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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 105. Southwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. Southwest wind 5 to 7 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:
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The meeting of the seven-member board is open to the public.
Hammock Community Association Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Hammock Community Center, 79 Malacompra Road. Everyone is invited. Doors open at 6 p.m. Meetings usually include a featured speaker. Check the month’s speaker at TheHammock.org. See videos from prior meetings at the HCA’s YouTube Channel. Sign up for the Newsletter. Prior newsletters are available here. Membership is $16. Join or renew here.
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.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Group meets at 4 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
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: Striking how car dealerships and their service departments are like surgical wards: the same wan and worn looks of people in purgatorial waiting areas, the same blither blather of oversized television screens set to stupefyingly irrelevant programming and the plastic intonations of robotic, silicone-lipped anchors, the way screens—even in service centers now—keep you informed of your car-patient’s stage under the knife, or screwdrivers and wrenches, as the case may be, the way the mechanics, like surgeons, come out periodically in their own scrubs either with bad news (your tire isn’t in stock, we discovered your alternator has cancer, your car will die in 500 miles) or seemingly happy news—you’re free to drive—until you see the bill, which will look as incomprehensibly itemized as a hospital bill and will as greedily plunder your out-of-pockets. John Locke somewhere equated private property with an extension of personhood, property as like one of our limbs. The car is not just a limb. It’s more like lungs, the heart, or genitals. These mere tools, these machines that should be nothing more than tools, are modern totems, washed, waxed, beloved, admired, shown off and worshipped, usually at the expense of the family members behind the garage door. The love people shower on their cars, less imaginative, aridly spiritual men especially, is disturbing for a deviance that, just as that red Camaro or black Cybertruck compensates for a diminutive cock, sublimates an unsatisfied sexual urge and further moats the distance between the garage and the spouse behind the door, which also explains why, if an American man can’t have four wives as in traditional Islam, he may yet have four vehicles.
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July 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Hammock Community Association Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Public Safety Coordinating Council Meeting
Conversations in Democracy
For the full calendar, go here.
Rabbit bristles, impatient. “Bessie, every generation has its problems, we all start behind the eight ball. Face the facts. How much you gonna pay Nelson? How much salary, how much commission? You know what a dealer’s profit margin is. Three per cent, three lousy little per cent, and that’s being cut down to nothing by a lot of new overhead you can’t pass on the customer with these fixed prices Toyota has. Oil going up takes everything up with it; in the five years I’ve been in charge heating costs have doubled, electricity is way up, delivery costs are up, plus all these social security hikes and unemployment to pay so the bums in this country won’t have to give up their yacht or whatever, half the young people in the country go to work just enough to collect unemployment, and now the interest on the inventory is going out of sight. It’s just like the Weimar thing, people’s savings are being washed right down the tube, everybody agrees there’s a recession coming to curl your hair. The economy is shot, Ma, we can’t hack it, we don’t have the discipline the Japs and Germans do, and on top of this you want me to hire a piece of dead weight who happens to be my son.”
–From Joh Updike’s Rabbit Is Rich (1981).
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