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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 102. Calm wind becoming east 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 75. Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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Today at a Glance:
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Candidate Forum, starting with a meet and greet at 5 p.m. and the forum itself at 6, featuring the candidates for Palm Coast City Council and the Flagler County Commission, at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The forum will be livestreamed on WNZF NewsRadio, Flagler News Weekly, FlaglerLive, AskFlagler, and Palm Coast Observer. Radio station 94.9 FM WNZF will carry the Candidate Forum live starting at 6 pm. Food for purchase will be available, provided by World Plate Caterer.
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
The Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee meets at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, Palm Coast. But it’s a good idea to verify whether the committee is actually meeting this evening, as it tends to be lax.
Beats and Eats: Live Concert and Food Trucks at the Stage in Town Center, 6 p.m. at The Stage at Town Center, 1500 Central Avenue, Palm Coast. Beats & Eats combines the food truck lineup residents know and love with live concert entertainment, building on the success of both Food Truck Tuesday and the Palm Coast Concert Series. The event will take place monthly from May through October. Live music, food trucks, vendors, yard games, and beer and wine.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
World Cup:
Group E: Ecuador vs. Germany (East Rutherford, N.J.), 4 p.m. ET
Group E: Curacao vs. Ivory Coast (Philadelphia), 4 p.m. ET
Group F: Japan vs. Sweden (Arlington, Texas), 6 p.m. local / 7 p.m. ET
Group F: Tunisia vs. Netherlands (Kansas City, Mo.), 6 p.m. local / 7 p.m. ET
Group D: Türkiye vs. United States (Inglewood, Calif.), 7 p.m. local / 10 p.m. ET
Group D: Paraguay vs. Australia (Santa Clara, Calif.), 7 p.m. local / 10 p.m. ET
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Notably: I’m writing this the afternoon of June 21 as Spain is halfway through its clobbering of Saudi Arabia at the World Cup, just 3-0 at the half. More Spanish goals are expected. It’s not been an interesting game: even the Spaniards are self-indulgently sloppy, knowing they will cruise to the elimination round with this thrashing, knowing the Saudis have no chance. The World Cup has always had its lopsided matches (Scotland’s 7-0 loss to Uruguay in 1954, Poland’s 7-0 thrashing of Haiti in 1974, Germany’s 8-0 clobbering of poor old–but really: let’s not pity the regressive buggers too much–Saudi, Hungary’s 10-1 beating of El Salvador in 1982 and of course Germany’s 7-1 semi-final win in Brazil in 2014). But those tended to be the exception. Now that the soccer federation’s bottomless greed has opened the tournament to 48 teams, lopsided results are routine, embarrassing, dull. They are also upending records. It was meaningful when a player scores five, six, seven goals at a World Cup. But that was back when the tournament had so many fewer matches or teams. It doesn’t mean much that Messi had a hat trick against Algeria the other day, a team that was last in the tournament in 2014. It’s not the worst team this year. There are so many others. But when you pit big leaguers against Double-A or Single-A, what would you expect? In the space of those few lines, the Spaniards have now gone up 4-0. They’re competing with Germany, who beat Curaçao 7-1. Swede beat Tunisia 5-1 only to fall to Holland by the same score. Canada took out Qatar 6-0. Maybe it’s the price to pay (an additional price to pay) for what has been on the whole a pretty thrilling couple of weeks, with more quality matches than not. Maybe a few lopsided matches are worth the surprises, like the Americans’ furious run to the next round, though there haven’t been too many upsets, unless you call Brazil’s 3-0 win over Haiti something of an upset: when Haiti can keep the mighty Brazilians to just three goals, instead of 10, it is a victory of a kind. But Brazil is not the Brazil we’ve known. This year’s Brazilians could well be the Americans. Anyway, I don;t mean to be that negative even about the lopsided games. You watch a Germany-Ivory Coast matchup, thrilling as it was the other day, and all is right with the world, or at least the World Cup, at least on the field and in the stands, away from the luxury boxes.
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July 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Story Time on the Farm at the Ag Museum
For the full calendar, go here.
Meeting ‘FIFA standards’ cost money, but it also dashed the Brazilian dream of staging a truly Brazilian World Cup, complete with, say, the sensuously long, loose, low goal nets in which shots had nestled throughout the Maracanã’s history. João Philippe de Orleans e Bragança, a Brazilian investment manager (and direct descendant of Brazil’s last emperor), told me: ‘We had to build these European stadiums in place of the typical South American caldeirão (‘cauldron’), which is packed, warm and vibrant. It was not a Brazilian World Cup, but a FIFA World Cup in Brazil.’ Brazilians feared that the tournament would prove a case study of cultural colonialism: a northern organisa-tion imposing its rules on a southern country.
Nothing Brazilian seemed to meet the ‘Padrão FIFA’. Nobody with power over the tournament cared about the country’s tradi-tions or as FIFA saw it, it’s markers of backwardness. A single family – João Havelange and then his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira had ruled Brazil’s dreadful football association, the CBF, for almost the entire period from 1958 to 2012.”
–From Simon Kuper’s World Cup Fever: A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments (2026).
Dennis C Rathsam says
The real facts on the pool, vandals,dumped fertilizer in it to bloom the algae. Then someone cut the liner with a box cutter from one side to another. As TRUMP trys to clean up our country, especially Washington DC. You people suffering from TDS, think this was funny. Another slap at all the good TRUMP has done so far! You morons are not Americans, certainly not patriots! How ignorant can you be trying to destroy your own country you don’t like TRUMP that’s fine, that’s your own inner demons. But dont shit on the rest of Americans who are proud to live here, and want to CELIBRATE 250 years of greatness, on July 4th.
Skibum says
Dennis, you speak of “facts” you do not know. You may as well spout the delusionary, conspiracy theory that the earth is flat, which has often been repeated but no less absent of any factual basis. If “daddy” advised you that you could leap off of the highest edge into the gorge of the Grand Canyon because you would immediately sprout wings and fly like a bird, your little bird brain would jump for joy at the revelation heretofore unknown by you, relishing the journey to the edge of the abyss simply to do as instructed by a lying nincompoop who deserves no trust when his lips are moving!
And yet, you are but one of the feckless flock of maga mush brains who sit on the edge of their seats, waiting for the latest, steamy, smelly word s**t to be expelled from the mouths of 1) a lying, sex abuser convicted felon con man, or 2) lying maga talking heads from an unfunny, billionaire owned entertainment conglomerate faking itself as a news channel, or 3) conspiracy theory knuckleheads on weirdo internet feeds trying to gain “likes” and subscribers while camping in their bedrooms all day thinking they are going to get rich while making a living deceiving people. Which is it?
Laurel says
Dennis believes he is in the majority.
Did you see Fox Entertainment describing how the “Freedom 250 State Fair” (notice the countrified title) had thousands of participants while showing around fifty? The Fox hosts kept yammering on about crowds while showing an empty field.
Are these people looking in another dimension?
Mark says
Seriously, is Dennis a real person or is this just someones alter ego, maybe Dissociative Identity Disorder? He’s always the first to reply with his delusions and tRump Devotion Syndrome. I would think no one is this devoted and this love struck for an orange turd and 34 time convicted felon in this county, though lo and behold we have Dennis.
The dude says
I called this one a day or two back. So predictable. So sad.
As always… no proof will be provided.
None of this is actually true.
Jim says
How did vandals dump fertilizer in the pool? Seems it would take a lot of fertilizer to do this. And it seems likely that chemical testing would prove or disprove that. Also, setting that aside, how did the vandels get to the pool with a lot of fertilizer without anyone seeing them? There are security police and cameras there 24/7 and no one has shown any videos supporting this. Of course, maybe the security personnel are asleep.
And who was the person who waded into the pool with a box cutter and cut it from one side to the other? Nobody saw that either? No camera caught it?
Be careful who you say are “not Americans, certainly not patriots”. People who make their own decisions based on facts and what they see are certainly patriots. Blind loyalty to the deity is not patriotism, it is just a sad example of someone who doesn’t want to know the truth if it contradicts the dear leader. That kind of person needs to live in North Korea, not the USA!. So, Dennis, don’t YOU shit of the Americans who are also proud to live here but have much higher expectations of the leader of this country and do not practice blind allegiance. This country does much better with citizens who question the government, not fall at the feet of the leader no matter how ridiculous he is. I’d say the only people getting shit on are mindless supplicants like you!
YankeeExPat says
Dennis, as A “Trumpophile” ,
you most defiantly qualify to be shit on!
You pool facts are utterly baseless and totally fabricated by trump
BillC says
Or, it could be that your god, Emperor Trumpus, was the cause of the damage to the reflecting pool. He drove across it and back in “The Beast” right after the underlayment had been installed and before properly set. “The Beast” weighs 20,000 pounds, attributing the massive weight to its extensive armor plating, bulletproof glass, and reinforced chassis built on a GMC TopKick truck platform, along with 9 other limos in his entourage.
See for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H8hyMGP3pcE
Ray W. says
Windward reports that, yesterday, 62 ships transited the Strait of Hormuz. 21 were inbound, including six tankers. 41 were outbound, including 15 tankers.
CNBC reports that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is warning that ships must use the northern channel to transit and that permission to pass must be obtained prior to movement.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I applaud the apparent return to more normal traffic flows through the Strait. 62 ships constitutes more than half the pre-war traffic flow.
Ray W. says
The Daily Mail reports that, yesterday, a town in southern France, Pissos, reported a temperature of 44.3 degrees Celsius (111.74 degrees F), an all-time national record. This is not heat index. A major heat dome stretching from Great Britain to Spain and Italy and Central Europe has already killed hundreds. The Tour de France soon begins.
A major heat dome formed by two smaller heat domes converging; it is expected to extend from Texas to Pennsylvania; it may pass to the north of us.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
FlaglerLive readers may recall postings by a number of the more gullibly stupid commenters among us who blamed the Biden administration for a spike in gasoline prices in August 2023. In reality, a two-week heat dome drifted slowly across New Mexico and Texas and into Louisiana on its way over the Atlantic. Refineries lose operating efficiencies whenever temperatures remain above 95 degrees F. Gasoline production dropped. Shortages during the summer driving systems developed. Prices at the pump rose.
Every FlaglerLive reader ought to know by now to never accept at face value anything submitted by the several pestilential partisan members of faction who wander among us.
The Telegraph reports that during the ongoing heat dome now blanketing much of Europe, a number of French nuclear power plants have had to either gone offline or reduce output because the river water that is used to cool the reactors has become too warm. Of Great Britain’s 10 nuclear reactors, four are offline for maintenance or repairs.
Wind circulation speed has dropped under the heat dome, reducing the amount of available wind generation.
Solar output has dropped because panel efficiency lessens when temperatures rise too high.
Natural gas power plant efficiencies, too, drop in high heat. Additionally, a number of British natural gas power plants had been already been switched off before the development of the heat dome for scheduled maintenance.
Now is a good point to introduce FlaglerLive readers to the idea of wholesale “marginal energy pricing.” In this pricing model, the cheapest available source of power sets the “baseline” price. The power plant that provides the last megawatt of power to meet actual demand sets the “marginal” price that all grid customers pay during a unit of time, usually fifteen minutes.
Texas’ ERCOT has over 1,460 power plants of multiple types that can supply power to the grid. Solar, wind, hydropower, nuclear, natural gas, geothermal, coal, battery storage, and more. But not all types of power plants are needed on any given day. On light demand days, renewables might provide all of the power needed during a fifteen minute interval. Renewables set the marginal price. On extreme demand days, coal sets the marginal price.
To repeat, the power produced at the lowest cost is purchased first. If that source, almost always solar, could produce all of the energy needed for the day, the wholesale price for solar matches the marginal price. If solar alone is insufficient to meet demand, the next lowest cost power supply sets the marginal price. Perhaps that producer is hydropower. And on and on. If coal-fired generation is needed, then coal’s price, almost always the most costly form of electricity, sets the marginal wholesale price. Any grid that can produce all the electricity its customers need from renewables will charge its customers far less than other grids that rely on fossil fuels.
For example, after onset of war, natural gas prices in Europe jumped upwards. Italy, heavily dependent on natural gas, saw customers’ electricity rates skyrocket. Natural gas was setting the marginal rate. Spain, having long before invested in solar, wind and hydropower projects, saw stable electricity rates that were at one point less than one-third Italy’s rates. Renewables were setting the marginal rate.
But March and April are mild months. In summer, if Spain has to rely on its few remaining natural gas plants to meet higher demand, then natural gas costs will set the marginal rate and rates will rise.
Ray W. says
On the subject on energy prices, it is no secret that, across the Russian nation, fuel prices at the pump are rising. In some regions, fuel is either no longer available or it is being rationed.
The cause for the fuel shortages is the many Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure. Multiple regions, mainly in the south and west, have had to institute rationing of fuel for non-military purposes.
Rather than admit the actual cause of the fuel shortages, government spokespersons, according to the news outlet RBC Ukraine, are asserting to the populace that national demand for fuel has surged.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
If Russian officials are claiming that Russian fuel demand has suddenly surged, leading to shortages of fuel in a number of regions, could this phenomena be an example of a Russian version of our native invention of “alternative-facts”?
James says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-algae.html
Laurel says
What was hilarious was the men lined up on both sides of the pool while pouring hydrogen peroxide in along the edge. The edge cleared somewhat, but the rest of the pool stayed a green glob.
Our current brain trust of an administration at work.
Did anyone arrest the sun yet?