daily briefings

A unit of the National Guard’s 265th Air Defense Brigade now permanently stationed at the Flagler County Airport comes home from Afghanistan after a year deployment, more early voting, more bombing at Pinecastle range by the Navy.

Flagler Reads Together kicks off today with Ben Montgomery, author of the chosen book, at the public library, early voting in the presidential primary begins Saturday.

The Flagler County School Board will hold a refresher on its own parliamentary rules following the controversial end to a previous meeting’s discussion. Palm Coast Little League appear before the city council, also in a follow-up to a controversy late last year.

The 350 musicians of the Flagler Youth Orchestra take the stage at the Flagler Auditorium tonight at 7 p.m. for their 32nd concert, a new book about evictions is a shocking revelation about poverty in America.

An unusual conference of cat volunteers and caretakers at the Humane Society, 45 concert bands at the Flagler Auditorium, a new play at the Flagler Playhouse.

Chick-Fil-A thinks it should get an award for handsome landscaping on Palm Coast Parkway (though city regulations also deserve credit), and a Florida Chamber of Commerce adviser talks politics at the Hilton Garden Inn at noon.

A rather dull day in Flagler when the most notable event is the county’s economic development council self-critiquing its website. In Miami, however, Lech Walesa will be talking at Florida International University.

Jeb Bush tweets another cry for help, the Tourist Development Council shells out another $18,000 in free money, the Florida Legislature hides its homophobia behind the clergy’s robes.

A new taxing district in the Hammock, Clinton and Sanders stand-ins argue their positions at the African-American Cultural Society, Florida Hospital Flagler breaks ground on an expansion for more beds.

“The Last Romance” opens at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace, the Paul McCartney Years at the Auditorium, a Hot N Spicy festival at the Agriculture Museum.

Very low humidity and very high winds combine for dangerous fire conditions today, NOAA warns. The Florida Legislature considers higher pay for supervisors of election.

The Flagler centennial committee has a logo, Palm Coast readies to spend $25 million on a new sewer plant, Roland Hanna at the Village Vanguard.

The Florida Legislature takes up a death-sentence “fix,” Hillary Clinton blasts the double-standard over women shouting, the Legislature considers pot for the terminally ill.

It’ll be difficult keeping track of events this weekend with birding, art, First Friday, the Polar Bear plunge and many more activities in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach.

Renee Taylor is at the Flagler Auditorium, FPC Thespians are in two one-act comedies: “AP Theatre” by Ed Monk and “The Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World” by Jonathan Rand.

The Men’s Futures Tennis Tournament at the Palm Coast Tennis Center enters its second day, Gov. Rick Scott addresses the state association of counties, where most of Flagler’s commissioners are this week.

The Flagler County School Board finally decides the future of the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club, Palm Coast Council members choose how to pay themselves more.

Flagler Palm Coast High School may soon get to ready for a career as Emergency Medical Technicians: it’s one of several items on the Flagler County Commission’s long workshop agenda Monday morning. Florida lawmakers consider out-of-state insurers.

Two shows at the Flagler Auditorium, the Color Vibe 5K race in Palm Coast’s Town Center, FPC’s Lady Bulldogs win the District 1-8A championship again.

The Flagler Beach Commission speaks up against oil prospecting’s seismic testing, Nate McLaughlin at Hidden Trails, more birding in Palm Coast, the Legislature talks Stand Your Ground.

The Palm Coast City Council will get a presentation on potentially bumping up its salary and benefits package, this month’s Office Divvy-sponsored Entrepreneur Night is at the new Sevyn club in Bunnell.

The annual home and lifestyle show takes over the campus of Flagler Palm Coast High School this weekend, Frank Gromling, the right whale guy, talks at Gamble Rogers, the Palm Coast Planning Board favors banning bottle clubs.

Milissa Holland flanks herself in history as she launches her campaign for Palm Coast mayor, it’s all about ballroom dancing at the Flagler Auditorium, FPC and Matanzas wrestle, and ISIS is in recession.

Gas prices continue to crash, but in Palm Coast not nearly as fast as elsewhere, the Legislature prepares to shut down public access to surveillance videos of public buildings.

The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #171 of Palm Coast, still misquoting Quentin Tarantino, plans a protest of the filmmaker at Epic Theaters, Volusia County’s four-term sheriff announces his retirement.

As if you didn’t know it already: 2015 will be by far the hottest year on record for the planet, not just because of Donald Trump, the NBA launches a gun-control campaign.

Veteran Michael Goodyear received the Legion of Honor from the French government. He was awarded the honor by Sal Rutigliano during the meeting of the Flagler County Commission Monday evening.