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Weather: Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. Lows in the upper 50s.
- 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:
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, $30 for adults, $15 for students, 3 p.m. Book here. Violet is a young disfigured woman on a transformative bus journey from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, seeking healing. Winner of Off Broadway’s most prestigious Best Musical award, this compelling narrative with great songs promises an unforgettable theatrical experience.
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In: The “Warbirds Over Flagler” fly-in at the Flagler Executive Airport is on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will offer thrilling flybys, historic aircraft displays, live music, and more. The event entrance is off Belle Terre (south of State Road 100) and Fin Way, which is the southeast entrance to the airport.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Conjunctions: Toward the end of David Copperfield, a despondent David reflects on the chance he missed when he did not declare his love to Agnes, daughter of the old Doctor (who has this to say about his Agnes, but that’s a whole other doctoral dissertation: “My love for my dear child was a diseased love, but my mind was all unhealthy then”). David says: “As I rode back in the lonely night, the wind going by me like a restless memory, I thought of this, and feared she was not happy. I was not happy; but, thus far, I had faithfully set the seal upon the Past, and, thinking of her, pointing upward, thought of her as pointing to that sky above me, where, in the mystery to come, I might yet love her with a love unknown on earth, and tell her what the strife had been within me when I loved her here.” Agnes, too, has blue eyes. Which brought to mind these three lines from the song Willie Nelson made famous in the 1975 Red Headed Stranger album:
Love is like a dying ember
And only memories remain
And through the ages I’ll remember
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Some day when we meet up yonder
We’ll stroll, hand in hand again
In a land that knows no parting
Blue eyes crying in the rain
—P.T.
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April 2025
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
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
For the full calendar, go here.
The widow gets her name by eating her lover, though this does not always happen. He distinguishes himself from ordinary prey by playing her web like a lyre. Sometimes she eats him without copulating: sometimes she snags him as he withdraws his palp from her genital pore. Sometimes he leaves unharmed after mating; in this case, he soon withers and dies on his own. I have witnessed male and female living in platonic relationships in one web. The males’ palps, still swollen with sperm, proved that these relationships had not been sexual.
–From Gordon Grice’s “The Black Widow,” High Plains Literary Review (defunct), anthologized in The Best American Essays 1996, ed. Geoffrey C. Ward.
Ed P says
1968 Planet of the Apes. George Taylor (Charlton Heston) and Nova ( Linda Harrison)
on horseback encountered the identical image of Lady Liberty. Re-enacted here 57 years later and yet she still stands today.
Wrong once again.
Pogo says
@A word
https://www.google.com/search?q=dictator
dic·ta·tor
/ˈdikˌtādər/
noun
noun: dictator; plural noun: dictators
1. a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
Similar: autocrat monocrat absolute ruler tyrant despot oppressor
+ (in ancient Rome) a chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency.
2. a person who behaves in an autocratic way.
“for some reason he’s being a dictator—saying this is the way we’re going to do it”
Origin
Old Floriduh: dick tater
Early voting is now (love is found, lost, born again — forever) bad politicians just get worse…
Do better
https://joshweil.us/
Pogo says
@Something more
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aristotle+forms+of+government
Sherry says
Time to watch “Planet of the Apes” again. How long before Manhattan and Miami are under water. . . maybe sooner than we realize! But, the Maga Lord and Master says “drill baby drill”! What ya gonna do?
Laurel says
It’s still puzzling to me that while we watch Trump, and his minions, tear this country apart, steal from the middle class and poor, to give themselves more money and power, and continue with his extortionist method of rule, continue selling bibles and basketball shoes, that anyone still supports him…and Musk. These two, along with Steven Miller, and other power hungry sycophants, are cruelly, very cruelly, treating our citizens, and others around the world. Do these maga supporters really, really believe that this is somehow going to benefit them? Do magas believe that sociopaths will share wealth with them? Give magas more freedoms? Give magas more rights? Do they continue with this gullibility, or are they finally learning?
Now, Pam Bondi is going after lawyers who contradict the current government. I am ashamed she is from Florida, along with Gaetz, Rubio, Scott, Fine and so many others who support this extortionist style of *governing.*
If this is you, who supports this behavior, Russia, not the U.S., is more your style.
By the way, I keep asking, but no one answers, if you are a maga, and a Christian, is “peace through power” what Jesus taught you? Did I misunderstand him? Please explain.
FlaPharmTech says
Laurel, MAGAS are in a cult. I cannot arrive at any other reason for their treason.
Ed P says
It’s seems as though the Democrats are not yet able to present a better path forward or a real leader. Because of this,
is it possible that instead of circling the wagons to buy time, the Democrats are circling the drain?
The democrats lost the working people of our country and now the youth is fleeing. The transparency of your failures and unwillingness to admit to problem issues like criminal illegal immigrants, fentanyl scourge, or men in women’s sports destroys your credibility.
No one is fooled.
Fear mongering won’t work either.
Laurel says
Ed P.: You are correct. The “Republicans” threw out ridiculous ideas and comments, and the Democrats focused on them while the “Republicans” pulled their intended stunts. Trump keeps saying the absolute dumbest stuff (one of his favorite shows is “Cats” when they sing “Cats” and Puerto Rico is “surrounded by big water”). Republicans, on the other hand, have become spineless sycophants that kowtow to the Emperor who wears no clothes. Democrats cannot get their shit together for a moment.
The way I see it is both parties are eroding, and it may be the end of the party system and the beginning of an authoritarian dictatorship. Completely anti Constitutional. This is NOT what our country has been based on from the beginning.
Also, please don’t confuse “fear mongering” with chaos that is currently present. The uncertainty of our current government, which is purposely so incompetent as to text out war plans on a public platform. Damn! The idiocy of it all is mind boggling.
Ed P says
Laurel,
Try to explain how the Dems could make changes better. Complaining for the sake of complaining is useless.
The post office just lost 9.5 billion and the Post master general step down. Last year they lost 6.5billion. What was the Dems plan? 12 billion this year?
How about Jasmine Crocket mocking Governor Abbot “hot wheels”? Anything?
Her wish to “take down Musk”
Curse words are the lefts’ “soup du jour”
Democrats supporting cities and states that are sanctuaries running interference for criminals from Ice? Should it be assumed illegals are more important than the citizenry?
Burning Teslas is insane.
No, the Republicans are not eroding. The ridiculous lunacy from the left is actually making the Trump administration look normal. Republican actions actually appear to be common sense primarily because of the lefts psychosis.
Sherry says
Right On Laurel!
Sherry says
OK. . . While the Statue of Liberty may “not yet” be literally underwater, her compassionate “Spirit ” has been dying for many years.
trump has metaphorically delivered her “death” by a DOGE chainsaw cutting off her head! No wonder the French would like to have their amazing iconic statue back.
Never forget her memorialized words:
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door”.
Laurel says
Ed P.:
I’m not a Democrat, but as much as I love cats, Democrats are like herding cats. Their spectrum of views are wide, and Pelosi held them together better. Democrats want to give everything away. Republicans want to take everything away. The key is balance. When Republicans say, prior to the 2016 election, that they would not agree to even 10% working with Democrats, that’s wrong. The Republicans lying, almost as frequently as much as Trump these days, is wrong too.
I like Jasmine Crockett, but it’s not my job to defend her. She’s on her own. When Trump mocked a reporter with palsy…anything?
Yeah, Musk can go. Why are you okay with him, a private citizen, and his un-vetted “bros” shuffling through your private data? Both you and Al have stated, one time or another, that you were businessmen with a lot of experience. So, when it was required to get rid of staff, did you just start slashing your staff without knowing who they were, what they did, or whether they were successful in their positions? I doubt it.
I don’t care about curse words one way or another. They’re not really very productive, except when used by George Carlin.
I lived in a “sanctuary city,” Lake Worth (nka the City of Lake Worth Beach), and had no problem with it. Nobody bothered me. Most of the Central Americans were a whole lot shorter than me (ha ha!). The immigrants were hard workers. You like to use the word “hyperbole” a lot, and the whole immigrant lie is a whole lot of hyperbole.
Burning Teslas is a bad idea. Gluing them back together may be a better idea.
The Republicans have eroded. The Republican Party is not the same party my husband, and his family, knew all their lives. Please do not tell me that the circus of incompetents show that is going on now is “common sense.” Republicans have a knack for changing the meaning of words, such as “entitlement,” “woke,” and the term “common sense.”
Let me add: What Fox Entertainment is doing to this country is a sin. Shame on them, and the folks who sit in front of their TVs all day listening to their toxic, treasonous bullshit (curse word). The fact that so many are comfortable with disinformation, and flat out lying is very disturbing. People willing to sell out our country for a dime and a job, most of which are meaningless these days, is not common sense. It’s selfishness beyond what should be considered normal.
Laurel says
Dang (better?), I forgot to mention the Post Office. The Post Office, like all Federal agencies, are not supposed to make a profit. There is much competition these days, starting with “you got mail” emails. I truly miss getting a hard copy letter from a friend; now I get bills and ads. I did, however, completely enjoy sending or receiving a letter shipped clear across country for $0.50!
Speaking of joy…it was Post Office General Louis DeJoy, appointed by Trump 1.0, who stepped down rather quickly. What, did he sprout a conscience or something?
Ed P says
Laurel,
I never advocated that the post office needed to be a profit center. But it should be able to be a break even agency. A first class stamp is now .73 cents. A 9.6 billion dollar loss is incredulous.
Ask yourself how UPS, DHL, FedX, and numerous regional mail and package carriers can be profitable with fleets of planes, semis, delivery trucks and employees.
The postal service fell behind the technology curve and allowed “businesses” to flourish. At one time, they USPS was the monopoly.
So do you still believe a government agency can’t be run like a business?
FedX net income 2024- 4.3 billion
Ups net income 2024- 5.8 billion
DHL net income 2024- 3.9 billion