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Weather: A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58.
- 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:
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.
Model Yacht Races 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.
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.
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.
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.
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 57 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. The beloved musical about the optimistic orphan who captures hearts (and maybe even saves a billionaire). Perfect for families and the holiday spirit. Book here. (Note: all Sunday matinees are sold out, but there is a wait list you may join.)
Readings: If you were in Texas this week–and who does not want to be in Texas? “Among other tendencies to be noted, Texas is a military nation,” Steinbeck told us in Travels with Charley) you;d have read something along these lines: “After initially being able to enter the restrooms matching their gender identity and giving a series of speeches in the Capitol rotunda, the protesters were barred from again entering the bathrooms by several Department of Public Safety officers. Some protesters attempting to enter the women’s restroom were asked to show their IDs, which DPS said in a statement were voluntary checks to ensure compliance, but did not specify why those who did not show IDs were not allowed into the restroom. DPS cited the State Preservation Board’s public restroom policy, which was updated in February, and “expects” visitors to use restrooms matching their “biological sex.” The policy does not mention a required verification process. Officers ultimately let two trans women into the restroom after they shared their IDs, which had female markers, according to a video shared online by the 6W Project, a new advocacy group that organized the protest. Protesters also said the men’s restrooms were not guarded by officers.” Then you might have remembered something Martin Amis wrote in The Second Plane: “And doesn’t Texas sometimes seems to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?”
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December 2025
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
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
For those familiar with the British Empire, Texans are very much like Aussies – they cuss a lot, drink enormous quantities of beer and don’t put up with much, uh, guff. Although there is markedly more civility in their daily intercourse than is to be found in New York City, they are not a civilized people. They shoot and stab one another to death with some frequency, and they stomp one another in bars all the time. Texans are obnoxious to be around when they are having a good time – they hoot and hurrah and bang their beer bottles on the tables. They do not shout when they are angry. They get very quiet just before they get violent. That’s when you should leave the bar. Texas is composed of several distinct cultures, which overlap slightly and are sometimes separated geographically so that the state is like a mosaic. The darker layers tend to end up at the bottom. The state’s cultures are black, chicano, Southern, standard suburban and kicker. Kicker is dominant. Kicker is pick-up trucks with guns slung across the back window, chicken fried steaks, country music, gettin’ drunk on Saturday night, goin’ to church on Sunday morning, drivin’ down the highway real fast throwin’ beer cans out the window, high school football and huge family reunions.
–From “Getting In Touch with Texas,” by Molly Ivins, The New York Times, March 21, 1982.
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