NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Cudas football team (1-0) travels to Ormond Beach Friday to play Seabreeze. The game starts at 7 p.m.
The Cudas opened the 2010 season last Friday with a 21-0 win on the road against Pine Ridge in Deltona. Pine Ridge never got its offense rolling when it counted, with two costly turnovers, including a fumble on the Cudas' goal line in the second half.
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EDGEWATER -- The Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce continues its "Lunch and Learn Series: Doing Business in Southeast Volusia" with a presentation Wednesday by Rick Fraser of the Center for Business Excellence.
The CBE is designed to be the premier organization for employment and training solutions to the businesses and workforce of Volusia and Flagler Counties.
As the budget process proceeds to its climatic end on Sept. 28, I thought about how we got to the mess we are in. In my opinion, it boils down to a failure of the City and the City Commission to hold the line on costs while continuing to spend with abandon on non-essential programs in the face of a recession and dwindling income.
Courtesy photo / Volusia County. A Votran bus heads west on Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach in this photo. The county came up with a "flex" schedule to lessen the blow of some routes eliminated for greater New Smyrna Beach resulting from budget cuts.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Votran’s new flex service will hit the roads in Southeast Volusia beginning Oct. 4. To ensure riders are prepared for the new “call-first” curb-to-curb, flexible transportation service, staff is hosting a rider orientation open house 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Brannon Center.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Tara Jean Yunker, the 16-year-old New Smyrna Beach girl missing since Friday when she left her mother a note and ran off has been safely found, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office confirmed just after 9 p.m.
By MARK WILLIAMS For NSBNEWS.net
PORT ORANGE -- A Spruce Creek High School football player is on the road to recovery after being hit hard during football practice earlier this week and going into cardiac arrest
Jordan Petersen, 17, collided with another player during practice late Tuesday afternoon. Authorities said he got up, took a couple of steps and collapsed.
He was rushed to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach were doctors placed him in a medically induced coma.
I read Time magazine's Aug. 30 Issue, "Is America Islamophobic? What the anti-mosque uproar tells us about how the US regards Muslims." The article by Bobby Ghosh is a must read.
The way literally hundreds of people rallied around the New Smyrna Beach mother of a teenage runaway who was safely reunited with her six days later is among myriad reasons why I call New Smyrna Beach home, where I raise my family and where I work.
Even with public glare of her 16-year-old daughter having been through rehab for prescription pills and alcohol, Jeannie Yunker put her family privacy aside to give law enforcement all the important information needed to try and bring her home unharmed.
