ORMOND BEACH -- Okay, we’re back to guns again. A horrible scene in New York City on Friday left two dead, including the gunman, and nine others wounded. A man, distraught because he had been laid off, brought a gun to work and shot the vice president of the company in the head right outside the Empire State Building.
EDGEWATER -- Looking at the results of the recent primary election just confirmed what I had originally thought. The population keeps moaning about how things aren’t right, then they vote the same people into one office or another and expect change.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City Commissioner Jim Hathaway has two reasons to celebrate: First, he won the Aug. 14 primary for the dist. 3 seat on the Volusia County Council. Second, his son Spencer Stratton Hathaway, celebrated his birthday.
OCALA -- When Frank Bruno takes to the podium at the Ocean Center on Monday, he'll have trekked across five Central Florida counties in just a matter of days in his dual role as the face of Volusia County government and as Democratic candidate for the newly redrawn dist. 8 seat in the State Senate.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In no national election since Goldwater vs. Johnson in 1964 or Reagan vs. Carter in 1980, has there been a clearer choice about America’s path to the future than that taking place in November.
Headline Surfer videos by Sera Frederick / Panelists Sally Gillies of Ormond Beach and Stan Escudero answer questions from moderator Henry Frederick.
Big Lots is the new anchor tenant for the NSB Regional Shopping Center, along with a new Bealls Outlet, replacing Walmart as shown here, which closed last year with the relocation of a new Walmart Supercenter further west on State Road 44. Additionally, the city is getting a Dollar General Market where the old Food Lion was on the beachside before it closed in February.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The city is getting an infusion of new stores at the NSB Regional Shopping Center with a Big Lots and Bealls Outlet and a Dollar General is moving in where the Food Lion was on the beachside.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Two key shopping centers are getting new tenants.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Gov. Rick Scott today announced the appointment of Judge Wendy W. Berger, of St. Augustine to the 5th District Court of Appeal.
Judge Berger, 43, has served on the 7th Judicial Circuit Court since 2005. Previously, from 2001 to 2005, she served as an assistant general counsel in the Executive Office of the Governor. From 1993 to 2000, she served as an assistant state attorney for the 7th Judicial Circuit.
Judge Berger received bachelor's and law degrees from Florida State University.
