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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, August 15, 2025

August 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

What a kid did on his summer vaca by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
What a kid did on his summer vaca by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index values up to 105. Friday Night: Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. 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:

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests: Palm Coast City Council member Dave Sullivan, Palm Coast Community Development Director John Zobler, and Palm Coast Communications Director Brittany Kershaw. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.

The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.

Notably: These few lines from War and Peace suggest doom-scrolling is not a social media invention: “One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is there? Who is there?- there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such excitedly animated and healthy men. So thinks, or at any rate feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that takes place at such moments.”

—P.T.

 

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April 2026
Monday, Apr 13
All Day

Free Tax Preparation Services in Flagler County

Kristopher Henriqson
Monday, Apr 13
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

In Court: Kristopher Henriqson Trial

Flagler County courthouse
nar-anon family groups palm coast
Monday, Apr 13
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Apr 13
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Bunnell City Commission Meeting

Bunnell City Hall
Tuesday, Apr 14
All Day

Free Tax Preparation Services in Flagler County

Kristopher Henriqson
Tuesday, Apr 14
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

In Court: Kristopher Henriqson Trial

Flagler County courthouse
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Tuesday, Apr 14
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Palm Coast City Council Workshop

Palm Coast City Hall
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Tuesday, Apr 14
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting

Third Floor Conference Room, Government Services Building
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Tuesday, Apr 14
9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church
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Tuesday, Apr 14
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting

St. Johns River Water Management District
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Tuesday, Apr 14
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items

Government Services Building
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Tuesday, Apr 14
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library

Flagler County Public Library
Books v. Technology, by Oguz Gurel (CagleCartoons.com)
Tuesday, Apr 14
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm

Tuesday Book Talk at Flagler Beach Public Library

Flagler Beach Library
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Tuesday, Apr 14
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Flagler County Planning Board Meeting

Tuesday, Apr 14
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

“Godspell,” at the Limelight Theatre

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In a letter to a lady, Diderot quoted something Francesco [Casanova, Giacomo Casanova’s artist brother] said about the uncertainty of life, which suggests that he shared Giacomo’s wit. Francesco had stepped aside in the street to let a companion urinate against a wall, when a collapsing chimney fell from above and killed the companion. “I always recall Casanova’s comment,” Diderot wrote. “Believe that our fate is enveloped in utter darkness, and step aside for someone who wants to take a piss.”   

–From Leo Damrosch’s Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova (2022).

 

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  1. Pogo says

    August 15, 2025 at 11:03 am

    @P.T. — at his best

    … thank you sir.

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