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Weather: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76.
- 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:
U.S. Rep. Randy “Starve-Away” Fine Visits Palm Coast’s Oldest Sewer Plant: The Republican congressman, elected last April in a special election, is scheduled to visit Waste Water Treatment Plant 1 in Palm Coast’s Woodlands (26 Utility Drive) at 10 a.m. Wednesday, along with members of the Palm Coast City Council. Fine had been scheduled to visit months ago but cancelled. The 10 a.m. time may yet change, but will be updated here if it does.
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.
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]
Notably: Our president is turning shah with every passing day. In the very old days of WNEW, the AM radio station in New York City, the Make Believe Ballroom was a popular show every afternoon. I got familiar with it when I worked at a check-cashing store on 36th Street and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn during my college days. Gene Kronberg was my manager. He had the radio set on WNEW all day. It could be repetitive. It could also have been a lot worse. The music was great. The memories almost so. It ended in 1992 when WNEW was no longer the old oldies station it had been since 1935, when the show started. There is a version of the Make Believe Ballroom on a Rochester, N.Y., public radio station these days, but now that public radio’s days are numbered, it’ll soon be more make believe than make believe. This video glimpsed on X is appropriate, keeping this in mind: Nero may have taken more of a beating than he deserves for allegedly dancing to the Make Believe Ballroom as Rome burned. But it is factual, as Gibbon reminds us, that he built his Golden Palace–Domus Aurea–right after the fire, exciting “a just indignation,” in Edward’s words.
🚨Holy shit. Someone made a new ad for Trump’s ballroom and it’s absolutely perfect. Trump would hate if this went viral…
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) August 8, 2025
—P.T.
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December 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Bronx Wanderers at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy
Santa in Bunnell
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
The population grew restless—especially, in 1971, after the shah hosted a staggering celebration to mark the 2,500th anniversary of Cyrus the Great’s Persian Empire. Upon the ruins of the ancient city of Persepolis sprung up a city of mansion-like tents, dressed by Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s White House decorator. Eighteen tons of food were shipped in to feed a guest list that included sixty monarchs and heads of state (the emperor of Ethiopia brought a seventy-two-person retinue); a procession starred seventeen hundred soldiers in ancient costume; they paraded past fifteen thousand newly planted trees. Dom Perignon 1959 and Château Lafite Rothschild 1945 were quaffed from custom Baccarat crystal goblets. Maxim’s of Paris brought eighty chefs. (The nation’s per capita income was then $250. A case of Château Lafite Rothschild 1945 went for $500.) As the shah toasted to a world “free from fear, anxiety, and the constant threat of annihilation,” to the chirping of fifty thousand imported songbirds, students approaching the site to protest were savagely beaten. Some of the country’s worst slums were just out of view. Estimates of the cost ranged from $100 million to $200 million.
–From Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 (2020).
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