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Today at a Glance:
The Nobel Prize for literature is announced around 7 a.m by the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) in Stockholm not before 7 a.m.
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.
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
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.
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series hosted by the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at 6 p.m. Tonight: “Beyond the Skeleton: Modeling the Soft Tissues of Dinosaurs and Why We Should Care,” by Dr. Emma Schachner, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida. What were dinosaur lungs like and how do we know? Reconstructing the soft tissues of extinct animals requires careful detailed study of the anatomy and physiology of living animals – specifically birds, the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. This means getting up close and personal with as many birds as possible. By combining cutting edge imaging techniques like 3D digital anatomical modeling, with classical anatomical dissection and paleontological analysis, Dr. Emma Schachner will explain the myriad good and bad ways we can investigate what dinosaurs were really like. Additionally, she will share how some of the methods she uses to address these questions can be directly applied to human and veterinary medicine. This free lecture will be presented in person at the UF Whitney Laboratory Lohman Auditorium, 9505 Ocean Shore Boulevard, in St. Augustine. Those interested also have the option of registering to watch via Zoom live the night of the lecture. Go here to register for this month’s lecture. See previous lectures here.
The Palm Coast Democratic Club holds its monthly business meeting at noon at the Flagler Democratic Party Headquarters in City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214, Palm Coast. 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. For further information, please contact Palm Coast Democratic Club’s President Donna Harkins at (561) 235-2065, visit our website at http://palmcoastdemocraticclub.org/ or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/palmcoastdemclub/permalink
Notably: I did not write this at dawn today, so by the time you read it the Swedish Academy will probably have announced the year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature. But what are the odds this year? Aotp the list of course is the greatest writer the world has ever seen, Donald Trump, who’d be recognized for his tweets, or whatever they call his literary gems at his own social media channel, followed in close second by the eternal Charlie Kirk, who was not much of a writer, but as an archangel of hate (to borrow Jules Verne’s phrase for Captain Nemo) he had to have caught the Academy’s attention. Somehow, I don’t see either name atop the oddsmakers’ lists this year. Nicer Odds has the Hungarian László Krasznahorkai at the top of the list. I’ve never heard of him, though he’s one of Europe’s most decorated writers and Susan Sontag loved him. His last novel, Herscht 07769, was one sentence long. Very, very long, kind of like the essay he wrote for the Times in 2022, which has the printed look of a dense, endless, paragraph-less entry in FlaglerLive’s briefings. Second in odds is Haruki Murakami, the Susan Lucci of the list and much better known, and beloved, than Krasznahorkai. Can Xue, who led the list last year, is in third or lower, depending on which number you go with. Margaret Atwood seems to be out of it. There’s also Gerald Murnane, the Australian novelist, and a bit further down the French reactionary writer and nympho-humorist-provocateur Michel Houellebecq, there’s Salman Rushdie, the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard (I just picked up his Morning Star), and way down there Paul Simon, Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates. I don’t have a favorite this year. (See Literary Hub’s list here.) I just hope the Swedish Academy doesn’t make one of those “Prove Me Wrong” choices it so often makes, though it is the year of that sorry-ass phrase.
—P.T.
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October 2025
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Meeting
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
I was nine years old when my family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the mass killings began. When I happened across the upside-down spine of “Gwangju Photo Book” on a bookshelf a few years later and looked through it when there were no adults around, I was twelve. This book contained photographs of Gwangju residents and students killed with clubs, bayonets, and guns while resisting the new military powers that had orchestrated the coup. Published and distributed in secret by the survivors and the families of the dead, the book bore witness to the truth at a time when the truth was being distorted by strict media suppression. As a child, I hadn’t grasped the political significance of those images, and the ravaged faces became fixed in my mind as a fundamental question about humans: Is this the act of one human towards another? And then, seeing a photo of an endless queue of people waiting to donate blood outside a university hospital: Is this the act of one human towards another? These two questions clashed and seemed irreconcilable, their incompatibility a knot I couldn’t undo. So that one spring day in 2012, as I tried my hand at writing a radiant, life-affirming novel, I was once again confronted by this unresolved problem. I had long lost a sense of deep-rooted trust in humans. How, then, could I embrace the world? I had to face this impossible conundrum if I meant to move forwards, I realised. I understood that writing was my only means of getting through and past it.
–From Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Lecture, December 7, 2024.
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