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Weather: Mostly clear with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs around 90. Lows in the upper 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: Jayden Jackson Sentencing, 1:30 p.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols. Jayden Jackson, the 22-year-old son of a Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy, is sentenced on a hit-and-run with death, in the crash that killed Shaunta D. Cain, 51, as Jackson drove north on U.S. 1 in November 2022. The prosecution is seeking at least four years in prison. The defense is seeking less. It’s an open plea. See: “Flagler Cop’s Son in Hit-and-Run Death on U.S. 1 Rejects 4-Year Prison Deal and Risks Worse” and “Cop’s Son Pleads to Hit-and-Run Death of Shaunta Cain and Could Face Little or No Prison.”
The Flagler County Commission meets at 9 a.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. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page.
The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets at 6 p.m. at the meeting hall building behind the Town Hall, 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard (State Road A1A) in Beverly Beach. See meeting announcements 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.
Notably: If that doesn’t illustrate the American housing crisis in one image. From Statista: Housing affordability in the United States has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent years, as home prices surged to historical highs during and after the pandemic and mortgage rates climbed to levels last seen in the early 2000s, as the Fed was forced to raise interest rates to rein in inflation. It all began with a surge in demand for houses during the Covid-19 pandemic, when many Americans, flush with cash from government stimulus checks, reevaluated their living situation and sought more space amid stay-at-home orders and the sudden possibility of remote work. Further fueling demand were the historically low mortgage rates after the Fed had slashed interest rates to near zero at the onset of the pandemic. At the same time, supply of new and existing homes was very constrained, as construction was disrupted by Covid restrictions and would-be sellers refrained from putting their house on the market during this uncertain time. This imbalance caused a rapid increase in home prices across the country, pushing many potential buyers out of the market, a trend that was exacerbated when the Fed started to tighten its policy stance in March 2022 in its efforts to cool inflation. Looking at prices and income alone, houses have gradually become less affordable over the past 40 years. In 1985, the median household income in the United States was $23,620. The median price of new houses sold at the time was $84,300, or 3.6 times the median income. In 2000, the ratio of home prices to median income reached 4 for the first time and by 2023, it had climbed to 5.3. Between 1985 and 2023, the median household income in the U.S. grew 241 percent to $80,610 in nominal terms. The median price of houses sold in the country climbed 408 percent over the same period, reaching $428,600 in 2023.”
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June 2025
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Soul Fire, at Summer Sunset Concert
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
For the full calendar, go here.
“In the Middle Ages people didn’t so much live in their houses as camp in them. The nobility owned so many residences, and traveled frequently. When they did so, they rolled up the tapestries, packed the chests, took apart the beds, and moved their houses with them. This explains why so much medieval furniture is portable or demountable. The French and Italian words for furniture — mobiliers and mobilia — mean “the movables.”
–From Witold Rybczynski’s Home (1987).
Dennis C Rathsam says
I like taco,s, beef, chicken or fish….Great on a hot summers day. Instead of calling TRUMP names….Lets find out who was running the country? Whom used the autopen? Why was Biden hiding,? No cabinet meetings, no addresses to the public, for months at a time! As the books come out, the Herr video, of Bidens answers, most of which he was clueless. Couldnt remember what years he was VP. The scandal, these democrats tryed to pull off is the act of treason! Americans want answers…. As a reporter, Pierre youd think youd be interested on what happened! Bidens wife, & iner circle, need to testify. We need to get to the bottom of this failure, as the dems try to sweep it under the rug! Funny, when Schumer, Jefferies, AOC & Durbin were questioned they all had the same answer!!! We,re not looking back, we,re moving foward…. Foward to what? More lies????? More cover ups?????
Pogo says
@P.T.
… keep up the good work.
@FWIW
Seems so long ago:
Once upon a time in America
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkwha-001
And
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/inaugural-address-19610120
Pogo says
@Coming soon
… time and fortune:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tropical-depression-one-e-forms-off-mexico-s-coast-in-the-eastern-pacific/ar-AA1FFhuK?ocid=nl_article_link&cvid=f7625476dd9f423b9c83dc22c744bfe9&ei=2
Bill Boots says
Clay Jones should be paying newspapers to print his far left slanted blather!
Pierre Tristam says
Clearly they (and we) prefer paying him for his fabulous work.
Jim says
@Dennis C Rathsam says
Why are you hung up on Biden? Trump is the president now. Trump is nicknamed “TACO” because of his comical/farcical actions on tariffs. He did more damage to the economy (among a whole host of other things) with his waffling (er, I mean TACOing) than Biden did in his four years (even if he was senile!).
It seems you can’t defend your orange god so you want to harp on Biden. Hey, here’s some news for you. Trump won the election. He’s in charge. Everything you wanted from a Trump presidency is now happening! So defend TACO man! Tell us all the good he’s done since he got in office. Oh, and if you try to do that, see if you can include a few facts to support your statements. Just because Trump lies constantly doesn’t mean you get to ignore facts as well. Let’s see a full-throated spirited defense of your man.
Subjects to touch on:
1. Economy – gas at $1.87; eggs down 87%, no inflation (all Trump statements).
2. Ukraine war – “I’ll stop that war on day 1”. “Ukraine started the war”. (Trump statements). And, by the way, from what I’m reading that war is still going on over 100 days into this presidency but who’s counting?
3. Support the police – pardoned over 1,200 convicted felons and commuted the sentences of 14 more. I guess it’s okay to beat the hell out of the police!
4. Grift – cryptocurrency ($1B), Air Force 1 (soon to be at a presidential library), Trump projects in the Middle East (where did he just visit?). I could go on (and on) but I’m sure you quit reading a long time ago….
So you and your MAGA buddies just keep on chasing Biden! I know it makes you feel good so enjoy it. Meanwhile the rest of us will continue to watch the country get burned down around us.