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Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Spring Arts Festival in Central Park: Palm Coast government and the Flagler County Cultural Council are hosting the Spring Arts Festival in Central Park in Town center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s free. The focus is on artists, crafters, gardeners, and the entire community to gather for a celebration of creativity and culture. Set against the backdrop of Central Park, this outdoor event transforms the space into a vibrant marketplace of handmade goods, artistic expression, and nature-inspired displays.
Caleb Hathaway on Antebellum Flagler: A Palm Coast Historical Society Lecture, 10 a.m. in the Community Wing at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue. Join us for an engaging exploration of early Northeast Florida history, presented by local historian and author Caleb Hathaway.
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.
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.
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].
Gamble Jam: Join us from 2 to 4 p.m. for the Gamble Jam—a laid-back, toe-tappin’ tribute to the legendary Florida folk singer and storyteller, James Gamble Rogers IV! Musicians of all skill levels are welcome to bring their acoustic instruments and join the jam. Whether you’re strumming, picking, singing, or just soaking in the sounds, come be part of the magic at the Gamble Jam pavilion! The program is free with park admission! Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach, FL. Call the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086 for more information. The park hosts this acoustic jam session at one of the pavilions along the river to honor the memory of James Gamble Rogers IV, the Florida folk musician who lost his life in 1991 while trying to rescue a swimmer in the rough surf.
‘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.
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.
Storytime: Yesterday in this space I overdosed on “As Time Goes By.” It put me in mind of William Maxwell’s “A Final Report,” a 1963 short story, an inventory of a life remembered at the more intimate margins of a probate report. The narrator is remembering. The life remembered is that of Pear M. Donald, who never married, who was a neighbor of the narrator’s family, and who became Aunt Donald and the narrator’s mother best friend until the two women had a mysterious falling out. The story is a look back from her old age: “It took her almost twenty years of not wanting to live anymore,” a line right out of Trevor’s “The General’s Day.” There are memories of the narrator’s childhood from the time she carried him on a pillow when he was sickly, but mostly it’s an account of her decline, her cats, her house, in the elegiac prose of terminal loneliness: “she must have subsisted on air and old memories and fear–the fear of something happening to her cats.” The story ends on what could have been a dry account of the financial settlement of her estate. It isn’t. Each dollar sign is the cremated remains of a long possession, and these final lines: “It would have been a pleasure to go through Aunty Donald’s things, up to a point, and after that probably nauseating. This is the past unillumined by memory or love. The sediment of days, what covered Troy and finally would have covered her if my brother hadn’t come and taken her away.”
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May 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
For the full calendar, go here.
In Mumford’s great book Technics and Civilization, he shows how, beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the process, we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a world made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded. Indeed, as Mumford points out, with the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events. And thus, though few would have imagined the connection, the inexorable ticking of the clock may have had more to do with the weakening of God’s supremacy than all the treatises produced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment; that is to say, the clock introduced a new form of conversation between man and God, in which God appears to have been the loser. Perhaps Moses should have included another Commandment: Thou shalt not make mechanical representations of time.
–From Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death (1986).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Every past president boo who,d stated that Iran cant have a nuclear bomb! Too bad none of them balls to do it! A few bucks more to pay at the pump, is better off than our children & grand children be subjected to the country with nukes that can hit the USA! Stop the complaining already, TRUMP has made the world a safer place. Democrats hate TRUMP so much they,d rather see him fail. What kind of American are you! Dems are so desperate to regain power they tried gerrymandering in Virgina. The Jackasses were dancing in the streets…..Too bad the Virginia Supreme Court had other ideas. BOOM !!! It all back fired in thier face. HOORAY for democracy. Let the cheaters cheat, the GOP has caught them, & stop them!
Skibum says
Dennis, you are so full of bullshit! Had this been president Biden who started a war with Iran instead of your felonious sex abuser con man daddy, with the foreseen and now reality of the total closure of the Strait of Hormuz and excessively high gas prices at the pump, your incessant rants on FlaglerLive, all of your foaming at the mouth rants would be lambasting him for making life so unaffordable!
Would you be jumping up and down, yelling “HOORAY for democracy”??? Of course not! You have been so brainwashed that you cannot even see straight. Your revered con man prez is already bored with the war he started, and is concentrating on much more important things like ballroom plans, riding in a car IN the reflection pool in D.C., and other nonsensical distraction attempts like… “Oh, look there, American peons, what in the world are all those UFOs our military has been hiding until I ordered the release of ‘secret’ fantastical revelations!!!”
All TOTAL bullshit, but you keep eating it up and licking your lips as if you are being fed filet mignon.
FlaPharmTech says
Skibum, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Jim says
Let me get this straight. Democrats tried gerrymandering in Virginia. Happily for you that failed. Yet Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee and North Carolina did that to give them more Republican seats. In Virginia, they held a vote and the voters approved the changes. None of the other states did that; they just did in their legislature with no voter input. The Free State of Florida did so after a whopping 90 minutes of debate. Clearly democracy in action. But we’ll see if gerrymandering carries the day. Trump’s approval rating is around 37% and his disapproval rating is around 57%. While average Americans pay $4.46/gallon (just bought some of that liquid gold), Trump and Congress are busy passing a $1B splurge for Trump’s ballroom. Now that’s both great timing and money well spent!
Moving on to Trump’s “victory” over Iran, just a few items. First, while we “obliterated” their nuclear capability last June, we had to go back recently because they were “on the verge” of having a nuclear missile ready. Second, although Trump has again declared “total victory”, our CIA (which I know you don’t believe) has stated:
1. Despite targeted strikes, core nuclear components and capabilities remain largely functional, with only a short-term set back of a few months.
2. Production Capability: As of May 2026, Iran’s nuclear material remains safe, with key components and expertise secured in underground facilities.
3. Missile Capability: Reports indicate Iran retains 70% of its pre-war missile stockpile, repairing damaged assets and keeping most mobile launchers
4. Functional. Resilience: Intelligence suggests Iran can withstand intense military and economic pressure, including potential naval blockades, for 90 to 120 days, maintaining its strategic positioning in the region.
Trump lies almost every time his mouth moves.
Trump is said to be considering releasing $20B in Iranian assets as part of a peace agreement. Obama released $1.7B for the deal Trump tore up and which the Iranians were abiding by.
You can fawn over your dear leader all you want. I challenge you to just find out facts and figure out why you accept anything/everything Trump says and does even when the lies are blatant.
I know you think you are a patriotic American but you are anything but.
The dude says
Not one word of this true.
As usual.
Sherry says
Dearest The Dude, You are referring to dennis’ (the poor raving lunatic) diatribe. . . correct? Just wanted to be sure. . .
Mark Webb says
Dennis, today right now North Korea has many nuclear weapons and can hit the US.
Do you feel safe?
Do you?
Palm says
this flaglerlive is a trump hating venue, always has been same goes with the news journal which I discontinue a while ago We don’t have any decent open minded media sources in this area
Sherry says
@palm. . . never fear, there is always “well balanced” fox/newsmax/breitbart you can continue to rely on. :)
FlaPharmTech says
Thanks for the laugh, now go consume Fox “news” you twit.
Sherry says
@FPT. . . Always happy to create a giggle!
Laurel says
Okay, so this week, we went on a small trip around north central Florida, and we noticed that there, in Trump territory, the Trump signs are missing! The diehards, on the road into Melrose, still have the “Trump 2024” in gigantic black letters on the all orange bar. We saw one truck with with a Trump sticker, and a “Democrats, you’re fired!” but not much more. On the highway into Williston, there was a huge 4’X8′ wooden Trump sign, but it had been pulled out of the gentleman’s yard, and placed as trash to the curb, upside down. I would say he had enough! We are mad at ourselves for not turning around and taking a picture of the rejected sign. We could have sent it to Flagler Live! The scenes from the road were virtually cleared of any Trump support, and no Dixie flags either. This is highly unusual for the areas around Putnam, Alachula, Ghilherst and Levy counties.
We also kept an eye out for gas prices. The lowest price we found per gallon regular was $4,19.9, the most common prices were $4.49.9 (cash) and $4.59.9 (credit). The highest was a Marathon station outside of Williston, showing diesel at $5.99.9 per gallon, at an intersection where semi trucks drove by. All that diesel expense will be passed onto us.
Well, there is hope. Unfortunately, we have to fight the methods the Republican politicians will continue to cheat with. They are clearly desperate, and will try anything they can to avoid what We the People want.
Sherry says
@ Laurel. . . Interesting observations. . . wouldn’t it be wonderful if they really did reflect an awakening, a turning point !
“Project 2025” will tell us all what to expect from the Maga GOP, unfortunately!
Laurel says
I don’t know! I would love to hear, here, from Trump supporters who have had enough. Clearly, they are out there. Good for y’all! Most people are honest, and don’t like the cheating from either side.
The Trump signs in the past, from these more rural counties, and small towns, are missing!
Kenneth Frymyer says
maybe ? because he is in his last term and they well you know Weren’t able to cheat this time ! unlike last time , that’s what made people ANGRY !! just sayin !!
Pogo says
Trump before Trump
https://www.google.com/search?q=Elagabalus
A word for this day, this epoch
https://www.google.com/search?q=fiat+definition
Sherry says
A great analysis regarding how our citizens view the honesty/dishonesty of our elections. . . although, after massive inspections and recounts there has been NOTHING beyond a miniscule amount of fraud. . . apparently Fox is doing its job. . . This from Politico:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/10/poll-voters-stolen-election-concerns-00913086
Land of no turn signals says says
Interesting note,Obama oil $103 per barrel gas $3.41 per gallon.2026 oil hit at $103 per barrel gas price $4.41 per gallon.Trump issue I think not.Greedy oil company’s yes.
Sherry says
Gas prices in Florida are much more complex:
In Florida, specific geographic, infrastructural, and geopolitical factors amplify the gap between crude oil costs and retail pump prices. While crude oil establishes a global floor price, Florida drivers face structural inefficiencies that keep pump prices higher than in many other states when oil markets fluctuate.
1. Complete Reliance on Maritime Fuel Imports. Florida produces virtually no crude oil or refined petroleum products.Unlike states connected to major interstate pipelines, Florida has zero pipeline connections to major domestic refining centers.Nearly 97% of Florida’s fuel must arrive via cargo tankers and barges at ports like Port Tampa Bay and Port Everglades.Maritime shipping rates, port fees, and marine logistics labor have inflated, adding a permanent premium to every gallon delivered.
2. High State and County Fuel Taxes- Florida has higher fuel taxes than many neighboring Southern states.The state utilizes an indexed fuel tax system that automatically raises the tax rate annually to match inflation.The statewide base fuel tax stands at $0.38025 per gallon.Individual counties layer additional local option taxes on top of this base, pushing total tax burdens significantly higher depending on the municipality.
3. Aggressive “Price-Cycling” Market Structure- Florida gas retailers engage heavily in an aggressive pricing strategy known as price-cycling.Retailers abruptly spike pump margins simultaneously mid-week, then slowly decrease prices by a few cents daily over the subsequent week to compete.This creates brief artificial peaks that hold retail gas high even when crude oil prices are falling or flat.
4. Global Market Competition at the Ports- Fuel distributors unloading at Florida ports have immediate access to international buyers.If international fuel prices spike due to global supply tensions, suppliers can easily export fuel out of Florida’s ports rather than selling it locally.Local gas stations must bid higher wholesale prices to keep fuel in the state, directly passing that expense to consumers.
5. Extreme Demand and “Spring/Summer Blends”Florida’s massive tourism economy creates intense, inflexible seasonal fuel demand.To meet Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, Florida must switch completely to expensive summer-blend gasoline earlier in the spring than northern states.Refiners charge a higher premium to produce this low-evaporation blend, raising wholesale costs right as tourism driving peaks.