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Weather: A slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 74.
- 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 three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 2 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Commissioners will discuss Flagler Estates, the lost colony at the northwestern end of the county.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Commissioners will get a presentation on the Bulow Creek Headwaters Regional Park Master Plan. See: “Future 1,160-acre Bulow Creek Headwaters County Park Would Be Almost as Large as Princess Place.” Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
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.
Notably: Andy Smith is a Democratic member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, in office since January 2023. He used to be a conservative who considered himself “pro life,” that lethal misnomer. He has since abandoned the dark side. This clip began appearing this week of his speech against personhood constitutional amendments, which are scurrying across the undersoles of a few state legislatures, but not in Minnesota. I have not been able to figure out why he made the speech from the Minnesota House floor, since there is no such amendment proposed there, but his points are what matters, including this: 70 percent of embryos die after conception. “An estimated 70% to 75% of human conceptions fail to survive to birth. That number includes both embryos that are reabsorbed into the parent’s body before anyone knows an egg has been fertilized and miscarriages that happen later in the pregnancy,” a Conversation piece that ran here four years ago reports. See Smith in full below.
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May 2026
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting
Flagler County Commission Workshop
Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
“Once on This Island,” At Limelight Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
“Berry often writes of trying to nurture a “human economy”—the antithesis of America’s “total economy,” run by latter-day robber barons and the politicians who count on their donations. By his definition, a corporation is “a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.” Objecting to Supreme Court rulings that treat corporations as persons, Berry argues that “the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person.” In other words, “It can experience no personal hope or remorse, no change of heart. It cannot humble itself. It goes about its business as if it were immortal, with the single purpose of becoming a bigger pile of money.””
–From a profile of Wendell Berry by Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, Feb. 21, 2022.
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