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Weather: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 91. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Friday Night: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76.
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Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s show focuses on culture and the arts and their importance to the local economy. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Food Truck Friday at the Farm, Florida Agriculture Museum, 7900 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast, 5 to 9 p.m. A variety of food trucks serving up crowd favorites, 50/50 raffle, Absolute Beginner Line Dancing, 7 to 8 p.m., then live music. Local vendors and shopping, family-friendly atmosphere, pets welcome. More Info: Click Here
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.
World Cup: Canada v. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 3 p.m. FOX/Telemundo from BMO Field in Toronto. United States v. Paraguay, 9 p.m. Fox/Telemundo, from SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, Calif.
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Notably: Paraguay and the United States, facing off today on the football pitch in California, have more in common than not, down to the Alfredo Stroessner posing as the current American president. Amnesty International reports–from Paraguay, not Florida–: “Law 7363 of 2024, establishing disproportionate restrictions on the right to freedom of association, came into force in October following approval of its corresponding regulations. … Death threats and harassment of journalists continued. Paraguay’s Bureau for the Protection of Journalists registered 20 attacks and acts of harassment. […] Trans people continued to face obstacles in obtaining legal recognition of their gender identity. Two trans migrants were denied the issuance of documents reflecting their gender identity. The city council of the capital, Asunción, banned an event to honour a transgender human rights defender who died in March. […] The Ministry of Women registered 37 feminicides and 55 attempted feminicides in 2025.” Pete Hegseth to the rescue. But Paraguay has (or had) Augustin Barrios Mangore, one of the great improvisational composers for the guitar, and with him, there is no equal anywhere in the world. From the liner notes to a Naxos recording: “Agustín Pío Barrios Mangoré was born in southern Agustn 1lo Barfios Mango sonem Paraguay on 5th May, 1885, and died on 7th August, 1944, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Many consider Barrios to be the greatest guitarist composer of all time. In view of this fact, it is curious that his music lay undiscovered and unappreciated for over three decades after his death. In the mid-1970s comprehensive after is death. in the mid-1970s comprehensive editions of his music appeared, making it possible for guitarists of Antigoni Goni’s generation to include in
their study the music of Barrios, augmenting and complementing more traditional repertoire by Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi, Tarrega and Villa-Lobos. The revival began in 1977 when John Williams released an entire recording of music by Barrios which focused a long overdue due recognition on this forgotten Latin American guitarist. Today Barrios’ music is frequently
performed by major concert artists and is appreciated by audiences world wide.”
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July 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Flagler Beach All Stars Beach Clean-Up
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Independence Day Events in Flagler Beach and July 4 Fireworks in Palm Coast
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
For the full calendar, go here.
“You have not yet destroyed oral tradition only because it is the one language that cannot be sacked, robbed, repeated, plagiarized, copied. What is spoken remains alive.”
–From Augusto Roa Bastos’s I the Supreme (1974).
Pogo says
Dennis C Rathsam says
ICE, is well funded & ready for whatever George Soros has in mind. He wants to pay morons, make new signs,& buss in protesters and watch get hurt. While he sits back in his leather recliner & laughs. Some of these sic bastards will do anything for a $100.00!
Ray W. says
Per a story by The Cool Down, Chinese domestic sales of ICE-powered cars, year-over-year, dropped 39% in May. New Electric Vehicle (NEV) sales leapt to a 62.9% market share in May. A BYD executive vice president announced that current demand for BYD NEV products has now become double the company’s production capacity; she offered her prediction that overall NEV sales penetration of the domestic market will soon reach 80%.
Make of this what you will.
I have long argued that long-term economic figures of whatever type offer greater clarity about what is happening, but these figures startle. Are these figures evidence of permanent demand destruction or are they an economic blip that will reverse when and if the Strait of Hormuz reopens?
Ray W. says
The Philippine government, per MSN, just announced a 13-facet plan to continue to add renewable energy to the nation’s infrastructure, with the projects being valued at $5.7 billion. The goal, in part, is to increase the country’s independence from fossil fuels.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Again, can it validly be argued that closing the Strait of Hormuz opened the minds of government leaders all over the world. Of what value is energy independence?
Ray W. says
According to a story developed by The Cool Down, more and more remote Australian communities are recognizing just how inexpensive solar energy, coupled with battery energy storage systems (BESS), can be. The remote communities are constructing new solar and BESS microgrids and then disconnecting from existing centralized macrogrids. From the story, more than 9,000 miles of longer-distance transmission lines and the power poles that support them have been dismantled.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Curious, I checked.
On October 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy opened a program, C-MAP, or Community Microgrid Assistance Program, designed to aid remote American communities in their construction of renewable microgrid power sources that could cut electricity generating costs.
While the new administration’s DOGE effort did cut a number of previously approved renewable energy projects, and while the new administration is paying large sums of taxpayer money to offshore wind companies to cease their efforts to build already permitted offshore wind farms, C-MAP activities have thus far been let alone.
As an example of the need for C-MAP, approximately 250 remote Alaskan communities now use diesel generators to power their microgrids. Diesel fuel has to be trucked in over long distances, which greatly increases the cost of the fuel. Extreme weather can disrupt delivery of the diesel fuel, so community diesel tank farms are needed to store enough fuel to cover any road disruptions. And what happens if a remote community’s sole diesel generator breaks down? Renewables, coupled with sufficient BESS, can reduce reliance on expensive diesel-powered generators.
And many remote communities in the American Southwest purchase electricity from co-ops, which differ from large utility companies like Duke Power or FP&L.
Has renewable energy become so cheap that it is no longer important to rely on the argument of climate change? FP&L filed a 10-year site plan in April 2026. All of its new power plants are going to be solar, coupled with BESS. Existing natural gas power plants will be upgraded to improve efficiency, but no new gas plants will be built. And the last permit to build a new coal-fired power plant anywhere in the country was issued in 2008.
Is it valid to wonder whether enough Americans have persuaded themselves to become one of the few populations in the world that are willing to give political power to those who want them to pay more than is necessary for the electricity they consume?
Of what value is energy independence?