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Courtesy photo. Victor Wainright and The Wildroots Band will perform 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Coronado Civic Center, 223 Flagler Ave., New Smyrna Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Victor Wainright and The Wildroots Band bring their special blend of music and song to the Coronado Civic Center on Friday night.

Included in the two fifty minute sets, from 6 to 8.m., will be tunes from Wainright's new Cd “ Beale Street to the Bayou’’ that is high on the National Blues charts.

Courtesy photo/left. NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick, at right. John Drago, former finalist for city manager in New Smyrna Beach and DeBary, is among six vying for the top job in Orange City. New Smyrna Beach tabbed Pam Brangaccio to replaced fired John Hagood last July, first as interim for six months and then permanently in January at an annual salary of $120,000.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Former city manager candidate John Drago is now a finalist for the same position in Orange City. Drago, former Longwood city administrator, was among the New Smyrna Beach City Commission's Top 4 candidates from a pool of nearly 100 last summer when then-Mayor Sally Mackay suggested the commissioners diversity the finalist since the final four were all white men. Pam Brangaccio was added.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Linda M. Lockwood, 45, was the Ohio woman on the back of a Harley-Davidson thrown from the bike operated by her companion Sunday on the opening weekend of Bike Week that resulted in her death and him clinging to his life in critical condition at Halifax Medical Center, after colliding with a fellow Ohio biker and friend as they were riding on the beachside in what is now the motorcycle rally's first fatality.

Lockwood, though is more than a statistic. She was the mother of two children and ran her own home day care.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. Lori Chamberlain, 41, a bartender at Pub 44, poses for the camera with a big, beautiful smile. This motorcycle, was spotted in Pub 44's parking lot, also the object of the camera, but for obviously different reasons.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- No doubt about it: Pub 44 bartender Lori Chamberlain is gorgeous. When this 41-year-old head turner is away from the Bike Week scene she loves her two boys, Nicholas, 6, and Christopher, 12, her dogs, cats, gardening and going to the beach.

Outside in the parking lot, a motorcycle stood on its kickstand, its wretched existence bared to all who would walk by and mock it. This hunk of junk, too, is a head turner. Welcome to Bike Week's "Beauty and the Beast."

Courtesy photo. Martha Wheeler has been named "Volunteer of the Year at New Smyrna Beach Middle School for investing in the lives of children at the school.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Martha Wheeler, a volunteer at New Smyrna Beach Middle School for more than eight years, was recently named "Volunteer of the Year."

She volunteers in the media center each week and serves on the Mentor Program Board of Directors, keeping the files and records of the program in perfect order.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Small Business Development Center will present a seminar entitled: Get Your Business Ready for the Good Times to Come – Listening to Your Business. The session will be 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. Thursday at the New Smyrna Beach-Edgewater campus of Daytona State College, 940 Tenth St., portable 101, New Smyrna Beach.

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DELAND -- Volusia County business and economic development leaders are encouraging business owners not to miss out on an opportunity for an annual tax credit, as much as $2,500 per student, to pay for college expenses.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNEWS.net is, by far, the strongest New Smyrna Beach-based online media outlet, according to competeinc.com, an analytics marketing company that ranks Web sites worldwide.

Locally, among the three New Smyrna Beach-based media Web sites, NSBNEWS.net is tops with a worldwide ranking of 163,247 in January, with 9,418 unique visitors.
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