Weather: A chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Saturday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 2am, then a chance of showers after 2am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- 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.
Pirates Hunting Sunken Treasure: How a Florida Shipwreck Sparked the Golden Age of Piracy, a free Palm Coast Historical Society lecture, 10 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The golden age of piracy—the time when notorious cutthroats like Blackbeard, Sam Bellamy, and Bartholomew Roberts sailed—began in Florida with a shipwreck. Caught by a hurricane, the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet sank in the Florida Straits. When a salvage operation began, British pirates from Jamaica swooped in and robbed the Spanish on the beach. This program examines the wave of piracy that followed and how it provided inspiration for countless works of fiction and shaped modern days ideas of pirates.
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, 124 North Florida Avenue, DeLand, Thursday, Friday and Saturday a 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets: Preferred $37 (Row A-F, Orchestra & CC-DD Center Balcony), Adult $32 – Senior $28, Student/Child $12. A $5.00 per ticket Processing charge is added to all purchases. Book here. Prepare for a dark journey through the sinister streets of Victorian London with Sweeney Todd. Follow the vengeful barber as he seeks justice, aided by the cunning Mrs. Lovett and her rather… unique meat-pie business. Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece weaves a twisted tale of love, revenge, and morality, brought to life by hauntingly beautiful music. Equal parts chilling and captivating, Sweeney Todd will leave you spellbound—and maybe a bit wary of your next shave…
‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m., 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. Celebrate CRT’s 15th season with the Tony Award-winning hit Avenue Q! This laugh-out-loud musical blends puppetry, pop culture, and catchy songs to explore adulthood, love, and finding purpose. Don’t miss this unforgettable, irreverent journey through the ups and downs of post-college life—CRT-style. Tickets are $32.70 for adults, $17.17 for students (including ticketing fees). Book here.
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!
‘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.
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, 124 North Florida Avenue, DeLand, Thursday, Friday and Saturday a 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets: Preferred $37 (Row A-F, Orchestra & CC-DD Center Balcony), Adult $32 – Senior $28, Student/Child $12. A $5.00 per ticket Processing charge is added to all purchases. Book here. Prepare for a dark journey through the sinister streets of Victorian London with Sweeney Todd. Follow the vengeful barber as he seeks justice, aided by the cunning Mrs. Lovett and her rather… unique meat-pie business. Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece weaves a twisted tale of love, revenge, and morality, brought to life by hauntingly beautiful music. Equal parts chilling and captivating, Sweeney Todd will leave you spellbound—and maybe a bit wary of your next shave…
Copland’s Clarinet Concerto at the Jacksonville Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, 300 Water Street, Suite 200, Jacksonville. Tickets begin at $34. Book here. Experience the lyrical beauty and virtuosic flair of Copland’s jazz-infused Clarinet Concerto, performed by Principal Clarinet Giovanni Bertoni. Joel Thompson’s To See the Sky explores themes of resilience and hope, leading into the sweeping grandeur of Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, a triumphant work that captures the strength and spirit of humanity.
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.
Juxtapositions: In the early days of World War I, Andre Gide in his journal wrote one day of how the enthusiastic urgency of mobilization gave way to a funereal silence: “The bells fell silent; after the immense alarm spread throughout the country, there was only an oppressive silence. A fine rain fell at times.” The line struck me, when I read it a few days ago, for the way it reminded me of the end to Farewell to Arms, itself a bookend to World War I: “It was like saying goodbye to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.” There is zero connection, however, between this juxtaposition and the book excerpt below, from Charlie Sheen. Or the video below.
—P.T.
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December 2025
Holiday Plant Class Series
Holiday Sale to Benefit Area Homeless
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Flagler Beach All Stars Beach Clean-Up
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
John’s Towing 35-Year Celebration at Joan B. King Park
Flagler Beach Holiday at the Beach Parade
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast’s Starlight Parade in Town Center
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
For the full calendar, go here.
My diet leading up to the trip had been all over the place, and I noticed I was taking in more food than I was giving back. It was most likely a combination of all the stress and the crazy hours I was keeping, in addition to the testosterone cream I was still applying by the tube. It did its job as promised with the two girls I brought on the trip but was playing unfriendly games with my regular bathroom cycle. The trade-off between the two seemed fair at first—but after the third day, all fairness could go fuck itself when it came to a two, that mattered way too much. A couple hours later as the clock hit midnight, I was finally greeted with that lower-gut pain we all recognize as the first sign of oncoming freedom. I had been taking OTC laxatives for the past three nights, ignoring dosage guidelines that were about to exact revenge. My road babes (“the Goddesses”—dumbest label ever) were in the next room doing their shower rituals. I knew I had a window of roughly thirty minutes to release the hounds. I went in that bathroom, stuffed a towel into the bottom of the door, ran the sink faucet, fired up a Marlboro Red, and brought something into the world I thought for sure would have to be claimed as a dependent. “Detroit: you’re welcome!”
–From Charlie Sheen’s Book of Sheen (2025).
Ed P says
At least even Clay Jones and Pierre saw something of merit in Trumps UN speech.
Clay with the world funding Putins war by continuing to buy Russian energy. Pierre in Trumps nuclear appeal, verbalizing that the prospect is so devastating that they could never be used.
Baby steps, baby steps.
See it isn’t that hard.
Ray W. says
We are now eight months into the second Trump administration. Since I consistently downplay the value of short term economic trends, even now there is not a whole lot of long-term economic data out there that can justify a quality assessment of Trump’s second administration policies, but here we are.
Through September 20th of each of the past eight first presidential administrations (Reagan, Carter, GW Bush and Obama had two administrations), the Dow performed as follows:
Obama: Up 21.4%
GHW Bush: Up 15%
Biden: Up 12.9%
Trump I: Up 12.8%
Clinton: Up 7.4%
Trump II: Up 3.1%
Reagan: Down 10.3%
GW Bush: Down 18.7%
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Monthly stock market performance figures by president doesn’t prove very much. But that is not my point.
My point is that a number of the more gullibly stupid commenters among us repeatedly post comments to the FlaglerLive site that are simply inaccurate, at best, and outright false, at worst.
Former President Biden did not destroy the American economy. The pandemic significantly damaged the American economy, but the damage was not beyond possibility of repair.
In response to the widespread economic damage caused by the pandemic, both President Trump and former President Biden enacted policies to facilitate a return to economic health. So, too, did the Fed.
Since it cannot be disputed that President Trump at the beginning of his second administration had inherited an economy that in the words of The Economist and the Wall Street Journal was the “envy” of the developed world, it seems readily apparent to me that without Trump’s congressionally-mandated response to the pandemic, and without Biden’s congressionally-mandated response to the pandemic, and that without the Fed’s statutorily-mandated response to the pandemic, the American economy might have been in far worse shape today than it actually is.
Joe D says
For Ray W:
…I never thought I would say this, but as TERRIBLE, as I thought things were at the time of TRUMP I and anticipated TRUMP II to be a RINSE AND REPEAT….I NEVER anticipated how HORRIBLE for the CONSTITUTION, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Government Support for the Vulnerable…and attacks on DEMOCRACY in general could be, once the UNLIMITED ( thanks to the CONSERVATIVE hand picked MAJORITY of Trump’s SUPREME COURT) Presidential IMMUNITY ruling for PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS was in place, TRUMP II could POSSIBLY be….but I was DEAD WRONG.
During Trump I, there were Department Heads, and Administrators who provided GUARD RAILS telling Trump I that what he wanted to do was either illegal, or ill-advised. During TRUMP II all those VOICES OF REASON have been FIRED or bullied into SILENCE, and replaced with “YES” men (and women) who will be UNQUESTIONABLY loyal to whatever TRUMP II wants to do, however potentially ILLEGAL and ILL-ADVISED it is!
We ALL know the DANGERS of traveling a winding downhill mountain road …with NO GUARDRAILS (and APPARENTLY no BRAKES).
I pray DAILY for the SURVIVAL of Democracy (and our Country itself)…for the sake of my CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN…who will be inheriting the DISASTERS created by the current administration, which will last DECADES beyond His term In office…
Sherry says
There are many countries on this planet whose leaders still care about “Justice” and “Human Rights to Life”. . . just take a look and “think” about the message this video of delegates walking out of the UN General Assembly in protest of Netanyahu sends:
https://apnews.com/video/delegates-at-unga-walk-out-as-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-speaks-2f082031b0d84082b4195f7b0de95918
Sherry says
Youtube highlights of trump’s rambling, asinine UN Speech. . . it’s laughable and would be funny if he were not sitting in our “White House”:
Laurel says
Sherry: Regarding the UN speech, the rest of the world must think we are all stupid, lost our minds or both. I wish someone had thrown a net over him, and dragged him off. That speech was so embarrassing. He should be Baker Acted, and spare us the insanity. Even other dictators of the past never sounded so stupid!
Sherry says
I couldn’t agree more Laurel! When will trump’s Maga diehard supporters find their right minds and stop defending that corrupt criminal narcissistic megalomaniac imbecile?
Skibum says
Thank you Sherry and Laurel. Maybe the UN really was attempting to warn the dumb SOB away from another rambling, meaningless mumbo jumbo of vowels and (some) consonants strung together, uttered incoherently by the witless wonder in the WH.
He didn’t get the first hint when his escalator stopped. He didn’t take the second hint when his teleprompter blanked out. So he rambled on anyway, nearly putting the entire audience asleep or distracted by some video game on their phones that must have been imminently more meaningful and entertaining than the drivel broadcast through their ear pieces.
They must have thought they all had been condemned to hell!