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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. High near 89. Southwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. South wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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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]
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
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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Now this: You’ve never heard of her: Louise Farrenc, one of 19th century Paris’s great piano composers. Born in 1804, died in 1875, she left a large body of works behind, but it’s only now getting discovered and given its due. The CPO label did a lot of that, Erato and Naxos put out her symphonies, but it’s the Grand Piano label that’s been issuing her complete piano works since 2022, with the fifth volume just out, Maria Stratigou at the piano for all five. This one has 15 fugues, melodies, and other works, including her Valse Brillante. rom the liner notes: “Louise Farrenc was acclaimed as a pianist for her performances of Beethoven’s works, and Robert Schumann praised her compositional skills in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1836 for her Op. 17 Air russe varié for piano. She won twice, in 1861 and 1869, the prestigious Prix Chartier for chamber music later awarded to Édouard Lalo (1823–1892), César Franck (1822–1890), and Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), among others. With her husband, she published Le Trésor des pianistes, a 23-volume anthology of keyboard music containing pieces from the 16th up to the 19th centuries.”
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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
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Farrenc, a native of Paris, is remarkable for having forged an unusually prominent career for a female in those days. Farrenc was celebrated as a concert pianist, composer and teacher. She studied the piano in her youth with Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870) and Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), both of whom were admired pianists – Moscheles had a strong connection with Beethoven, and Hummel with W.A. Mozart – and wrote influential pedagogical treatises on piano playing. Farrenc studied composition with Anton Reicha (1770–1836). In 1842 she became the first female professor to be appointed at the Paris Conservatoire, where she taught piano for thirty years and was successful in fighting for pay equal to her male colleagues. Her early compositional output consisted mainly of pieces for solo piano, but by the 1840s she had made significant forays into chamber and orchestral writing. Farrenc’s two piano quintets constitute some of her finest chamber music, displaying a mature compositional craft.
–From the liner notes to a 2020 album, “Louise Farrenc and Camille Saint-Saens: Romantic Dreams,” ABC Classics.
Skibum says
The orange menace in the WH is like a toddler sitting in a swing in the middle of a sand box, swinging one way, then the other, not knowing which way he likes best. Netanyahu stands behind him, thrusting him toward more attacks. Weee! Enjoying the ride, the momentum and feeling of power, then he retreats backward toward some random proclamation of a “pending deal”. Oops, there goes Netanyahu again, pushing his bulbous behind in the swing forward toward more war. Backward again with another simpleton idea that he can, with a single thought, work out some imagined peace in a war he created.
Nearly six months on… back and forth. Back and forth. Netanyahu whispering in his ear at each backward motion, then another SHOVE. Go! No, don’t reverse so much. There… uhhh, another hard shove. Get it done for Israel (so Israel’s soldiers, weapons, military resources and money aren’t being depleted) go, go GO, America!
At first, the idiot in the swing smiled like the child he is, relishing his comfy seat on that swing, being at the center of attention. Now though, he is tiring of the ride, the back and forth without stopping, feeling a little dizzy. He wants to get off!
Neither side is willing to let the swing stop. When will the toddler cry out? Where’s mommy… or ANY other adult when you need one???