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Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests: Marineland’s Felicia Cook and House Rep. Sam Greco. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
Coffee and Conversation with Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., at Jacked Up Bean, 222 St Joe Plaza Drive. The City of Palm Coast is inviting residents to grab a cup of coffee and join the conversation through Coffee and Conversations with your City Manager; a monthly community meet-and-greet with City Manager Mike McGlothlin. Coffee and Conversations with your City Manager is designed to create an approachable, informal space where residents can connect directly with the City Manager, ask questions, share ideas, and discuss what matters most to them. Events take place monthly at rotating local businesses throughout Palm Coast. The event is free and open to the public; however, registration is required so staff can plan accordingly for attendance. Coffee will be provided by the host restaurant and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Event details and registration are available at www.parksandrec.fun.
‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., with an extra Saturday matinee on May 16 at 2 p.m. A recent widow has hidden $10 million in bonds and her grown-up stepchildren want to get their hands on it. They commit her to a sanatorium hoping to “bring her to her senses.” Tickets $15-$25. Box office: (386) 255-2431.
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: I may have done this before–I’m sure I have: blubbered and swooned here over “As Time Goes By,” a song that seems to strike me as few things do, for reasons as impossible to figure out as Hegel’s philosophy or Thomas Aquinas pretending to figure out god. Sometimes (maybe most times) it is enough to listen to something, to see it or taste it, and let it go at that: it’s in the thing itself, not in its explanation. “As Time Goes By” was Herman Hupfeld’s one hit: that’s what you get for living in Montclair, New Jersey, all your life, though one of my better friends is doing just that even now. We used to play Risk and swim in his pool in Montclair, as his mother read the New York Post and his father ambled back from his corporate lawyer’s job in Lower Manhattan: as time goes by, as you can see. It’s all we are, really. We’re cells and memories of time going by, as Proust figured out early and often. Whose version though? Jimmy Durante, Rod Stewart, Paul Kuhn, Billie Holiday (yes!), Chet Baker: it’s the sort of song that lifts the singer, whoever the singer may be, the way it lifted Herman Hupfeld. (The Carpenters titled one of their albums “As Time Goes By,” but did not sing the song.) Then of course there’s Sam playing it in “Casablanca,” one of the two great moments of that movie (the other one? When they sing the Marseillaise to drown out “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles.” Let’s try Bob Dylan and Peggy Lee.
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May 2026
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
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
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Oh, the half-hours — the minutes of the world. Ye gods, what miseries and griefs are crowded into them.
–From Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
If time flows so fast, it is because we do not scatter landmarks within it. Thus it is with the moon at its zenith and on the horizon. This is why those years of youth are so long because they are so full, and years of old age so short because they are already formed. Note, for example, that it is almost impossible to watch a hand turn for five minutes on a dial, so long and exasperating is the task.
–From Albert Camus’ Notebooks.
Dennis C Rathsam says
Finally, We have a new GOP scapegoat….. Getting a early dose of what’s to come in 28. Democrats need to focus on their biggest problem TAX-ODUS! IRS data shows a massive relocation of adjusted gross income as tax payers move from the blue states to the red! Red States +$ 2,199.1B Blue states – $1,960.4B The blue losers NY-$660B, Ca-$503B, Illinos-$399B, NJ-$212B & Martland-$120B….. America doesn’t want what the JACKASSES want, finally waking up to reality. The moneys headed south, as northerners are crippled with TDS! Florida is # 1+ $1,293B followed by Texas,Arizona,S Carolina & N Carolina. Many many years ago Gen Robert E Lee said the south will rise again, all it took was a man named TRUMP.
FlaPharmTech says
You are delusional dude.
Pogo says
And, incurable; definitely helpless and hopeless — a deplorably sad case…
Laurel says
Many people really don’t know anything other than what Fox Entertainment tells them, and I’m not kidding. Fox Entertainment keeps a lot from them, to the point of being surprising. They stay in a sort of semi-educated zone, which is sort of a comfort zone. An elixir of sorts.
They should sort it out.
The dude says
Cheering for the confederacy… finally some honesty from you.
Laurel says
Who cares what We the People want?
Cheat, cheat, cheat, cheat, cheat…
So much *conservatism* to be proud of.
Pogo says
Great double feature
… led me to YouTube for the morning.
Thanks.
Laurel says
“Diary of a CEO” is really good.
Pault says
Today’s cartoon is very apt. ‘Jim Crow-DeSantis’ riding in on a mimiraculously revived Mastodon to prove his aim is to send us back in time, to a pre-civilised age of de-facto segregation.
Ray W. says
Interesting Engineering reports that Chinese engineers have constructed a “semi-submersible” 299-foot by 266-foot platform on which a 14 mega-watt wind turbine has been erected. The goal is to capture energy from higher winds blowing far offshore.
The Three Gorges Pilot assembly is now anchored more than 40 miles off the coast of the city of Yangjiang in water too deep for traditional offshore turbines by a combination of mechanically adjustable steel chains and polyester cables, a combination of tethers that provides “spring” during heavy weather events. Platform stability is also adjustable via an active ballast tank system.
When high-voltage transmission lines from the assembly connect to the grid, this one power plant is projected to generate enough electricity to power 24,000 homes.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
While our current administration orders utility operators to keep open aging and inefficient and unreliable coal-fired power plants well past their planned retirement dates, at higher costs to consumers, engineers all over the rest of the world are pushing the boundaries of new power plant efficiencies. Simple as that.