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Weather: Partly sunny with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A slight chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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Today at a Glance:
No Kings Rally in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach: Four rallies are scheduled in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach today to protest the president’s military parade marking his birthday in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the Army. Two protests are scheduled at 9:30 a.m., one on the Palm Coast Parkway bridge over I-95, and one at State Road A1A and State Road 100 in Flagler Beach. Two more are scheduled at 11 a.m., one at Palm Coast Parkway and Old Kings Road, another at State Road 100 and Belle Terre Parkway. “‘No Kings’ protests against the Trump administration are planned in more than 1,500 cities across the US. Organizers are billing the demonstrations as a “nationwide day of defiance” in response to “corruption” in the government,” according to the BBC. The parade will cost taxpayers between $25 million and $45 million.
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.
Enrollment Day at Daytona State College, Daytona Beach campus, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach. Representatives will be available from Admissions, Advising, Financial Aid, Registration and Student Accounts. New students who attend will be entered in a drawing for a $500 scholarship! Registration for Summer and Fall is open now. You can complete your enrollment online, at any of our campuses during regular business hours, or at this Saturday Enrollment Day event. Register early for your best selection of courses. If you have not done so already, please complete your online admissions application before arriving. Please note: Dual Enrolled students should not sign up for this event as they have already registered for fall classes. Reserve an appointment here.
A Legacy of Care: Flagler Cares’ 10-Year Celebration , 6 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The social services coordinating agency marks a decade with a fund-raising event. It is sold out.
Flagler Beach continues to host a series of monthly events to mark its centennial, highlighted tonight by a 300-seat Community Dinner at Veterans Park that will be catered by 15 city restaurants. The event is sold-out.
Peps Art Walk, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday, Beachfront Grille, 2444 South Oceanshore Boulevard, Flagler Beach. Step into the magical vibes of Unique Handcrafted vendors gathering in one location, selling handmade goods. Makers, crafters, artists, of all kinds found here. From honey to baked goods, wooden surfboards, to painted surfboards, silverware jewelry to clothing, birdbaths to inked glass, beachy furniture to foot fashions, candles to soaps, air fresheners to home decor and SO much more! Peps Art Walk happens on the last Saturday of every month. A grassroots market that began in May of 2022 has grown steadily into an event with over 30 vendors and many loyal patrons. The event is free, food and drink on site, parking is free, and a raffle is held to raise money for local charity Whispering Meadows Ranch. Kid friendly, dog friendly, great music and good vibes. Come out to support our hometown artist community!
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Flowers, bushes and hard to find plants. The event is sponsored by the Friends of Washington Oaks. Regular entrance fee applies: $4 per vehicle with one person aboard, $5 for vehicles with more than one person.
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, 11 a.m. at Cypress Knoll Golf Club, 53 Easthampton Blvd, Palm Coast. A monthly speaker is featured. Lunch is available for $20 in cash, $21 by credit card, but must be ordered in advance. The lunch menu is available on our website. Lunch may be ordered by sending an email to: [email protected].
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.
Juxtapositions: I was reading the opening pages of that elegant history of the United States (The Growth of the American Republic) written by that trilogy of greats–Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager and Bill Leuchtenburg–when I came across this line about Columbus’s “discovery” of the new continent: “Never again may mortal man hope to recapture the amazement, the wonder, the delight of those October days in 1492 when the New World gracefully yielded her virginity to the conquering Castilians.” It reminded me of the final, sublime lines in The Great Gatsby: “And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” To read lines like that on days so begrimed by the demolition of a country we so love–on a day given to a parade to the glory of that demolition–lifts one’s spirits just enough to think: let’s have a martini and (to quote another great one), fuck ’em.
—P.T.
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July 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Al-Anon Family Groups
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The highest aim of the school was to produce a perfectly obedient, militarist, puritanical moron who could play football. That aim, or course, inspired a regime that was wonderfully vindictive against anything that threatened to be exceptional. And having a lively and independent mind, I became a natural enemy of the regime. Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence-and you have a tyrant. I was once struck by one of the teachers for using a dictionary (not an authorized textbook) during a study hall, and another time was openly chastised for reading a story by Balzac entitled “A Passion in the Desert.”
–From Wendell Berry’s “The Long-Legged House,” in Essays 1969-1990 (LOA 2019).
Dennis C Rathsam says
GREAT THANKS Mr President, We thank you for closing the border,Thanx for bring the cost of food down! Your inflation rate is the best its been in 4 years….Thank you! Thanx for deporting, the scum Biden let in this country, you have more work to do, make sure you get them all.We thank god for giving you the wisdom, & determination to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!! AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST…. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP!
Pogo says
Bo Peep says
Hopefully no one gets run over blocking traffic or mobbing a vehicle. That would be a shame.
Ray W, says
Drawing from a New York Times article, The Hil reports that on Thursday a senior ICE official, Tatum King, issued a message to regional leaders to carve out exceptions to immigration raids on certain businesses:
“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels.”
The ICE message came just after President Trump posted to Truth Social that “changes are coming.”
In a Thursday comment, President Trump posted:
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. … This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. …”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
President Trump just announced to all Americans (or at least those willing to internalize his message) that the many hardworking undocumented immigrants working in the agriculture, the hospitality and the food service sectors are too valuable to their employers to deport, unless they commit serious new crimes while living in the U.S. This marks a significant change from his pre-election campaign oratory and the language of his early presidential policy initiatives.
For those among us too reluctant to absorb what I just described, for whatever chosen reason, here is a statement from DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin:
“We will follow the president’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets.”
It seems that only the worst of the worst criminal undocumented immigrants are subject to the new policy.
Doesn’t this suggest that those undocumented immigrants who commit minor crimes will not be the target of DHS deportation efforts if they harvest crops or prepare meals or clean motel rooms?
I wonder whether the new Trump directive will soon be expanded to cover the childcare and eldercare facilities that rely heavily on undocumented immigrant labor, or the construction industry, or the many undocumented immigrants who work in the medical community. In time, those undocumented laborers hired by subcontractors who clean and maintain retail establishments just might come to be covered by the new policy.
diane says
We elect Presidents for the People. no tyrants, no supreme rulers. none of this is normal, and it’s going too far. EVERYONE will end up protesting, wait and see. Americans stick together, they’re hoping for us to be against each other , to weaken us, so then they can do whatever they want and we won’t know , or be able to do anything about it until it’s too late. I doubt there even will be elections anymore. I think we need to focus together on what’s happening.
Thomas Doubting says
Prices are NOT down. Tariffs are making prices climb. No cheap labor, legal immigrants to do the hard work. They’e all being terrorized and deported against the law. There are such a thing as LEGAl immigrants. Our neighborly democratic Countries are all mad at us. Our economy is getting worse. The laws aren’t being complied with. With lawlessness, there’s more crime. Only criminals were suppose to be deported, not the legal status, or long term tax paying resident farm workers that do cheap labor which keeps our prices down. No one wants handcuffing kids that were born here and ARE citizens. Or smashing and stealing people out of their own cars, without even knowing who’s really inside. All the physical attacks by masked unmarked armed men is unacceptable. This is all worse than Russia and North Korea….how can anyone say they thank the President for all this? If you like what he’s doing, then would you do that? I’m very sure thanking God for it all, when ALL of us are his children, might be actually contradictory to the teachings of God. I’m in disbelief and I just will never understand what’s happened to decency and mostly common sense.
Sherry says
This from Robert Reich:
Friends,
The giant Trump Republican bill now before the Senate — Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” — cuts taxes for high earners and reduces benefits for the poor and working class.
This would make it more regressive — harming low-income Americans while benefiting high-income Americans — than any major tax or entitlement law in many decades, if not in history, according according to new estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.
It would raise after-tax incomes of the highest-earning 10 percent of American households on average by 2.3 percent a year over the next decade. It would deliver its biggest benefits to the top 0.1 of one percent of households.
At the same time, it would lower incomes for the poorest tenth by 3.9 percent, or by about $1,600 per year per household — mostly by cutting spending on health care (Medicaid), food assistance (Food Stamps), and other programs that benefit the poor and working class.
America has tried so-called “trickle-down” economics before — under Reagan, George W. Bush, and the first Trump administration — but nothing trickled down. The rich got richer and almost everyone else fell behind. Meanwhile, the federal budget deficit and national debt soared.
This bill is even worse because it finances part of the tax cuts to the rich by reducing benefits to lower-income Americans. And it is projected to add about $3 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade (including interest).
The Trump Republican “One Big Beautiful” bill would be a disgrace under any circumstance. At a time when inequalities of income and wealth in America are wider than they have been in more than eighty years — with the richest Americans taking home near-record amounts of both — and the deficit and national debt already at record levels, the bill is utterly shameful.
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Laurel says
Who said that it would be easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to get into heaven?
Why am I, of all people, bringing this stuff up? Isn’t it supposed to be the folks wearing the door knocker crosses? Oh my gosh. Life is interesting.
So Trump is really good at marketing, but he should be. He had a learning curve of 79 years. As a second time President, though, it sure seems like he’s a slow learner. Flippity floppity. He just changes his mind. His properties must be feeling the effect of his deportation drama. His beloved meatloaf is nearing danger.