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Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 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 Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, $35. When wealthy widow, Mrs. Tottenham, hosts the wedding of the year, she gets a lot more than a write-up in the society pages. This magical piece of meta-theatre and playful, heartfelt parody of the 1920s musical comedy features a chirpy jazz age score by Tony-winning collaborators. Book here.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
Notably: Pretty astounding how blatantly racist a newspaper like the Wall Street Journal can still be in 2024, in its headlines no less. Some 13 months ago the Journal published an opinion piece titled “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital.” Dearborn is the city with the largest concentration of Arab-Americans in the country. It is also home to the Arab Amwerican National Museum, which opened in 2005, when the same Journal wrote a wonderful feature about it: “Dearborn provides an apt venue for the new institution. Drawn by work in the infant auto industry, immigrants from Syria and what is now Lebanon came to the area beginning in the early 1900s. The working-class Detroit suburb became both an Ellis Island annex for Arab immigrants and a place where some families decided to settle. Today, 30% of Dearborn’s 100,000 residents are of Arab descent, giving it the highest such concentration of any place in the country. With its excellent Arab restaurants and bakeries, bustling strip malls, and numerous mosques, Dearborn offers a living, breathing extension of the museum.” Dearborn does have a racist history, but it ended with Henry Ford, one of the great bigots of the industrial age, and still a hero to too many: you don’t see his name removed from the hood of cars, do you? Yet in Dearborne Ford’s anti-Semitism ruled. He published the Dearborne Independent, chronicling alleged Jewish influence in American life, and he published The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Now we have the Journal blithely applying the same fabrications on an entire city because some of its residents protested the genocide in Gaza. If it were the Jihad capital of the United States, shouldn’t it be invaded? Razed? Gazafied? Ford thrived during the Red Scare. The Red Scare is thriving again.
—P.T.
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April 2025
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
In Court: Michael Jennelle Sentencing
In Court: Jayden Jackson Sentencing
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Brian London
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
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I watch footage of people bringing their kids to a party of sorts. Only it’s not a party, it’s a blockade. The people are here to stop aid trucks from entering Gaza. But the atmosphere is festive. Someone on the other side of these walls is going to starve to death or be operated on without proper medical equipment because this aid won’t pass, but there is something festive here. Ten years earlier, when I watch footage of settlers with folding chairs up on the hillside, viewing the bombing of Gaza as one would view a summer blockbuster, again there is a celebratory air. I am reminded of what the actor Helen Mirren said of her time in Israel in 1967: “I saw Arabs being thrown out of their | houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.” And then I watch former vice president Mike Pence write messages of support on the side of bombs. He smiles as he does this, as he commits his name and whatever exists of his conscience to the machinery of wholesale murder. The people around him smile. They take pictures. Again, there is about the grotesquerie a current of catharsis, a lightness akin to the freeing of a pants button after a heavy meal, making peace with insatiable appetite.
–From Omar Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will have Always Been Against This (2025).
Pogo says
@Does anyone remember
… who didn’t vote (their own words); who cast a nonsense protest vote; who voted for trump as a lesser evil?
The entire planet
https://www.google.com/search?q=end+of+usaid+effect
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
― Mark Twain
Batman says
FYI Ed P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark
Very Sincerely yours,
The Caped Crusader of Gotham.
Ed P says
Pogo,
So by default are you suggesting Harris would have been better?
James says
Haha… very funny Batman.
But you know, your jest might encourage him to sign yet another executive order.
Perhaps one can tolerate his renaming of the body of water formally known as the Gulf of Mexico, but changing the name “great white shark” to “Trump shark?”
Never.
Pogo says
@ed p
Sell stupid to someone else.
maga
https://www.google.com/search?q=scared+ketchup
Kennan says
OK, now we are in my field to play. At the risk of yet again spoon feeding fax to babies in hopes of better understanding?
Conflation has been a tactical weapon. Israel has used for decades to create the illusion that Arabs/Palestinians or terrorists. Plain and simple. Israel and Jewish lobbies here at home, have double down on these lies to justify the genocide you see in Gaza today.
Let’s be honest this is an American problem that exposes its greed as well as it’s race racism in regards to the Middle East.
The Biden administration support for the murder of Gozen with American tax dollars to bolster both the annual $4 billion for Israel just to be Israel, as well as an added 40 billion or so, in weapons to better destroy Gaza. Kill women, children, journalists, hospital workers, UN workers and block humanitarian aid to better facilitate the starvation of the live Palestinians in the wake of the over 100,000 already dead. those above and under rubble. 60,000,000 tons of it. Understand this is all done while the US representatives at the UN say they want a cease-fire while voting “NO” seven times over 16 months since October 7, 2023. Several billion dollars in weapons being gifted to Israel to continue this.” public holocaust”. The most well documented live streamed holocaust ever. The Nazis tried to hide theirs.
The large Arab population of Dearborn, Michigan let it be known that they were not interested in supporting an administration that supported a genocide. The.”NO VOTE “ movement was now in full swing going into the 2024 election.
The inability for Kamala Harris to both distance herself from Biden‘s Middle East policy was both cowardice and lazy. If nothing else, it had a very decided and negative effect on her popularity, not to mention the fact she had no real policy of her own besides yeah “ what he said” in terms of writing Biden‘s horse.
Will Trump be worse than Harris? Probably. Yes. Is that what we deserve? Maybe. This speaks to all of this being an.” American problem.” The left needs to stop focusing on the right, and the right needs to stop blaming the left to fool their base to initiate autocratic shitty policies.
The US has blindly supported Israel for seven decades with the displacement of 1 million Palestinians to ring in the birth of Israel. A displacement campaign immediately after a holocaust that killed 6 million Jews in World War II. 19 years after the forced acquisition of lands previously known as.” Palestine.” The occupation of the Gaza strip begins in 1967. This is merely a sliver of events that have landed on Palestinians over the last 77 years.(over 100 years if you count Zion this movement at the turn of the 20th century.)
These are the basic facts that allude so many due to a dedicated conflation campaign by the corporate press and Jewish lobbies to frame Palestinians and Hamas in the same breath. A multifaceted attempt to marinate the public in pro Israel sentiment. The holocaust is often used as a wedge point to garner sympathy With non-contextual hyper victimization by Israel and the modern day “NAZI” leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
In closing, I can only say the profound failure of the two party system has done nothing but divide. It has broken the scale of justice like a seesaw in a wind storm, and is sucking away our humanity like a tornado. Congratulations Prime Minister Netanyahu. You get to kill at your whim, Use America to do it, and if we question it then we are antisemites.
Voting is a privilege, but it is a privilege. I did not partake in because my conscience would not allow me to vote for either candidate. One(TRUMP) was a dictator in training. The other(HARRIS) a” lock Stepper” with no courage and no policy outside the general status quo. A candidate that turned her back on the global community because she was too afraid to go against very powerful Jewish lobbies that happened to think killing was cool.
Skibum says
Some people have suggested that the orange-faced buffoon in the WH envisions himself as emperor instead of president. I disagree, because he would have difficulty just trying to spell that with so, so many letters. No, King is what he wants to be… he can manage that word… K… I… N… G! (Cue the trumpets) In between his long hours of nearly daily golf interludes, he has time to ponder one of life’s most perplexing mysteries (usually when wide awake at 3 am), and that is why he can readily fart out of his rear end to his endless delight, but only more and more voluminous poop flows from his mouth when he opens it to spout more kingly edicts. He wants to reinforce the full measure of his poop edicts so he commands his little hand that is holding his Sharpie to scribble indecipherable markings that appears to be what a seismometer gone wild would draw, then holds the latest poop edit on parchment high above his head while his adoring assembled sheeple nod and clap approvingly, then prostate themselves further down onto the poop laden earth beneath their feet. Finally… America has become GREAT once again!