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Weather: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s. Sunday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. most days, with matinees on Sundays, at 2 p.m., and on Nov. 15. Thornton Wilder’s timeless masterpiece chat quietly and powerfully explores life, love, and loss in small-town America. A deeply human story that resonates with every audience.
‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. 7:30 p.m., except Sundays at 2 p.m. Box office: (386) 255-2431. Adults, $25, seniors, $24, Youth, $15. Book here. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps: a fast-paced whodunit, with over 150 zany characters (played by a cast of only four), an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance! Content advisory: Fake guns and gunshot sound effects
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
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November 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
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Al-Anon Family Groups
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
But most of the times he sat on the ground fishing right there side me. A short bowlegged Cajun. Face looked like somebody had been jabbing in it with an ice pick. Had that big patch of hair out the left side of his head, his head white where the hair had been. Sitting there telling me about the people he had killed. I wasn’t a Christian then, I didn’t join the church till I came to Samson, but I used to say to myself: “My Lord, my Lord, will you just listen to this? You hear this man talking about killing men like you talk about killing snakes?” But no matter how he talked I would sit there and listen to him. Sometimes he would follow me up to the house and sit on my gallery and talk. Sometimes he would go round the house and sit in the back door while I fried fish for supper. If I said, “Mr. Albert, chop me piece of wood,” he would get out there and cut enough wood to last me a week. If I needed something from the store he would swing upon that mule and go get anything I needed. Sack of rice, flour, it didn’t matter, he would bring it all back. After I had cooked, he would sit right there in the back door and eat. Then we had our coffee. He liked his coffee strong, sweet sweet and black. Sometimes I got him off talking about killing. I would make him talk about fishing and raising crop. He could talk about anything. Because most of the people round here either fished or farmed for a living anyhow. But in the end killing always came back in Albert Cluveau’s mind. He wasn’t bragging about it, but he wasn’t sorry either. It was just conversation. Like if you worked in the sawmill you talked about lumber more than you talked about cane. If you worked at the derrick, naturally, you talked about cane more than you talked about trees. Albert Cluveau had killed so many people he couldn’t talk about nothing else but that.
–From The Autobiography of Jane Pittman, by Ernest J. Gaines (1971).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Spare me from that democratic hatefull cartoon. Total nonsence! Everyone knows the ball room TRUMP is building comes from private sector. Ignorance & Stupitity is alive on here on this platform. Because of the Schumer shutdown snap will not be funded. As the jackasses hold the off the payments to the children, so they have leverage. What lunacy!!!! We Americans are not subsdising illegal healthcare. These folks deserve a trip back home & nothing more…77 million Americans voted to clean up the crap from the Biden Whitehouse. We are now watching a new leaner America, one that puts Americans before Bidens Invaders. They payed shit into the system, yet they want American BENIFITS. TRUMP is taking care of Americans, he,s looking for money to funde snap.Just like he funded the military. The Jackasses cant stand how Trump has managed in a few months all of his accomplishments. They are in awe. From tariffs, to blowing up drug boats to cleaning out the crime in the big democratic cities. The more you folks hate TRUMP, the more he does for America.
Ed P says
The last time the White House public and private quarters were fully renovated was between 1948-1952 by the Truman administration. 75 years of wear and tear is unbecoming of the status of the White House. Possibly leaving it even a bit shabby.
Trump has the ability to renovate the tired and worn areas with private donations, saving the US taxpayers millions and will leave the People house the shining beacon it should be.
He has developed some of the premier properties throughout the world and has access to talented designers, architects, engineers and tradesman. Why shouldn’t we want him to have a “hobby”? Because he is Trump?
The opposition has fixed opinions and narrow perspective and are unwilling to consider other viewpoints. Senator Eric Swalwell is incredibly myopic with his call for the next nominee to pledge they will take a wrecking ball to the new ballroom, day one.
Actually he’s an asshole and an embarrassment.
Take some time and compare the Lincoln bathroom both prior and after. First notice what it looked like before and the tasteful renovation of today and note it did not cost taxpayers anything. What a transformation, it’s timeless. No gold toilet.
The disputed ballroom is needed for events at the White House. The current largest indoor space holds 200 people forcing larger venues to use tents on the south lawn. The new facility will have a 900 person capacity and will be the crown jewel for entraining foreign leaders, dignitaries and social events. After all, we are the United States.
All the naysayers need to relax and let the project play out. I’m willing to bet, none of the negative comments will “age” well. Silence on nonsensical issues will prove to be sage advice. Stop swinging at every pitch, just swing at the strikes. Stop taking the wrong side on the 80/20 issues.
Pogo says
@P.T.
Thank you.
For those unacquainted — learn more about it
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ernest+J.+Gaines
Pogo says
@Elsewhere
https://www.google.com/search?q=egypt+new+museum
Pogo says
@Americker the moo-jerk-tic
Capt Bill Hanagan says
You guys are dumb as shit if you think this isn’t costing us money b/c private sector is paying for it. Look around… you got any friends that paid to build an addition on your house just cuz they like you?
Kennan says
I with some confidence will venture to say that half of the 77 million people that voted for Donald J Von Deuchberg had no idea what they were voting for. They were set a blaze with patriotic propaganda and rhetoric. The base got drunk on promises that somehow they would benefit from the largest distribution of American wealth to America’s wealthiest. All conveniently packaged and disguised in things like DOGE, Project 2025. The Big beautiful
PILL that they want to ram down America’s throat. Waste Fraud and Abuse? SNAP… Fuck poor people. Children’s CANCER research….Fuck kids
Social Security, Medicare…..Fuck seniors
The worst health care system in the world is about to become exponentially more expensive! I could care less whether the White House expansion and ballroom is funded privately or publicly, although I wouldn’t put it past these grifters to use tax dollars to do it. The fact of the matter is why do it at all. The country is imploding economically and socially, Trump goes on a tour of Asia’ as he leaves the country in flames in his wake. Trump is “Robin Hood in Reverse”. He takes from the poor to give the RICH MORE.
He hates this country and its people.
Dictator, King, Facist, Authoritarian, Nazi. It’s about him and him alone! Don’t you get it?
Sherry says
And now for another chuckle:
Ray W. says
Through out most the 1930’s, England’s political class split over Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement. Many held strong views against Churchill, who from 1933 to 1939 almost single-handedly kept one side of the debate focused on the vengeful nature of Herr Hitler and the rearming Nazis he led.
When war broke out over the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Churchill was brought back into the British government after nearly 10 years of exile.
From 1924 to 1945, Churchill represented Epping, a long-established conservative constituency close by London. But it was not always a safe seat for him.
Starting in September 1938, a group of conservative Epping leaders began an effort to “deselect” Churchill as their Member of Parliament. Had Churchill been deselected, he could not have entered the war cabinet when he did, nor could he have assumed the role of prime minister.
Colin Thornton-Kemsley, later Lord Kemsley, is still considered among historians the leader of the Epping deselection effort.
Upon declaration of war, Kemsley, then also an MP, joined an Army unit, similar to what Churchill did in WWI after he was ousted from the Admiralty but retained his seat in the House of Commons in 1915.
On September 12, 1939, Kemsley wrote to Churchill:
“You won’t welcome a letter from me & it will not be a long one, but war puts things into proportion, and I should not be happy to go off to my job until I had said something which has been on my mind of late.
“For fourteen years I worked as hard as most in your support, and from September until the time of my By-Election in March (since when I have scrupulously refrained from taking any part at all in the affairs of your Division) I have opposed you as hard as I knew how for reasons, and in ways which you know all about.
“I want to say only this: You warned us repeatedly about the German danger & you were right: a grasshopper under a fern is not proud now that he made the field ring with his importunate chink.
“Please don’t think of replying — you are in all conscience busy enough in an office which we are all glad that you hold in this time of Britain’s danger.”
From the multitude of letters Churchill had received upon his return to Admiralty and, thereby, his return to Britain’s Cabinet, he could not read them all, much less respond to those he did read. But his personal secretary placed her note on Kemsley’s letter: “Please read this.”
Churchill did and then showed it to his wife.
The next day, he replied, accepting Kemsley’s apology and writing:
“I certainly think that Englishmen ought to start fair with one another from the outset of so grievous a struggle and so far as I am concerned the past is dead.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
There is a political sickness upon our land. Vengeance and retribution are mistakenly deemed virtuous by some. Lying for political gain is deemed virtuous by many of our political leadership class. Lie laundering for political gain is deemed virtuous by people who visit the FlaglerLive site. We as a nation face many problems, great and small. Yet the tide of domestic political violence continues to rise. The disaffected among us cannot be mollified or dissuaded from their reckless hate of the “other.”
Laurel says
Maga.
Rationalization is an amazing thing.
Jim says
Just a quick note about the comments by Dennis and Ed regarding the funding of the ballroom. Anyone who is willing to see it knows by now that very little that Orange Man says can be taken at face value. It is all transactional. If someone “donates” to the ballroom or the Lincoln bathroom, they are investing and expecting a generous contract or approval of the next business deal. You gotta give something to get something. On another subject, the 60 Minutes “interview”… the interview was over 70 minutes, but was edited down to about 20+ minutes, as usual for a 60 Minutes segment. Just like the Kamala Harris interview was edited. Is anyone screaming foul? CBS paid $16M when Trump “sued” over the Harris editing, and they did the same thing for him, which is normal. Yet CBS paid him $16M. Why? Same reason as the ballroom. It’s all transactional. CBS wanted the merger to be approved, so they pay for this to get that.
Sherry says
My, my, my. . . “TDS” = trump DEVOTION Syndrome is everywhere!
Regarding that ballroom and that plane. . . to think that there are “no strings attached” is beyond idiocy!
The BILL always comes due!