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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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March 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
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?