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Weather: A 40 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 68.
Monday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 52.
- 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: The trial of Michael Wayne Jennelle on a capital felony charge of raping a minor and three additional related life felonies begins with jury selection at 8:30 a.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at the Flagler County courthouse, Courtroom 401. The prosecution is not seeking the death penalty. The alleged crimes predate the enactment of a new but unconstitutional law enacted in Florida 14 months ago that reinstates the death penalty for individuals convicted of the rape of children younger than 12. If convicted, Jennelle would be immediately sentenced to life in prison. The judge would have no discretion. See: “As Trial Is Set for Man on Charges of Raping His Granddaughter, Judge Asks: “You Want To Put Her Through That?’”
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The meeting of the seven-member board is open to the public.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, where the City Commission is holding its meetings until it is able to occupy its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway in 2025. The commission will be asked to approve a change order increasing the price of Bunnell’s new wastewater treatment plant from $23 million to $30 million. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go 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.
Out of RFK Jr.’s hearing: From Statista: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how effective vaccines have been in all but eradicating major diseases in the United States. Some diseases have in fact been eradicated with no new cases of polio or smallpox in decades in the United States compared to a 20th cenrury average of more than 10,000 cases per year. And even though progress in eradicating measles has stalled in recent years (due in part to growing vaccine skepticism), its morbidity is nowhere near the annual case load seen in the 20th century, when half a million people were infected in an average year. Its prevalence has fallen by more than 99 percent due to vaccinations, along with a whole host of other diseases such as pertussis (whooping cough), mumps and rubella.
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March 2025
Monday, Mar 10
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler County Public Library
Monday, Mar 10
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Mar 10
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Tuesday, Mar 11
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Tuesday, Mar 11
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
Third Floor Conference Room, Government Services Building
Tuesday, Mar 11
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
St. Johns River Water Management District
Tuesday, Mar 11
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Mar 11
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Mar 11
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Tuesday, Mar 11
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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For the full calendar, go here.
“Pollution increases prevalence of stroke, heart disease, cancer of all kinds, acute and chronic respiratory diseases like asthma, and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including premature birth. New research into the behavioral and developmental effects is perhaps even scarier: air pollution has been linked to worse memory, attention, and vocabulary, and to ADHD and autism spectrum disorders. Pollution has been shown to damage the development of neurons in the brain, and proximity to a coal plant can deform your DNA. In the developing world, 98 percent of cities are enveloped by air above the threshold of safety established by the WHO. Get out of urban areas and the problem doesn’t much improve: 95 percent of the world’s population is breathing dangerously polluted air. Since 2013, China has undertaken an unprecedented cleanup of its air, but as of 2015 pollution was still killing more than a million Chinese each year. Globally, one out of six deaths is caused by air pollution.
–From David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth (2019).
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