Daily Briefing

Sheriff Rick Staly holds the fifth annual public Addressing Crime Together meeting this evening, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, remembering Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” and Eugene Debs’s famous speech on justice.

The quarterly Public Safety Coordinating Council is today, the annual George Washington Carver Foundation Auction, pre-trials in circuit court, Eudora Welty on Dick Cavett.

The Palm Coast City Council talks unsplashing splash pad, the Flagler County Planning Board has a long agenda, voter turnout in other countries, John McWhorter’s “Woke Racism.”

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins hears a plea from Aaron Thayer, who faces an attempted first degree murder charge, the Bunnell City Commission meets, why some Americans have always fiercely resisted the truth.

Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, is staged at 3 p.m. at Stetson University’s Second Stage Theatre, the French go to the polls today in the first round of their unpresidential election, a reminder about Boulanger and Dreyfuss.

Sustainable Flagler’s second Electric Vehicle Showcase at Palm Coast City Hall, Family Builder Lab at the public library, 9th Annual spring Festival and Plant Sale at FPC, WEB DuBois on Dayton, Ohio.

Richard Dunn’s attorney argues his client should be released from jail, One Night in Memphis at the Flagler Auditorium, Flagler County Fair’s 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show, Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, a few words from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, at Stetson University’s Second Stage Theatre, 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale, Randy Jaye, a writer and historian, discusses his book “Perseverance” at the Democratic Club.

Judges election forum at the Hilton Garden Inn, Flagler County Fair’s 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show, George Washington Carver Foundation Auction, Woodrow Wilson on entering World War I and the stupidity of applauding warfare.

The Palm Coast City Council takes up Mayor David Alfin’s proposal to quadruple council members’ salaries and considers an $8 million bank loan to pay for swales and other stormwater improvements, the school board meets, where the barbaric death penalty still prevails, Vonnegut on mother tongues.

The Flagler County Commission talks 911, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the Flagler County Fair’s 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale, racist responses to the war in Ukraine, Elisabeth Leonskaja’s complete Mozart sonatas.

Get set for the Carver Center auction starting tomorrow, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, the most expensive beer cities.

The Flagler Youth Orchestra’s top ensemble is in concert, First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Palm Coast’s traditional Blessing of the Fleet returns, the Malvinas-Falklands war, Ramadan begins.

Jamal “Jamie” Nejame, the former candidate for mayor in Flagler Beach, pleads out, it’s First Friday in Flagler Beach, don’t believe what you read in the Observer today, and it’s Autism Acceptance Month.

Charles Swindell, one of the more sadistic defendants on the year’s docket, is scheduled for a sentencing by Circuit Judge Terence Perkins, Cesar Chavez Day, Turgenev on Belinsky and art for art’s sake, and Oklahoma’s opening.

The Department of Children and Families holds a job fair in Daytona Beach, with many openings. Manatee Appreciation Day, witness a barn-raising, and the idea of American origins.

The Canadian Brass brings at the Flagler Auditorium, a status hearing in the case of Larry Caravallo, when Jupiter drowned the world in a nuclear holocaust, Pearl Bailey’s anniversary.

Darius Watts pleads out for a home-invasion robbery in the P Section two years ago, the Bunnell City Commission meets for a brief agenda, Maureen Dowd tells us the definition of a woman.

“The Revolutionists” has its last performance at City Repertory Theatre this afternoon, celebrating Mstislav Rostopovich, one of the great cellists of the last century, the unsurprising truth about being born twice.

Tom Gargiulo memorial, QAnon convention, “The Revolutionists,” at City Repertory Theatre, John McWhorter on why ‘wokeness’ hurts Black communities.

“The Revolutionists” begins its final weekend at City Repertory Theatre, Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan talks to Scenic A1A Pride, Bartok’s birthday, Mount Rushmore and a few words about till death do us part.

Flagler Beach commissioners at their meetings today will consider approving the site plan for the hotel planned in place of the Farmers’ Market, where a hotel used to rise until the 1970s,and they’ll discuss impact fees.

Paul Renner is at Hammock Dunes in the monthly Tiger Bay lunch, but the event is sold out, Flagler Reads Together has its discussion on “The Personal Librarian,” on the extraordinary life of Belle da Costa Greene, Remembering Akira Kurosawa and his “Dersu Uzala.”

The Palm Coast City Council approves a $175,000-a-year contract with City Manager Denise Bevan and appoints a new councilman to the seat vacated by Victor Barbosa. The school board meets and discusses its library policy and the district’s dress code.

The Flagler County Commission has an overflowing agenda–school impact fees, Eagle Lakes development, a comprehensive plan update. Twitter is 16 years old but still acting 7, Matthew Broderick at 60.

“The Revolutionists,” at City Repertory Theatre, Francois Couperin’s “Mysterious Barricades,” and winter’s last cool blast.

Flagler Reads Together’s “Hidden Figures” Movie Matinee, CRT’s “The Revolutionists,” Palm Coast Historical Society Speaker Series, Philip Roth, William Jennings Bryan.

Cornelius Baker’s likely final and most fateful sentencing, “The Revolutionists,” at City Repertory Theatre, John Calhoun, and a few reflections on John Updike on his 90th birth anniversary.

The Garden Club at Palm Coast’s Treasures in the Attic Rummage Sale, Nat King Cole, Bayard Rustin, Bret Stephens on how World War III begins.

Palm Coast’s Reilly Opelka goes up against Nadal at Indian Wells today, the Palm Coast Planning Board and Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee handle new, big developments, today is Black Press Day.

The Palm Coast City Council meets and will hear about its financial health, it’s Food Truck Tuesday in Palm Coast’s Central Park, and if you’re into oxymorons, it is Belarus Constitution Day.

The Bunnell City Commission sets up a charter review commission and considers handing over major crime investigations to the Sheriff’s Office for $120,000 a year, An NBC radio interview with Albert Einstein upon his naturalization as an American.

The Flagler Playhouse’s last performance of “Company,” a Clarence Darrow special, including Henry Fonda in the one-man performance of the David Rintels play directed by John Houseman.

The Strawberry Festival in Town Center is cancelled, weather will be an issue today ahead of a freezing front, remembering Mustafa Kamal Aataturk’s role in the Armenian genocide, DeSantis as Cesar, FRD’s first Fireside Chat.

The mercurial Joseph Bova is again in court on a hoped-for plea, ending his nearly decade-long murder case, Sondheim at the Flagler Playhouse, Christopher Hitchens.

Ex-Deputy Dedorius Varnes’s sentencing, Jane Mealy and James Sherman take the oath on the Flagler Beach City Commission, which then hears decides whether to keep its lease going with Ocean Palms Golf Club, “Osborne’s Revenge.”

La Darrien McCaskill’s sentencing in the 2018 and 2019 Palm Coast robberies involving six assailants, the Northeast Florida Regional Council’s Affordable Housing Workshop for Flagler County, Schubert’s 13th sonata.

Election Day in Flagler Beach and Bunnell, the Palm Coast City Council reckons with a grim evaluation from residents about its own behavior, the St. Johns River Water Management District board meets, as does the Flagler County Planning Board, with a look at Russian oil exports and know-nothings who think they know it all.

The Flagler County Commission talks federal stimulus dollars without giving credit to the source, the Beverly Beach commission meets, Piet Mondrian’s 150th birth anniversary, Princeton’s dullness.

Remembering the Dred Scott decision’s atrocity, “Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, is staged by Flagler Playhouse, Poe’s macabre toothy grin in “Berenice,” the so-called “Fall of the Alamo.”

A closer look at DeSantis bullying students for wearing masks, Stephen Sondheim at the Flagler Playhouse, The First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Dostoevsky on brutifying human beings.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Stephen Sondheim at the Flagler Playhouse, The 13th Paralympics Games open in (sigh) Beijing, a few bad memories of Grover Cleveland, the chauvinism behind the Russia-Ukraine war.

Jack Petocz, a junior and student leader at Flagler Palm Coast High School, speaks at the Palm Coast Democratic Club, “Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, opens at the Flagler Playhouse, discriminating among refugees from Ukraine.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, “Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, is staged by Flagler Playhouse starting with a Community Night tonight, Colin Thubron on the fabrication of Uzbekistan.

A status hearing is scheduled in the case of Cornelius Baker, whose death sentence has been in a legal twilight zone for a few years, the School Board holds a workshop, the Palm Coast City Council discusses apartments, Russian writers assess the Russian character.

Six Appeal Vocal Band at the Flagler Auditorium, the Bunnell City Commission bids farewell to one police chief and welcomes the next, and talks of $1-an-hour raise to all employees, Montaigne, M*A*S*H and Barnes.

The Native American Festival at Princess Place, the Academy Awards, Ralph Nader’s birthday (George Bush’s happiest day), Steinbeck, mobs and oil prices.

The 7th Annual Native American Festival is at Princess Place Preserve, the assassination of Trayvon Martin 10 years later, Michael Cavanaugh at the Jacksonville Symphony, Victor Hugo.

Donald Trump is apparently siding with Vladimir Putin, Free For All Fridays on the invasion of Ukraine and what it may mean to Flagler, Anthony Burgess, and Voltaire on arbitrary justice.

The Flagler Beach City Commission considers permitting a neighboring tattoo business, the Philip Martin trial enters its final day, Wendell Berry on the making of morons, Rodney Dangerfield, and Estonians.