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DELAND -- It's easy, anonymous and could put up to $1,000 in someone's pocket. It's the crime-fighting Crime Stoppers program, and officials investigating a pipe bomb explosion early Sunday morning near DeLand are hoping that someone with information about the incident will call the tip line and claim a reward.

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DELTONA -- A precautionary boil-water notice is in effect for all homes on Stone Island in Southwest Volusia County.

Utilities crews shut off water at 11:30 a.m. Thursday to make repairs on a six-inch water main break. Residents are advised to bring tap water to a rolling boil for one minute before using it for drinking, cooking or ice-making.

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Photos by Henry Frederick / The chair assigned to New Smyrna Beach CRA Vice Chairman Steve Dennis is empty Wednesday.  To the left (as shown in the photo) is Chairman Charles Belote and to the right is member Chad Shilsky.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH --  Community Redevelopment Agency Vice Chairman Steve Dennis, who hasn't missed a meeting "in years," was a no-show for Wednesday's meeting at city hall.

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File photos / Palmer Wilson (shown far left) and Marilee Walters have informed NSBNews.net they will no longer submit blog entries in protest to the premiere of Mayor Adam Barringer's new blog.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Two community bloggers with NSBNews.net have demanded their blogs be taken down in protest to Mayor Adam Barringer's inclusion as a blogger.

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Photos by Henry Frederick / NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Felix Mathew of Alberta, Canada, wipes the seat to his Harley-Davidson in the parking lot of Denny's restaurant on State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach as the rain does its thing.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- What a difference a week makes when it comes to the weather. Rainfall was the order of the morning Wednesday before giving way to sunny skies.

Here is a telling quote from a speech by our President Barrack Obama: "We are not a Christian Nation."

Editor's Note: NSB Mayor Adam Barringer writes exclusively for NSBNews.net, New Smyrna Beach's daily Internet newspaper

The Internet has passed print newspapers as a source of political news for American readers, especially the most politically engaged. Therefore, I have accepted an invitation by NSBNEWS.Net to write a blog,

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Author Les Standiford will discuss his new book, “Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America,” at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library at 7 p.m. Monday. The book recounts the 1981 kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh and the police investigation that took 27 years to close.

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Courtesy photos by Sandi Carroll / Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach presents its newest play "Foxfire."

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Annie Nations, an indomitable Appalachian widow of 79, lives on her mountain farm with the acerbic ghost of her husband, Hector.

And so goes "Foxfire,"  a dramatic play by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn Performances that opens Friday at the Little Theatre.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Arts lovers Tod and Amanda Chismark had no problem plunking down a grand on artwork at the Atlantic Center for the Arts' annual "Horsin' Around" on Sunday.