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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 106. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph. Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 75. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light after midnight.
- 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 Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the library, 315 7th St S, Flagler Beach. It’s free. All ages, all skill levels. Flagler Beach Chess is a community-driven organization dedicated to promoting the game of chess in Flagler Beach, Florida, and surrounding areas. We seek to bring together players of all skill levels and provide opportunities for friendly competition, socialization, and skill development. We believe that chess is more than just a game – it’s a way of life. Our community is built around a shared love of strategy, critical thinking, and intellectual challenge. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced player, we invite you to join us for a game or two, learn from other players, and share your own knowledge and expertise. Join us today and become a part of our chess community. Every third Saturday of the month.
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 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.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
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Notebook: Between candidate interviews the size of James Michener novels, a murder trial and the usual run of stories that still have to get reported and written, it’s been a bit of a challenging week, and the old carcass is paying the price: I think I’ll need to have my gallbladder removed before long. “I am fifty-nine. At that age life is just death in installments,” V.S. Naipaul wrote when he was younger than me. But I don’t want to add moans to others’ misery: compared to the guy on the receiving end of the verdict on Friday, compared to the family and friends and colleagues of Yolonda Williams, compared to some of our friends, who have it even worse than the convicted one (he still has years of life ahead of him: one of my friends is battling for a few months), the rest of us might as well be in Maui. How easily we forget, how easily we indulge in unwarranted solipsism. I’m just a little tired, and will stop here, because I can. At times like this, Bach is it. Bach is all.
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August 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Randy Fine Press Conference/Campaign Stop at Beverly Beach Town Hall
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
Love is inexplicable to me. I always watch a couple with astonishment—their unhurried pace, their persistent groping, the way their food turns into a shared mash, the way they grasp one another with both palm and gaze, touching at every point so they might better merge. I cannot grasp the need for a hand to hold another—refusing to let go—in order to give a face to another person’s heart. How do people who love each other manage? How do they put up with one another? What makes them forget that they were born alone and will die apart? I have read many books, and love strikes me as a mere accommodation, certainly not a mystery. It seems to me that what some find in love, I find instead in death: the sense of life’s precariousness and absoluteness, the heartbeat, the anguish in the face of a sightless body. Death—whether I have received it or dealt it—is the only mystery to me. Everything else is nothing but rituals, habits, and dubious forms of complicity. In truth, love is like a celestial beast that frightens me. I see it devouring people in pairs, mesmerizing them with the lure of eternity.
–From Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation (Meursault contre-enquête, 2013).
Pogo says
Me too?
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Saada+Arbane
Laurel says
How about a “Memorandum of Understanding”? I’d feel better about that, considering how ineffective that would be.
Ed P says
Hello Laurel,
That’s because you need rational people to understand the memo. The IRG is anything rational. Zealots rarely are.
At some point the neighboring Gulf nations will have enough of their proclaimed red lines obliterated by the IRG and a long term solution will reveal itself.
Tick tock, tick tock.
Local says
Just.\nWanted to comment on the cartoon. Where is this war taking place? Thank god we are a republic🤣
Sherry says
@ local. . .Please take the time to get educated:
Being a “democratic republic” means the United States is both a democracy, where the people hold the ultimate power, and a republic, where that power is exercised through elected representatives. The terms are not mutually exclusive.
This system breaks down into two core concepts:
Democratic: Ultimate political authority comes from the people. Citizens exercise this power by voting in free and fair elections to choose their leaders and pass local ballot measures.
Republic: Instead of citizens voting directly on every single law themselves, they elect representatives to draft, debate, and pass legislation on their behalf. This representative structure ensures efficient governance in a large, populous country.
The U.S. government is further constrained by a Constitution, which establishes the rule of law and limits majority rule to protect the rights of minorities.
SMH!!!
FlaPharmTech says
25th amendment now and Epstein files.
Laurel says
Re: Editor’s Blog.
Should I tell you it gets better, or remind you of the alternative?
I used to comment that I wanted a tee shirt that read “I’m 69 and everything hurts!” That year, I did the Daytona Zip line for my birthday. Now, I’m 74, and that tee shirt needs updating, and zip lining? Maybe later. I still cannot bring myself to get rid of my blue suede, precision roller skates.
Now, everything really hurts, and nouns seem to be just out of reach..
But…
We’re still here, and we can look out at our yard and see the oaks, our friendly neighborhood heron, and the water, and be grateful for it! We can look around, and see what we have accomplished, and that’s pretty good! We done good, and we’re still working on it.
You do Bach, and I’ll do Sarah Brightman, or Journey, or Dan Fogleberg, or…