Weather: Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming east with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
Today at the Editor’s Glance:
In Court: Paul Pajotte is sentenced in connection with a shooting on Kalamazoo Trail last year, at 3:30 p.m. before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401. See: “3 Arrested in Shooting Spree at K-Section House Involving 3 Guns and at Least 35 Bullets.”
A working group meets to discuss the inter-local agreement, or ILA, between the school board, the county and Flagler’s municipalities regarding school concurrency, at 11 a.m. in the first floor conference room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See: “Developments Could Stall If County, Cities and District Can’t Agree on School Construction Payments.” The meeting is also available by zoom. Meeting ID: 826 1042 3406 Passcode: 780739
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets in a special workshop at 4:30 p.m. to discuss “the future” of City Manager William Whitson, who has been criticized for mishandling the July 4 fireworks booking and a tourism grant that was never filed. The meeting was called by City Commissioner Deborah Phillips.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. Commissioners will consider ending the Economic Development Taskforce, discuss the placement of 5G antennas in rights of way, and of speed limits at the north segment of A1A in the city, among other issues.
Keep in Mind the Summer BreakSpot: Free Meals for Kids and Teens, Monday through Friday: Flagler Schools and Café EDU is providing free meals to all kids 18 and under this summer. It started on May 31, it’s running through July 29. Meals Must be Consumed Onsite. No Identification Needed. No Application Necessary. The Summer BreakSpot Program, also known as the Summer Food Service Program, is federally funded under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and, in Florida, administered by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Sites are locally operated by nonprofit organizations (sponsors) that provide the meals and receive a reimbursement from USDA. For additional information, please reach out to Café EDU at 386-437-7526 x1159, or email cafeEDU@flaglerschools.com. The free meal locations are:
Flagler-Palm Coast High School
5500 E. Highway 100, Palm Coast, FL 32164
Breakfast: 7:45am–8:30am
Lunch: 12:15–1:00pm
Dates: May 31–July 29, Monday through Friday, except July 4.
Housing Authority
502 S. Bacher St., Bunnell, FL 32110
Breakfast: 9:00am–9:30am
Lunch: 11:30–12:00pm
Dates: June 6–July 29, Monday through Friday.
Notably: This land is no longer your land. If only he knew. Today is Woody Guthrie’s birthday (1912). He was only 55 when he died after a 13-year illness through Huntington’s chorea, in a Queens, N.Y., hospital, spending his last years paralyzed, unable to read, unable to write, unable to speak, unable to move his hands. He found beauty and hope in the America of the Depression. His famous quote, from his Times obituary: “I hate a sing that makes you think that you’re not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are born to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are either too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.”
Now this:
Flagler Beach Webcam:
The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. You can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.
May 2025
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
A Night at the Museum
For the full calendar, go here.
The FBI’s only warning was that the bureau expected demonstrations at the Capitol by people “exercising their First Amendment rights.” This was despite the fact that, on January 5, the FBI’s office in Norfolk, Virginia, explicitly warned that extremists were coming to
Washington to protest Trump’s lost election and what they saw as unlawful lockdowns because of the coronavirus. The internet was choked with conspiracy threats. “Be ready to fight,” one of the messages said. “Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa [sic] slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die.” None of this got into the daily terrorism briefing. It was the most inexcusable intelligence failure since 9/11.
–From Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year (2021).
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