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Courtesy photo /A weeklong celebration of drinking water by the Utilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach next month includes a bus tour of its facilities.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Utilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach, in conjunction with the American Water Works Association, welcomes "Drinking Water Week 2011," an annual celebration of our most precious natural resource.

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Courtesy photo / Mayor Darla Lauer, in a running battle with embattled Police Chief Diane Young, an admitted cocaine user whom the mayor didn't want on the force to begin with, stepped down Wednesday as the city's first publicly-elected mayor.

OAK HILL -- In this small riverfront city beset by corruption in the police force and recent revelations that its clerk/administrator was convicted of DUI before taking the job, Mayor Darla Lauer abruptly resigned today.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Utilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach has received a safety award from the Florida Municipal Electric Association  for its continued commitment to safe work practices during the past year.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- I remember well how things were in 1991. The USSR imploded and the United States was on top of the world.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Utilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach has introduced new electric rebates for small commercial customers.

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Courtesy photo /What career criminal and accused killer Henry Ford Wheeler was doing in a bar that led to him getting beaten up overnight Sunday is a police mystery.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Once again, Henry Ford Wheeler found trouble or maybe this time trouble found him: He was beaten up overnight Sunday at a beachside bar, but police were sketchy on details.

“The fact is, elections shouldn’t matter as much as they do.” It’s disconcerting to see this statement by a member of the U.S. House in light of the uproar going on in the Middle Eastern countries.  Not just any member, mind you, but the Democtrats' leading voice on Capitol Hill, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

In a novel by Dostoyevsky, the Grand Inquisitor reasons with a returned Jesus who has been going around healing people, apologizing for the fact that the Established Church will have to crucify Him again because He doesn’t agree with their religion. With just such a line of reasoning, Republicans are piously attempting to crucify President Obama for not agreeing with their right-wing perversion of the GOP.

Every day now we awake to new more dire predictions of a massive nuclear meltdown in Japan in as many as four reactors from the recent earthquake and Tsunami, yet another revolution in the Middle East with a sadistic insane leader ordering his troops to shoot his own people and the U. N. Security Council resolution instituting a no-fly zone over Libya. That resolution also authorizes “all necessary means” to enforce that resolution. What does that mean?

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Photo by environmental attorney Clay Henderson of New Smyrna Beach / This is what Henderson wrote on Facebook: "Beautiful moonrise over Indian River Lagoon from along Riverside Drive. I never wanted to live anywhere else."