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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 64. Breezy. Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 40. Breezy.
- 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:
The Cold-Weather Shelter known as the Sheltering Tree, opens:The shelter opens at Church on the Rock at 2200 North State Street in Bunnell as the overnight temperature is expected to fall to 40 or below. It will open from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. The shelter is open to the homeless and to the nearly-homeless: anyone who is struggling to pay a utility bill or lacks heat or shelter and needs a safe, secure place for the night. The shelter will serve dinner and breakfast. Call 386-437-3258, extension 105 for more information. Flagler County Transportation offers free bus rides from pick up points in the county, starting at 3 p.m., at the following locations and times:
- Dollar General at Publix Town Center, 3:30 p.m.
- Near the McDonald’s at Old Kings Road South and State Road 100, 4 p.m.
- Dollar Tree by Carrabba’s and Walmart, 4:30 p.m.
- Palm Coast Main Branch Library, 4:45 p.m.
Also: - Dollar General at County Road 305 and Canal Avenue in Daytona North, 4 p.m.
- Bunnell Free Clinic, 4:30 p.m.
- First United Methodist Church in Bunnell, 4:30 p.m.
The shelter is run by volunteers of the Sheltering Tree, a non-profit under the umbrella of the Flagler County Family Assistance Center, is a non-denominational civic organization. The Sheltering Tree is in need of donations. See the most needed items here, and to contribute cash, donate here or go to the Donate button at this page.
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4 p.m. at the Nexus Center and again at 4:30 p.m. at the Emergency Operations Center.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, where the City Commission is holding its meetings until it is able to occupy its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway in 2025. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
Notably: The Lutetia Hotel is at 45, Boulevard Raspail in paris’s 6th Arrondissement, or borough, toward the center of the city, a brisk walk from Notre Dame. The luxury hotel opened in 1910. It is supposedly where Joyce finished Ulysses, where DeGaulle honeymooned, where Paris’s writers, artists and intellectuals gathered (Picasso, Matisse), and where rooms go for 1,680 to 2,100 euros per night ($1,950-$2,425 at today’s rates). And it was the Ellis Island of survivors of concentration camps and death camps. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, it was converted into a reception and rehabilitation center for the concentrationnaires, as the writer David Rousset called the institutionalized concentration camp inmates (the “luxury club for enlisted troops of all the allies,” as the New York Times reported on Sept. 20, 1944, was at the Grand Hotel.). In 1945, “20,000 emaciated, ragged survivors of the 160,000 Jews, socialists, communists, and members of the resistance deported from France during WWII stepped into the lobby,” Tablet writes. “They were greeted by a blast of white powder—DDT—to kill the lice that infested them. Photographs show survivors with sunken eyes and emaciated faces still dressed in their striped prison garb drinking water from silver cups and eating crusts of bread in the hotel dining room. […] In the elegant corridor between the restaurant and the bar, the survivors studied notice boards, brought in from Boulevard Raspail, that were covered in photos left by the families of the missing in their life “before,” smiling, at weddings or on holiday. If someone was looking for them, a relative had survived. But could they identify any of the faces? […] An endless stream of trucks and buses drove just over a mile from the Gare d’Orsay ferrying almost 500 survivors a day. Although the closest hotel was the luxurious Crillon, Gen. de Gaulle considered it too ostentatious. The owners of the nearby Le Bon Marché department store had built the Lutetia to put up the provincial bourgeoisie on shopping trips. It suited de Gaulle’s taste and he had spent his honeymoon there. He handed the hotel over to the Red Cross.” He would not have been fond of the $2,400-a-night fees now, or of the hotel’s forgotten role in an era of increasing fatal forgetting of those concentration camps, just as we are building new ones in our backyards.
—P.T.
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November 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Al-Anon Family Groups
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
December 2025
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Holiday Plant Class Series
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
Dennis C Rathsam says
How bout that TRUMP!!!! DAM, He won again!!!! The JACKASSES folded like a cheap SCHUMER suit. The party of NO, loses…. Now on to the indictments!
Pogo says
@P.T.
Well said.
@FWIW, and to no one in particular, but its quality, and worth, IMO, is considerable
… find the means, and time, to view this streaming drama:
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=death+by+lightning+drama
Anything relevant, sadly familiar? Give some thought — or not.
Ray W. says
Does every FlaglerLive reader remember the hateful and vengeful Flagler County Republican elected official who took to the radio in January 2021 to ask just when would it become time to begin beheading Democrats?
This out of Japan, according to a story posted by The Telegraph.
Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, stated that if China were to invade Taiwan, the Japanese government would make a comprehensive judgment on the situation and, should the government decide after considering all options, that the situation constitutes a “survival-threatening situation”, Japan might become involved in the conflict.
According to a Fox News story, China’s Osaka-based consul general to Japan, Xue Jian, responded to the prime minister’s comment by posting to X this since-removed comment:
“That filthy neck that barged in on its own — I’ve got no choice but to cut it off without a moment’s hesitation. Are you ready for that?”
Earlier today, Prime Minister Takaichi was asked in Parliament to clarify her position. She told her legislators:
“Although I did state a number of possible scenarios, I also said the government will make a comprehensive judgment on whether the situation constitutes a ‘survival threatening situation’ taking into account all information.”
She said that a line of Chinese ships around Taiwan would not qualify as a survival threatening event, but that a naval blockade while land fighting was involved would qualify. In that instance, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces would be sent in to offer support.
George Glass, America’s ambassador to Japan, said it’s “time for Beijing to behave like the ‘good neighbor’ it talks repeatedly about — but fails repeatedly to become.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
In her acclaimed book “The Guns of August”, Barbara Tuchmann detailed two completely diverging political philosophies.
Norman Angell had argued in a 1911 book, “The Great Illusion”, that the international economies between the great nations had become so closely intertwined that the thought of the complete economic ruin that would be visited on nations would prevent wars between great nations in the future. Many in England responded enthusiastically to his words.
At the same time of publication of Angell’s book, a German general, Friedrich von Bernhardi was writing a book, “Germany and the Next War”, in which he argued that it was the divine obligation of Germany, a great nation, to engage in aggressive territorial expansion to achieve what rightfully belonged to Germany’s future. Many in Germany responded enthusiastically to his words.
These two completely opposing political and economic philosophies were put to the test in WWI, which was billed as the “war to end all wars.”
Initially influenced by Angell’s work, Churchill advocated for armistice and fair treatment of Germany after the war so that Germany could restored to its former status as a great nation.
But Churchill was among the first to recognize the threat of the Nazis. He exhausted enormous political capital to publicly point out the growing threat, at a time when appeasement, fostered by Angell’s remaining influence, was considered a way to rein in the German threat. Churchill was out of the executive government for 10 years, due in part to what his political enemies called his warmongering speeches.
Churchill never wavered in his belief that appeasing Nazis could never keep the peace or bring safety to Great Britain. The only approach that could restore peace and safety to the world, to him, was complete “extirpation” of Nazi political thought.
Can it be argued that Churchill was correct, that China cannot be appeased, that Russia cannot be appeased? Can it be argued that the leadership class of both China and Russia believe in a divine right to complete political control over Taiwan and the South China Sea and over the Ukraine, as a first step in a pattern of aggressive expansion?
Can it be argued that no peace treaty short of expelling Russia from every square meter of the Ukraine’s sovereign territory, including Crimea, will ever prevent a next step? That China’s and Russia’s economic theory accepts massive destruction of their own economies in order to accomplish that divine right of expansion towards an imagined greater future?
Are we negotiating with Putin from a completely different mindset, blinded by a misperception of acceptable economic costs, just as Neville Chamberlain, at Munich, was blinded by a misperception of the Nazis’ level of acceptable economic costs?
Ed P says
Jay Jones?
Virginia’s newly elected Democratic attorney general?
Ring any very recent bells?
Nope, just some local Flagler County Republican who used a crude and inappropriate similitude.
But in scrabble, republican is 16 points while reprobate is only 13, same as Democrat. So let’s use republican…more points?
Ray W. says
When gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters recently wrote that death row inmates automatically deserve execution, and the sooner the better, when did I see you comment that Florida has released 30 inmates from death row since 1976 after they had been exonerated? Many were exonerated by DNA that proved they they could not have committed the crime. Others because the evidence failed to prove that they committed the crime.
You already knew that the USSC long ago specifically limited the death penalty to only those murders that are the “worst of the worst.” Not the worst. Not the bad. Not the ones for which the murderers are extremely remorseful for what they did. The worst of the worst. Where were you? Tell us all now, where were you?
During a debate before the election, Jay Jones told the audience about his text messages, among much more:
“I’s ashamed, I’m embarrassed and I’m sorry”, he said.
You left that part out of your comment. Why?
When I read about the formerly elected Flagler County Republican official who walks among us taking responsibility for what he said and apologizing for his vengeful question, I will stop referring to it.
When I hear or read of President Trump taking responsibility for what he said about “crushing vermin” and publicly apologize for his vengeful promise, I will stop referring to it.
When I hear about Governor DeSantis taking responsibility for what he said and publicly apologizing for his vengeful promise to voters that he would reward their votes by “slitting throats” on the day in office as president, I will stop referring to it.
A person who describes what he did as wrong and then apologizes for it is different from a person who not only is vengeful but revels in that fact that he or she is vengeful. The fact that you can’t see the difference says a lot about you.
Thank you once again for allowing me to point our your incorrect thinking.
Laurel says
Again, theses violently aggressive comments point to insufficient mental growth. A well balanced, mature individual, doesn’t require vengeance, especially against those they know little to nothing about. This is something that Trump does know, and uses to his advantage, even though (in my opinion) his growth is likewise limited. He took out full page New York newspaper ads calling for the Central Park Five to be executed. Now, why would he want that, other than to use and abuse it, and bring attention to himself? Later, when the five black men were found to be innocent, and were released, Trump never apologized. They were no longer useful to him.
Trump said “I love the poorly educated.” They are useful to him. The next question is, who is Trump useful to?
Ed P says
Ray W,
What are you talking about? I’m confused. Am I now being chastised for not commenting on the prior post you referenced? I don’t recall seeing your referenced article or comments. This is a new experience. Guilty will not involved.
Jay Jones was simply a reference.
You missed my point.
Your post would have been just as impactful and relevant without the Republican reference simply to “score” points.
I would also suggest that you allow for a better version of yourself as well by not continually rationalizing that only your “thinking” can be correct or always more correct or even less wrong.
Sherry says
Good Morning Ray,
“I” understand this rational, logical comment completely. I simply do not understand how others choose not to.
Oh wait, yes I do! There are many others that are so devoid of a moral compass and so “single minded” in defense of Maga, they see absolutely everything through that tiny corrupted lens.
Those of us who point out that “doubling down” as trump does, and NOT seeing or apologizing for despicable speech or actions continues to haunt our opinions of those perpetrators. While many of us believe in “second” chances, the lack of remorse/apology/change/growth negatively colors our opinions of those in question. Because “our” moral compasses are intact, such circumstances show the needle needle pointing to “WRONG”, and it does not move without “proof” that the perpetrator is working to move that needle towards the “RIGHT” direction.
In any case, thank you so much for your moral point of view!
Ray W. says
Time just published an article under the heading “Ukraine Can Win the Energy War.”
According to the reporter, Ukrainian drones struck 13 Russian refineries in the first few months of 2025, but since then a total of 21 of Russia’s largest refineries have been struck. Russian refinery capacity is now down 38%.
Russia’s revenue collection for its federal budget, which budget depends on oil and natural gas export revenue for 50% of that budget, dropped by an estimated 26% in September. Many more refineries were forced offline in October.
Natural gas exports are at a 50-year low. “Domestic fuel shortages of around 20%” in Russia have led to export restrictions.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
A populace can endure huge economic losses before it surrenders its adherence to a governing political philosophy. In WWII, Japan, Germany and even Italy endured years of economic deprivation without their populations considering surrender.
Even if Ukrainian drone strikes continue, and even if the Ukraine “wins” the energy war, that doesn’t mean that Russia will call off its invasion.
Russia has endured massive human losses over the past four years or so. The Russian government openly claims that it can and will endure such human losses for years to come in order to conquer all of the Ukraine. I see little reason to think otherwise. To the Russian leadership mind, millions can die or return home maimed if it means Russia expanding its sovereignty over all of the Ukraine. President Putin is on record as saying wherever a Russian boot touches soil, Russian sovereignty follows.
The Ukrainians fight for life and liberty. The Russians fight for expansion and plunder. Can it be argued that of the several options open in the field of diplomacy, perhaps the best, if not the only viable, diplomatic option, is to “extirpate” the Russian belief that it has a divine right to expand it borders in whatever direction that right takes them by forcing the Russians to return to their original borders and return to the Ukraine sovereignty over all the soil now occupied by the invading Russian army including Crimea?
Ray W. says
Does every FlaglerLive remember the commenters from a few weeks ago who loudly and erroneously proclaimed that President Trump had brought peace between Iran and Israel?
A Newsweek article carries the headline “Iran’s new threat: ‘2000 missiles at once'”
Much of the Newsweek story comes from a Sunday article published by The New York Times.
There are two aspects to the stories.
First, Iran’s missile industry has expanded to round-the-clock production of missiles, with an “explicit” effort to prepare Iran’s “mass strike” capacity to launch missiles 2,000 at a time. During the most recent hostilities this past June, Iran launched 500 missiles over 12 days. The goal is for Iran to become able to “overwhelm Israeli defenses”.
Israel, according to the reporter, considers this mass strike capability an “existential” threat.
The second facet of the story involves current IAEA nuclear inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities. IAEA inspectors were allowed to inspect Iranian sites, except for Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, the sites the U.S. bombed on June 22, 2025.
Said Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson:
“As long as we are NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) members, we will abide by our commitments. …”
Israel considers the Iranian nuclear weapons capability an “existential” threat, too.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
There is no peace between Iran and Israel, only a lull between fighting. Iran is preparing for the next conflict with Israel. Iran’s spokesperson is hinting that Iran is considering withdrawal from the NPT.
There is no peace in the entire Middle East. Syria remains unstable. As recently as earlier this month, the IDF established a checkpoint in the southern Quneitra province after a military incursion.
There is no peace in Gaza. Some 250 Gazans have been killed by IDF fire since the ceasefire was announced. If a Gazan crosses an invisible “yellow line”, IDF forces have authority to strike. Earlier today, Prime Minister Netanyahu told the Knesset that the war “has not ended.” Hamas, he said, will be disarmed and Gaza demilitarized. “It will either happen the easy way, or it will happen the hard way. … But it will happen.”
There is no peace in the Sudan.
There is no peace in Rwanda.
There is no peace between Pakistan and India.
Hatreds and enmities do not go away because someone announces a ceasefire without an accompanying signed peace agreement negotiated over time to address the minutiae of bruised nerves and unforgotten excesses.
There are three “plagues” that haunt mankind:
1. Nationalism
2. Racism
3. Religious extremism
Sherry says
Thank You Ray W.!
Ray W. says
I saved this story from the early days after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough commented about political violence just after the Trump administration decided it would be helpful if the administration began to cast the murder of Charlie Kirk as a one-sided political phenomenon.
Here is a portion of what Mr. Scarborough said:
“Charlie Kirk’s savage murder is violence not only against Charlie Kirk, against his wife, against their beautiful children. It’s also violence against the First Amendment, against free speech, and against American democracy. Those who would use that tragic event to try to stifle free speech – which we will get into later in talking about stifling free speech and going after people they consider to be political enemies – certainly didn’t hear much of what Charlie Kirk had to say when he said, ‘We have to allow all kinds of speech.’
“I must say, I have been baffled over the past several days by people like Stephen Miller talking about this being a one-sided issue, when just a few months ago the most powerful Democrat in the state of Minnesota was gunned down in her family’s home. After she was shot to death in her family’s home in June, her husband was gunned down and killed in their family home. Melissa Hortman was an elected leader and the leader of the Democratic caucus in the Minnesota House. She taught Sunday school. She and her husband left two young children, gunned down in their own home. So who is Melissa Hortman? That’s who Melissa Hortman was.
“It’s baffling to me that the same people who are calling for civil war were the same people who said absolutely nothing when she was shot. Or maybe we should talk that same night about the madman who had a list of 42 Democrats on it, who then went over and shot nine times – the state senator that Melissa Hortman worked with, John Hoffman, took nine shots to his body; his wife, Yvette, took eight shots to her body inside their family home. Then the gunman escaped with, again, a hit list with 42 other Democratic names on it, including Tommy Baldwin, the United States senator from Wisconsin.
“This followed Josh Shapiro having his home firebombed in an attempted arson – trying to burn down his home with his wife and his children sleeping inside. His goal, he admitted, was to burn the house down, find the Democratic governor of the state of Pennsylvania, and then beat him to death with a hammer. This, of course, reminds us of the madman that broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home screaming, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ – a chant eerily reminiscent of what we heard on January 6th, the day that everyone who was talking about civil war would like you to forget forever. That madman went in and critically wounded Paul Pelosi, an 82-year-old man who will never be the same, who just barely survived.
“These same people are saying – JD Vance saying – ‘Oh, our side doesn’t celebrate this, our side doesn’t celebrate that,’ well, first of all, anybody who celebrates political violence is sick. They are sick. Those who try to brush aside political violence when it’s the other side that gets shot, beaten, or burned out of their family homes – they’re sick. What did we hear after Paul Pelosi, an 82-year-old man, was brutalized and hit in the head with a hammer? We heard laughter. We heard jokes repeatedly from the President of the United States. I remember watching him speak to the California Republican Party and they died laughing. They thought it was hysterical that an 82-year-old man was almost beaten to death in his own home with a hammer. …”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
A number of FlaglerLive commenters celebrate whenever pain and violence is inflicted on “the other side.” These “sick” commenters think that lying for political gain is a virtue. They think that lie laundering for political gain is a virtue. They think that vengeance for political gain is a virtue. Joe Scarborough is right. There is a sickness upon the land.
Laurel says
I agree. There is a sickness on our land. I’ve written many times that I am not a Democrat, but an Independent, and I find it seriously sad when I read that “You Democrats are drowning in your tears” as it is delightful to them. How this group or that group is “losers,” “magats” or “jackasses.” How they are thrilled at the other side’s unhappiness. It’s us! We are the United States of America, yet people talk about civil war, and how they are ready for it.
This turmoil benefits only a very few. For this monetary benefit, and power, they are succeeding in turning us against our neighbors, our friends and our family members. I believe both parties are guilty, and our current administration is very guilty. We severely need for the young people to see this, and fight it. Vote these greedy traitors out! Start grass root parties, made up of honest people who want this country to come together again.
This country is a melting pot of many cultures, and from the many cultures, we learn much wisdom. The inbreeding of ideology will only crush us.