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Weather: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 103. Light and variable wind becoming northeast 6 to 11 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tuesday Night: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 77. East wind 3 to 8 mph.
- 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:
A Candidate forum for School Board, County Commission and Palm Coast City Council is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Association of Realtors, 4101 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The forum is organized by the Palm Coast Flagler Regional Chamber, the Flagler Home Builders Association and FCAR. It is open to the public, and is preceded with a chance to meet the candidates at 5 p.m. The forum will be simulcast on WNZF.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
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.
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.
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| Source: Flagler County Sheriff's Office. Note: the Sheriff's Office redacts or censors the names of migrants arrested under authority of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The federal agency requires the redactions, according to the Sheriff's Office. |
Notably: Have we noted lately how insufferable are website redesigns? Bunnell government has a new website. The Flagler school district has a new website. Marineland has a new website. I’m sure others aren’t far behind. With Marineland’s exception, the others didn’t need a change, even though it costs them tens of thousands of dollars a pop if not more. Bunnell just wanted to show off its new City Hall complex on its homepage. The new looks don’t even change much. They just make things look bigger, more sprawly. It’s as hard as ever to find what you really need. The “Financial Transparency” page on the school’s website is impossible to find without several clicks, it’s certainly not linked on the home page, and once you get there, half the stuff is outdated. You can’t even see the current budget there. Redesigns do little to improve user experience. To the contrary. They confuse and disorient on the false assumption that the look is somehow stale or that visual rebranding adds value. It only fuzzies the product and hides stagnation behind cosmetics. Media outlets are just as bad or worse. There they fire half their staff then hide the massacre behind redesigns to deceive the reader into an illusion of freshness. Graveyards irrigate new shoots the same way. Just leave the things alone. Technical and functional tweaks here and there are always good. Redesigns suggest that the look you gave us for the last several years sucked and really wasn’t “clean” ( that favorite bromide that welcomes every redesign no matter how trashy the new look), though you blared it then the way you do your redesign now. There are better things to do with our money.
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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.
Magazine buyers have always been divided into readers and lookers. But consumers who actually open a magazine at the front and commence reading are becoming an increasingly rarefied demographic group. In a medium that has atomized into niche after niche, the long-form narrative may become just one more fetish, no more or less worthy of a magazine than Sub-Zero refrigerators or B-list starlets. There are still great articles being written, of course. The attacks in September sparked a burst of long-form excellence, and The New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and Harper’s are packed with wondrous, where-did-they-get-that insights into the human condition. Some of them are even doing well on the newsstand. Vanity Fair, a magazine that mixes the long and short, adds readers every week, and even daunting bricks of text like those in The Atlantic and The New Yorker are finding success in a very tough marketplace. Those magazines, however, are a relatively small slice of the glossy pie. The rest of the industry has gotten the picture — and it does not include spellbinding narratives. Celebrity-driven publications like People and Us Weekly are becoming fashion flip books. ESPN: The Magazine, which received a general excellence nomination for the coming magazine awards, has more DNA from MTV than from traditional sports journalism. And the smaller magazines that serve as a laboratory for publishing innovation — chic downtown magazines like City and Nest — are pushing graphic rather than linguistic boundaries. Mag-a-logs like Lucky, the shopping magazine, do not generate much more text than what would fit on a price tag. The men’s magazines that continue to storm the newsstand — Maxim, Stuff and FHM — are unapologetically formatted for people who do not read. Publications that exalt the visual have always done well. But the vast middles of many magazines — the feature wells, where the reading matter used to be found — have morphed into annotated photo magazines. In this world, everything can be objectified and rendered desirable. A $2,200 faucet gets the kind of lavish lighting and styling treatment that used to be reserved for skinny 17-year-old models.
–From “Rise of the Visual Puts Words on the Defensive,” by David Carr, The New York Times, April 1, 2002.
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