Daily Briefing

Early voting begins in Flagler County, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, a Randy Fine campaign stop at Beverly Beach Town Hall, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park.

Flagler Home Builders Association v. Palm Coast, Randy Fine on Free For All, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Family Art Night: Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, AI slop in our journalistic backyard.

Cornyn and Tillis surrender to Todd Blanche, Story Time with Miss Kim, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond, commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Docket sounding in felony court, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, this time without Barbara Grossman, Conversations in Democracy, The Flagler County Republican Club meets, junk drawers.

The Palm Coast City Council meets, the Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets, a note from the “Wasting Your Breath” Department.

The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, including a workshop where it will discuss a shortlist of county administrator candidates, Andy Dance’s birthday, Sen. William Fulbright on Barry Goldwater’s blinkered view of liberalism and coexistence.

A slightly cooler day, relatively speaking, Peter Kuper on Lockheed Martin’s profiteering, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the art and greatness of Louise Farrenc.

Heat index values up to 103, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, the American Civil Liberties Union and the United States of Antinomy.

Heat index as high as 105 today, Clay Jones on Dr. Fauci versus the trolls, the Friday Blue Forum, Edith Wharton’s “The Moving Finger” and the deceptive possession of memory.

Beats and Eats: Live Concert and Food Trucks at the Stage in Town Center, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond, the lowering of flags in mourning, Bach’s cello, a poem of grief from the Thousand and One Nights.

The City of Palm Coast hosts “SBDC Day” at City Hall connecting local entrepreneurs, startups, and established business owners with free expert guidance, conversations in democracy, Eugene O’Neill.

The Palm Coast City Council talks budget, the School Board has a trio of meetings, including the setting of its tentative property ax rate over which it has no control, Ric Diez, Michiko Kakutani on postmodernism.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, Mme de Sévigné on the relative length of lives, Mozart’s variations, the president finds himself a new rallying cry, Kamel Daoud on dying at 100.

2026 PBA South Region Palm Coast Open at Palm Coast Lanes, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Gemini takes us on an odiferous tour of the Tour de France peloton, Red Smith’s Bike Ride.

Bowling: 2026 PBA South Region Palm Coast Open qualifying at Palm Coast Lanes, Gamble Jam, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground.

Heat index values as high as 105 today, the Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, how two cartoonists see the Saudi nukes deal.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the trouble with Joe Manchin and his killing of the center, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park.

Joint County Commission-Flagler Beach City Commission meeting on beach renourishment, the Flagler County-Palm Coast Affordable Housing Advisory Committee meets, a few words from William Shirer’s Berlin Diary of 1941 and Hannah Arendt on American imperialism.

The first day of the penalty phase of Jermaine Williams’s trial begins, the Palm Coast City Council meets, a World Cup recap with a bow to that halftime show.

The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, Republicans’ identity crises through the ages, Robert Ingersoll on Democrats, Saint levant’s Sabah el Ward.

Story Time on the Farm at the Florida Agriculture, a happy 75th for Bob Cuff–or as happy as the torturing gods allow–and a few words from Thomas Mann’s story time about those condemned to buy the farm.

Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library, Democratic Women’s Club meeting, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, wrapping up a grim week.

Jermaine Williams Sr. trial Day Five, trial notes on witnessing one’s own murder act, the Flagler County Cultural Council meets, “Let those who wish to do so withdraw from the world,” writes Camus.

Opening arguments on Day 4 of the Jermaine Williams death penalty trial, Town of Marineland Commission Meeting, scenes from a courtroom, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Dictator, David Foster Wallace’s Neon.

Heat index of 103, the Jermaine Williams trial enters day three, the Palm Coast Planning Board takes on the Westward expansion’s plans, Tale of Anushirvan, Exemplary King.

Jermaine Williams Sr. trial day two, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop as does the School Board, France marks Bastille Day in a semifinal match with Spain.

Jury selection in the first day of the trial of Jermaine Williams Sr. begins. He faces the death penalty for the murder of his wife in Bunnell in 2024. The County Commission meets. Reflections on the death penalty.

Clay Jones on Trump’s flying bribe of a 747 he can’t even fly, heat index values as high as 107, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, if you can brave the heat, Eudora Welty’s “Powerhouse” tribute to Fats Waller.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) monthly meeting, Gamble Jam, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, AI errors, Bowie is afraid of Americans.

The Flagler Democratic Party’s Janet Sullivan on Free For All, Coffee and Conversation with Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin, Food Truck Friday at the Farm, Agriculture Museum, a Declaration of the Rights of Trees.

Northeast Florida Regional Council Board of Directors Meeting, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Teddy Roosevelt at the National Wholesale Grocers’ Association.

The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, Conversations in Democracy, an updated image of Fire Station 51 on the west side, goons on masked parade in Washington.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m., Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets, The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets, car dealerships as surgical wards.

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the cost of data centers in electricity, dueling banjos, a note from Mar Reisener’s “Cadillac Desert” on another age’s power hogs.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Chekhov’s “Beggar,” a story of caring before hectoring, Andy Sipowicz saves Danny’s job, a few lines from Joseph Heller’s Something Happened.

Independence Day Events in Flagler Beach and Palm Coast, deconstructing the phrase make America great again, Willie Nelson’s July 4 picnic with friends, Abraham Lincoln’s style.

First Friday in Flagler Beach kicks off the Independence weekend celebrations, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, top ten things we’re doing this weekend, This Land Is Your Land, so is LBJ’s Hill Country.

The county and the nation are getting set for the 250th, so offices and activities are mostly closed and cancelled. Justice Kagan documents Donald Trump’s racism. An American in Turkey.

A high of only 89, Conversations in Democracy, John Darkow on data centers, the Flagler Beach Library Book Club, making sense of John Duns Scotus.

A Candidate forum for School Board, County Commission and Palm Coast City Council, 5:30 p.m. at FCAR Building in Bunnell, the mania for website redesigns that offer nothing new as the visual keeps winning over substance.

Ingrid Rice on Trump’s latest grab for Canada, Martin Short talks about being Canadian in Il Duce’s America, Mark Rothko’s serenity, Francis Parkman on the St,. Johns River.

Pride in Bunnell at 2K Ranch, noon to 4 p.m., heat index values as high as 106 today, national anthems at the World Cup, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Robert Caro on Sam Rayburn.

Art Dycke’s Celebration of Life, Local Ham Radio Clubs Test Emergency Capabilities, Palm Coast Historical Society Executive Board Meeting, Gamble Jam, Albert Camus’s jottings on life and death.

The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at the Hammock Community Center, the Friday Blue Forum meets, Acoustic Jam Circle, a United Nations Human Rights commission concludes Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in its genocide in Gaza.

It’s between Beats and Eats in Town center and the Flagler County Tiger Bay candidate forum at the Community Center. Also, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, and the World Cup can be lopsided fun.

River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meeting, Conversations in Democracy, Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, sets Trump straight, Anna Akhmatova, Renato Carosone and Bill Day on Italy.

Clay Jones on Trump’s dissimulations, the School Board holds a workshop in the afternoon and one of its pro forma meetings in the evening, an epidemic of machine-made insincerity, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, Fox’s second-class World Cup match-ups, France takes on Iraq, braving Disney on a hot summer day, Henry James on aging.

Story Time on the Farm at the Florida Agriculture, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when Pat Buchanan blamed the AIDS epidemic on homosexuals, the media and the Democratic Party, remembering Howard Ashman.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library, Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meet, The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, traveling back to Etruscan tombs.