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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Today at a Glance:
A public hearing on a proposed marina/boat storage development in the Hammock is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. A magistrate will make a determination and submit recommendations to County Commission regarding a proposal by Hammock Harbour to develop a parcel in the Hammock into a boat storage facility for 204 boats. See: “Developer of Proposed 204-Boat Storage Facility in Hammock on Collision Course with County and Residents.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Identity Theft/Scams/Fraud Workshop at Flagler Woman’s Club, 10 a.m. at the clubhouse, 1524 S Central Ave, Flagler Beach. The Flagler Woman’s Club invites you to join us for a workshop on Preventing Identity Theft, Scams and Fraud. Cmdr. Frank Lutz of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office will present. Please call Mary at 386-569-7813 to reserve your spot.
Food Truck Tuesdays is presented by the City of Palm Coast on the third Tuesday of every month from March to October. Held at Central Park in Town Center, visitors can enjoy gourmet food served out of trucks from 5 to 8 p.m.–mobile kitchens, canteens and catering trucks that offer up appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Foods to be featured change monthly but have included lobster rolls, Portuguese cuisine, fish and chips, regional American, Latin food, ice cream, barbecue and much more. Many menus are kid-friendly. Proceeds from each Food Truck Tuesday event benefits a local charity.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 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.
| In Coming Days: July 15: The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 2 p.m. followed by a special meeting at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The commission will discuss the county’s capital budget at the workshop, then set a proposed tax rate for next year. The tax rate the commission will set is only a benchmark, and the maximum tax rate it is willing to consider. It may set a lower tax rate by September, when it adopts the final rate. See the documents here, such as they are (the county continues to be stingy with back-up material it shares with the public, as opposed to what it shares with commissioners.) July 16: Identity Theft/Scams/Fraud Workshop at Flagler Woman’s Club, 10 a.m. at the clubhouse, 1524 S Central Ave, Flagler Beach. The Flagler Woman’s Club invites you to join us for a workshop on Preventing Identity Theft, Scams and Fraud. Cmdr. Frank Lutz of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office will present. Please call Mary at 386-569-7813 to reserve your spot. |
Notebook: J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy (2016) is written with the same smugness of conservative presumption—the assumption that there really is no other prevailing ideology—as that of Lionel Trilling writing about liberalism’s dominance in the 1950s. It is like coming face to face with Flannery O’Connor’s characters--Mrs. May in “Greenleaf,” the grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” Mrs. McIntyre in “The Displaced Person”—those permanently aggrieved, superior whites so proud of having made something of themselves from nothing, who think everyone around them is either out to get them or cheat them or make fun of them or get something over them, a paranoia of the privileged that translates into one, long moan of aristocratic-odored judgments. Always remember The Road to Wigan Pier as an antidote to the effluence in this book.
—P.T.
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July 2024
Tuesday, Jul 16
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Jul 16
Public Hearing on hammock Harbour Proposed Development
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Jul 16
Identity Theft/Scams/Fraud Workshop at Flagler Woman’s Club
Flagler Woman’s Club House
Tuesday, Jul 16
Food Truck Tuesday
Central Park in Town Center
Tuesday, Jul 16
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Jul 16
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
Wednesday, Jul 17
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Government Services Building
Wednesday, Jul 17
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Government Services Building
Wednesday, Jul 17
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Wednesday, Jul 17
Bridge and Games at Flagler Woman’s Club
Flagler Woman’s Club House
Wednesday, Jul 17
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Wednesday, Jul 17
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Public Library
Wednesday, Jul 17
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
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Many of my new friends blame racism for this perception of the president [Obama]. But the president feels like an alien to many Middletonians for reasons that have nothing to do with skin color. Recall that not a single one of my high school classmates attended an Ivy League school. Barack Obama attended two of them and excelled at both. He is brilliant, wealthy, and speaks like a constitutional law professor–which, of course, he is. Nothing about him bears any resemblance to the people I admired growing up: His accent–clean, perfect, neutral–is foreign; his credentials are so impressive that they’re frightening; he made his life in Chicago, a dense metropolis; and he conducts himself with a confidence that comes from knowing that the modern American meritocracy was built for him. Of course, Obama overcame adversity in his own right–adversity familiar to many of us–but that was long before any of us knew him.
–J.D. Vance, from Hillbilly Elegy (2016).
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