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Weather: Sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Friday Night: Mostly clear. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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- 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: State Attorney RJ Larizza, Sheriff Rick Staly and Family Life Center Director Trish Giaccone talk safety in Flagler County. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
The Dallas String Quartet at the Fitz, 7 p.m. at the Flagler Auditorium/Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. Tickets are $54 to $64. Book here. Dallas String Quartet, also referred to as DSQ or DSQ Electric, is a #2 Billboard charting American Classical Crossover ensemble founded in 2007 by composer and violist Ion Zanca. A fusion of contemporary classical and pop music, DSQ is referred to as “Bach meets Bon Jovi” and is compared to artists like Lindsey Stirling, Vitamin String Quartet, Brooklyn Duo and 2Cellos. They use both traditional and electric strings performing as a quartet with the full accompaniment of drums and guitar. The group is known for their eclectic renditions of everything from Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” to Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” to their collaboration, “You Are The Reason,” with The Piano Guys. DSQ has performed for Presidents Obama and Bush, with superstars like Ed Sheeran, Luke Combs and Ashley McBryde, at the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM Awards), for NBA and NFL organizations and their cover of Katy Perry’s “Firework” was featured on the most recent season of American Idol.
4-H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale: The Flagler County Fair and Youth Show presents the 4-H and FFA Youth Livestock Showmanship competitions and auction. Monday April 7 @ 6 pm Pullet and Rabbit Competition Wednesday April 9 at 6 p.m., Steer, Heifer and Goat Competition. Thursday April 10 at 6 p.m., Swine Competition. Friday April 11 at 6 p.m., Livestock Auction.
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.
‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, with a Tuesday, April 15 performance at 7:30 p.m. Oh the story of the impoverished Dashwood family! Based on Jane Austen’s novel, this play follows Elinor and Marianne who become destitute upon the death of their father, who leaves his estate to their half-brother, John. Due to his wife’s interference, they must survive on a meager allowance.
Storytime: They call it billionaires’ row, a stretch of skinny skyscrapers along 57th Street along the south edge of Central Park, each apartment worth millions–a penthouse just went on sale for $110 million–some of them built more shoddily than others. Their consierges, or superintendents, must themselves be millionaires, tending to that nouveaux-riche class that rose, like the towers, with the speed and substanceless of the stock market since the Reagan years. Chester Coolidge–his last name can’t possibly be chance–is not a millionaire. He is the quietly heroic, slightly vain superintendent at the center of Cheever’s 1952 story who gets depressed when he’s mistaken for the janitor as he manages a 12-story building on Manhattan’s East Side, facing the Queensboro Bridge and the East River–not necessarily the wealthy East Side we know today. Turtle Bay, the site of the United Nations, had been home to slaughterhouses and industry. But Coolidge’s building posh enough, at least to his tenants: “Watching his self-important tenants walk through the lobby, he sometimes thought that they were a species of the poor. They were poor in space, poor in light, poor in quiet, poor in repose, and poor in the atmosphere of privacy–poor in everything that makes a man’s home his castle. He knew the pains they took to overcome these deficiencies.” Cheever was writing The Bonfire of the Vanities 35 years before Tom Wolfe. A driving tension in the story, which takes place on a single day–moving day–is the departure of the Bestwicks, whose falling fortunes are expelling them from the neighborhood, and the move up into their more expensive apartment by the insufferable new-monied Neguses. Classes in our mythical classless society are trading places. Mrs. Bestwick is moving to an apartment in Pelham in the Bronx. She is having a hard time letting go. The cheap, unreliable moving company she hired is upsetting Chester’s schedule and delaying Mrs. Negus’s move. Mrs. Negus calls Mrs. Bestwick a bitch behind her back. Cheever was writing a few stories like that at the time, “The Enormous Radio” his most famous from the period–the story of a woman whose radio set starts picking up all the errant conversations and conflicts and scabrous plots from different apartments in her building. Here Chester is the radio, picking up scraps of lives as he drops in and out of apartments to take care of problems, like the “grass widow” in 7-F who treats him like dirt and complains about the uncleanliness of a back hallway (I did not know the term “grass widow” until this story: a person–a woman at the time–whose spouse is absent most of the time), or glimpsing Katie the maid from one of the apartments, who has taken on the appearances of her employer (as is so often the case), getting upset with a passerby for feeding the pigeons she spends $9 a month feeding. It’s an overcast day, further depressing Chester. His wife, whom he loves, bucks him up, tells him how the hundred thousand gallons of fuel the furnace burnt through the previous month should tell him what an important enterprise he’s running. He tries to convince himself that his building is more complex than the ship he sees sailing on the East River: “Compared to his own domain, Chester thought, a ship was nothing. At his feet, there were thousands of arteries hammering with steam; there were hundreds of toilets, miles of drainpipe, and a passenger list of over a hundred people, any one of whom might at that minute be contemplating suicide, theft, arson, or mayhem. It was a huge responsibility, and Chester thought with commiseration of the relatively paltry responsibilities of a ship’s captain taking his freighter out to sea.” We all superintend our lives with this kind of gentle, harmless delusion, making ourselves believe we matter more than those brainless pigeons on the Queensboro Bridge. The day’s lacking kindnesses makes it a failure. Chester looks to the sky for an explanation, “as if he expected an answer to be written in vapor.” He gets none. He walks back into his building.
—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
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Murder at Shivering Timbers Murder Mystery Dinner Show Fundraiser
RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre
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
Al-Anon Family Groups
RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
What Katie had said about the sky was true. The clouds were passing, and Chester noticed the light in the sky. The days were getting longer. The light seemed delayed. Chester went out from under the canopy to see it. He clasped his hands behind his back and stared outward and upward. He had been taught, as a child, to think of the clouds as disguising the City of God, and the low clouds still excited in him the curiosity of a child who thought that he was looking off to where the saints and the prophets lived. But it was more than the liturgical habits of thought that he retained from his pious childhood. The day had failed to have any meaning, and the sky seemed to promise a literal explanation. Why had it failed? Why was it unrewarding? Why did Bronco and the Bestwicks and the Neguses and the grass widow in 7-F and Katie Shay and the stranger add up to nothing? Was it because the Bestwicks and the Neguses and Chester and Bronco had been unable to help one another; because the old maid had not let the stranger help her feed the birds? Was that it? Chester asked, looking at the blue air as if he expected an answer to be written in vapor. But the sky told him only that it was a long day at the end of winter, that it was late and time to go in.
–From John Cheever’s “The Superintendent” (1952).
Dennis C Rathsam says
TRUMP has the balls to stand up the world on trariffs. Obama didnt, Biden didnt either! We were getting ripped off by everyone, now the shoe is on the other foot. Manufacturing, is key. Look at all the people in the industrial field looking to invest in America! Look at all the countries ( about 75 ) that have called to make a deal, with TRUMP….He,s dumb like a fox. TRUMP will lead the USA into the greatest prosperity America has ever seen. I cant wait to see, MADE IN THE USA.on products aroung the world. The way it was when I was a kid. TVs that lasted 10 years, Washers & dryers that didnt fall apart after the 1 year warranty. Shirts that fit, pants that fit. Shoes, not made out of plastics….We were once a great country, a proud country. One for all!!! ALL for one. TRUMP will bring us back from the dispear the democrats tried to create. We were so close to losing, everything we held near & dear to us was fading away. Lies were told in stead of truth, cover ups were installed to fool the public. Thank god my fellow patriots, saw the light, they saw thier freedoms going to DEI. TRUMP WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! TRUMP will fight to keep us all safe.GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!! AND GOD BLESS DONALD J TRUMP!
Local says
Ñot one bit of disgust for China making these phones with sweat shops and prison labor with no safety standards . Slave labor still exists there also… And we’re worried about a price of an iPhone….smh!
Pogo says
@Eureka — the light dawns
… trump believers see eye to eye with the devil, and tell of God speaking to them.
And so it goes.
Sherry says
@local. . . sooooo, why no outrage regarding those sweatshop conditions for “everything” built in China for the last 30+ years before now? You’re sounding just so “Woke”.
James says
So far 2025 is definitely turning out to be a traders market…
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/apr/10/us-stocks-shake-while-the-value-of-the-us-dollar-a/
… bull or bear, they live on/for the volatility.
Just an observation.
Ray W, says
The Street has its own take on the roiling of the American T-bill markets, headlined “Bond, dollar rout spark concerns of safe-haven status of U.S. markets.”
Here are some bullet points from the article:
– “Benchmark 10-year note yields were last marked at 4.153%, 52 basis points higher than last Friday – and 15 basis points higher than when Trump announced his 90-day ‘tariff pause’ on Wednesday, a decision seen as dictated by the extreme selling in Treasuries.”
– “Longer-dated 30-year bonds, meanwhile, were last marked at 4.926%, a level that is an eye-watering 53 basis points higher than last Friday’s close and pegs the longest debt of the world’s biggest economy at 70 basis points premium to similar paper issued by Greece.”
– “Global investors, in fact, have dumped $6.5 trillion in U.S. stocks over the past week, according to data from Bank of America’s ‘Flow Show’ report, while long-dated Treasury bonds suffered their biggest weekly increase since the early 1980s as investors shunned the paper in favor of European debt and cash alternatives.”
– Since the beginning of the year, the U.S. dollar index has dropped some 8.8% “against a basket of its global peers.”
– Evelyn Partner’s chief asset management officer, Edward Park, said:
“Arguably the main reason why Donald Trump reversed course over the enhanced is the increased funding cost for the substantial US debt burden. … As we saw in the UK during and after the Liz Trust mini-budget crisis, the rising cost of long-term debt can quickly have political consequences. … Despite the reversal of the enhanced tariffs, the 30-year US government funding costs remain very high, this suggests that global investors now require a higher yield to compensate them for the severe uncertainty created over the last week.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Once again, I am nothing more than a curious student. But when I read about the dollar falling against a “basket” of foreign currencies and when I learn that American T-bills require a premium of 70 basis points over similar Greek long-term notes, even I can see that something is wrong with the story put out by the professional lying class of one of our two political parties that this was Trump’s plan all along and that he is playing chess when others are playing checkers.
Back to the story.
– On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Bessent said:
“We will end up in a place with great certainty over the next 90 days on tariffs. … But we have very good inflation numbers today. Oil is down. We had a successful bond market (auction). So I don’t see anything unusual today.”
“UBS economist Paul Donovan, however, was less than impressed by Bessent’s sanguine assessment.
“‘The 30-year Treasury yield experienced the biggest increase since 1982, equities are falling, the dollar is falling and gold hit an all-time high,’ he said in a not published Friday. ‘Economists might consider this pattern not entirely usual.’
“He also argued that current administration policies, including deficit-financed tax cuts that will add $5.7 trillion to the nation’s books over the next ten years, are likely to heap further pressure on the safe haven status of U.S. assets.”
Ray W, says
“enhanced tariffs”
My apologies.
Laurel says
We have handed our country, our assets, our livelihood, our nest eggs, our economy, our sanctity, our freedom over to a ten year old spoiled brat.
What could go wrong?
Sherry says
Great comment Laurel! I would add that millions have also handed their morals, brains and souls over to that 10 year old spoiled brat.
Ed P says
Just an observation. What choice did voters “really” have?
Forget the Biden policy’s debate. But remember her cover up of the decline.
Have you followed her journey since leaving office?
Given just the border situation and the government waste/fraud exposed, does anyone believe Harris was going to be the answer?
The Dems/ media are to blame for keeping Joe too long and then not running an open primary to pick the “best” candidate for President. It is not actually the voters fault.
Laurel says
“They’re eating the dogs.
They’re eating the cats.
They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
Yeah, it’s the voters’ fault.