Daily Briefing

Distant and unthreatening tropical activity, a plea, in the Flagler wilderness, to do the right thing on masking, free testing and vaccine schedules at two locations, Alejo Carpentier on freedom of expression.

A hearing about a fugitive murderer out of New York in circuit court, Brian McMillan on vaccines, FPL’s rate-hike request, Mohsin Hamid on America’s retro infatuation with flags and uniforms.

The East Flagler Mosquito Control District considers expanding its boundaries, the County Commission discusses its budget and the sheriff’s request for additional deputies, Old Kings Road North closes again tonight past Palm Coast Parkway.

Old Kings Road nightly closures north of Palm Coast Parkway, finishing up a soggy weekend, Sunday covid testing or vaccination hours between 9 and 11 a.m. at the Health Department, a Donald Barthelme observation about good conversation.

UNF Mednexus CEO David Szymanski is on WNZF, it’s “Jumanji: The Next Level,” at Movies in the Park in Palm Coast’s Town Center, and Fred is expected to re-become a tropical storm by evening as it nears the Florida Peninsula.

No Flagler Beach City Commission meeting this evening as a couple of commissioners and the city manager are attending the annual conference of the Flagler League of Cities in Orlando through Saturday. Tropical Storm Fred is threading its way across the northern coast of Cuba.

Keep an eye out for Fred, the indecisive storm. The Health Department’s two locations for rapid testing and vaccinations are operating from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.–at the county airport and at the department’s headquarters in Bunnell.

The Flagler County Commission debates the sheriff’s request for 15 additional deputies (in addition to the 10 he’s requested from Palm Coast). The reconstituted Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. Circuit Judge Terence Perkins holds bond, status, and sentencing hearings. A few words from Richard Nixon about his resignation.

City Repertory Theatre’s “Twisted”, a comic adult musical with adult themes and language, directed by Beau Wade, closes out its run with a 3 p.m. matinee. The Borowitz Report on DeSantis. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings remembered.

The annual Flagler County School District-sponsored Back to School Jam is back this year, at Flagler Palm Coast High School, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please wear masks. CRT’s “Twisted” is tonight.

City Repertory Theatre’s “Twisted”, a musical directed by Beau Wade, continues its four-day run at City Repertory Theatre in City Marketplace. It’s Hiroshima Day, calling for remembrance.

The Canvassing Board of the Palm Coast special election for mayor meets for the last time to conduct a legally-required manual audit of one precinct in the election. A community meeting about Cimarron Drive, and a good word from Ninon de Lenclos.

David Alfin is sworn-in as Palm Coast’s fourth mayor at a 6 p.m. meeting, the council votes on a proposed tax rate, and the School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to discuss a long list of key issues.

It’s Andy Dance’s 58th birthday, shared with that of James Baldwin, the County Commission meets and will likely approve a lease moving the Bunnell Branch library to Marvin’s Garden.

A dangerously hot day with heat indexes up to 109, the Observer interview with John Sbordone and Beau Wade, when majorities become tyrannies. Ann Frank’s last diary entry.

The Palm Coast Canvassing Board meets to go over mail-in ballots and provisional ballots in the special election for mayor, and to announce official results. A word from the Tao Te Ching.

Flagler Beach City Commission members Rick Belhumeur and Jane Mealy have a funny exchange about ethics training, the state Ethics Commission releases its fiundings from a closed-door session Friday that included a discussion of the Milissa Holland case.

It’s the final Election Day in the Palm Coast race for mayor, polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., results expected shortly after that. The Palm Coast council meets to discuss its non-general fund categories, and a ground breaking of a Flagler Health Plus village in north Palm Coast.

The Bunnell City Commission appoints two new members to fill out the terms of Bill Baxley and Donnie Nobles, who have resigned. Amin Maalouf on the tolerance of former empires.

A Community Cats adoption event at Pet Supermarket, and kittens in need of fostering at the Humane Society, with a word on the weather by Jenny Offill.

Last day for early voting in the special election for Palm Coast mayor, second day of southern chess championship, first day of competition at the shameless Olympics, with a reminder from Red Smith about the Fields of Friendly Strife.

Next-to-last day for early voting in the Palm Coast mayoral election, Sheriff and fire chief on WNZF, first day of the shameless Tokyo Olympics, Louis Brandeis on free speech.

Flagler Beach commissioners may again discuss the controversial decision to end July 4 fireworks and replace them with New Year’s Eve fireworks. Julian Lucas on Ishmael Reed.

Early Voting Day Five for the special mayoral election in Palm Coast, the Observer’s Brian McMillan sets a smearing politician straight about “fake news,” George Packer on fake constitutionalists.

Early voting in Palm Coast mayoral special election Day four of eight. The Palm Coast City Council meets and will set a tentative property tax rate for next year, and Tom Wicker writes about LBJ’s lack of likability.

Early voting for the Palm Coast mayoral race is in its third day at three locations, the Mosquito Control board meets, the relationship between witchcraft and UFOs.

Palm Coast Little League’s hosting the state championship concludes, and it’s Nelson Mandela’s birthday: ““Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct.”

Palm Coast Little League continues to hosts the 2021 Little League Baseball Florida Championships at the Indian Trails Sports Complex, auditions for Neil Simon’s “Rumors” at the Flagler Playhouse.

Parents’ Nights Out via the Palm Coast Community Center, Teen Chill Zone at the city’s Aquatic Center, auditions this weekend at the Flagler Playhouse for Neil Simon’s “Rumors.”

A wrongful death case in civil court, Rembrandt’s birthday, and “one of the few things that stands between us and an accelerated descent into darkness”: The Enlightenment.

The joys of living in a state that cares for its residents, Bastille Day, the many pleasures of studying the Enlightenment, and J.D. Vance’s lineage from Flannery O’Connor.

Put your seat belts or HazMat suits on: the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop this morning at 9 at City Hall, though misbehavior is unlikely: the place will be crawling with top cops: the sheriff is making a pitch for policing in the years ahead.

The Flagler County Commission may settle its differences with Whispering Meadows Ranch and will discuss impact fees, and the Bunnell City Commission will bid farewell to Bill Baxley, the senior-most member of Flagler County’s elected officials, as he retires.

England gets its greatest chance yet to end its 55-year drought of championships in international soccer competition when it meets Italy at Wembley in London at 3 p.m. Palm Coast time, in the final of Euro 2020.

Vaccine resistors, Cathar country for the Tour de France–those heretics the Catholic Church attacked and decimated in one of the forgotten genocides of history–and advice from Flaubert about the inane.

Jerald Medders, serving 15 years in prison for raping an underage girl, is back in court this morning to correct his sentence, down to 12.75 years. “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” is not a metaphor for the Palm Coast City Council, but tonight’s movie in the park in Town center.

The Flagler Beach City Commission today recognizes James Heren and Stephanie Raffo for their efforts to save the life of patron at The Anchor restaurant, and Roseanne Stocker for her 22 years of service on the city’s Planning and Architectural Review Board, among numerous other civic and philanthropic involvements.

All eyes on Hurricane-Tropical Storm Elsa as it crosses over Florida from west to northeast, but impacts in Flagler are expected to be limited. A chance to rediscover Elsa Morante, the great author of “History.”

Langston Hughes’s great “Let America Be America Again.” All government offices and banks are closed today in observance of Independence day. Palm Coast’s Choral Arts Society Presents “Celebrate America” in a resumption of the society’s live concerts.

Hurricane Elsa was downgraded to a tropical storm. It’ll be crossing Cuba today as it continues to hook north-northwest, heading for the Florida Peninsula’s southwest region by Tuesday morning, and our own region by Wednesday morning.

It’s Freedom Fest all day, for free, at the county airport and the Palm Coast picnic at Central Park in Town Center starting at 5 and culminating at 9 p.m. with fireworks.

Leon Wiley, whom a jury on April 29 found guilty of raping his under-age step-daughter, is sentenced, the Tour goes on its longest romp through the heart of France, Christopher Lasch on our Orwellian politics.

A man who lured a 10-year-old girl into his apartment and was subsequently charged with child abuse is petitioning the court for conditional release pending his trial. Bill Barr is trying to rehabilitate his image. “History as a weapon is an abuse of history,” says Arthur Schlesinger Jr.