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Weather: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Sunny, with a high near 84. Breezy. Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 72.
- 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 its new location on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, 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.
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, 11 a.m. at Cypress Knoll Golf Club, 53 Easthampton Blvd, Palm Coast. A monthly speaker is featured. Lunch is available for $20 in cash, $21 by credit card, but must be ordered in advance. The lunch menu is available on our website. Lunch may be ordered by sending an email to: [email protected].
Peps Art Walk, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday, Beachfront Grille, 2444 South Oceanshore Boulevard, Flagler Beach. Step into the magical vibes of Unique Handcrafted vendors gathering in one location, selling handmade goods. Makers, crafters, artists, of all kinds found here. From honey to baked goods, wooden surfboards, to painted surfboards, silverware jewelry to clothing, birdbaths to inked glass, beachy furniture to foot fashions, candles to soaps, air fresheners to home decor and SO much more! Peps Art Walk happens on the last Saturday of every month. A grassroots market that began in May of 2022 has grown steadily into an event with over 30 vendors and many loyal patrons. The event is free, food and drink on site, parking is free, and a raffle is held to raise money for local charity Whispering Meadows Ranch. Kid friendly, dog friendly, great music and good vibes. Come out to support our hometown artist community!
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.
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Flowers, bushes and hard to find plants. The event is sponsored by the Friends of Washington Oaks. Regular entrance fee applies: $4 per vehicle with one person aboard, $5 for vehicles with more than one person.
‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, 2 p.m. Tickets are $37.55 per person. Book here. Definitely “habit-forming”, this riotous show takes us through a fundraiser organized by the Little Sisters of Hoboken. They are trying to raise money to bury one of their sisters who was accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Originating as a line of greeting cards, Goggin expanded the concept into a full musical that became the second-longest off-Broadway run in history.
‘All Shook Up,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Box office: (386) 255-2431. Sept. 13, 19, 20, at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 14 and 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for youth, $30 for adults. Book here. It’s 1955, and into a square little town rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”
Notebook: On Sept. 5 the Times reported on a 2019 “mission” Trump approved that sent a group of Navy Seals, the same Team 6 of assassinating mercenaries who operate beyond the law, into North Korea to plant a spying device on the Korean leader Kim Jong-un ahead of talks he was to have with our own Jungian specimen of a president. The team flubbed it and killed three civilian pearl or oyster divers instead. “The aborted SEAL mission prompted a series of military reviews during Mr. Trump’s first term,” the Times reported. “They found that the killing of civilians was justified under the rules of engagement, and that the mission was undone by a collision of unfortunate occurrences that could not have been foreseen or avoided. The findings were classified.” Rules of engagement require forces to be under attack or to have to defend themselves before killing–in this case, murdering–a group of people whose purpose has not been determined, and ti react proportionately to the threat. There was no threat. The fishermen were not armed. They had no idea the Americans were there. One of them jumped into the water, spooking Team 6 members, who thought they were Korean seals. “North Korea did not make any public statements about the deaths, and U.S. officials said it was unclear whether the North Koreans ever pieced together what had happened and who was responsible.” I am thinking of the fishermen. I am thinking of the families ofm the fishermen, who probably had no idea what happened or why until the Times article, assuming its revelations have been shared in North Korea (probably not: the paranoid regime protects its embarrassment before worrying about its civilians.) The second part of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea begins with an expedition near Sri Lanka to an undersea cave where Captain Nemo has been cultivating a giant oyter and its gigantic pearl. This Team Six is surprised by the presence of a p[earl fisherman nearby. Jules Verne writes in the voice of Aronnax, one of the three characters Nemo saved then imprisoned at the beginning of the novel: “This diver didn’t see us. A shadow cast by our crag hid us from his view. And besides, how could this poor Indian ever have guessed that human beings, creatures like himself, were near him under the waters, eavesdropping on his movements, not missing a single detail of his fishing! So he went up and down several times. He gathered only about ten shellfish per dive, because he had to tear them from the banks where each clung with its tough mass of filaments. And how many of these oysters for which he risked his life would have no pearl in them!” I imagine the scene in Korean waters was not much different. Just more lethal. A threat emerges around Nemo and the Indian. A huge shark, which attacks the Indian. A capitalistic Nemo would have considered the attack fortuitous. The shark would eliminate a threat to his big pearl. Instead, Nemo attacks the shark to save the Indian, and hands the Indian a bag iof pearls. Aronnax is surprised. Nemo disabuses him: “That Indian, professor, lives in the land of the oppressed,” Nemo says, “and I am to this day, and will be until my last breath, a native of that same land!”
—P.T.
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October 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Founders’ Day
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse
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
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
“What about these savages?” Conseil asked me.
“With all due respect to master, they don’t strike me as very wicked!”
“They’re cannibals even so, my boy.”
“A person can be both a cannibal and a decent man,” Conseil replied, “just as a person can be both gluttonous and honorable. The one doesn’t exclude the other.”
“Fine, Conseil! And I agree that there are honorable cannibals who decently devour their prisoners. However, I’m opposed to being devoured, even in all decency, so I’ll keep on my guard, especially since the Nautilus’s commander seems to be taking no precautions. And now let’s get to work!” For two hours our fishing proceeded…
–From Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Dennis C Rathsam says
When a white man dies, folks gather for prayers, a candle light vigil, with flowers & ribbons around trees! When a black man dies, we have riots in the streets, cities & cars being burned, looting, car jackings & mugging. Seems to me, democrates need to look into the glass their breaking…. It’s not working
Skibum says
What a racist statement! A completely false statement as well, but I’m guessing it was intentionally designed to inflame, to incite, to anger… but all it did, Dennis, is enlighten and illuminate many of us into the depths of your extremist belief system. As if we didn’t already know, thanks for the reminder.
The dude says
C’mon Dennis… say the word out loud. You know you’re dying to…
Sherry says
Thank You Skibum! Some people are really becoming more and more toxic and really self destructive.
THE GEODE says
WHAT? You mean to tell me that I had the right to riot, burn cars, loot, carjack, and mug? Damn! When my dad and brother died, I didn’t get the memo. Hell, they didn’t even get the lowly folks praying, candlelight virgil and flowers and ribbons you whyte people have to suffer through. Black people die every day. Whyte people die every day. When you die, there’ll be no grand memories of you. I can tell by your writings that you are too angry and surly to have any friends. When I die, there’ll be no riots. No looting. Just here one day: gone the next. Don’t use the death of a junkie paint all of us with a broad brush…
Dennis C Rathsam says
False! Racist! Proove me wrong BUM…..Name one murdered white man, who lead to cities burning…. You can,t Truth hurts!
Skibum says
Prove you wrong, Dennis? Very easy… but you would have known not to utter such an ignorant falsehood had you been a better student, or at least a better Google searcher. I could point to many examples throughout America’s sordid history of racial violence against minorities and minority communities, but for this educational exercise all I have to name is the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
In that year, a black man was accused of assault a white woman in Tulsa, OK. Even though the accused attacker was arrested and being held in jail, a rabid mob of white men decided they were going to exact revenge on the entire black community. They planned on killing as many innocent people as possible, for no reason other than they knew that white men could legally get away with murdering black people without repercussions.
The angry mob surged into the predominately black Greenwood community in Tulsa, enacting violence, death and destruction for two days. In the end, 1,200 homes and businesses were burned to the ground in a 35 square block area in Tulsa, and up to 300 people, to include women and children, were viciously killed.
10,000 black citizens of Tulsa, OK were left homeless as a result of the riot by the white, racist mob, and the damage estimate amounted to more than 1.5 million dollars, a huge loss back in 1921.
Not a single white man has ever been held accountable for the massacre.
So, Dennis, your fairy tale, revisionist, white supremist version of American history is no better than toilet water. Throughout our history, minorities have been accused, rightly or wrongly, of crimes, including the murder, of white people. Have you never heard of all of the lynchings of black citizens by mobs of whites, who sometimes even stormed the jails and forcibly removed black people from police custody, took them out to a nearby tree, and unceremoniously hung them by their neck… just because they could.
So much for your fantasy of “folks gather for prayers, a candle light vigil, with flowers & ribbons around trees!”
Ray W. says
Hello Dennis C. Rathsam.
How about the burning of the Tulsa Black quarter by whites, a city within a city destroyed, in part, by white pilots dropping Molotov cocktails onto buildings in that quarter? The Black quarter was considered the wealthiest Black community in the United States at the time, largely because of oil wealth. None of the residents of the Black quarter had done anything wrong other than accumulate wealth through hard work.
You asked me to name one.
But I agree with you that the burning of the Black quarter wasn’t prompted by the murder of a white man to incite the violence. It took far less than the murder of a white man for a crowd of Tulsa white supremacists to destroy a city within a city and murder an untold number of innocent people.
For that matter, all it took for white supremacists to participate with many others of the disaffected among us in a violent attempt to overthrow a Constitutional form of government was for President Biden to beat Donald Trump fair and square in the 2020 national election.
It doesn’t require the murder of a white man to incite white supremacists to action. At Charlottesville, all it took was for protesters to show up in opposition to white supremacists for a member of that white supremacist movement to accelerate his car into a crowd, killing one and injuring many.
You, Dennis C. Rathsam, have to be one of the most easily duped commenters on this site. Almost every comment you post to the FlaglerLive community contains falsehoods or untruths, false equivalencies or outright lies.
Whether people burn cities after white men have been murdered is a side issue designed to inflame others; it has never been the main issue, and it is useless to argue that that is the main issue. The main issue is whether the disaffected among us are willing to kill others, regardless of the source of their disaffection or their motive. Somehow, more and more people are giving themselves permission to murder others.
When an elected Flagler County Republican politician took to the radio airwaves to ask listeners just when would it be time to begin beheading Democrats, did you openly oppose him? He was saying to anyone who was listening that it was well past time for the decapitation of Democrats. If you didn’t oppose him at that moment on this very serious issue, you are part of the problem.
We are still early in an initial wave of political violence that threatens to drown us all. No one political party is pure and clean on this issue.
When our governor told a rally audience that, if elected president, he would begin day one in office in Washington by “slitting throats”, did you oppose our governor when you learned that he had said that? If you didn’t oppose him at that moment on this very serious issue, you are part of the problem.
I am thankful see in Ed P.’s comments his effort to turn down the violent rhetoric on the FlaglerLive site. He is trying to do the opposite of what you are trying to do.
James Madison thought anyone who put partisan goals above the needs of the nation pestilential. Such people were, to him, the greatest danger to his constitutional experiment. Our founding fathers knew that people like you would always walk among us all, that people like you would always be a danger to us all.
I do not advocate for Democratic goals. I oppose the vengeful among us. I oppose those who seek retribution. I oppose those who wish to decapitate anyone, either by slitting throats or by beheading. I oppose liars. I oppose lie launderers. I oppose those who put party before country. You should oppose those things, too.
Skibum says
In another historical example of a white man going berzerk and murdering people after becoming radicalized when other white people were previously killed, I give you Timothy McVeigh.
McVeigh, who will forever be remembered a a domestic terrorist for bombing the federal building in Oklahoma City, was obsessed over both the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident and the 1993 Waco siege where several white extremists were killed in total as federal officers attempted to take wanted suspects into custody.
McVeigh didn’t go have a prayer vigil for them, he didn’t light candles in their memory, no flowers and ribbons around nearby trees. No, he assembled a powerful bomb containing highly explosive fertilizer compound, put it in a rental truck, and blew it up in front of the federal building in downtown Oklahoma City one morning, killing 169 innocent people.
Maybe he just missed the memo that, as a privileged white man, the proper response should have been a prayer vigil, candle lighting ceremony or laying flowers and ribbons around trees, huh? After all, according to your revisionist history, Dennis, white people do no such thing as targeting other people when a white person is killed, right? Right? Never seen or heard about that before, Dennis?
Maybe it’s time to get yourself educated. Not all white people are saints. Not all black people are violent. There is both good and evil in all races, all nationalities, all ethnicities. But when you try to pigeonhole a certain race as being “the ones” who foment violence, and say that Caucasians don’t do any of that, it just makes you appear to be ignorant, uninformed, uneducated. You may want to go fix that so you are able to show us that you aren’t that at all.
Then we could have intelligent conversations.