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Weather: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting, 6 p.m. in the main conference room at the GTMNERR Marineland, 9741 N Oceanshore Boulevard, St. Augustine. See the town’s website here.
‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council Members: Council member Charles Gambaro, 5 p.m. at the Southern Recreation Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. The City of Palm Coast is hosting a series of town halls, offering residents the chance to meet face-to-face with their City Council Members, ask questions, and learn more about the inner workings of their local government. This new initiative provides an open forum for residents to share feedback, ask questions, and engage in meaningful dialogue about city services, community development, and the future of Palm Coast.
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are: Hop on for stories and songs with Miss Doris.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
The Palm Coast Democratic Club holds an “After Dark” Recap Meeting (previous daytime business meeting) at 6 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month to accommodate working Democrats. We will meet at the Flagler Democratic Party Headquarters in City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214, Palm Coast. Hope you will join us. This gathering is open to the public at no charge. No advance arrangements are necessary. Call (386) 283-4883 for best directions or (561)-235-2065 for more information.
Notably: As revolting as our society has been in the past week–the past month, the past year, the past decade–I thought these alleged real performance reviews (the real is dubious: they were cribbed from a social media virus) might aptly be attributed to a good deal of the nation’s citizenship (I exclude migrants, the undocumented especially, as they tend to be of a significantly higher cut when it comes to hard work):
- Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and shows signs of starting to dig
- His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity
- I would not allow this employee to breed
- This associate is really not so much of a has-been but more of a definitely won’t be
- He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle
- This young lady has delusions of adequacy
- This employee should go far and the sooner the better
- This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot
- He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them
—P.T.
Now this: Dave Freeman on the Appalachian Trail, in a chat with Jay Scherr:
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January 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
Well now, a lot of times when the moon is partly shining, with the clouds running over it and hiding it and shaping it out and it’ll go off. Well you’1l be walking along what they call a hang, and you will see a rock or an old stump of a tree, or stuff like that; and if you’re scary, now, scary of seeing something, you’ll get to looking at that, and you’ll imagine there’s a pair of eyes. There’s a head, and then when you see the head, there’s a pair of eyes. Then you’ll study a little more, and there’s a nose with it. Then you’ll study a little more and there’s a mouth; then a little more and there’s the body, hands. And then, you’re running; most people run. And then, go off and tell they’ve seen a ghost. That’s what they call a haint. But, now a ghost is different. That’s a spirit from where somebody that’d hidden their treasure, and God wanted somebody, poor people or somebody of the poor people to take it from God and not be skittish too much and not run, and stay there and talk with it and ask it what it appeared to them for, and it would tell them where it was hidden; and then they could go dig it out. That’s a ghost. Now a haint like I told you is something you imagine. You imagine it. But a ghost is a real thing.
–From Ray Hicks’s “A Haint,” anthologized in The Appalachian Trail Reader, edited by David Emblidge (1996).
Pogo says
@So
… that old fellow that I saw trudging along in traffic on I-95, unfazed by cars and trucks passing through him, was actually the ghost of Uncle Sam.
Skibum says
Once this horrible administration is gone, America needs to construct a national museum of disgrace highlighting all of the plots throughout our nation’s history up to the present time that have tried to overturn or burn down our democracy. There should be a special “wall of shame” with the caricatures of the drumph sycophants who’s heads are prominently displayed, along with full descriptions of their cowardly, unconstitutional acts each is responsible for in their unabashed obeyance and loyalty to a convicted felon president with no morals, no ethical behavior, and no constraints from the other two branches of our federal government who had the power to reign in his deplorable attempt to make himself a dictator.
The museum should stand as a warning to us all, a step by step guide through various displays and historical timelines, of how even small, seemingly innocuous steps by those who do not have American’s best interests in mind can enact a stranglehold of controls over every aspect of our lives if we, the electorate are not watchful, and informed, and willing to exercise our constitutional rights… especially the right to VOTE.
Laurel says
Pogo: Saw them at Diner Key Auditorium, in Coconut Grove. Got there at 11am for the 7pm show. Front and center at the stage. Almost got crushed when Jim called everyone forward, towards him. He was drunk as hell, unfortunately. He also didn’t do exactly as the police claimed. Good ole days!
Ed P says
@Skibum
As bad as Trump administration appears in your eyes. Are there any positive achievements? Any thing of merit?
Would you reopen the border to the same degree the last administration allowed?
Would you gather up all the criminal deportees and repatriate them?
Would you return the $165.2 Billion dollars of tariff revenues?
Would you tell all our trade partners to keep unfair trade agreements in place?
Would you undo all of the Doge savings?
Would you rehire all the federal employees who have been furloughed- about 200,000.
Would you restart any conflicts around the world that have been cooled?
Would you tell NATO to go back to spending too little instead of 5% of their GDP?
Would you put men back into women’s sports?
Would you encourage cartels to expand their fentanyl businesses?
Would you support a higher crime rate and stop trying to protect the preyed upon?
Would you prefer a draft instead of bolstered voluntary military recruitments?
Would you dismantle the military and cut its budget?
Would you have allowed the tax cuts to sunset and deliver the single largest tax increase?
Criticism is the analysis and judgment of the merits and faults.
If even a broken clock is right twice each day, when will intellectual honesty allow for the naysayers to ever recognize anything of merit. Trump is termed out, he is not the political opposition during midterms or next elections. Until and unless the opposition exposes a better path, the chronic negative name calling or claiming of the destruction of democracy or authoritarianism leads nowhere. A viable or better choice needs to be presented. To what end is all this negative fodder is there isn’t any team to advance a different agenda. The opposition’s bench looks like a bunch of 3rd stringers.
Trump isn’t the problem.