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Weather: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Sunday Night: Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 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:
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Gamble Jam: Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session, 2 to 4 p.m. Note that in a temporary change from the regular schedule, Gamble Jam will be the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month through August 17. The program is free with park admission! Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach, FL. Call the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086 for more information. The park hosts this acoustic jam session at one of the pavilions along the river to honor the memory of James Gamble Rogers IV, the Florida folk musician who lost his life in 1991 while trying to rescue a swimmer in the rough surf.
RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre: Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. Tickets are $25 adults and $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com or by calling 386-585-9415. Tickets also will be available at the venue just before curtain time. Get ready for Shakespeare like you’ve never heard—or seen—before! RockabillieWillie mashes up scenes from The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, and Henry V with a jukebox of rockabilly hits. Musical numbers like “Willie and the Hand Jive,” “Love and Marriage,” and Buddy Holly’s “Oh Boy” are reimagined to playfully clash and complement Shakespearean drama. Adapted by John Sbordone, RockabillieWillie is dedicated to the proposition that “All’s well that ends.” Don’t miss this fun, fast-paced ride through the Bard’s greatest hits! See Rick de Yampert’s preview: “City Repertory Theatre Untames Shakespeare, Doo-Wop and R&B with “RockabillieWillie.”
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Editorial Notebook: The story came and went, as if it were the report of a yesterday’s baseball game or a crash on the highway–one of those one-day stories that grab the attention for as long as the eyes are on the shocking headline, then let go, since we’ve been conditioned to accept it as a norm indistinguishable from a baseball score. But the opening lines of the dispatch should be no less arresting than a report from a death camp, the difference being that this death camp contains 2 million souls: “It has been more than 60 days since Israel ordered a halt to all humanitarian aid entering Gaza — no food, fuel or even medicine. As the phone calls pour in, Muneer Alboursh, the director general of Gaza’s health ministry, is running out of answers. The longer Israel’s total siege of the enclave grinds on, the more doctors call to ask where they can find medicine to keep patients alive. Some patients call him up themselves — people with treatable heart problems or kidney failure — to ask: If there is no medicine, what else can they try?” It is genocidal collective punishment on a scale never seen this century, as is the indifference from the United States and Europe. “The severity of the siege means it now affects nearly every part of the lives of the roughly two million people trapped inside Gaza, compounding the struggles of a population that has lived for nearly two decades under the partial blockade imposed by Israel and backed by Egypt after Hamas seized control of the enclave in 2007.”
—P.T.
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June 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
In Court: Jayden Jackson Sentencing
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
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The thirteenth government of Israel convened almost daily around both tables in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war, debating intensively the fate of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the future of the people living in them. After almost three months of deliberation, they concluded their discussions with a series of decisions, all of which in one way or another condemned those living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to life imprisonment in the biggest ever mega-prison of the modern age. The Palestinians living there were incarcerated for crimes they never committed and for offences that were never committed, confessed or defined. As this book is being written, a third generation of such ‘inmates’ have begun their lives in that mega-prison.
–From Ilan Pape’s The Biggest Prison on Earth (2017).
Kennan says
We have reached, not just a dereliction of duty as a country, but more importantly a dereliction of duty humanity. The sliver of biology that separates a human being from a wild animal is no longer discernible.
Gaza is a glaring example of biblical racism. Figurative and literal. While the majority of the world reads the profusely “bloody” writing on the wall, the power brokers America, Israel, and governments in the West tell the world in no uncertain terms that Palestinians are less than human. The moniker Israelis have so fervently pushed has been sold to Western leaders. The U.S. to fund the Genocide in Gaza after Israel has continued to walk away from negotiations as it breaks ceasefire.(what ceasefire) Israel blocks humanitarian aid fully since March 2, 2025 as Palestinians who have nowhere to go in a territory that Israel occupies and runs. A prison. Now a death camp.
Corporate Media now reports on the manipulated chaos of the Trump administration, their assault on the Constitution, a preemptive trade war that will hurt most Americans and in some cases destroy lives in time. All said, it is a distraction.
The media landscape will continue to bang the slow drum beat of Trump…. Trump…. Trump.
The 24 µs new cycle continues to bombard us with white noise, fear, or whether the Netflix channel or Disney+ bundle is our best option.
Meanwhile:
We speed away, a cloud of dust behind us. In our review mirror we can see a Palestinian woman drop to her knees, children in tow…. She screams for mercy. We speed away as the figure gets smaller and the screams mor faint. AWAY WE GO.
Kennan says
One added note: for those of you dumb enough to use a sophomoric retort like, Hamas started it!?!?! I got two things for you. First. October 7 didn’t happen in the vacuum. Hamas was created out of decade after decade after decade of occupation by Israel. In 2006 Hamas was put into power by Israel using Qatari money.
The world condemned what Hamas did on October 7, but to kill more than 100 times the Palestinians then people killed on October 7 for something they had nothing to do with is a genocide of unspeakable proportion. amazing that there are still media outlets that pretend nothing happened after October 7.
A enormous lie Israel uses for its convenience is the Hamas hiding behind civilians argument. Gaza is the most heavily surveilled territory on the planet. The argument gives Israel what they perceive as an excuse to kill everyone and call it collateral damage. That argument fails on two points.
1 This isn’t a war at all. It is a terrorist act that was Met with industrial terrorism from a military that has shown they can kill with pinpoint accuracy in foreign countries like Iran.
2 to call it a war gives Israel, the opportunity they want, which is to create a greater Israel and take all the territories for themselves. They are now initiating this act in broad daylight with blocked humanitarian aid. Starvation and a campaign that says ethnically, cleanse yourself and leave, or die anyway.
A patently false narrative pushed by Israel is the Statement the Palestinians are indoctrinated to hate and want to kill Israelis. Absolutely false. What is indoctrinated into them is baked in by the fact that they are an occupied nation. They are occupied people, told where to go, Calorie restricted diets, Checkpoints Everywhere, living in an open air prison with a grim today, a dark tomorrow, and no real hopes for the future. This is what 57 years of occupation can do to you.
Israelis on the other hand, will give boat tours to Israel, men, women, and children, so they can watch the bombing of a subjugated people. All for their pleasure in the safety of a boat. Israelis are taught in school that Palestinians are dogs and subhuman.
These are just the facts. You don’t have to like them, and I don’t care If you do. There is no place on earth where This is acceptable. Oh I forgot…….. If you’re Israel, it’s OK.
Collective punishment is never ok!!
Nobody thinks terrorism is OK, but apparently Israel and their state sponsored Terrorism is OK. It has crested into a undeniable genocide, and will be known as an Arab holocaust when the history is written on this one.
YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO FOR DECADES.