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Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68.
- 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:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
Notably:The Dutch historian Hendrick van Loon wrote wistfully, in the 1930s: “Paganini and Liszt! During the thirties and forties and fifties these two men filled as much newspaper space as the Hitlers and Mussolinis of today. When they arrived in a town to give a concert, a public holiday was declared. The horses were taken out of their carriages…” Is it much different than the way Taylor Swift and Mariah Carey make news today? The Times last week started publishing its lengthy video interviews with the “30 Greatest Living American Songwriters,” starting with Swift, Babyface, Jay-Z, Nile Rogers, Carey, Lucinda Williams. If you ask me, I prefer today’s music world by far–by far–over the 19th century’s, however sublime the Schuberts and Liszts and Brahmses. Where was the diversity? Where were the fugues of genres? Where were the fusions and the non-European surprises? Music back then was a museum experience. You can bicker about quality today–we’ve been bickering about it since the plucks of he lyre on Roman porches–but you can’t argue the wealth and accessibility of what we have today, including access to the entirety of all those decades and centuries before us. As with the internet (if not Gutenberg) removing all excuses for us to be ignorant, today we have no excuse not to be bathing in riches.
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May 2026
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Meeting
Conversations in Democracy
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Beats and Eats: Live Concert and Food Trucks at the Stage in Town Center
Spotlight on Flagler Youth Talent Show
For the full calendar, go here.
“Do you want some music?” I did, but not just any music. I put Bach on my nephew’s boombox, either The Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by Sviatoslav Richter; or The Goldberg Variations, performed by Glenn Gould or Wilhelm Kempff; or The Art of the Fugue, performed by Zhu Xiao-Mei. Bach’s music, like morphine, relieved me. It did more than relieve me: it did away with any temptation to complain, any feeling of injustice, any strangeness of the body. Bach descended on the room and the bed, on the nurses and their cart. It enveloped us all. In its sonorous light each gesture was detached and peace, a certain peace, was established. A poem by John Donne, read many years earlier, took on meaning: “there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light; no noise nor silence, but one equal music; no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession; no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity: in the habitations of thy majesty and glory, world without end.” The changing of my bandages could begin.
–From Philippe Lançon’s Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo (2018).
Ray W. says
Haaretz is reporting that the United States implemented “Project Freedom” this past Monday without consulting any of our Gulf allies. That day, two commercial vessels, per the Trump administration, transited the Strait of Hormuz under naval protection.
From other reporting, a number of other commercial vessels were attacked, presumably by Iranian forces. Either six or seven or eight of the IRGC’s thousands of fast attack boats were reportedly hit.
Oil export distribution infrastructure at the city of Fujairah’s port facility, located on the coast of the Gulf of Oman outside of the Strait, was damaged by Iranian munitions, either drones or rockets or both, causing a shutdown of that part of the port’s export activities.
Saudi Arabia, angered about not being consulted beforehand, as the Haaretz reporter wrote, then withdrew permission for American forces to use Saudi bases or even fly through Saudi air space during the operation.
The Trump administration then cancelled “Project Freedom.”
Windward reports the ingress of five ships and egress of two ships through the Strait on Wednesday. On a normal prewar day, a number of sources have some 130 ships passing through the Strait each day.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
The Strait of Hormuz remains, for all intent, closed. Iran’s sunken navy is still active. Iran’s non-existent rocket and drone forces still attack. Has Iran been defeated?
I don’t know the truth of what is going on in or around the Strait. An Israel-based news outlet decided to devote a story about a response to our government’s alleged display of a lack of respect for the perceived interests of our allies and partners.
Mixed messages, many intentionally false, are flying thick and fast. A lot of lying is going on. A lot of lie laundering is going on.
The dude says
So now we subsidize security for the worlds shippers through the straight… using a Navy that costs hundreds of millions an hour to operate… and the end result is still stunted and diminished traffic through one of the worlds busiest straights…
Genius.
Sherry says
Thank you Ray W.!
In this trump age of mesmerizing, Maga accepted dishonesty, I remember what once was very “cynical” words from my mother= “Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear”.
Pogo says
Merci
Pogo says
2008
…was just a preview
https://www.google.com/search?q=warsh+reduce+fed+balance+sheet
Party like there’s no tomorrow and there won’t be — for anyone.
Ray W. says
An Interesting Engineering reporter recently wrote about a novel portable nuclear reactor that can generate 10 MW’s of electricity.
Researchers at China’s Hefei Institute of Physical Science constructed the reactor on a semi-truck’s trailer. The device is designed to last for decades, moving from location to location as needed; it can power a “medium-sized artificial intelligence data center.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Just what is the value of versatility?
Could such a portable power plant be driven to regions devastated by storms or mudslides or earthquakes? To supplement grids that are expanding faster than new power plants can be built? To remote regions? To power ocean-going ships that are designed to operate without marine diesel engines?