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Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Monday Night: Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
- 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 will open tonight: 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.
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.
Notably: I was floored by the similarities between Charlie Sheen’s Book of Sheen, released a few weeks ago, and Casanova’s Story of My Life, written almost 200 years ago. Sheen wrote his on the verge of elderly from his “Sober Valley Lodge” the way Casanova in full decrepitude wrote his from Dux castle in the present-day Czech Republic. The two memoirs share an unceasing verve and optimism, a love of life, of women, of occasional men, of fame, showmanship, daring and vanity, of travel, of escapes from the law and indulgence in addictions: alcohol, cocaine, heroin, steroids and sex for Sheen, gambling, Cabbalism, food and sex for Casanova. Both were among the most sought-after celebrities of their day. No 12-step roads to atonement or accountability for either of them. They want us to know: they owe us nothing. They are retelling their tales to live them again now that debauchery is beyond reach, making you, the reader, a consort. Both occasionally stray into the sinister, however inadvertent their violence toward women may have been. The instances are rare but not nothing. Like Casanova, whose one-sided telling has no tabloid record for correctives, Sheen has a way of minimizing brutality with drugs-made-me-do-it excuses or cheer, though what violence he exhibited may have been overblown by the TMZs of the world. Unlike Casanova, there does not seem to have been meanderings into underage of incestuous sex, and Sheen stops at 365 pages, to Casanova’s 3,650.
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December 2025
Nar-Anon Family Group
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Wadsworth Park Reopening
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
The clock was ticking and I wasn’t gonna waste another thought on how awesome or decrepit Hef was or wasn’t. I spotted a childhood hero across the room I’d always dreamed of meeting. I made a beeline to introduce myself and we hit it off instantly. For several hours, baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson became my date at the Playboy Mansion. The girls lost my focus for a bit as we talked baseball, family, life, relationships, and more baseball. We stayed in touch for years afterward and still regard each other as great friends. I wanna be clear: Reggie’s as classy as they come and did nothing indecorous that night. (I’m unable to claim equal upstandy-ness.) I caught the eye of a few lovelies and had to follow their orders to follow. I’d be led away, while he’d hang back, promising to keep warm whatever seat I was leaving behind. I’ll state right off the bat (and perhaps to the disappointment of some folks), there was no actual sex (that night). When a gal can tell that’s not top of mind, it opens a different door into areas that aren’t fueled by the stress of expectations. It created a freedom to feel like two goofy kids with stolen beers hiding from a chaperone at the big dance. In my experience, women that beautiful need a break from desperate pawing creepers, and given where we were, I knew it had to be tenfold. I used the private time we shared to discuss future plans, leaving the decision completely up to them. The plans took shape, and I wound up dating two of the women for extended periods. It actually became comical as I emerged each time to rejoin the party and navigate my way back to Reggie. He’d subtly prod me for the fun details and when I told him the truth, he insisted I was absolutely full of shit. He joked about being my “cut man” between rounds, and having no cuts to fix. I was on top of the world, sneaking off with playmates at the mansion and sharing the experience with the greatest postseason slugger the game has ever known. At one point as I came around a corner to find him again, Reggie spotted me and began chanting: “Char-lie, Char-lie.” It was a parody on the famous World Series chants of his name from a packed Yankee Stadium years earlier. (When people ask me what my favorite baseball story is, I’ve just shared it.)
–From Charlie Sheen’s The Book of Sheen (2025).
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