Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Breezy, with a southeast wind 6 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Southeast wind around 8 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:
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. Today: House Rep. Sam Greco. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. The meetings are open to the public.
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre,160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, $30 for adults, $15 for students, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 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.
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month.
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: The Compass Hotel downtown Flagler Beach is progressing toward its opening later this spring or in early summer. It’s already remade the cityscape. It’s also remaking the scape beneath the city, in its corner. I was curious about that cavity in front of the hotel (“in front” is an odd term when applied to the structure: there is no real front, though one will eventually be designated as such). A swimming pool? A bocce ball court? A sub-level workout room for geezers? No, a retention pond built beneath what will be the hotel’s parking lot. The cavity will be filled by rocks, someone told me, allowing water to course through. Not quite, Commissioner Rick Belhumeur told me. It’ll be more like “something that looks like milk crates,” creating a water-containment area beneath the parking lot. It’s an interesting concept. I’m just not sure how well it will work in a barrier island increasingly prone to looking like a character out of a Karen Russell story (I have in mind the story where Florida is reduced to a few Venice-like spots of land).
—P.T.
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May 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
“Once on This Island,” At Limelight Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
West of the Tracks: A Story of the Past Before Palm Coast
Fire Station 26 Grand Opening and Hose Uncoupling Ceremony
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
“Once on This Island,” At Limelight Theatre
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
For the full calendar, go here.
I mentioned my brother Kevin, and how he’d had his own illuminations and epiphanies, despite the much darker prognosis. We talked about trees, and how cancer had opened our eyes to the power of trees, as it had to so much else. And that while we would never wish the curse on anyone, we would wish on everyone the way cancer had cleansed our eyes and deepened our gratitude and altered our perception of time.
–From Neil King’s American Ramble (2023).
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