ORLANDO, Fla. -- Loyalty is a word today's professional athletes rarely practice when it comes to free agency and the allure of playing for a big market team. But not Dwight Howard.
EDGEWATER -- In effort to promote Bicycle Safety, the Edgewater Police Department and the Edgewater Rotary Club have teamed up with Edgewater Elementary School and Indian River Elementary School to compete in a coloring contest to encourage bicycle / helmet safety.
On Wednesday, March 28, the classroom teachers will choose three winners from each grade level. The winners will be announced by Edgewater Police Chief Dave Arcieri the next day for Indian River Elementary and that Friday for Edgewater Elementary.
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- The results of Tuesday’s primaries can be simply described: Santorum won – Gingrich lost – Romney forges ahead.
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Ponce Inlet’s Marine Science Center is nearing a decade of assistance to stranded turtles, injured seabirds and marine mammals. A new study of the exotic invader the Lion fish will shed light on where this predator came from and what we can do to rein it in before it decimates our coastal waters.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- As a relationship therapist, I am often asked the difficult questions. Can you save my marriage? We have tried everything what makes this different? Does this really work or is it just going to delay the inevitable divorce? What I have found is that most couples want their marriage to work and with a little expert coaching, guidance and a lot of effort they do work. The effort should be fun and self-rewarding! After all who doesn’t want a relationship that is fulfilling?
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- As a relationship therapist, I am often asked the difficult questions. Can you save my marriage? We have tried everything what makes this different? Does this really work or is it just going to delay the inevitable divorce? What I have found is that most couples want their marriage to work and with a little expert coaching, guidance and a lot of effort they do work. The effort should be fun and self-rewarding! After all who doesn’t want a relationship that is fulfilling?
EDGEWATER -- I read where Congress has passed and the president has signed bill HR-347, the Anti-Occupy Law, empowering federal agents to arrest and bring criminal felony charges against citizens engaged in political protests anywhere in the U.S.A. This means no protest when the president or even your local politicians are speaking. What happened to our free speech?
DAYTONA BEACH -- A 63-year-old Palm Coast motorcyclist died at Halifax Medical Center shortly after another biker turned into his lane Wednesday night on International Speedway Boulevard and made contact with his Kawasaki, Daytona Beach police said. This was the fifth Bike Week fatality.
Bruce Wynne was riding west on ISB near Williamson Boulevard when his rear tire was clipped by Thomas Castaldo, 57, of Kernersville, N.C, when he turned into the victim's lne, police said, resulting in Wynne's bike going down.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City Commissioner Jim Hathaway left Tuesday night's sparsely-attended meeting early on, saying he wasn't feeling well, but his elected colleagues agreed to formally take over the Community Redevelopment Agency, which had been semi-autonomous.
PORT ORANGE -- A Winter Springs motorcyclist became the fourth Bike Week traffic fatality Monday night in a collision with a car on Dunlawton Avenue at the intersection with North Swallowtail Drive, Port Orange police said.
The biker, Thomas J. Niedziejka, 63, died early this morning, less than eight hours after the crash. The victim was riding his 2012 Harley-Davidson without a helmet westbound on Dunlawton in the center lane when Ruthann K. Mscisz, 68, of Daytona Beach Shores, was turning her 1999 Infiniti 4-door onto Dunlawton after stopping at the intersection and onto Dunlawton, police said.
