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Weather: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 5 mph. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
In Court: Willie Gardner is back in court at 8:30 a.m. as his lawyer attempts to keep him from having to serve a jail sentence in an animal cruelty case. See: “In Rare Rebuke, Judge Rejects Plea Agreement and Asks for Jail Time in Dog Abuse Case.”
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 55 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
In Coming Days:
Dec. 2: Daytona State College is hosting a special early enrollment day on Saturday, Dec. 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Daytona Beach Campus to help new students with enrollment, class registration, financial aid and academic advising. Spring Semester classes begin January 16 and early registration offers the best chance for the broadest range of courses. Students can call 386-506-3642 or register for an enrollment appointment time at DaytonaState.edu/Enrollment-Day. Students can complete enrollment online, at any of our campuses during regular business hours, or at this Saturday Enrollment event. This event is not intended for students who are participating in DSC’s Dual Enrollment program. For more information about Dual Enrollment, visit DaytonaState.edu/DE. To explore DSC’s programs and degrees, visit To get information on any DSC programs, visit https://bit.ly/DSC_ProgramInquiry. Sign up for a campus tour: https://bit.ly/3aDwk9Z.
Dec. 23: Culmination of toy drive for Toys for Tots at AW Custom Kitchens, European Village, starting at 11 a.m. A drawing for all eligible participants will take place at 2 p.m. Anyone who will have donated toys for the drive will have a chance to win various items, including a 65-inch 4K Smart TV, an Apple iPad, a pair of Apple Air Pods, and gift cards from the co-sponsors of the event. Fifty such cards have been donated. With proof of a voucher, donors also will receive a free hot dog, a free drink, a free popcorn, a free cotton candy, and a free snow cone. There will be a variety of fun things to do such as a bouncy house for children in thanks to the community for its generosity. See details here.
Notably: Annie Ernaux, the 2022 winner of the literature Nobel, in 2011 wrote a very brief book, half memoir, half essay, 100 percent shattering, called L’autre fille, or The Other Girl. It’s all in the title. When she was 10, she overheard a conversation and learned that she had a sister who died at age 6 of diphtheria, before Annie was born. Her parents never told her about the death, never acknowledged it to her. She pieced the story together from shreds here and there, and from the sense that her parents would have preferred her sister to her. Halfway through Ernaux refers to a cartoon by Resier, or Jean-Mar Resier, who died in 1983 after a career in the style of Charlie Hebdo. Here’s the cartoon. The sign says: “Bridge of the Lost Children.” Make of it what you will:
—P.T.
Now this: Marineland Mayor Angela TenBroeck:
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November 2023
Wednesday, Nov 29 – Saturday, Dec 30
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Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
Thursday, Nov 30
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Nov 30 – Sunday, Dec 31
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
Thursday, Nov 30
Uncouth: Open Mic Night
December 2023
Friday, Dec 01
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Dec 01
Blue 24 Forum
Friday, Dec 01
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Friday, Dec 01 – Monday, Jan 01
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
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I doubt that anyone can travel the length of the Florida Keys without having communicated to his mind a sense of the uniqueness of this land of sky and water and scattered mangrove-covered islands. The atmosphere of the Keys is strongly and peculiarly their own. It may be that here, more than in most places, remembrance of the past and intimations of the future are linked with present reality. In bare and jaggedly corroded rock, sculptured with the patterns of the corals, there is the desolation of a dead past. In the multicolored sea gardens seen from a boat as one drifts above them, there is a tropical lushness and mystery, a throbbing sense of the pressure of life; in coral reef and mangrove swamp there are the dimly seen foreshadowings of the future.
–From Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea (1955).
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