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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 94. South wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Thursday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- 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:
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.
Third Thursday Together in Flagler Beach, a monthly event for residents to interact with Flagler Beach city departments to ask questions, learn about services and increase engagement, 6 to 8 p.m. at the Wickline Community Center, 700 South Daytona Avenue. Today’s topic: Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources.
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.
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.
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are.
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.
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.
World Cup:
- Czechia v South Africa 12 p.m., FOX Telemundo Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta.
- Switzerland v Bosnia-Herzegovina 3 p.m. FOX Telemundo SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California.
- Canada v Qatar 6 p.m. FS1 Telemundo BC Place, Vancouver
- Mexico v South Korea 9 p.m. FOX Telemundo Peacock Estadio Akron, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Notably: Cary McMullen is a colleague from a previous century when we both worked at the Ledger in Lakeland, back when The Ledger was–like the News-Journal–a newspaper worth its big building, back before its entire operation was reduced to a few basement rooms. I happened by a Facebook post Cary made about the similar basement-bound debasing going on at CBS under the reign of the clickbaiting Bari Weiss: “Lyle McBride, the best editor I ever worked for, once recounted a run-in with a neighbor who was complaining about the “liberal media,” blah, blah. Finally Lyle said, “We don’t have a liberal media, we have a corporate media.” I thought about that after Scott Pelley’s dismissal from CBS News. I think we have arrived at a point where we have to find a way to insulate news organizations, not so much from political pressure as from the whims and prevailing winds of corporations. The only reason Pelley and 60 Minutes were on the firing line is because the once-independent CBS got swallowed by Paramount, which in turn is being swallowed by Skydance. Of course, independent news organizations are not immune to whims. You could argue that the Sulzbergers do have a particular slant that is reflected in the pages of the NY Times. Every publisher has the right to dictate his news organization’s philosophy, so long as fair journalistic standards are followed. But what we see happening at CBS is of a different order altogether. This is not (as Bari Weiss, et al claim) nudging the news operation into a different philosophy. It’s a corporate hatchet job as a result of naked pandering to a regime hostile to objective journalism. We have not quite arrived at a Third World situation where journalists are gunned down, but unless we can put journalists in an environment where they are insulated from the vagaries of corporatism, they’ll simply be turned into propagandists.” We are not yet being gunned down. But I needn’t tell you of the gunning down by other means: SLAPP lawsuits.
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August 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Flagler Beach All Stars Beach Clean-Up
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
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He was soon alone, despite his efforts and his lies to make his story more appealing. Without a thought, the young people had left. Alone once more. To no longer be listened to: that is what is terrible when you are old. He was condemned to silence and solitude. He was being given notice that he was soon going to die. And an old man who is going to die is useless, even troublesome and insidious. Let him go away. Failing that, let him hold his tongue: it is the least of considerations. And he suffers because he cannot hold his tongue without thinking that he is old. He got up with great care.
–From Camus’ L’envers et l’endroit (The Wrong Side and the Right Side, 1937).
Ray W. says
According to a Seeking Alpha story, Norsk Hydro announced plans to shutter in 2027 both a Louisiana aluminum extrusion plant and a similar California facility, with the company citing to “low capacity utilization”, in the reporter’s words. Give or take, 350 jobs will be lost.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
It isn’t the closing of factories that caught my attention. It isn’t the loss of jobs. Factories close or move or adapt. Jobs appear and disappear. Creative destruction happens all around us. It was the assertion of “low capacity utilization” that stands out. Too much supply? Too little demand? Is this a canary in a coal mine? Home sales are in decline. Home inventories expand. Home prices, at best, stagnate. Realtors can see the trend. Are people selling and leaving? If this trend continues, what does this portend for a county heavily dependent on construction?
Skibum says
“This is the WORST foreign policy blunder in decades!” That sentiment regarding the “deal” that was just signed between Iran and the cankled Generalisimo Bone Spurs was not uttered by a democrat or any other liberal. It was a flat out rebuke by one of the president’s loyal republican senators, Sen. Cassidy of LA. Other republican members of Congress are also lashing out at the president’s complete capitulation, his total surrender, giving the radical Iranian leaders a huge amount of power and prestige they NEVER, EVER had before. The absolute power and control over the Straight of Hormuz they NEVER, EVER attempted to use before.
Prominent people on both sides of the political spectrum are aghast, shocked, horrified that this maniac in the WH has actually stated from his own lips that Saudi Arabia and other gulf nations have ballistic missiles, and so Iran should be allowed to possess ballistic missiles too. That other nations have been allowed to have their own nuclear programs, and so Iran should be allowed to have their nuclear program too.
Israelis are literally shaking in their boots, without words to describe the contempt over having been betrayed… no, hoodwinked actually, so deceived that they ever thought this orange-faced imbecile was ever a friend of the people of Israel when in fact he is what he always has been. Transactional. Even with middle east extremist terrorists, when it is apparent that he is losing, he will curtsy, grovel, back down (TACO) and lie about winning when trying to manufacture a way out of a quagmire of his own making by telling a fairy tale about how such a “deal” is good when everyone else can plainly see it is nothing but complete surrender!
This creepy old man has said the only advisor he needs or listens to is himself. And now, we all can see what such advice gets us… failure, surrender, and less and less friends around the world who intentionally distance themselves from such a little man with such little common sense and brain power.
Time for the 25th Amendment yet, republicans? It’s YOUR move. Don’t wait until it gets even worse… which it certainly will by your failure to act before now!
Pogo says
Elsewhere
…with antitrust law dead and buried, Roku was acquired by the Murdoch family in the manner the rest of us acquire milk and bread at a convenience store.
Bezos, Ellison, Murdoch, and Musk — four horsemen bestride the world and the sky above…
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bezos+Ellison+Murdoch+Musk
Make what you will of this:
As stated
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5928204-pentagon-musk-grok-chatbot-iran-strikes/
Ray W. says
FOX News reports that President Trump said that America could become the “Guardian Angel” of the Strait of Hormuz and that the U.S. would then take control of 20% of the oil. When informed of Trump’s comments, per a story by The Daily Express, the Iranian delegation left the venue of the peace talks.
Make of this what you will.