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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 2pm and 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Breezy, with a southeast wind 7 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Monday Night: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. Southeast wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Schools, courts and all government officers are closed today in observance of Memorial Day.
Memorial Day Commemoration: Palm Coast’s annual Memorial Day Ceremony begins at 8 a.m. at Heroes Memorial Park, 2860 Palm Coast Parkway, and will feature a new tradition of reading the names of fallen service members. City Hall offices will be closed today.
Memorial Day Commemoration: Flagler County government’s ceremony is at 10 a.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The ceremony features special guest speaker retired Major General Wilfred Hessert. Local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will lead attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the National Anthem. Later, “God Bless America” will be sung by all who are in attendance. Vince Cautero will once again lead the singing of “God Bless the USA.”
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Notably: Diapason, the French music magazine, gives a spanking to Riccardo Muti, the great Italian conductor, for taking himself to be Arturo Toscanini, who made a name for himself as the Trump of conductors–yelling, screaming, berating audiences and musicians alike. He was a prime candidate for anger management. I don’t think too many people were surprised he died of a stroke, though he was 89 that cold cold January day in the Bronx in 1957. Muti, who is 84, lost it against late-arriving audience members at a concert in Chicago last March 20, when he was marking his 600th concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, whose directors have included Daniel Barenboim (1991–2006), Georg Solti (1969–1991) and Fritz Reiner (1953–1962): “Nearly 20 minutes into the milestone concert on March 20 — a concert of opera excerpts squarely in Muti’s 19th-century Italian wheelhouse — a burst of late arrivals shuffled onto the main floor. Soprano Lidia Fridman had just arrived onstage to sing “Ebben? … Ne andrò lontana” from “La Wally,” the seldom-staged opera by Alfredo Catalani that was once a favorite of Muti’s idol, Arturo Toscanini. Spotting another surge of latecomers, the CSO music director emeritus became incensed. “Who came late? Out!” he spat, to applause. “This is a great institution. Toscanini would have thrown you out. When you go to the airport, you go on time. … We don’t entertain. We try to make you richer — spiritually, culturally.” He pounded the podium railing for emphasis. More applause. Fridman waited sphinx-like onstage, as did CSO musicians, some with heads bowed. Such outbursts aren’t unusual for Muti.” The Chicago Tribune also reported on the outburst. Muti would be a good fit at the new Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, though his orchestral sound is as crisp and Eighteenth Centuryish classical as it gets.
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June 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Candidate Forum
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
July 2026
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Conversations in Democracy
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Bingo Night at Palm Coast Elks Lodge 2709
Flagler County Republican Club Meeting
Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee
For the full calendar, go here.
The stupidity of a servant is much more dangerous than wickedness, and more burdensome to the master, because he may be right to punish a wicked woman, but not a stupid one: he must send her away, and learn to live. Mine used the three notebooks, which contained in detail everything that I am going to write roughly in this one, for the needs she had for paper in the household. She told me to excuse herself that the papers being worn, and scribbled with even erasures, she believed that they were made for her service in preference to the clean, white ones that were on my table. If I had thought about it carefully, I wouldn’t have gotten angry; but the first effect of anger is precisely that of depriving the mind of the faculty of thought. I have this good thing that in my case it lasts very little: irasci celerem tamen ut placabilis essem. After wasting my time insulting her, the force of which she did not feel, and proving to her with obvious reasons that she was stupid, she refuted all my arguments, never answering me anything. I decided to write again in a bad mood, and consequently very badly, which being in a good mood I must have written quite well; but my reader can console himself, because, like mechanics, he will gain in time what he loses in strength.”
–From Casanova’s Story of my Life (1796).
Laurel says
How sad we have to celebrate our 250th anniversary with a liar and con man in charge. Exactly what our founders worked to prevent. We have failed them, so far.
I wrote this before, and I’ll write it again.
In the eighth grade, a group of us took the train to Washington D.C., and learned about our country’s history. It was a great trip! At one stop, we visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. At that time, there was a red, velvet rope around the tomb, and the tomb was protected by an armed soldier, who stood straight, with the rifle perched over his shoulder. We were told not to cross that rope, or the soldier would shoot anyone who dared. None of us kids dared!
To think that the President of the United States has pardoned, and actually wants to pay the insurrectionists, with our hard earned tax dollars, those who broke into the Capital, threatened to hang the Vice President, threatened the Congressmen and Congresswomen and calling one out by name to do her harm, tried to overthrow the government, tried to stop the election we participated in, stole items, smeared the walls with feces and brutally attacked Capitol Police, just mortifies me.
What have we become?
This upcoming celebration feels false. Instead, I feel a loss. To support this despicable behavior is unfathomable to me.
It is the President’s job to unite us. He has failed.