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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 4pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 4pm and 5pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 5pm. High near 86. Light and variable wind becoming northeast 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- 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:
Both Flagler County high schools hold their graduation ceremonies at the Ocean Center, 101 North Atlantic Avenue, Daytona Beach. The Matanzas High School ceremony begins at 2 p.m. The Flagler-Palm Coast High School ceremony begins at 7 p.m. The Tickets are required for admittance to these events. Families can visit the “Seniors” page on each high school website (Matanzas here, FPC here) for additional details, including ticket and parking information, as well as instructions for graduating students. Both graduation ceremonies will be streamed live here.
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]
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.
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.
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.
Notably: It somehow escaped me yesterday that May 30 was Voltaire’s 248th death anniversary at 83 in a Paris apartment, after his first return to Paris three months earlier following an absence–or banishment, or exile–of about 45 years. Weeks before he’d been crowned with laurels by Benjamin Franklin in front of a crowd adoring of both. He’d believed to have died of bladder cancer, or something like it. He’d spent a lifetime writing, thinking and worrying about death. A few samples: When he was 30: “I regard somewhat prolonged illnesses as a kind of death that separates us and makes us forget everyone, and I try to accustom myself to this first kind of death so as to be less frightened of the other one day. Yet, by Saint John, I do not want to die.” This he wrote in English, when he was 32: “Life is but a dream full of starts of folly, and of fancied, and true miseries. Death awakes us from this painful dream, and gives us, either a better existence or no existence at all.” When he was 50: “This life is but a dream, but one must dream as long as one can.” When he was 73: “I must prepare myself for the great journey after a rather ridiculous short stay on this globe.” When he was 80: “We only live a day, and I am at my last hour.” And finally: “I die in the details.” A final note: Voltaire loved chess and played it endlessly in his 20-year exile in Ferney, at the border with Switzerland, especially with the poor Father Adam, a Jesuit he boarded. The Fisher-Spasky match below is his kind of game.
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June 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Northeast Florida Regional Council Board of Directors Meeting
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Meeting
Oversight ILA Committee on School Facilities
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Coffee and Conversation with Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin
Friday Blue Forum
Food Truck Friday on the Farm: At the Ag Museum
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
“It must be admitted that life resembles the feast of Damocles; the sword is always above is.”
–From a Voltaire letter in 1767.
The dude says
Magic beans… your elders have traded your future for orange magic beans…
Sadly.
Ken says
not bean’s if you are talking about DJT I’D LIKE TO LMAO AT YOU !!!just sayin !!
Pogo says
… and fragile; un, or underemployed — and go great with avocado and tofu sausage.
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain
Laurel says
Your elders didn’t leave you your future, corporate and financial greed did. So, now, you’re in charge, and the millenials (average age 35-45) as well as gen x (ages 46-61) have been in charge for quite a while now. Make it better. You’ll see just how *easy* it is to override the special interests and lobbyists that your elders didn’t have any more access to then you do now. In fact, the young Tech Bros should make it better than ever, right?
Stop looking at your parents to blame. They’ll leave you what they have left. What is your legacy?
Pogo says
100%
Sherry says
@ Laurel. . . as a “Boomer” myself, I’m regretful that our generation did not do more to create the “Healthy/Equal/Positive/Honest” world many of us envisioned. Even more, I’m incredibly embarrassed and disgusted that horrific, criminal trump is also a “Boomer”!
You are absolutely correct in reminding everyone that the “TWO” generations coming after us should “step up” and take the reins of political leadership. Yes, absolutely, there are those in Congress who hold onto their powerful positions as if their very lives depend on it. OK, what have the Gen X ers/Millennials done about “Term Limits”, overturning “Citizens’ United”, voting younger people in, Running for office themselves? Blaming the “Boomers” or “Parents”/”Grandparents” while hanging back and not doing anything to move things in a better direction make them complicit.
Laurel says
Hey Sherry, I have no regrets whatsoever. I started working at age 16. I quit school, went back to night school, then put myself through college. It took four years to get a two year AS degree, because I worked full time, sometimes two jobs, and took classes when I could. I graduated with a 4.0, and that was all the dedication I could stand. I got a dime from no one, I paid my college, my apartment, my health and car insurance, my food, and all that was needed. I never missed a bill, and was never late on payments.
I bought my first house, with no garage, not even a carport, a small 2 bedroom, one bath, in an area known for the newlyweds and the nearly deads. I was neither. I never asked for anything from anyone. My friend told me how to get a down payment for my house through Fanny Mae. It was at 8.35%, which not knowing any better, I thought was great! Paid it off in less than 18 years. My house cost a lot more money than my grandmother’s house, which was a lot bigger and nicer than mine. That’s just time.
My same friend, while her sister, who lived next door to her and got sick, my friend paid for both houses on her Sheriff Deputy’s salary, until her sister got better. Keep in mind just how much we were paid hourly back then.
I worked until age 60, and retired. Tell me, what should I have regretted? My granddaughter has her four years of college paid off by her mom and dad, along with her food, insurance and apartment. She never had to work. She, and her mom, will inherit all we leave behind, and what we’ll leave behind was built with our money, our sweat and our determination, not by greed and selfishness as some would like to suggest.
Is it harder today? Yeah, but is that my fault? I didn’t vote for this. Also, there was no basement and gaming console to sit and gripe about others ruing our future. That would have been inconceivable. We never blamed anyone else for our place in life. I never bought anything I couldn’t afford or payoff. Name brands were not a part of my life.
No, I have no regrets, and I am not responsible for those who had helicopter parents, wore knee pads and elbow pads and got trophies for existing. This blame game is just another way to divide us, and it keeps showing its ugly head.
Laurel says
Sorry to hit you so hard, Sherry. Your heart, soul and mind are in the right place!
I just get so mad at those who blame the boomers for their lot in life. It’s always so convenient to point elsewhere.
My husband feels the same way. Not only did he have a civil service, full time job, he ran a plant nursery, physically and mentally working all the time, while supporting his daughter. He and his daughter are very close to this day. It was when we got together, and joined our forces, and work ethic, did we move forward. Even in our 70’s, we are still hard workers, and yes, it is getting harder! But that’s just how it is.
So, I have little room for the criers, acting and spouting off about how we should have done more for them. What a crock! I see young people forging ahead, just in different ways than we did. I see really good podcasts on YouTube hosted by those who are willing to put in the effort. It takes research, study, planning, and cooperation.
I see “Diary of a CEO” aka “DOAC,” an absolutely fantastic show. I see Dean Withers, still very baby faced and smart as all get out. I see Jame Talarico, running for the Texas Senator. Smart, and real. So many others!
Change with the times.
Ray W. says
On May 22, 2026, the Economic Research Service (ERS), a USDA branch agency, published a “Food Price Outlook, 2026”, in which Outlook the ERS has a category named “Forecast 2026”.
If I correctly understand the ERS description, the gist of the monthly Forecast 2026 is that at the beginning of each calendar year, the ERS applies an algorithm to predict CPI food inflation for the coming year at issue, with a confidence range that narrows each month as more and more 2026 food price data is collected. In May, projected CPI food inflation for 2026 is 3.4%, with a confidence range between 2.2% and 4.7%.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I continue to accept the idea proposed by economists that food and fuel prices are considered more volatile than prices for other categories of goods and services. Perhaps, that volatility adequately explains the wide confidence range right now of between 2.2% and 4.7% food inflation. I accept the argument that as the year goes by, and as more food price data comes in, the confidence range will almost certainly narrow.
Ray W. says
I suppose most FlaglerLive readers are familiar with the concept of carmakers updating models they sell. BYD just released an updated base-level version of its 2026 Sealion DM-i five-seat compact plug-in hybrid SUV, this time by adding an extended range option, among other model changes.
Here are some of the vehicle’s specifications:
– 235 horsepower electric motor.
– 38 kWh lithium-ferrous-phosphate (LFP) “Blade” battery, with a claimed range of 190 miles.
– 1.5-liter turbocharged gas-powered 96-horsepower engine that powers a generator to keep the battery charged when it’s charge level drops to a pre-determined point. The 45 liter (11.9 gallon) gas tank permits another claimed 956 miles of range. There is no transmission. Only the electric motor drives the wheels.
– Weight is 4,034 pounds.
– Wheelbase is 111 inches.
– Overall length is 189.4 inches.
– Width is 75.6 inches.
– Height is 65.9 inches.
Price for base model to Chinese customers at current exchange rate? $19,400.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Stellantis’ CEO is already talking about bringing Chinese EV carmakers to Europe in order to get around anti-EV EU tariffs; it will open two idled Spanish factories for that purpose. But the EV models to be assembled in the Spanish factories will not compete in any category in which Stellantis already offers vehicles.
Is it reasonable to ask how long before American legacy carmakers offer idled American factories to Chinese EV carmaker partners to get around U.S. EV tariffs?
Ray W. says
Most of us, I suppose, know of FP&L or Duke Energy. But how many of us know of New Smyrna Beach’s investor-owned city electricity utility? The city utility generates its own electricity. I have long known of it, but only because I once worked in the city.
So I looked to a Florida Public Service Commission site to determine whether any other Florida cities generate their own electricity. There are eleven other investor-owned Florida city utilities that generate their own electricity. More Florida cities do not generate their own electricity, but buy wholesale the electricity their customers need from outside sources.
Why did I decide to look into this subject? The Austin American Statesman recently ran a story about city commission votes to enlarge its city-owned electricity utility company, Austin Energy.
According to the reporter, the Austin Energy’s current electricity generating capacity provides, on average, 65% of the city’s electricity supply. The remaining 35% of the city’s power supply must be purchased from outside electricity generating power plants. Austin Energy is part of ERCOT’s grid.
The city’s commissioners recently voted to expand the generating capacity of Austin Energy by installing three more generating systems. A new solar farm will be erected atop a closed landfill. Solar panels will be affixed to existing city buildings. And, the city will purchase up to 40 MWs of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity from Base Power, Inc., a battery storage system manufacturer located within the city’s boundaries. In total, the three projects will add 78 MWs of renewable energy capacity to the city’s grid, enough to power 20,000 more homes.
The city commission’s goal is to lessen the need to import electricity from outside energy providers during extreme summer and winter weather events, writes the reporter.
According to the reporter, Austin residents and businesses already pay the lowest electricity rates of any municipality on the entire ERCOT grid.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
It is no secret among energy experts that solar farms and onshore wind farms offer the least expensive form of electric power generation compared to all other generating options. Austin’s city commission appears to understand this and is willing to act on this understanding. It may already be that Austin Energy, on mild spring and fall days, already generates all of the power its customers need, without the utility having to resort to purchasing any power from outside energy providers. But extreme weather events are another story.
Ray W. says
Yet another story about government estimates of economic activity. Statisticians and economists know of the push and pull generated between the need for immediacy in releasing government figures and the need for accuracy that can only come with the passage of enough time to get the data right. For example, several hundred thousand businesses are surveyed each month about the number of employees receiving paychecks. Not all businesses immediately respond. So, the initial jobs report is an estimate. The BLS releases revised estimates each month for two months, as more and more data comes in.
Certain FlaglerLive commenters present a lacking the necessary capacity to understand this process.
The same estimating process happens with GDP reports. Every quarter, the first report is called an “initial” estimate. Each of the two following months brings a revised GDP estimate. Still an estimate, but one that has been revised after receipt of additional data.
This past Thursday, the second of two revisions to the “initial” GDP estimate was released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. What was once an estimate of 2% first quarter 2026 GDP growth is now a revised estimate of 1.6% GDP growth.
Make of this what you will.
Rapunzel says
Step 1 – Demand the do-nothings on both sides in Washington pass a budget address the out of control spending and record deficit. If not we’re all burnt toast.
Ray W. says
The Independent reports that IDF soldiers just took Qala’at Al Shaqif, or Beaufort Castle, located in Lebanon south of Beirut.
Make of this what you will.
Pogo says
Some perspective
https://www.google.com/search?q=timeline+Beaufort+Castle
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
— Plutarch
https://www.google.com/search?q=Plutarch
Skibum says
Whether it is a realistic assessment or not, every new generation blames the previous generation for making it more difficult to get ahead or make a difference after graduation from their school of choice. I think one reason is that the graduates soon come to the epiphany that they will almost certainly start at the bottom and have to succeed in life based on their abilities, intellect, and acceptance of the fact that they are often not in the driver seat and must adhere to the will (and whims) of others.
I have faith that the greatest among new graduates, the most talented, those who have their heads screwed on straight, and those who are most agreeable to change will always do well, no matter the obstacles set before them. And I hope that all of the new graduates either already know, or will come to understand that failure is never the end, it is just another one of life’s lessons that should be looked upon as an opportunity to continue learning, to adapt, to innovate, in the game of life. Attitude is everything!
Laurel says
I agree with most you say, Skibum, except I don’t recall anyone I knew in my circle of friends, in my generation, blaming their parents or grandparents. We believed that every generation wanted their offspring to do better than they did. Our main gripe was the Vietnam War.
Our parents bought starter homes, that impressed no one. We were all in the same pot. They did the best they could, and instilled in us a strong work ethic, which meant we often worked at jobs we weren’t so crazy about. That “buy a guitar, move to California and find yourself” thing effected very few of us, as many may be surprised to know.
Some of our parents stayed with companies for their whole work life, believing loyalty was rewarded. During our time, the corporations slowly killed off that loyalty, and killed off the pensions. The almighty “car in every garage and chicken in every pot,” of the 1950’s was replaced with the pitiful 401K. Another corporate decision. Others built their own businesses, as my family did.
Our generation could not wait to get out of the house, to be independent, to have our own car, to have our own place. My husband was told that at age 18, he’s out! Both of us are very independent, to the point we sometimes annoy each other! :)