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Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Light east wind increasing to 9 to 14 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 70.
- 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:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at its new location on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, 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. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club at the Flagler Beach Public Library meets at noon at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sunday, 2 p.m. Buy tickets here (generally $37.60 for adults). The play centers around the dramatic events that unfold when the residents tune into Orson Welles’ famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. The locals, who rely on the radio for news and entertainment, are thrown into a frenzy when they believe an actual Martian invasion is taking place in their own town.
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.
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.
Notably: The Normandy landing took place at dawn on Tuesday, June 6, or roundabout midnight-1 a.m. New York time, enabling the New York Tiems to issue a 6 a.m. extra edition with the banner headline you see above. But what else was being reported that day, once you got past the first 12 pages of war news? There was “News of Food” about a “Wide Assortment of Beverage Mixes For Summer Now Available in Stores,” with this reminder: “Word comes from the Depart-ment of Markets reminding consumers that the asparagus season is at its peak and that from now on until its close the first part of next month-the quality of the vegetable is at its best. Present prices are favorable at an average of 15 to 29 cents a pound.” As Omaha, Utah, Gold Juno and Sword were being assaulted, “High ranking officers of the nation’s fighting forces will attend the first of the special Tuesday matinees of “Oklahoma” this afternoon at the St. James Theatre for service men and women of the United Nations at reduced prices ranging from 60 cents to $2.10 (tax included).” There was a book review by the now-forgotten journalist Benjamin Stolberg about the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (Lilian Smith’s Strange Fruit was the top-selling fiction book of 1944, Bob Hope’s I Never Left Home the non-fiction top seller). The Yankees, a game and a half out of first, “returned home yesterday, glad to be back breathing the atmosphere of the hospitable East, even if only momentarily, after their first and not altogether satisfactory swing through the West. Dropping eight of the thirteen games in which they clashed with the White Sox, Browns, Tigers and Indians, was not as bad a showing as they made on the first 1943 Western swing, when they lost six of the only seven games they played.” By nightfall, about 4,400 allied troops and up to 9,000 German troops had been killed in Normandy, significantly more than at Antietam. One wonders how Bari Weiss would have controlled that coverage.
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June 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Art Dycke’s Celebration of Life
Pride in Bunnell at 2K Ranch
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Local Ham Radio Clubs Test Emergency Capabilities June 27-28
Palm Coast Historical Society Executive Board Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
At nightfall I go alone to the menhirs: the last harvesters were returning on wagons full of hay, with songs that faded into the distance, songs responding to one another; the wheat fields rustled with the cries of crickets. In a bend of the path, indistinct in the darkness, the gray mass of the menhir lay on the ground in a collapse of four enormous rocks, broken from the same monolith: the impression of a titan overthrown by a thunderbolt, fierce and proud still despite its fall. Mounted on the highest block, for a long time I watched the lighthouses light up one by one in the night, then the brighter stars.
–From André Gide’s Journal.
Laurel says
How sad. A show that has been a reliable source of news for decades, will now become a state news agency for propaganda.
So, how different is this from China or North Korea? It’s not.
We have gotten rid of Paramount Plus, Peacock and Hulu. There is still HBO, but that may hit the trash too. We will not purchase cable that provides these sources that are being manipulated. I’ve deleted the apps of the once stable major networks. Our government, that only caters to a radical portion of one side of the isle, tried to kill PBS and NPR, but we will continue to support those entities. Our government, and the corporations that look for favors, are making it very difficult for us to have balance, and freedom.
I never thought I would see this in this country. It’s very sad.
Dennis C Rathsam says
I tip my hat off to Bari Weiss. Thank you…..When I grew up the whole family sat in the living room watching 60 minutes. As time went by it slanted to the Democrats view on everything. They became the mouth piece of shit. Scott Pelly, thought he was the man. Along with his cohorts, they tryed to destroy the GOP. Lies were told, many as a matter of fact, & thier ratings showed the disgust of 1/2 America.Pelly thought he was gods gift to TV news. Now he,s all alone, in a row boat, in the oceans of podcasters, his only hope to avoid the unemployment line .60 minutes cost CBS plenty of money, as did some of thier story tellers. On the evening news The THRUTH was always there, but it died on the cutting room floor. I’m glad I don’t have to listen to his voice for now, but some other moron will hire him….If he ad any sense he,d retire & go off into the sunset. That’s why the put old horses out to the pasture.
The dude says
THRUTH!!!
joe says
“I tip my hat off to Bari Weiss. ” – My eye caught this quote before I saw who posted it – and then I realized I should have known. Dennis once again reports from the fantasy world of FOX News….
Ray W. says
A Wall Street Journal reporter, curious about the fact that the unemployment rate has remained steady at 4.3% over the recent past few months, despite the creation of an average of 188,000 new workers receiving paychecks during each of the past three month’s Bureau of Labor Services’ survey weeks, and despite the fact that the pool of American-born workers is “stagnating”, writes that some economists theorize that the correct explanation is that those many immigrants who withdrew from the labor force last year and hid in their communities are now returning to the labor force.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Also curious, I looked to a recent CATO Institute paper. The author writes that, statistically, according to Customs and Border Protection data, evasions at the border by the undocumented numbered 9,383 in the inauguration month of January 2025. 18,458 border evasions by immigrants took place during the inauguration month of January 2021. And, 9,937 border evasions by immigrants occurred during the inauguration month of January 2017.
By September 2025, the end of fiscal year 2025, and the latest month of reported CBP data, the statistical number of border evasions by immigrants was 2,708.
According to the same source of data, the number of border evasions peaked at 86,254 in November 2022, the same month that the BLS reported an increase of 263,000 in the number of new workers receiving paychecks.
Does every FlaglerLive reader wonder how so many new workers keep earning paychecks each month when the native-born labor force is “stagnating”?
In January 2017, the month during which President Trump was inaugurated for his first term, the number of workers in the total non-farm labor force who were receiving paychecks, per BLS data, was 152,089,000. By May 2026, the number of workers receiving paychecks had grown to 159,001,000. Those seven million new workers had to come from somewhere.
Do FlaglerLive readers wonder where the millions of new workers earning paychecks came from?
I went to the Pew Research Center. In January 2017, based on government data, the size of the U.S. immigrant population, including the unauthorized, was 44.4 million. From the latest available figures, Pew reports that our immigrant population has since grown by 7.5 million to 51.9 million.
In an economy with a “stagnating” native-born labor force, what kind of magical thinking is needed to conclude that our national economy can continue to grow at a rate faster than the rate reported by rest of the industrialized world without immigrants? Yes, productivity per worker can increase by technological advancement, but output growth per worker is only one part of the GDP puzzle. The other part of the GDP puzzle is output increase because of growth in the overall number of workers.
For political purposes, yes, there is great value to one of our two political parties in arguing against immigration. Arguments, many concocted, support this political view. For economic purposes, however, the argument reverses. For the past decade, our economy has needed new immigrants in their millions to grow.
Ed P says
Hello Ray,
My only question is if the total head count of immigrants is somewhere between 44 million and 51.9 million, legal or illegal, will you concede that the 11 million illegal number you have used so often and claimed has been “static” for decades might be a tad low?
Pogo says
Very well said.
Thank you.
In this political season, I wasn’t surprised that yesterday’s anniversary of a single death went unremarked. The murderer’s address in California and his longevity continue. A very long summer is before us.
Pogo says
Why focus on the maid
… when the hogs who own her are the problem?
https://www.google.com/search?q=ellisons+media&sei=l0IkavbJPNraptQP7PyMwAU
Sherry says
Our “Free Press” is now being attacked from EVERY angle! Billionaires are “buying” the power to shut down factual news outlets. . . or worse, turn them into “Right Winged” propaganda machines!
Support the Associated Press/PBS/NPR and the ACLU! Vote to save our “fact based” reality, our constitution and our democratic republic! Don’t let the “Billionaires” Control You! Vote Blue!