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Weather: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Friday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
- 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:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests: See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
The Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) meets at 11 a.m. at the Tourism Development Office, 120 Airport Road, Palm Coast, in the 3rd-floor conference room. The meetings are open to the public. Contact [email protected] for additional information. See: “Over Mayor’s Objections, Palm Coast Signals It’ll Extend Agreement with Cultural Council to Manage $100,000 in Grants,” and “How Peter Johnson’s ‘Bullshit’ Trespass Led to Sunshine on FC3 Cultural Board and Its Accountability to Palm Coast.”
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sunday, 2 p.m. Buy tickets here (generally $37.60 for adults). The play centers around the dramatic events that unfold when the residents tune into Orson Welles’ famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. The locals, who rely on the radio for news and entertainment, are thrown into a frenzy when they believe an actual Martian invasion is taking place in their own town.
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| Source: Flagler County Sheriff's Office. Note: the Sheriff's Office redacts or censors the names of migrants arrested under authority of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The federal agency requires the redactions, according to the Sheriff's Office. |
Notably: Odd how three days after we started running the daily jail bookings here (as we used to before Covid), the Sheriff’s Office announced that it was having “technical” issues, and would not be emailing the bookings every morning. It would not do so indefinitely. The bookings would show every day the blacked-out names and booking information of undocumented migrants either arrested or detained on behalf of ICE. There are days when more than a dozen names are blacked out. A daily bit of Kafka in our jail bookings. Until the bookings themselves got Kafkaputted. But the sheriff assured me that the conspiracist theorist in me was off base: he wasn’t even aware that the bookings had stopped going to media, and was going to look into it. The booking system, whose reports we see, I found out, are not entirely under the sheriff’s control, but are part of county IT’s information management system. When the two sides don’t interface correctly, gremlins slip in. And in fact a day after I mentioned it to the sheriff, the bookings were back.
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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
For the full calendar, go here.
It seemed to K. as if at last those people had broken off all relations with him, and as if now in reality he were freer than he had ever been, and at liberty to wait here in this place usually forbidden to him as long as he desired, and had won a freedom such as hardly anybody else had ever succeeded in winning, and as if nobody could dare touch him or drive him away, or even speak to him, but — this conviction was at least equally as strong — as if at the same time there was nothing more senseless, more hopeless, than this freedom, this waiting, this inviolability.
–From Franz Kafka’s The Castle (1926).
Laurel says
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Y7_4anDHfL4
Dennis C Rathsam says
Democrates are the biggest cry babies in America! No other president cleaned up DC, removing mold & rust stains from our national monuments. TRUMP has cleaned up the crime that plagued Obama & Biden. While millions of Americans, can now rest knowing IRAN, is a pile of rubble.The Democrats, I should say socialist, are killing a once great party. No matter what they say,TDS has them like a rat on a spinning wheel, constantly moving & getting no where. TRUMP showed the world the might of the USA. At the G7, TRUMP was the bell of the ball, every world leader wanted to speak with him. Everyone offered him congradulations. The price of gas is falling faster then TRUMP predicted, the stock market is making many Americans rich. Like I said, this summer will be the death of the Jackass party…. With nothing to run on, except theier hatred of TRUMP, the future of socialists will die a painfull death, at the polls in Nov. With a strong economy, low unemployment, & cheap gas Americans will take to the road this summer, traveling, visiting relatives, & hitting the beach, enjoying the fruits of TRUMPS AMERICA!
The dude says
Speaking of rats spinning on a wheel…
I can always count on Palm Coast’s version of Baghdad Bob for a chuckle…
Skibum says
I would call you a liar, Dennis, but you know no better because you are a voluntary sheep, and are deep, extremely DEEP into a CULT!
PaylT says
Do you mean the Reflecting Pool, Dennis? The one Trrump handed ot (no bid) to one of his contributors? Trump claimed his swimming pool expertise would make it ‘perfect’ for just $2 million?
The cheap patc-up actually cust us $14 million and Trumps ‘beautiful Flag Blue’ has already reverted to grimy algae green.
Another Trump failure though not quite as abject as his Iran ‘peace deal’ which has made him and this country a laughing stock.
Ray W. says
Newsweek reports that Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Ghirardelli’s, posted to X: “… all of Lebanon must burn.”
Hezbollah fighters, it was reported, killed four IDF soldiers. Israel responded by rocketing Lebanon throughout last night.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
What effect these actions will have on ongoing Iran War negotiations is unknowable!
Pierre Tristam says
Let’s be clear: the four Israeli soldiers killed were part of the occupying force in South Lebanon. They have no business being there. In Florida they call this Stand Your Ground. And there is nothing “D” in IDF. It is exclusively, and murderously, offensive. In every sense of the term.
Ray W. says
Thank you, Mr. Tristam, for adding clarity.
Pogo says
1000% 👌
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
— Ian Fleming
A man for these times, and all seasons
https://www.bing.com/search?q=franz+kafka
Ray W. says
Speaking of Ian Fleming, Pogo, Energy Intelligence, a research firm based in the U.S., reports that more than three Ukrainian aerial strikes have taken roughly a third of all crude oil refinery capacity in Russia.
Can it be argued that as Russia’s position worsens the risk of escalation rises?
PaulT says
I love this daily cartoon and it’s expose of Trump’s supreme indifference to the pain his policies are causing all Americans. (except his billionaire sponsors)!
What I don’t get is why any sane person still ‘loves’ Trump, but I suppose cults defy reason.