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Weather: A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the evening. Locally heavy rainfall possible in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 70 percent. Friday: Partly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
- 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:
In Court: Tyrese Patterson Sentencing: Tyrese Patterson, who pleaded to a count of second degree murder and two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, is scheduled to be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Courthouse by Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. Patterson was charged in the killing of Noah Smith, 16, in 2022. He faces a minimum mandatory 25 years in prison, but could be sentenced to up to 50 years in prison. See: “On Eve of Trial, Tyrese Patterson Pleads to Murdering Noah Smith, 16, and Faces Up to 50 Years in Prison” and “Admitting to Role in Killing Him, Tyrese Patterson Called 16-Year-Old Noah Smith His ‘Dog’ and ‘Best Friend’.“
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. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. Join a Ranger the First Friday of every month for a garden walk. Learn about the history of Washington Oaks while exploring the formal gardens. The walk is approximately one hour. No registration required. Walk included with park entry fee. Participants meet in the Garden parking lot. The event is free with paid admission fee to the state park: $5 per vehicle. (Limit 2-8 people per vehicle) $4 per single-occupant vehicle. Call (386) 446-6783 for more information or by email: [email protected].
First Friday in Flagler Beach, the monthly festival of music, food and leisure, is scheduled for this evening at Downtown’s Veterans Park, 105 South 2nd Street, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is overseen by the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and run by Laverne M. Shank Jr. and Surf 97.3
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, 7:30 p.m. except Sundays at 2 p.m. There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When a stripper on the run comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic and her husband, a storm brews. Directed by: Ashley King and Melissa Cargile.
Free Family Art Night: “Textured Turtles”, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, 78 East Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach. All art supplies are provided. No art experience is needed, and all ages are welcome. Free Family Art Night is a popular, monthly program typically scheduled on the first Friday of each month to coordinate with the free, family-friendly movie shown outdoors at Rockefeller Gardens. The two programs offer a stimulating evening for families, at no charge, in the heart of downtown Ormond Beach. Our art program takes place in the OMAM Classroom, rain or shine, but the City’s outdoor movies are weather dependent. Movie information can be found here or call The Casements at 386-676-3216.
Notably: In case you haven’t been over the bridge to Flagler Beach lately, that’s what the new Margaritaville Hotel looks like at this point. It could pass for Flagler Beach’s campus of the University of North Carolina. We could always dream. (Truth be told: between a college campus and a hotel, I’d take the campus every time. Why didn’t the city think of that? Let’s hope the hotel will console us with a good restaurant and a bar that doesn’t serve Bud Lite, Miller and Michelob, that other Closing of the American Mind.) You can tell from this angle that almost-fourth floor that wasn’t supposed to be there, that city planners let slip by somehow, and that led the city commission to rewrite its code to make absolutely sure this time that this offense against the heavens will not be repeated again. The Flagler Fish Company’s expansion is not expected to garner as much attention, but if it’s fine dining you’re looking for, you don’t have to wait.
—P.T.
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May 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Pool Safety Day
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
SunBros Cafe Celebrates the Life of Travis Sundell
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
Fernando was a man who waited for silence and his hour. Once getting possession of the conversation he never let it go, but held it in the long, soothing ecstasy of a pliable embrace. All day long he lay in bed in his room in Fuencarral with the shutters closed, recovering from the bout of the day before. He was preparing himself to appear in the evening, spruce, grey-haired and meaty under the deep black crescents of his eyebrows, his cheeks ripening like plums as the evening advanced, his blue eyes, which got bloodshot early, becoming mistier. He was a man who ripened and moistened. He talked his way through dinner into the night, his voice loosening, his eyes misting, his walk becoming slower and stealthier, acting every sentence, as if he were swaying through the exalted phase of inebriation. But it was an inebriation purely verbal; an exaltation of dramatic moments, refinements upon situations; and hour after hour passed until the dawn found him sodden in his own anecdotes, like a fruit in rum.
–From VS Pritchett’s “The Evils of Spain,” in Complete Collected Stories.
Ray W. says
Aaaaah, the many joys to be found in anecdotal expansiveness!
Thank you, Mr. Tristam.
Ray W. says
With Fed Chairman Powell virtually promising a lending rate cut after the September meeting of seventeen economists drawn from the central bank and its many regional banks, today’s Department of Labor jobs added report adds additional evidence that the jobs market is cooling, which is the sort of evidence Fed leaders are looking for.
Per USA Today, the preliminary jobs added report has the unemployment rate dropping in August to 4.2%, down from July’s 4.3%. Jobs added came in at 142k.
Due to the gathering of additional data, the jobs added figure for July dropped from the original estimated 114k to 89k, and June’s jobs added number fell from 179k to 118k.
Since a steadily increasing population base of roughly 3 million per year requires additional jobs just to stay even with growth, some economists argue that we need between 120k and 130k new jobs each month just to keep pace.
The reporter theorized from statements by “some economists” that “[t]he report, along with the downward revisions, may prompt the Federal Reserve to lower its key interest rate more sharply at a meeting later this month. …”
Make of this what you will. Me? Various Fed officials have openly stated that they are waiting for strong evidence that the job marketplace is consistently weakening before cutting lending rates. It looks like we are exactly where Fed officials want us to be. Will the virtually promised lending rate cut be only 25 basis points or a more robust 50 basis points? All will soon know.
Laurel says
Just as long as we can hang on to the “African American and Hispanic American jobs” that some are so concerned about.
Foresee says
Trump can part the seas because he says he can. Believe him because he says so, just have faith in his words and it will be done. He has straight connections to you know who.
Laurel says
Yeah, some pointy tailed dude.