Daily Briefing

The Flagler County Commission takes up consideration of the proposed Eagle Lakes subdivision off Old Kings Road, Kwentell Moultrie in court, auditions for the award-winning musical “Oliver!” and Francis Fukuyama.

Flagler Playhouse auditions for “Oliver!,” Happy Birthday Mary McLeod Bethune, national character and Jan. 6, the Nile of language, best shots at Wimbledon.

Auditions for the afterschool theater program at the Palm Coast Arts Foundation, Family Builder Lab at the library, auditions for “Oliver!,” Grace Community Food Pantry.

Flagler Broadcasting’s four radio stations, including flagship WNZF, hold a six-hour Food-A-Thon today, the Calgary Stampede, a little bit of cricket, on having an affinity for shock.

A special meeting of the Flagler County Commission on school concurrency, sliced bread’s origins, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, the Sun Also Rises.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Jacinda Arden’s graduation speech, “Soldiers’ Pay.”

The Flagler County School Board holds a six-hour “retreat” (open to the public) before a workshop, the Palm Coast city council meets, Fredrick Douglass asks what the 4th of July is to a slave.

The annual Stars and Stripes parade, sponsored by Flagler Beach Rotary, kicks off at 10 a.m. down State Road A1A to the heart of town, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Salvatore Cardillo.

Fireworks Over the Runways, Palm Coast’s celebration of Independence Day at the county airport, Grace Community Food Pantry, the USS Vincennes’ error, the strange career of Jim Crow.

Flagler Beach Farmers Market, First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market in Town Center, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, the Tour de France begins, Remembering Liberace in all his flamboyance, William O. Douglas on the spiritual values of wilderness.

Drug Court convenes, Wallace Stegner hangs out with the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, Free Meals for Kids and Teens at FPC and the Housing Authority in Bunnell.

The Supreme Court’s seesaw on the death penalty, Blue 22 Forum, the full testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson, former senior aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

The Palm Coast Council talks budget, Kids Summer Performer Series at the public library, National Columnists’ Day, why Thomas Friedman is unbearable.

Connor Segledi trial for alleged elderly abuse, the Bunnell City Commission considers a video-surveillance system on city streets, the national debt in 1956, “good guys with a gun.”

KidZ Jamboree at Holland Park, Grace Community Food Pantry, Fritz Kreisler, David Foster Wallace on the great literary phallocrats.

Flagler Beach farmers’ market, Grace Community Food Pantry, The leper colony of Carville, La., Joan Didion plays it as it lays.

Florida on Fire, at the public library, the Summer BreakSpot, Free Meals for Kids and Teens, Monday through Friday, Ruth Westheimer is still kicking, Joan Didion on morality.

Pride Night at Daytona Tortugas, Schoolhouse Rock Live, a City Repertory Theatre production, The Palm Coast Beautification Committee hears a history of Palm Coast, Anna Akhmatova, Bob Fosse’s birthday.

Schoolhouse Rock Live, a City Repertory Theatre production, presents two shows at the Flagler Auditorium, when Joe Louis knocked out James Braddock, sellout culture.

The Palm Coast City Council considers cell towers, the School Board discusses communications and the half-penny sales tax renewal, Mary McCarthy, Mike Wallace Interviews Reinhold Niebuhr.

The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. and will discuss the school board’s plan to renew its half-penny sales surtax, Miami under water, Vincent Canby on “Jaws.”

A kids’ jamboree at Holland Park in Palm Coast, today is Juneteenth. Jonathan Schell reflects on the fate of the earth. Grace Community Food Pantry.

Juneteenth Celebration at the African American Cultural Society, bombing in the Ocala National Forest, big heat, Dick Cavett on Norman Mailer, Joan Didion on writers selling people out.

The North East Florida Jazz Association hosts Jazz, Blues and BBQ at the Community Center, the Charleston church massacre anniversary, Joan Baez and Alexander Herzen.

Judge Perkins’s Drug Court, Joan Didion’s Notebook, Boy George’s karma, the Ocala forests’s bombings.

Travis Smith, Robert Batie and Brennan Hill are in court, the Palm Coast Planning Board takes on Grand Reserve East, Brad Swanson at Tiger Bay, Edvard Grieg’s birthday, Mayor Lindsay’s luck.

The Community Traffic Safety Team meets as do the Palm Coast City Council and the Flagler County Planning Board, it’s Donald Trump’s birthday, bombing in the Ocala forest, and Munich’s beer.

Larry Cavallaro pleads out his first-degree felony rape charge, free meals for kids at Bunnell’s Housing Authority and FPC, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Malcolm McDowell, Anthony Burgess and A Clockwork Orange.

Flagler Pride Weekend 2022 concludes, Grace Community Food Pantry, Loving v. Virginia, Ronald Reagan’s Tear Down This Wall speech and a Brandenburg.

It’s Flagler Pride Weekend 2022 at Palm Coast’s Town center, with music, food and all sorts of fun, and who doesn’t miss red-capped Jacques Cousteau, and a word from Bernard Rustin.

Travis Smith sentencing, Portugal Day Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall, Saul Bellow and his “Silver Dish” and an excerpt from The Adventures of Augie March.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, talks sewer plant again, and fireworks (again), it’s Donald Duck’s birthday, and the question is asked: Who killed journalist Shireen abu Akleh?

The Blue 22 Forum, the anniversary of George Orwell’s 1984, what scared David Brooks in Orlando, the Supreme Court’s conflicting decisions on discrimination.

The Palm Coast City Council hears from Jonathan Lord and considers approving a big apartment complex in Town Center, the school board meets, it’s the Sun King’s birthday, but Ellen has a phone call with another god.

A busy meeting of the Flagler County Commission, with platting of The Gardens (now Veranda Bay), a new south-side library construction contract and more on the agenda, plus a special meeting of the Flagler Beach City Commission on its sewer plant, Pushkin, Harvey Firestein.

Grace Community Food Pantry, the day the CDC noted the AIDS pandemic for the first time, Jamil Jan Kochai’s Occupational Hazards.

First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Grace Community Food Pantry, the United Nation’s International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Jonathan Lord on Free for All Fridays, Mohsin Hamid’s Face in the Mirror, Allen Ginsburg, the first woman rabbi in the United States.

The Palm Coast Democratic Club meets at AACS, a child teaches what to do in case of an active shooter, Flagler Beach webcam makes its Briefing debut, Johnny Weissmuller, Queen Elizabeth, Ted Koppel on gun show loopholes.

Code enforcement board meeting, the Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the Second Amendment as the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence interpreted it, Penny Lane.

An uneventful day-after- memorial Day in Flagler County. It is the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Linda Greenhouse on abortion and the 13th Amendment.

Memorial Day commemorations in Palm Coast at 8, at the county in Bunnell at 10, in Flagler Breach at 1 p.m., and all about Voltaire’s complete works, finally completed.

Grace Community Food Pantry, Houston’s divide over guns, Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, G.K. Chesterton’s Catholic obsession, Palatka’s Blue Crab Festival has its last day.

Flagler-Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High’s graduations, LGBTQ+ ice cream social at Sally’s Ice Cream, the NRA’s unconscionable conventions, the guillotine, Amnesty International.

A vigil in memory of the Buffalo and Uvalde massacre victims, Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, and if you want to go a bit west, it’s Palatka’s annual Blue Crab Festival.

Building Your Business On A Strong Foundation, a seminar at Cornerstone, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, it’s the Youth Center Talent Show at the Flagler Auditorium, John Wayne seen by Mark Rydell.

The trial of Travis Smith before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins enters its third and likely final day, the Flagler County School Board first meets in closed session then open session to talk health insurance for employees, that SNL ad on stupid voters, and Raymond Carver.

The trial of Travis Smith, accused of attacking a Lyft driver in Palm Coast in 2020, continues, EGG screening for high school athletes, the Commitments try a little tenderness, celebrating the first telegraph message, the Palm Coast City Council hears from its major departments.

Trial week in Flagler’s felony court including the trial of Travis Smith, accused of attacking a Lyft driver, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Clarence Thomas and the alleged leak, Bonnie and Clyde.