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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 93. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
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Storytime: A couple of things often happen when someone gives alms to a person in need: the giver will lecture the poorer person with a bit of sanctimony: spend this wisely, do some work for me in exchange, don’t be lazy. The giver will also feel very good about himself. And if the person in need somehow gets back on their feet, the giver takes the credit besmogged in smugness. In a nutshell, that’s the ideology behind welfare-to-work campaigns, which go on the patronizing assumption that, unlike others, the poor need a carrot and sometimes a stick to get back in shape, and on the equally retrograde assumption that they’re beyond help anyway. “The Beggar” is an 1887 story by Chekhov. Skvortsov is a lawyer. Louchkov is a drunken beggar. Louchkov approaches Skvortsov, claiming he’d been railroaded from his job as a teacher and begging for alms. Skvortsov recognizes him as the same beggar who’d given him a different story two days before, but he invites him to his estate to split wood for some money. Louchkov hesitates, giving Skvortsov a chance to lecture him about the virtues of work and what losers beggars are, of their own doing. Louchkov relents. At the estate, the lawyer’s housekeeper throws an axe at Louchkov and cusses him out, as the lawyer watches from his study’s window before going back to work. Between the cold and his hangover, Louchkov is incapable of splitting the wood, but somehow the job is done, the housekeeper informs Skvortsov, who provides a ruble for the beggar, telling her to summon him back regularly to split wood. Louchkov returns several times, and several times goes away with a ruble in his pocket, until the lawyer, proud of himself, refers Louchkov to an office job as a copyist, which Louchkov takes. The two lose sight of each other. A couple of years later, they meet again in the theater. Louchkov is well to do, earning 35 rubles a month. Skvortsov is delighted and takes all the credit, again lecturing Louchkov about the virtues of work and sternness to straighten out the poor. But Louchkov has a surprise for the lawyer, telling him the sanctimony and the wood-splitting had nothing to do with it, because he never split a single log of wood. It was Olga, the housekeeper, who saved him. “It was like this,” Louchkov tells the lawyer: “When I came to break wood she would start: ‘Ah there you are, drunkard! Cursed! So you won’t die!’ Then she sat down in front of me, suddenly saddened, looked me in the face and said desolately: ‘Unfortunate you are! You have no joy in this world or in the next, drunkard that you are, you will burn in hell! Drag yourself to misery!’ And other stories along the same lines, you see. What bad blood she did to herself and shed tears about me, I cannot tell you. But the main thing is that she broke my wood! The fact is that, sir, at your house, I never broke a log, it was always her! Why she saved me, why I changed by looking at her, and why I stopped drinking, I can’t explain to you. I only know that her words and her noble conduct brought about a transformation in my soul, that she corrected me and that I will never forget her. But it’s time, we’re ringing.”
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July 2026
Bowling: 2026 PBA South Region Palm Coast Open
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Bowling: 2026 PBA South Region Palm Coast Open
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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God dammit, I want the people working for me to be worse off than I am, not better. That’s the reason I pay you so well. I want to see you right on the verge. I want it right out in the open. I want to be able to hear it in a stuttering, flustered, tongue-tied voice…. Don’t trust me. I don’t trust flattery, loyalty, and sociability. I don’t trust deference, respect, and cooperation. I trust fear.
–From Joseph Heller’s Something Happened (1974).
Pogo says
Dennis C Rathsam says
Nobody has to check out anybody… What ever your birth certificate says, that what you are. Americas greatest generation, & mine the baby boomers, never had this problem. Why is this an issue now? A little common sense goes a long way!
James says
“…Why is this an issue now? …”
Right, it wasn’t an issue until Trump made it an issue.
Just say’n… giving where credit where credit is due.
Laurel says
Dennis: Past generations did have this situation; they hid it and suffered. I don’t understand why people feel so insecure about the difference of others that they prefer these people be closeted, and spend their whole lives in unjust conformity.
Life just ain’t so black and white. If you, and those of you who feel the same way, would study a little more about nature and science, it could open a whole new world for you. One that isn’t so simple, but far more interesting! “Nature” and “Nova” are two really good educational shows. You’d enjoy them.
Ed P says
The Supreme Court’s decisions actually provide more freedoms, not less.
Roe v Wade. Abortions increased.
Transgender girls will still be allowed in:
California
Illinois
New York
Connecticut
Vermont
Maine
Hawaii
Minnesota
Colorado
With the following state without bans…
Delaware
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Washington state
DC
These 2 rulings cemented a fractured landscape
Laurel says
Trump just might walk into the girl’s dressing room. He has done it before.
It still blows me away that Thomas and Kavanaugh made it to the bench.
Land of no turn signals says says
Common sense people.
Laurel says
Fox Entertainment quote.
Anyone quoting Fox Entertainment, Newsmax or Tucker Carlson shouldn’t bother. It’s incredibly obvious.
James says
Sorry, but I can’t shake the feeling that Trump might be shaping up to be one of the most tragic figures in recent modern American history.
Yes, after considering all that has been disclosed over the past week or so regarding Trump’s finances, his family’s finances, the Vice President’s finances, various other government officials finances… the list can probably go on almost ad infinitum.
It seems more apparent to me than ever before that we might actually be witnessing one of the most egregious and blatant cases of elder abuse in modern history.
But than again, perhaps not.
Just an opinion.
James says
I should also note that “enablers” and “co-abusers” aren’t all rewarded in the same way.
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But they’re guilty just the same.
Just another opinion.
James says
Just another thought… and perhaps Pierre being more of a student of history than I might concur… it seems that most dictators come to the job early, not late in life.
They’re usually relatively youthful when they take power… 50s, 60s, if that.
Of course there is always exceptions to a rule. But considering the level of gaslighting I ‘ve seen here in Florida… well.
Just another thought on the matter.
Pogo says
Clarity.
Most tyrants are literally to the manner born; inheritance, class membership, party membership, aka, accident of birth. Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?
Moreover, pricks like Hitler had parents and a childhood too.
Think about all the great artists and entertainers who spent decades becoming an overnight success.
Laurel says
James: I don’t think so. I think we are witnessing the biggest grift in history. One that has deflated our standing in the world view. One that has fooled our own countrymen and countrywomen.
These grifters are bottomless pits, and without souls, integrity and honor. They should be pitied but it’s hard to do considering the number of their victims.
My Other Brother Darryl say says
I put a baked potato in the microwave and hit the pizza button, but alas it was still a baked potato when I opened the door.