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Weather: Mostly clear. Highs around 80. Monday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
- 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:
In court: Brian Ross Pirraglia goes on trial on a first-degree murder charge in the overdose death of Brian Oshea three and a half years ago in Palm Coast. The trial begins with jury selection before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 8:30 a.m. in Courtroom 401. It is Nichols’s first full trial as Flagler County’s felony judge. See: “Brian Pirraglia Indicted on 1st Degree Murder Charge in Fentanyl Overdose Death of Brian Oshea, 39.”
The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 1 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. The commission will discuss capital projects, It will also hear from Mark Langello, the developer and a member of the county’s planning board, about the impact fees he paid in 2006-08 and had sought to be reimbursed. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
The Flagler County Land Acquisition Committee meets at 3:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to “Keep the Holiday Lights On” by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household’s electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares’ fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy quality. |
Notably: Something new to be bewildered about. From Statista: “A case on ‘ghost guns’ has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ghost guns are homemade guns that are unserialized and therefore untraceable. Gun rights groups are challenging a regulation brought in under the Biden administration which says that companies selling separate components of a gun must follow the same rules as those who are selling traditional, fully constructed firearms. This includes carrying out background checks on buyers and adding serial numbers to the DIY kits. Manufacturers and pro-gun groups say that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is overstepping its authority by reclassifying gun kits and gun components as firearms, claiming that such weapons kits do not meet the “firearm” definition under law. Anti-gun groups warn, however, that if the restriction is overturned, so-called ghost gun kits could be sold to teenagers, criminals and people with a history of mental illness.” Pro-gun groups prove once again that they are our white collar if red-spattered terrorists.
Now this:
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November 2024
Monday, Nov 18
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting
Monday, Nov 18
Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting
Government Services Building
Monday, Nov 18
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Tuesday, Nov 19
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Nov 19
County Commission Swearing-In
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Nov 19
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Nov 19
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Nov 19
Fall Horticultural Workshops
Palm Coast Community Center
Tuesday, Nov 19
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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“Max Mendoza’s parents awakened just after dawn to the echoing clap-pop of a gunshot, and ran from their bedroom to find their 12-year-old son propped against the couch, eyes wide in pain, terror and surprise. “It’s the real one. It’s the real one,” Max whispered, clutching his chest, seemingly astounded that a weapon resembling a toy, a cheap-looking brown-and-black pistol, could end his life in an instant. But it did. Investigators in this city just south of San Diego are still trying to determine exactly what happened on that Saturday morning in July — if the seventh-grader accidentally shot himself, or if his 15-year-old friend, who the police say had brought the weapon into the apartment, discharged it while showing it off. What is certain is the kind of weapon that killed Max. It was a “ghost gun.” Ghost guns — untraceable firearms without serial numbers, assembled from components bought online — are increasingly becoming the lethal weapon of easy access for those legally barred from buying or owning guns around the country. The criminal underground has long relied on stolen weapons with filed-off serial numbers, but ghost guns represent a digital-age upgrade, and they are especially prevalent in coastal blue states with strict firearm laws.
–From “‘Ghost Guns’: Firearm Kits Bought Online Fuel Epidemic of Violence,” by Glenn Thrush,. The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2021.
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