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🌱 Where Palm Coast’s money goes, now easier to track

Palm Coast, Florida Patch AM: a 5 min read

Good morning Palm Coast! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Where Palm Coast’s money goes, now easier to track
  • Free guitar lessons give Palm Coast veterans a musical connection
  • Palm Coast’s tree lighting brings Santa and lights to Central Park

Also on today's calendar: Of Mice and Men and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: did you know 10+10 = 11+11? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Very windy; partly sunny, with a high of 72 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Saturday: Very windy in the morning, temps: high: 62, low: 48.
  • Sunday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 70 and low of 59 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Where do your Palm Coast tax dollars go? Updated dashboard offers closer look (wftv.com) — Palm Coast residents can examine city spending and vendor payments through an updated online Finance Transparency Dashboard, now including records through fiscal year 2027. The free portal brings revenues, budget allocations and expenditures together, with weekly updates and records dating to fiscal year 2021 for comparisons over time.
   

2. Guitars 4 Vets Helps Flagler Veterans Heal Through Music (flaglerlive.com) — Palm Coast's Guitars 4 Vets chapter offers veterans 10 free guitar lessons, a guitar to keep afterward and a chance to connect through music. The four-year-old chapter also holds twice-monthly jam sessions in Flagler County, including gatherings on fourth Saturdays at Palm Coast Elks Lodge.
   

3. Palm Coast Tree Lighting in Town Center on Nov. 28 (flaglerlive.com) — Palm Coast’s holiday tree lighting returns to Central Park on Nov. 28, with Santa arriving aboard a city fire engine. The celebration runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at 975 Central Avenue, featuring children’s activities and food trucks while opening the Rotary Club’s Fantasy Lights Festival, which offers free admission.
   

4. 'We've got to figure it out': Palm Coast Councilman Ty Miller talks Amendment 3, road funding and the city's future (observerlocalnews.com) — Palm Coast Councilman Ty Miller says public-safety fees and service reductions may be needed as the city faces projected property-tax losses under Amendment 3. In a Nov. 12 interview, he also described an annual road-maintenance funding gap of about $7 million, with neighborhood roads particularly neglected.
   

5. Kids Rescued After Holding Handwritten ‘Help Us' Note at Window of Florida Home, Man Arrested (usmagazine.com) — Children escaped safely from a Kissimmee home after a handwritten “Help us” sign in a window drew attention, police said. Officers used a drone to locate the children during the October 26 incident. Andre Janard Smithson, 33, later surrendered and was charged with false imprisonment, according to records cited in the report.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Heads up- my husband and I went to Sam’s Club yesterday while we were in Daytona Beach after an appointment.
    We decided to bring home a premade dish for dinner. We chose the 4 Calzones. We ate two of them tonight and they were great! I will buy them… (Nextdoor Palm Harbor - N F Section)
  • Looking for a landscape helper on the weekends, $20 a hour
    - pulling weeds from garden beds - raking and bagging leaves Supplies provided of course (Nextdoor Palm Coast)
  • Pizza Hut - Flynn Group posted a job opening for Team Member in Palm Coast. Apply here.
  • Domino's Pizza posted a job opening for Assistant Manager(4941) - 101 W Matanzas Woods Pkwy in Palm Coast. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Palm Coast here.

Ok Palm Coast! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "did you know 10+10 = 11+11?" — 10+10=20...11+11=20 too (Thank you Martin C. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Palm Coast

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