of the goverment. You think everyone would be on board to save the tax payers money, but as usual the democrates had a hissy fit, THIER slush fundes were now gone! They all came out for Elons head, fools burning his dealerships, asshole democrates keying his cars, calling him every name in the book! Now Mr Musk has to stepback & take control of his investments. He,s not out, he,s taking a break. His team still continues to make America great again. Now food prices are down, gas prices are down, inflation is almost down to 2% again thanks to TRUMP! Million of dollars are pouring into the USA, for manufacturing….Car makers need to be made by Americans! The CHIPS will be made in America! The golden age of our great country is about to bring peace & stability worldwide. The proof is in the pudding, and TRUMP makes the best pudding in town!
Laurel says
Musk got what he wanted: million dollar contracts, a look at competition’s files and our personal, private data. No need to hang around.
Pogo says
@Dark Age
… you say? Wait til trump, bondi, and desantis catch their breath and find a little historical inspiration:
Grand and glorious
https://www.google.com/search?q=England+Bloody+Code
Skibum says
Oh, hey, DOGE douche, don’t let the door smack you in your ass on the way out. And while you’re at it, why don’t you take all your wet-behind-the-ear, computer game playing nerdy, autistic, anti-social, need a bath, thumb suckers who you hired to help decimate our government agencies with you?! You know, they could probably find LOTS of mis-management, waste and inefficiencies within Tesla, and just might be able to help figure out why so many of your “self-driving” cars keep killing folks. Or maybe you can use that chainsaw you love to hold up over your head to help construct a big enough rocket that doesn’t keep exploding in mid air so you and all of your autistic friends can finally go F##K OFF of our planet and populate Mars! That would be awesome, dude!
Joe D says
For Dennis C:
As USUAL, your comments are only 1/2 truths. The 2024 election had Trump winning by ONLY 1.5% of the popular vote (and LESS than 50% of the TOTAL popular vote)…the closest election in GENERATIONS! Hardly a LANDSLIDE!
In blaming Biden for inflation….forget about the facts of COVID? The increase in interest rates was by the Federal Reserve Chief ( put in place by TRUMP during his first term). Biden could no more fire him than TRUMP can now(even though he’s threatened to TRY).
As an aside TESLA is an American made success…despite the massive recent recall for some TESLA vehicles, for production and software issues.
A far as DOGE cutting government “waste”…yep….cutting funds for home heating assistance. Cutting Medicaid funds for the working poor (only 8% of Medicaid recipients are “able bodied”adults, who were not working). The MONTHLY reporting required paperwork, under the new proposed “work” requirement is ridiculous! That was sarcasm…
As an example of your “WASTEFUL” spending, Johns Hopkins Health System, had to lay off 1000 staff spread out in International Medical Clinics and training/research programs throughout the world, after the shut down of USAID. Research on EBOLA, HIV, crop management and production, water conservation and purification, health aide and nursing/ midwife training.
Something you did not mention, but you need to be aware that “ELITE” Harvard University, Government paid research developed TOUCH SCREENS ( do you use a smart phone or tablet)? They also developed GPS TRACKING and mapping technology….yep SUCH a “waste” of government research money (sarcasm if that went over your head).
Speaking of government WASTE? $95 million for a MILITARY PARADE?!?
Let the hate speech BEGIN!
Sherry says
Thank you Joe D!
dennis. . . you really, really, really need to get some counseling ASAP!
YankeeExPat says
The Muskrat could be Captain Ketamine perhaps.
Laurel says
Joe D: For some, facts go in one ear and out the other, without even a pit stop in between.
Skibum says
Tell me it ain’t so! Since the farewell party in the WH where both man-boys said adios to each other, the DOGE man-boy left town with a worthless golden key to nothing given to him by daddy man-boy in the big chair. Oh yes, I almost forgot, the DOGE man-boy also left the WH with both a literal as well as figurative black eye and his tail between his legs after the courts continued to adhere to both federal statutory laws and actual words in our U.S. Constitution to block and/or repair most of the damage he and his techno wiz kids have been doing to the U.S. Government while being used as throw away stooges for drumph. So upon exiting from Washington D.C. and realizing that after spending a quarter of a billion dollars to get drumph elected, his man-boy buddy repaid him by 1) dropping Musk’s choice for head of NASA, 2) refusing to support Musk’s request for continuing EV tax credits that are expiring, and 3)refusing to award Musk’s satellite business the contract for the new FAA upgrade that is going to be implemented nationwide. Even before Musk went to bed, he realized he had been royally shafted and dissed, so he began badmouthing the “big, beautiful bill”, publicly calling it a “disgusting abomination”. He has turned 180 degrees against the republican efforts and has started working to sabotage the “BBB” by declaring that all republicans who vote for it should be FIRED, and then going even further, saying he will be putting more of his billions toward primary challenges of republicans in the coming election cycle as revenge for him being disrespected! Now THAT is what I call a real falling out. Get out some more popcorn because the circus acts are getting more interesting every day!