NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Progress is something New Smyrna Beach says it wants and encourages, just not in the back yards of anyone influential. The way they see it, it should only be allowed in certain sections of the city like way out west on State Road 44. There is always a group that rises up and protests: “Not in my back yard!”
DEBARY -- John Kerry had his unsuccessful bid to become president, but his campaign allowed a state senator from Illinois to have a prime speaking spot, thus setting up America's futurewith someone far worse than the Conservatives could ever imagine in Barack Obama.
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Headline Surfer videos/photos by Sera Frederick / Thousands enjoy Edgewater's July 4th fireworks off Riverside Drive.Edgewater -- Riley Wood was decked out with a homemade Independence Day hat as he arrived wih his parents for the Fourth of July fireworks. Asked if he made the hat," the 6-year-old New Smyrna Beach boy answered, "Yeah, with mommy."
DAYTONA BEACH -- Bill Nelson, the Sunshine State's senior senator and highest ranking Democrat, easily won re-election to a third six-year term over Republican Congressman Connie Mack, IV, garnering more than 55 percent of the votes. But he didn't take Volusia County for granted in the waning weeks of the elction, making a pitstop in Daytona Beach.
Photos for Headline Surfer / Robert Fortner, a Republican state committeeman from DeLand, cheers during Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.TAMPA -- Robert Fortner, a GOP state committeeman from DeLand, liked what he heard from Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in his acceptance speech at the convention.
The impressions of Volusia County Republicans who attended the convention comes in No. 50 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the top 100 local stories of 2012.
"He gave us what we wanted to hear," the 68-year-old retired custom automotive car and boat manufacturer said on his way back to his hotel. "He had a job to do to accept the nomination and he delivered. He was very positive for the country's future."
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Daytona Beach's most renowned hotelier, Thomas William Staed, the chairman and chief executive of the family owned Staed Family Associates, died peacefully, in his sleep on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. He was 81 years old.
SAMSULA -- The Samsula Woman's Club has published a fourth edition in its series of country cookbooks.
The recipes were contributed by members of the community service club as well as good cooks throughout the Samsula area. The group dedicated their latest cookbook to the late Georgia Luzner Tomazin Nyburg, past president and last surviving charter member, said Ruth McCormick, president of the Samsula Women's Club.
Proceeds from the cookbook are used to provide scholarships for local students and assistance to the community. The cookbooks will be on sale each day at the Florida SNPJ Polka Festival, March 1-3, SNPJ Lodge, 421 N. Samsula Drive.
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- Everyone knows that Barack Obama is a constant congenital liar. But since his inauguration diatribe and the masterpiece of mendacity that was his State of the Union address, I have given up trying to isolate individual untruths. Now I try, with decreasing success, to find something he says which is true.
Pool video by Cental Florida News 13 / Headline Surfer / Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, reads to children at Inspirations Learning Center in Daytona Beach during her visit on Oct. 25. DAYTONA BEACH -- Ann Romney visited a beachside school this morning.
