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Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 65. Light and variable wind.
- 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.
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.
Notably: Dora-Mittelbau, also known as Dora, was a Nazi subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, itself established, we may overlook, several years before the beginning of World War II. The brutality at Dora was extreme, the hangings a plaything of the SS, the undernourishment and overwork a norm. Dora sprawled underground in old salt mines, its workers forced to make the V-1 and V-2 rockets that rained on Britain. Francois le Lionnais was an intellectual industrialist, a fabulous chess player, a mathematician who was not yet 40 when the war started. He joined the Resistance, was arrested in October 1944, tortured, and sent to Dora. He survived to eventually become a founder of one of UNESCO’s branches. He published many books and gained a reputation for his style, his humor, his inventiveness. One of those works is a very brief essay called “La peinture a Dora,” or “Painting at Dora,” which can also be a play on word, Painting to Dora. It works both ways. He wrote it in 1946, and it begins this way: “The event took place one morning during one of those routines to which we were accustomed. We were a few thousand prisoners, stagnating on the roll-call square, while a general search was conducted. My gaze fell mechanically on the hill that rose up by the infirmary. Autumn had fully set in there. Then these great, bare trees swooped down on me without warning and carried me away with them. The Hell of Dora suddenly metamorphosed into a Breughel painting, and I became its guest. Aided, no doubt, by the physical and mental weakness in which we found ourselves, a keen exaltation seized me: the feeling of having escaped, as smoke might have, right under the eyes of my idiotic guards. This euphoria was short-lived. It was long enough, however, to allow me to endure the solid volley of punches and jaw-breaking slaps (yet another case revealing the expressive superiority of popular language over academic vocabulary: “baffes” [clouts] is what one ought to say) which were my lot when my turn came to be searched. I knew then that I was once again being summoned by the call of an old passion.” What follows is his description of the way he and a fellow inmate (who did not survive) would spend those moments recreating paintings entirely from memory, one after the other, in detail so astounding that when Le Lionnais described “The Embarkation for Cythera,” the Watteau painting, his friend fell in love with the woman in the bottom left of the painting, giving the words sight unseen–giving the emotion of that love–a meaning as heartbreaking as it is sublime. Together they built an entire museum of the imagination, which made me think of Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, a work of similar mind-bending beauty, without the overlay of terror and dehumanization, and where the protagonist goes about recreating his fleeting love for a woman through little objects he collects. Memory is our refuge, and how: at one point in his Dora nightmare Le Lionnais begins to introduce elements from one painting into another just to see how the “characters” react. The exercises did a lot to keep him sane, and eventually to save him. It is in sum a living truth that through art and imagination, we can defy, at least up to a point, even the worst prison invented by man. After completing this entry, I came across a video where all the works cited in “La peinture a Dora” are shown and commented by a writer at the Louvre. I could not make the English subtitles work. I’m not sure they’re available. But it is enough to look at the paintings and hear the cadences of the presenter to get a flavor of the work, leaving the rest to le Lionnais’ device: just imagine.
—P.T.
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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
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
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
Al-Anon Family Groups
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
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Thus the days passed for me at Dora, amidst the interminable roll calls in the snow and the cold winter wind. Now well-versed in my game, I no longer had much need for the canvases painted by those painters to create my own universe of forms and colors. A few weeks before the Liberation, I had recovered sufficient inner elasticity to be able to indulge again in one of my old vices: Mental Painting. I am indeed the author of a great number of paintings that I have had to content myself with imagining, lacking the ability to paint them. (The fairies, at my birth, endowed me with considerable manual awkwardness.) I have made a specialty of intoxicating landscapes and astounding faces. On the other hand, I am not very good at still life, and I prefer to say nothing about my attempts at genre painting. It is especially in the evening that I most willingly indulge in this sort of exercise. Unfortunately, my paintings generally do not last more than a few minutes, sometimes even a few seconds. In terms of radioactivity, their “periods” are between those of Thorium A (0.14 seconds) and Radium C (3 minutes). Everything unravels quickly, like the patterns of rain on a windowpane, and authentic masterpieces begin to run like Camembert cheeses. Most often, discouraged, I lose interest in these overly liquid creations and think of something else. Other times, I hang on, I strive to rework them, and I use the debris of a painting in full deliquescence to hastily fabricate another one, which, by the way, will last no longer.
–From François Le Lionnais’ “La Peinture a Dora” (1946).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Just like all the other jackass supported freebies, SNAP, is loaded with FRAUDE! Look at how many programs designed to help the poor the democrats funneled money through it, stealing & reoproperyment.How much money did DODGE find? Time for a real audit, to catch the real crooks stealing money from the poor.
Skibum says
You have zero proof of anything! You watch the maga talking heads at fauxinfotainment and maybe other un-Christian nationalistic extremist media outlets, listen with rapt attention to the daily vomit of lies spouting out of the convicted felon pedophile protecting prez’ mouth like it was the voice of Jeusus reincarnate.
Dennis, the felon prez could pull down his pants and literally shit all over you, and you would smile reverently like his shit was a gift from heaven, and wallow in it all day long thanking your lucky stars.
Even pigs know when it is time to wallow elsewhere, but despicable human behavior is unquestionably something that needs much more study as sane people continue to be in wonderment… and revulsion. Kind of like looking through a glass enclosure at a zoo at all of the weird creatures therein. Want some peanuts?
Laurel says
The people are hungry, they have no bread.
“Let them eat cake!”
For those of you who want to blame this solely on Democrats, please explain, then, why, when told by the court to distribute money for food stamps, the Trump administration is fighting it? They are literally fighting the release of available funds to feed people. How do you rationalize that?
Pogo says
@As stated
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