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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 96. Heat index values as high as 113. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 78. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
- 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 Palm Coast City Council meets in a budget workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall to go over properietary funds such as utilities, stormwater and so on.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee meets at 3 p.m. at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 3, Bunnell. Eduardo Diaz Cordero is the Housing Program Coordinator.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 5:15 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, to adopt its tentative property tax rate for 2026-27. The rate is set by the state, not by local school board members.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here. The meeting is open to the public and includes public speaking segments.
The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The meeting is open to the public, including non-members. To become a member, go here.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
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.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Group meets at 4 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
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Notably: Something tells me a friend of ours would have liked Ric Diez, a second-tier comic who goes for clever dryness. It’s hit and miss, but quite a few good lines: “I wrote a letter to my younger self. I was like: it gets worse.” Or: “I went to a gun store to buy a gun. The guy at the gun store said, what do you need a gun for, self-defense? Sort of.” Followed by: “They made me fill out a mental health questionnaire. And according to your Second Amendment, I’m stable.”
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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
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Nar-Anon Family Group
For the full calendar, go here.
The post-modernists’ celebration of discontinuity and contradiction, combined with their willful determination to view everything through an ideological lens suggests that the very search for truth (or truths) is an absurd and irrelevant end. It suggests that the democratic idea of consensus is futile. And it suggests that everyone, in Tocqueville’s words, is confined `entirely within the solitude of his own heart.’ It also postulates a completely relativistic universe in which all theories — however reprehensible or preposterous — must be accorded respect a universe in which truths are replaced by opinions. As the literary theorist and law professor Stanley Fish once ominously declared, the death of objectivity `relieves me of the obligation to be right’; it ‘demands only that I be interesting.’
–From Michiko Kakutani’s “Opinion vs. Reality In an Age of Pundits and Spin Doctors,” New York Times, January 28, 1994.
Pogo says
100%
Michiko Kakutani
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Michiko+Kakutani&source=desktop
Brain Drippings
https://search.brave.com/ask?q=intersection+of+1984+and+brave+new+world
Hey, Florida Man
https://search.brave.com/search?q=symptoms+of+heat+exhaustion+heat+stroke
Today’s Forecast: 100% chance of Trump/DeSantis atrocities, crimes, and stupidity
Laurel says
My personal opinion is that boy ain’t right.
I watched a podcast that showed how Trump stayed up all night posting memes of himself in extraordinary power, over twenty of them of on “Truth Social” (very little truth there). What the hell? This guy is 10 years old! The mentality is simply not normal. He can’t be President of the United States of America! We need to wake up from this nightmare; I believe he is sick. It is stunning to me that there is a whole group of Republican politicians who back this insanity, but I also see they have opportunities for wealth and the rest of us be damned.
I think our country is in a very sad state.
Skibum says
Nope… he ain’t right in his head, and he definitely is not right in his heart!