Daily Briefing

UNF-Mednexus-Palm Coast’s new director Miriam Griffin is on Free For All Fridays, “All in the Timing” at the black box theater by the Flagler Auditorium, Frank Bruni says goodbye with a mea culpa.

City Repertory Theater returns to an actual indoor stage, at the Black Box at the Auditorium, with David Ives’ ‘All in the Timing’ all weekend. Stages are alive and well: the Flagler Playhouse’s workshop production of “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey” is also on all weekend.

All about credit unions at a virtual Flagler Tiger Bay lunch, Jasper Johns on becoming an artist, a man found not guilty by reason of insanity wants his total freedom back, and a trio of matches from Euro 2020.

The Flagler County School Board has a trio of meetings, most importantly a special meeting at 5 p.m. to discuss impact fees in light of a new law restricting how much those fees may be raised, just when the district needs them most. Plus Michael Jordan on being Black and the immorality of zoos.

The Bunnell city administration will start tracking its drivers. Jeff Bezos has money to burn. José de Nebra’s Vendado es amor, performed by Concerto Koln.

The memorial walk and vigil for the victims of the Pulse massacre in Orlando in 2016 begins with participants gathering at Wadsworth park in Flagler Beach after 6 p.m. The walk across the Flagler Beach bridge is at 7 p.m.

A weekend of performances and memorials: The Flagler Playhouse’s stage will come to life again, the Jacksonville Symphony performs Schubert’s “Great,” and the Pulse massacre’s victims are remembered with a walk and a vigil Saturday in Flagler Beach.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets this evening, Drug Court is in session, and 19 percent of respondents in the latest poll still hold out the constitutional impossibility that Trump will be “reinstated” as president.

The reconvened and renamed Blue 22 Forum meets at the African American Cultural Society on U.S. 1 for its weekly discussions, and the drought index keeps climbing up in Flagler. After-hour vaccinations at the Department of Health in Bunnell this evening.

The Palm Coast City Council has a pair of meetings, one to vote on sending its deputy chief to head the county’s fire department for a few weeks, the other to workshop several key items, among them hiring the next manager. Plus Rushdie on which books you truly love and what they say about you.

The qualification window for the July 27 Palm Coast Mayor special election closes at noon today. The County Commission is scheduled to discuss the fate of Whispering Meadows Ranch on John Anderson Highway, but the expectation is that the item will again be tabled to allow for a compromised solution.

It’s D-Day plus 77 years. An excerpt from Ernie Pyle’s D-Day column. An otherwise relatively quiet day in the county.

Beach clean-up in the morning, Garden Club Celebration at midday, and the Palm Coast Pride Festival starting at 5 p.m. in Town Central’s Central Park, with music, food and speakers.

Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson on WNZF’s Free For All, Palm Coast’s Reilly Opelka on Friday goes up against world #2 Daniil Medvedev, beach clean-up on Saturday, Pride Festival in Palm Coast’s Town center Friday evening.

Flagler Technical College’s graduates walk the stage, at 7 p.m. at the Flagler Auditorium. Flagler County’s drought index is rising steadily, worrisomely. A video of Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson playing Taps.

Eyes will be on the Palm Coast City Council’s 6 p.m. meeting, expected to draw its share of blazin’ crazies as City Manager Matt Morton may (or may not) explain why he resigned and what council members are present try to maneuver their way through the resignation’s implications.

Bedraggled and jittery though it is, Palm Coast government–what’s left of it–this morning at 8 hosts its traditional Memorial Day ceremony at Heroes Park. U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, fresh from voting against establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Council member Nick Klufas, will speak.

Flagler Beach marks Memorial Day in a ceremony at Veterans Park, so as not to conflict with Palm Coast’s and Flagler County’s commemorations on Monday. The sales tax “holiday” for hurricane supplies is ongoing through June 6.

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The Flagler Beach Commission considers tattoo parlor zoning regulations, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., original stars and lead singers of the The 5th Dimension, at the Auditorium.

The Flagler school board picks a new superintendent, there may be some live bombing in the Ocala forest, the Palm Coast council again takes up Florida Park Drive and discusses the latest survey of residents.

Four candidates for Flagler Beach City Commisison are at a forum hosted by the Flagler Beach Woman’s Club, the trial of Tonda Royal on illegal sex with a minor is in its second day, the Palm Coast council and the school board meet.

The Flagler Youth Orchestra’s top performers in concert, the Hot ‘n Spicy music and food fest at the Ag Museum, the Palm Coast Tennis Open’s final rounds, Eagles Tribute at DSC in Palm Coast, AAUW meeting, plenty more.

The ultimate Abba tribute band is at the Flagler Auditorium, where Coronavirus cases have been confirmed, the Flagler Beach Citizens Academy is enrolling.

Buddy Taylor Middle School’s 22 winning thespians present a free performance, the Flagler Plahouse stages “The Fabulous 60s,” the Palm Coast Open continues.