Daily Briefing

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.

Free Used Tire and Bromeliad Plants Disposal Day at East Flagler Mosquito District, Jules Massenet’s “Meditation from Thais,” “The Odd Couple: Female version,” another view of American exceptionalism.

The inaugural “Hang 8” Dog Surfing Competition in Flagler Beach, Touch-a-Truck in Palm Coast, WaterSafe’s event at Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club, a book sale at the library, two Flagler Woman’s Club events, Bud Powell, Richard Flanagan’s “Gould’s Book of Fish.”

The Lost Roadside Attractions of Florida, a free lecture at the Palm Coast library, Friends of the Library book sale, “The Odd Couple: Female version,” Amelia Earhart’s flight across the Atlantic, Balzac on journalists, an FYO trio performs a Haydn trio.

Daytona State College’s Falcon Experience Night for Prospective Nurses, “The Odd Couple: Female version,” at the Daytona Playhouse, Malcolm X on self-criticism, an FYO ensemble performs Celtic Force.

Indians’ great replacement theory, the county commission meets for a budget overview, the Palm Coast Planning Board, the Contractor Review Board and the Technical review Committee all meet, Pamuk’s memories of Istanbul.

The Palm Coast council will hear a somewhat contentious rezoning application for a 28-acre property called Ryan’s Landing, the school board meets, Food Truck Tuesday, Brown v. Board of Education.

The Flagler County Commission considers spending $1.2 million for two fire engines, The trial of Ian Davis is scheduled to begin with jury selection, Lise de la Salle plays Bach.

The killing of journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, one Million Covid Deaths, Grace Community Food Pantry, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer in conversation, reclaiming the night sky.

Dedication of a mural in memory of former Mayor Jon Netts at the Palm Coast Historical Society, National Women’s March to preserve the right to an abortion, Flagler Palm Coast High School Thespians’ production of “Singing in the Rain,” Lewis and Clark set off.

The Garden Club holds its Arbor Day Memorial Tree Planting, Cooking Series with Chef Warren, “Singing in the Rain” at the Auditorium, Free Concert at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Theodore Dreiser on “her fleshy solidity.”

The Flagler Beach City Commission tries to get clarity on a dumpster of a vote, “Singin’ in the Rain'” launches at the Flagler Auditorium, drug court today, and from David Hume to Yogi Berra.

Summer coed volleyball camp registration open, bombing in the Ocala forest, Drive and Surprise, Irving berlin’s and Jacob Oliva’s birthday, be kind to your receptionist, not just today.

The Palm Coast City Council will consider a resolution approving a statement of ethical campaign practices for future candidates, the Flagler County Planning Board again takes up a controversial comprehensive plan issue.

Live Navy bombings in the Ocala National Forest today, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets in special session to discuss fireworks, the school board meets in secret session, how the Koch brothers bought Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

Eddie Murphy on his fearsome mother, City Repertory Theatre stages “Waiting for Godot,” Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Grace Community Food Pantry, and Dostoevsky on a mother’s memory on this Mother’s Day.

Drag Bingo with Gabbi Haze: It’s LGBTQ Night at Moonrise Brewery, City Repertory Theatre stages “Waiting for Godot,” Sunshine & Sandals Social, Rise Above the Violence’s Mindfulness Event at Washington Oaks Garden State Park, Garden of Faith Village’s community food pantry.