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24MAR26 Branson, Missouri, has unveiled a new red, white, and blue city flag featuring its official logo to symbolize civic unity and commemorate the upcoming U.S. semiquincentennial. #BransonMO #Missouri #flag #vexillology 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/29/mis…

19MAR26 Pájara, Canary Islands, adopts a new flag: an azure and gold diagonal field symbolizes the ocean and sand, featuring a golden bird shield. #CanaryIslands #Spain #Espana #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/29/can…

26MAR26 The "Laser Kiwi" flag has made a high-profile appearance on the official flagpoles at New Plymouth after a light-hearted request from the crew of the HMNZS Aotearoa. #NewZealand #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/29/las…

16MAR26 Oregon City is replacing its cluttered 1989 flag with a streamlined design, aiming to debut a new, recognizable banner by July. #OregonCity #Oregon #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/22/ore…

09MAR26 Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, has officially adopted its first municipal flag, featuring a maroon field and the David Stroup Fountain in a design originally conceived by a local resident on Reddit. #BloomsburgPA #Pennsylvania #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/22/pen…

21MAR26 Texas-based Juneteenth Houston has launched a design competition for a new Texas-themed Juneteenth flag to honour the holiday’s Texan roots. #Juneteenth #Houston #Texas #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/22/tex…

19MAR26 A new police department flag in Suffield, Connecticut, features a symbol-heavy design incorporating nine stripes for historical policing principles. #SuffieldCT #Connecticut #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/22/con…

12MAR26 A movement led by a retired Royal Canadian Air Force pilot is seeking to establish Canada’s first official flag dedicated to the nation’s 460,000 military veterans. #Canada #CanadaRemembers #CanadianVeterans #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/15/pro…

14MAR26 Albany, NY, is looking for a new flag by 2027. Connections of its colours to the Dutch Prince’s Flag and Apartheid South African flag under debate. #Albany #NewYork #vexillology #flag 🔗 flagchronicle.com/2026/03/15/new…

09MAR26 Dawson Creek, BC, voted 5-2 to officially adopt a new city, codified flag design, now featuring a more simplistic version of the Alaska Highway Mile 0 highway signpost. #DawsonCreek #BritishColumbia #Canada #vexillology #flag 🔗 flagchronicle.com/2026/03/15/can…

04MAR26 Massachusetts governor Maura Healey posts a humorous variation of the "Come and Take It" flag featuring an iced drink from Dunkin' Donuts in response to possible plans by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ban ingredients used by Dunkin'. 🔗x.com/MassGovernor/s…

03MAR26 The Czech Chamber of Deputies has fast-tracked a proposal to designate March 30 as Czech Flag Day, a new significant day commemorating the 1920 adoption of the national banner. 🇨🇿 #Czechia #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/07/cze…

05MAR26 Officials in Saline County, Arkansas, are considering a new hybrid flag design that combines a student's courthouse clocktower motif with a businessman's regional colour palette. #SalineCounty #Arkansas #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/03/07/ark…

26FEB26 Muskingum County, Ohio, has launched a public contest to redesign the official county flag, seeking a simplified emblem to debut for the America 250 celebrations. #MuskingumCounty #Ohio #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/02/28/ohi…

20JAN26 The city council of St. Francis, Minnesota votes to fly the former flag of Minnesota rather than its current flag, which was adopted in 2024. #Minnesota #StFrancis #vexillology #flag 🔗hometownsource.com/elk_river_star…

20FEB26 Milano-Cortina 2026 organizers apologize and fix the South Korean flag after using an incorrect, tilted design during several Olympic medal ceremonies. 🇰🇷 #Olympics #MilanoCortina #SouthKorea #vexillology #flag 🔗 flagchronicle.com/2026/02/22/mil…

It still feels weird that I won it last year.

Call for papers: @drapeauxsfv opens submissions for 20-min papers at ICV31 on #vexillology and related fields. Send title, 200-word abstract, keywords, bio by 31 MAR 2026; full papers due 31 MAY. Note that all info must have mandatory French translation 🔗 …caise-de-vexillologie.assoconnect.com/page/3759024-c…

FOTW Vexillologist of the Year nominations are open for 2025. Members can nominate a fellow contributor (no self-nominations) with a short justification by 1 March; voting follows if needed, with results announced on 8 March (FOTW Flag Day). 🔗facebook.com/groups/1111728…

12FEB26 Belgium’s Pajottegem has approved its first official flag and coat of arms, featuring local historical charges and a blue wave representing the Pajottenland landscape. #Pajottegem #Belgium #vexillology #flag 🔗flagchronicle.com/2026/02/14/bel…