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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. 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?).
- 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.
The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up starting at 9 a.m. in front of the Flagler Beach pier. All volunteers welcome.
Arbor Day in Palm Coast’s Central Park at Town Center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., free admission. The tree tent opens at 9 a.m. A Master Certified Arborist will be in the tree tent from 9 a.m.-noon, offering free guidance on proper pruning, placement, planting, and root-shaving techniques. To get a free tree, bring a non-perishable, non-expired human or pet food item to trade for the tree while quantities last! City of Palm Coast employees and volunteers will be available to assist with loading the trees into your vehicle. The native Monarch butterfly release will be at 11 a.m. Other fun activities are planned for all ages, including a butterfly tent, free arts and crafts, and goodie bags for the kids. There’ll be an Arbor Day photo contest. More details and events’ schedule here.
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.
RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre: Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. Tickets are $25 adults and $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com or by calling 386-585-9415. Tickets also will be available at the venue just before curtain time. Get ready for Shakespeare like you’ve never heard—or seen—before! RockabillieWillie mashes up scenes from The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, and Henry V with a jukebox of rockabilly hits. Musical numbers like “Willie and the Hand Jive,” “Love and Marriage,” and Buddy Holly’s “Oh Boy” are reimagined to playfully clash and complement Shakespearean drama. Adapted by John Sbordone, RockabillieWillie is dedicated to the proposition that “All’s well that ends.” Don’t miss this fun, fast-paced ride through the Bard’s greatest hits! See Rick de Yampert’s preview: “City Repertory Theatre Untames Shakespeare, Doo-Wop and R&B with “RockabillieWillie.”
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.
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone: Every first Saturday we invite new residents out to learn everything about Flagler County at Cornerstone Center, 608 E. Moody Blvd, Bunnell, 1 to 2:30 p.m. We have a great time going over dog friendly beaches and parks, local social clubs you can be a part of as well as local favorite restaurants.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Diary: A few days ago I got a text from my son Luka: “IM DONE WITH SCHOOL,” followed by 10 exclamation points. I’m not sure whether to sue UCF over that missing apostrophe or do penance for failing him in the one area I might’ve exerted an ink dot’s influence, though that’s not really the point. The point is that it feels like just a few days ago I was waving him goodbye as he was walking to the school bus, and now, after barely three years in college, he’s done. To his immense relief (he never took to school, whether at FPC of at UCF, though he was much better at it than I was at either stage). It’s not true that we can’t see the speed of light. We are the speed of light. We don’t see it because we’re living it, hurtling through time like space dust through dark matter, our being and nothingness made up of each day’s illusion that we can hold on to something. I’m not complaining, just observing. Immanence is an illusion. We’re all spectators to our brevity, the more so when we’ve had a life of joys amplified by our children (and now grandchild): every few days I see my grandson’s latest vaults skyward, these daily transformations that give the measure of the trillions of cells transfiguring him more convincingly than anything Peter James and John claim to have shadelessly seen. The happier the past, the quicker the future’s evanescence. It’s the present’s constant joke on us, that uncachable, unbottlable, unarrestable present. It’s not like it’s over: Luka’s done with college, not with us, just yet. It’s only another milestone (milestone for him, millstone for us, watching and applauding). Naturally enough, that light speed keeps getting us further and further away from it all. It’s the order of things. But I shouldn’t be darkening his achievement with my dark matter, though it’s one of our shticks. It’s almost over, I perversely tell him the second our vacations together begin. But still plenty of time for more of those joys that will make us mourn them all before long.
—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
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Pool Safety Day
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
SunBros Cafe Celebrates the Life of Travis Sundell
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
Television is our culture’s principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore—and this is the critical point—how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. As typography once dictated the style of conducting politics, religion, business, education, law and other important social matters, television now takes command. In courtrooms, classrooms, operating rooms, board rooms, churches and even airplanes, Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas; they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials. For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.”
–From Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1987).
Pogo says
@And so
Skibum says
Early this morning, Trump nominated U.S. District Judge Fernandez Rodriguez in Texas issued a ruling that permanently blocks Trump’s DOJ and Homeland Security from arbitrarily moving or deporting Venezuelans held in custody under the Alien Enemies Act in that very republican state where Trump believed he would get favorable and complicit endorsements from judges and courts for whatever he wanted to do. Surprise, diaper Donnie!
Angry beyond belief, the grown baby took to his social media rage machine to vent his outrage over being slapped down by one of his own judicial appointees, saying: “Can it be so that Judges aren’t allowing the USA to Deport Criminals, including Murderers, out of our Country and back to where they came from? If this is so, our Country, as we know it, is finished! Americans will have to get used to a very different, crime filled, LIFE. This is not what our Founders had in mind!!!”
In another screed on his social medial platform within the last 24 hours, the idiot in the WH posted a photo of himself in costume as, ready for this?… THE POPE!!! Yes, the man-child who is arguably the most un-Christian like, vulgar, totally opposite of Jesus and his teachings in the Bible persona standing there in the garments of the Pope… laughable if it weren’t so disgusting.
But back to the court’s ruling. No, diaper Donnie, what our nation’s founders certainly did NOT have in mind was that America would ever be faced with a president who is a convicted felon, who acts in total contravention to the U.S. Constitution, who yells about imprisoning his political rivals, who says he is OK with yanking American citizens off the streets who disagree with his decisions and decrees, sending those “criminals” to a foreign country to be locked away and deprived of their rights, who relishes ordering arrests, imprisonment and deportations of individuals without one scintilla of due process that is guaranteed to everyone who is on American soil, who imposes spurious sanctions and penalties against journalists and media who don’t favorably talk about him, who imposes severe restrictions and eliminates law firms and legal professionals the ability to represent those who are foes of this president’s unconstitutional acts, who has his DOJ order the arrest of judges who disagree with his policies and orders that lack due process for individuals, and a man who, despite having GOP control over both the Senate and HOR in Congress instead completely bypasses Congress and believes he has the power of a king or dictator to rule by decree and that his perceived “power” is above and beyond anything else to include Congressional actions and court orders. This is akin to what Hitler was like, what Putin and Kim Un Jong is like now, and why the occupier in the WH is so often described as an authoritarian dictator wanna-be. If he is not stopped by Congress, or the courts, it will eventually be up to the people to prevent the complete and total destruction of our country as shown in this very realistic future view cartoon image of what will be only rubble that once was America.
Sherry says
Thank you very much Skibum! Extremely well said! We have missed you!