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Pulling the plug
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH - Engineers around the world have worked for decades to invent an electric car that wouldn't need recharging. The Chinese alone have reportedly spent billions of dollars to unlock the key to a vehicle unencumbered by the need for a plug. So the...
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New Bike Week rules adopted, fees dropped
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DAYTONA BEACH - Change is coming for bar owners, vendors and property owners who want to participate in special events such as Bike Week. Zone 2 Commissioner Pam Woods says those who benefit from the events need to pay for what it costs the city. "Public safety is the No. 1 issue of people I represent. I don't ...
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Riding in style
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Dan Young of Ormond Beach pulls his daughter Tyler Young, 3, in a custom built Radio Flyer wagon during the Advanced Technology College Car Show in Daytona Beach recently....
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Citizen thanks Holly Hill police officer for compassion
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HOLLY HILL - Robert "Allen" Campbell struggled with depression, alcohol dependency and suicidal thoughts for a long time, according to his former girlfriend, Wendy Longstaffe. That's how Investigator Walter Melton of the Holly Hill Police Department came to meet him. In October, the investigator had volu...
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Sales of local artist's prints will benefit grief centers
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Gregory Graham Grant, local artist and owner of ArtQuest Art Studio, is healing the hearts of grieving children one painting at a time. "Sanibel Tides" is Mr. Grant's latest oil painting, and it's is helping to fund Hearts & Hooves, an equine-related program facilitated by Halifax Health - Hospice's Lawrence E. Whelan BeginAgai...
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New pavilion for events coming soon to Shores park
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DAYTONA BEACH SHORES - With the arrival of spring, it won't be flowers blooming in one city park - it will be a large pavilion for city events. The new pavilion, located in the west side of Max Samuely Park, is the first phase of a park restoration project including new landscaping, refurbished brick pavers,...
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Hit and run driver's trial postponed again
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH - The local woman accused of driving off after killing 42-year-old Glen Gagnon with her truck on the North Causeway in 2008 just got another brief reprieve from justice. After a few dozen continuances requested by her lawyer over three years, Jana Grant, 60, was scheduled for trial on ...
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Conklin Center helping blind live independently
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DAYTONA BEACH - Though he's blind in one eye and barely makes out vague shadows with the other, Cody Cameron boasts of having been a video gamer for 15 of his 20 years of life. He listens for telltale sounds in each game to indicate which direction to move or shoot or jump. If he fails once, the next t...
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Local paddleboard crafter rides wave of success
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EDGEWATER - The waves in nearby New Smyrna Beach are certainly famous to surfers, but two area men want to make the area famous for another type of surfing - the suddenly popular stand-up paddle boarding. Waves optional. Last June, Tim Baker of East Coast Paddle Inc. and Chris Stallard of Halifax Glass...
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Football field to memorialize NSBHS alumnus and soldier
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH - By all accounts, U.S. Army Sgt. Arthur Williams IV loved the uniform, loved the team and gave both his all - on the football field and the battlefield. But on only one did he make the ultimate sacrifice. New Smyrna Beach High School will name its practice football field in honor of the ...
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Three Chimneys open house planned
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ORMOND BEACH - The Ormond Beach Historical Society will host the sixth annual open house at the Three Chimneys Sugar Mill Plantation, 715 W. Granada Blvd., Feb. 12. This is an opportunity for the public to see this piece of colonial architecture and industrial history. During the rest of the year, access to the ruins is through...
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Choc-o-holic
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Lily Lehr, 7, of Port Orange attempts to sample more than 25 desserts from area restaurants during the Chocolate Festival at the VFW Post 3282 in Port Orange Saturday. The festival benefits the Courtney Anne Rice Performing Arts Scholarships program. For more information, call (386) 767-2142 or e-mail lew-shirley-ri...
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'Group effort' completes Rose Bay restoration
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PORT ORANGE - A two-decade, $50-million effort to change the waters of Rose Bay from mucky brown to clear blue has come to an end. Following heavy post-World War II development, leaky septic tanks and contaminated stormwater caused muck to flood the waters of Rose Bay, a natural estuary on U.S. 1 remembered ...
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Road extension, shopping center worries nearby residents
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PORT ORANGE - Katherine Negrini moved here from Ormond Beach just over three and a half years ago and built a house in a neighborhood known for its "quiet, peaceful, country-like setting." Indeed, on a recent sunny afternoon, it was very quiet in her backyard until the school bell at Spruce Creek High School...
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Adrift in a sea of love
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I have always been quite smooth when it comes to the ladies. My prowess was evident as far back as the fifth grade. That year, I had my eye on a cute little French Cajun girl in my class. When it was time to make my move, I was nervous. Summoning up all of my powers, I passed her a note that must have been noticeably dam...
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Law enforcement agencies upping enforcement of 'Move Over Law'
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TALLAHASSEE - More than 170 law enforcement officers in the United States have died after being struck by motor vehicles since 1999. Thousands have been injured. To make the roadways safer for everyone, including law enforcement officers and emergency workers who often work roadside, the director of the Florida Highway Patrol,...
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