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Weather: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
General Election Early Voting is available today in Bunnell, Palm Coast and Flagler Beach from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at five locations. Any registered and qualified voter who is eligible to vote in a county-wide election may vote in person at any of the early voting site, regardless of assigned precinct. According to Florida law, every voter must present a Florida driver’s license, a Florida identification card or another form of acceptable picture and signature identification in order to vote. If you do not present the required identification or if your eligibility cannot be determined, you will only be permitted to vote a provisional ballot. Don’t forget your ID. A couple of secure drop boxes that Ron DeSantis and the GOP legislature haven’t yet banned (also known as Secure Ballot Intake Stations) are available at the entrance of the Elections Office and at any early voting site during voting hours. The locations are as follows:
- Flagler County Elections Supervisor’s Office, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
- Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast.
- Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
- Palm Coast’s Southern Recreation Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway.
- Flagler Beach United Methodist Church, 1520 South Daytona Avenue, Flagler Beach.
See a sample ballot here. See the Live Interviews with all local candidates below.
Palm Coast Mayor Cornelia Manfre Mike Norris Palm Coast City Council Ty Miller, Dist. 1 Jeffrey Seib, Dist. 1 Ray Stevens, Dist. 3 Andrew Werner, Dist. 3 Backgrounders Manfre’s and Norris’s Final Clash Temper and Temperament at Tiger Bay Forum Stevens and Werner Sharpen Differences |
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up starting at 9 a.m. in front of the Flagler Beach pier. All volunteers welcome.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. Today’s guest: City Planner Lupita McClenning.
Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday, at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Dive into the intricate world of Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women, where writer Jake’s troubled marriage to Maggie intertwines with his vivid conversations with his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. This captivating performance is packed with laughs and emotional depth.
Food Truck Palooza, a fund-raiser for the Carver Center in Bunnell, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at J.B. King Park in Bunnell, 300 Citrus Street. There will be over 20 food trucks, a free Kids Zone, entertainment by Chillula, and all proceeds go to support the Carver Center, also known as Carver Gym.
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone: Every first Saturday we invite new residents out to learn everything about Flagler County at Cornerstone Center, 608 E. Moody Blvd, Bunnell, 1 to 2:30 p.m. We have a great time going over dog friendly beaches and parks, local social clubs you can be a part of as well as local favorite restaurants.
Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Fridays from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sundays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Cowart Ranch and Farms, 8185 West Highway 100, Bunnell. $15 per person, children 2 and under free. Get lost on a 5 acre walk through maze (approximately 30-60 minute adventure). Pick the perfect carver or edible pumpkin at our Pumpkin Patch with lots of sunflowers and of picture opportunities! Some pumpkins grown right here on the farm. Try to spot the cattle herd on the Tractor driven Hayrides (approximately 15 minutes). Get up close and friendly with farm animals. (Chickens, goats, calves, pigs and more!) Pony Rides! (Not included with entry- $8 or 2 for $15 & legal guardian must sign waiver). Challenge your friends and family at our hand pumped water driven Ducky Dash game. Roll and Race down our NEW Rat Race game that’s a Ratatoullie blast. And plenty more.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Editorial Notebook: Too much? Of course it’s too much. They don’t sit around the Charlie Hebdo editorial board room telling themselves: how can we tone this down? Only tone it up. Always up. And so, this current cover, with an article that starts: “Only one week left to know the result of the American presidential election. The millions of voters will not only vote for the future of their country, but also for that of the eight billion inhabitants of the planet. Although Americans have the bad habit of taking refuge in their isolationism, they have never been so much at the center of the world. What to think of Kamala Harris? We don’t know what to say about her, neither good nor bad. Will being a woman and being black be enough to win the White House? Certainly not, and one wonders if the Democrats have learned the lessons of Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016. In the voting booth, belonging to a community or a gender does not weigh as heavily as the naive imagine. Progressives everywhere, in the United States as in France, should get that into their heads once and for all. On the other side, there is Trump. Everything has been said and written about this madman. Mostly horrors and. yet. There are still Americans ready to…” well, you know the rest. The piece captures that sense of disbelief, dread and exasperation that most of the world, most of the civilized world (by which I don’t mean the western world by any means, but any place on the planet where the Enlightenment still flickers, which includes parts of every time zone) is feeling. If only American voters, Harris’s camp especially, took this to heart: “belonging to a community or a gender does not weigh as heavily as the naive imagine.” There ought to be greater concerns. The narrowness of our self-righteous horizons may explain the outcome on Tuesday.
—P.T.
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July 2025
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Derek Barrs Senate Confirmation Hearing
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
For the full calendar, go here.
Derrida mentioned Levinas in the opening session of his seminar, drawing attention to his work on the origin of ‘pity, compassion, forgiveness and closeness’, and to a tantalising remark about selfhood: ‘The word “I” answers for everything and everyone’ (‘Le mot “je” répondrait de tout et de tous’). What Levinas meant, according to Derrida, was that I cannot ‘belong to myself’ unless I am already ‘delivered over to the other’ – and hence that we are all members of one another, and constitutionally incapable of being wholly self-centred, self-sufficient or self-contained. Shortly afterwards, in December 1995, Levinas died, and Derrida delivered the graveside eulogy, eloquent with grief. He went on to devote four sessions of the seminar to Levinas as ‘a great thinker of hospitality’, elaborating on his suggestion that accueil – ‘welcome’, or perhaps ‘openness’ or ‘receptivity’ – is fundamental to human existence, or in Derrida’s paraphrase, ‘If I want to seek refuge within myself, and thus come to rest inside myself, I will find that the other is already there, and I am the guest of the other.’
–Jonathan Ree in a review of Jacques Derrida’s Hospitality, London Review of Books, October 10, 2024.
Ray W, says
Newsweek just published an article headlined:
“Exxon Mobil CEO Won’t Ramp Up Drilling Just Because Donald Trump Wants To”
Here are some bullet points from the story:
“In the last six years, the U.S. has been producing more crude oil than any other
country, according to the Energy Information Administration, and much of this production ramped up during President Joe Biden’s time in office.”
– Darren Woods, Exxon Mobile’s CEO, “said the oil industry has no plans to ramp up drilling because of Donald Trump.”
– “‘I’m not sure how drill, baby, drill translates into policy,’ Woods said, adding the U.S. shale production does not face constraints from ‘external restriction.'”
– “‘Certainly we wouldn’t see a change based on a political change but more on an economic environment,’ Woods said. ‘I don’t think there’s anybody out there that’s developing a business strategy to respond to a political agenda.'”
– “Most of America’s shale resources, a different type of oil, exist on private land and are regulated by individual states, so a presidential change would be unlikely to impact production.”
Make of this what you will?
Me? Crude oil prices have been steadily dropping for more than the last six months. OPEC announced a future increase in overall production, then immediately delayed the timing of the move. Demand is down and supplies are high. If demand for crude oil surges all over the world, an unlikely event since America is about the only nation that has a growing economy and China’s manufacturing sector is tanking, only then would prices for crude oil rise enough to entice shale oil companies to hire more drillers, regardless of who gets elected, supply and demand being what it is.
As an aside, there seems to be a Russian-produced fake video circulating amongst the most gullible among us. Georgia’s Secretary of State announced that the video allegedly depicting a Haitian immigrant voting multiple times in Georgia is fake. DHS identified the video as a Russian origin fake.
Charlene Santilli says
Charlie Hedbo, the French magazine attacked by terrorists a few years ago, called Trump a madman. Is that what the world perceives?
Pierre Tristam says
To put it kindly.
Sherry says
@charlene. . . in two words “YES ABSOLUTELY”!
We’ve just spent almost 6 weeks traveling through France, Portugal, Spain, Morocco and Italy. We spoken to many, many people . . . friends and complete strangers. Every single one of them thinks trump is not only a madman but dangerous criminal person, and they do not understand how he can even be on our ballots.