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Today at a Glance:
‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ At City Rep Theatre, at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, 3 p.m. Tickets: $25 for adults $15 for students. Book here. Get ready for an unforgettable night of sharp humor and surreal storytelling! Line, Israel Horovitz’s longest-running Off-Broadway play, explores human nature through a mysterious line where everyone wants to be first—no matter what it takes. Paired with David Ives’ All in the Timing, a fast-paced collection of one-act comedies, this double feature delivers clever dialogue, quirky scenarios, and laugh-out-loud moments. It’s a must-see showcase of theatrical brilliance and biting satire.
Dead Men Tell No Tales…. Or Do They? Murder Mystery Dinner Show, Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE, 1 p.m., tickets $60 a person. The fundraiser is for foster children. Book here. Join the Seawolf Privateers for a night of swashbuckling fun you won’t want to miss! Step into a rowdy tavern in Tortuga where pirates, rum, music, and mischief fill the air. Dead Men Tell No Tales… Or Do They? is a laugh-out-loud pirate murder mystery dinner show packed with slapstick comedy, outrageous characters, and a twisty mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end. Feast on a hearty dinner while the tale unfolds around you, with surprises, laughs, and plenty of pirate mayhem along the way. Best of all, every ticket helps make a difference—all proceeds support local foster and displaced children in our community. Come for the laughs, stay for the adventure, and help us do some good along the way!
“The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre, 2:30 p.m., 124 North Florida Avenue, DeLand, (386) 736-1500. Cost: Adult $37, Senior $33, Student/Child $17, groups of 8 or more $30 per ticket, all including processing charge. Book here. As the world begins to change, one woman brings something the von Trapp family hasn’t known in a long time—joy. When Maria steps into their lives, she brings laughter, music, and a renewed sense of connection—just as the world outside their home begins to shift in dangerous ways. In a time of rising fear and uncertainty, their bond becomes an anchor—and their courage, a quiet form of resistance. The Sound of Music is a timeless story of love, family, and standing up for what truly matters, brought to life with one of the most beloved scores in musical theatre history. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Run time: 2 hours and 45 minutes with a 15-minute intermission
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 the Bridges United Methodist Fellowship at 205 North Pine Street, Bunnell (through the gate, in room 8), 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.
Notably: Thousands of Afghans collaborated with the two-decade American occupation of Afghanistan. The United States had a resettlement system for collaborators, who risked death at the Taliban’s hands if they stayed in Afghanistan. Trump stopped the program. Now he’s wanting to refuse 1,100 Afghans who have been awaiting resettlement in the United States in Qatar. He wants to send them to the Democratic Republic of Congo instead. It makes sense, not only because Afghans and Congolese have so much in common, but because Afghans will feel at home in another country routinely ravaged by war: about 6 million people have died from war in Congo in the last 30 years. The Florida Legislature will of course soon add requirements that all school students learn about that holocaust. Meanwhile Trump should follow up with a few other reasonable resettlements: Undocumented Mexicans could be resettled to Taiwan. Undocumented Guatemalans could head for Nepal, where the new GenZ government would surely welcome them. Arabs, documented or not, could be sent to Mongolia, and Nigerians to the Faroe Islands. Once that’s accomplished, the administration could revisit Lincoln’s plan to resettle Blacks to Liberia. But a fresh plan and a willing destination has to be devised for the deportation of Democrats. Toronto and Stockholm are not options. Tehran and Ebril might be.
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May 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
Third Thursday Together in Flagler Beach
“Once on This Island,” At Limelight Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
“Once on This Island,” At Limelight Theatre
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We have very few other sources that record the inhumanity that raged in those early days, both in Gaza and the West Bank. The human rights organizations that would industriously and faithfully collect such evidence would only appear on the scene much later, and Palestinians did not, in those days, write books and articles about the early years of occupation, and thus the government minutes are an important and almost exclusive source (together with the UN 1971 report) for these criminal policies. From the government and the UN archival treasure trove five horrific cases stand out: the massive demolition of houses in Qalqilya; the deportation of large numbers of people from Tul Karem; the mass deportation of around 50,000 people from the Jericho area; the destruction of three villages in the Latrun area; and finally the demolition of two villages in the Hebron area. In addition, other villages were expelled, such as Beit Awa with its 2500 inhabitants and Beit Mirsim with a population of 500.
–From Ilan Pappe’s The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories (2017).
Pogo says
Ed P says
Terry Mosher is an 83 year old cartoonist who seems to be mellowing.
If memory serves me, he once depicted Trump in a KKK pointed hood and later a red hat with a swastika style emblem… so a red hat with a toilet indicates he’s slowing moving right.(sarcasm) Baby steps.
Let’s all sing, recite poetry, dance and villainize Trump. We need more no kings rallies.
It would be refreshing as the left successfully wins local elections and possibly wins back the house, that they find a few moderate politicians instead of electing democratic socialists, radical progressives and even communists. We need leaders, not activists. Crippling the country is a plan, just not a good one.
I don’t believe the registered independents actually vote for the best qualified candidates based on these recent results. I suspect they vote a party line and rarely deviate regardless what they profess and espouse. You are correct, I’m calling shannagins.
Personally, I have crossed party lines for specific candidates in almost every single election since my eighteenth birthday. Would that make me more independent than most?
Let’s look at the most recent “Winners”
Abigail Spanberger
Analilia Mejia
Zohran Mamdani
Adelita Grijalva
Taylor Rehmet
Lily Franklin
If you believe it’s not going to get worse…the financial debt/deficit will not resolve itself and giving away the farm for free isn’t going to produce long term sustainability.
Samuel L. Bronkowitz says
Moderate republicans, e.g. Democrats
Ed P says
Hello Samuel,
Isn’t nearly every Republican in Congress more conservative than the most conservative Democrat?
What am I missing in your analogy?
The only similarities could be style- “burn -it- down”
James says
Moderate Republican = RINO
Moderate MAGA = MINO
Conservative Democrat =
DINO?
Just wonder’n.
Ed P says
Hello James,
You hit upon something, Dinos are extinct!
Below comment correction – A Dino=unicorn…Maybe John Fetterman.
James says
Depends on how you define conservative.
Btw, I was thinking of
it as being pronounced as “Dean-O.”
RINO, Reen-O.
DINO, Dean-O.
You say dino, I say deen-o.
You say Maga, I say mino.
Maga, Mino, Rino, Dino …
Let’s call the whole thing off…
Just sing’n.
James says
More wonder’n…
DINO = RINO?
Just think’n… that’s alotta hats to sell.
Ray W. says
According to a Morning Overview article, five ships transited the Strait of Hormu% yesterday. Because identification systems can be tampered with, the reporter wrote that cargoes cannot be assessed with certainty. Empty freighters? Full tankers?
Make of this what you will.
Sherry says
trump in the toilet. . . and proud of it! I Love it!
Ed P says
Hello Sherry,
I know.
Trump’s executive order to reverse conservation rules to eliminate the war on water pressure means everyone now enjoys a good flush. Again.
Laurel says
Winning 🪠🪠🪠
Sherry says
and yet. . . for years, I’ve been advocating moving away from using “scarce potable drinking water” for flushing toilets. I guess if you live in that Maga “Alternative, Self Absorbed” reality. . . that sees climate change as a big ole hoax. . . using even MORE of the planets’ drinking water to flush your feces is absolutely fine. After all. . . “NO One” else on the planet matters, right Maga? Let “them” all die of thirst!
* Flushing toilets with drinking water is increasingly viewed as an unsustainable practice because it uses a finite, expensive resource for a task that does not require high-quality purity.
* The Problem with Potable Water Flushing
Massive Resource Waste: In the U.S., toilet flushing is the largest single source of indoor water use, accounting for roughly 30% of a home’s consumption. On average, an American household flushes away more than 30 gallons of clean, treated drinking water every day.
* High Energy Costs: Municipalities expend significant electricity and resources to collect, treat, and pump water to drinking standards. In the U.S., wastewater treatment alone accounts for about 3% of the national electricity load.
* Infrastructure Strain: Using drinking water for flushing requires twice the infrastructure: once to deliver clean water and again to transport it to a treatment plant to be “cleaned” again after only one use.
* Exacerbating Scarcity: Only about 0.01% of Earth’s water is readily accessible fresh water. Using this for sewage disposal is particularly problematic in drought-prone areas where groundwater is being extracted faster than it can replenish.
*Sustainable Alternatives
Greywater Systems: These systems recycle “gently used” water from sinks, showers, and laundry to flush toilets. This can recycle 50% to 80% of a home’s water.
* Startups/Tech: Companies like Hydraloop offer systems that treat and reuse shower water for flushing, potentially saving up to 600 kWh of energy annually for a family.
Laurel says
The only problem I see with grey water, or non potable water, is your dog drinking out of the toilet bowl. Shut the lid!
Our 1.2 gallon toilets flush shockingly well. They advertise taking down tennis balls, and I believe it! Lowe’s carries them, and I’m sure Home Depot does as well.
Trump relies on 1950’s gold plated systems. The rest of us have moved on.
Ed P says
Hello Sherry,
Recently uncovered an interesting report that eating insects is significantly more sustainable for humans saving billions of gallons of water “wasted” on farming. Plus it reduces our carbon foot print.