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Weather: Areas of frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
- 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:
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board consists of Carl Lilavois, Chair; Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten and Lyn Lafferty.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
The Cold-Weather Shelter known as the Sheltering Tree, opens:The shelter opens at Church on the Rock at 2200 North State Street in Bunnell as the overnight temperature is expected to fall to 40 or below. It will open from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. The shelter is open to the homeless and to the nearly-homeless: anyone who is struggling to pay a utility bill or lacks heat or shelter and needs a safe, secure place for the night. The shelter will serve dinner and breakfast. Call 386-437-3258, extension 105 for more information. Flagler County Transportation offers free bus rides from pick up points in the county, starting at 3 p.m., at the following locations and times:
- Dollar General at Publix Town Center, 3:30 p.m.
- Near the McDonald’s at Old Kings Road South and State Road 100, 4 p.m.
- Dollar Tree by Carrabba’s and Walmart, 4:30 p.m.
- Palm Coast Main Branch Library, 4:45 p.m.
Also: - Dollar General at County Road 305 and Canal Avenue in Daytona North, 4 p.m.
- Bunnell Free Clinic, 4:30 p.m.
- First United Methodist Church in Bunnell, 4:30 p.m.
The shelter is run by volunteers of the Sheltering Tree, a non-profit under the umbrella of the Flagler County Family Assistance Center, is a non-denominational civic organization. The Sheltering Tree is in need of donations. See the most needed items here, and to contribute cash, donate here or go to the Donate button at this page.
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.
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.
Editorial Notebook: In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff’s 2017 book on the underground bunker the Pentagon built for itself at the Pennsylvania-Maryland border so it could keep fighting a nuclear war, Graff tells of the 2002 explosions Washington D.C. residents heard for two months, complained about for two months, and were told for two months that it was classified. National Security. The military was building an underground bunker for Dick Cheney at the vice president’s house. We know this now, as Graf reports, because Biden himself, when he became vice president, “gabbed that he’d found a bunker in his new house–a secure room hidden behind a hallway’s heavy steel door.” Biden always traded on his regular-Joe persona, which depended on manufacturing regular-Joe stupidity, which required passing off sensitive information as if he were sitting on a bar stool. He would not discipline himself. He liked the persona too much, even if it risked national security. Finding out about the bunker was nota big deal: it’s not actually a national security matter, especially not if a vice president’s security is at stake, and especially if that vice president was either Cheney or Biden. But Biden could be counted on to make garbage asides that could swing markets or elections. Pardoning his son is somewhere along that spectrum of garbage. It won’t affect markets or the war in Ukraine, but it may have ample enough implications that will ripple into larger consequences, now that he’s blessed Donald Trump’s serial pardoning of every criminal who’s greased his ways, himself included. The Biden pardon is not just a misjudgment. It’s just plain disgusting. His legacy might as well be a dust mite beneath a steel door at Raven Rock.
—P.T.
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November 2024
Saturday, Nov 30 – Monday, Dec 30
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
December 2024
Sunday – Tuesday, Dec 01 – 31
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
Monday, Dec 02 – Wednesday, Jan 01
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
Tuesday, Dec 03
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Dec 03
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Tuesday, Dec 03
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Tuesday, Dec 03
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Dec 03
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Dec 03 – Thursday, Jan 02
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
Tuesday, Dec 03
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
Wednesday, Dec 04
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Wednesday, Dec 04
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Wednesday, Dec 04
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Wednesday, Dec 04
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Wednesday, Dec 04
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Public Library
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For the full calendar, go here.
Quote: Senator Joseph R. Biden, a Delaware Democrat, predicted that Mr. [Jesse] Ventura would fade like Mr. Perot. “In four years, he’ll be where our boy from Texas is — only without the money,” he said. “It’s a predictable aberration; every four to 10 years in American politics there’s a character like Rush Limbaugh or Jerry Falwell with something interesting to say who becomes a repository for despair within the existing system.” Told of Mr. Biden’s comments, Mr. Ventura flashed the impudence that some find refreshing and others find disturbing. “Who does that guy think he is?” he said. “You can tell Joe Biden that if, indeed, four years from now nobody will know who I am, I’d still rather be an unknown than a career politician like him. Go out and ask your average teen-ager today who Jesse Ventura is and who Joe Biden is. What I’ve accomplished is more than he ever will.”
—From “And Now, ‘Body’ Politics: But Seriously, Mr. Ventura,” by Richard Berke, The New York Times, Sept. 19, 1999.
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