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Strategies for first-timers who want to get the most out of counseling
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Therapy is similar to exercise in many ways.
Memorial Day Forecast: 70% chance of rain, but for those planning to hit the beaches anyway in Daytona, New Smyrna, Ormond, Ponce Inlet & the Shores, here are safety tips from Volusia County
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Melbourne are predicting a 70 percent chance of rain on Memorial Day for Central Florida, but that won't keep people from hitting the beaches.
Family Pride on Memorial Day
EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Memorial day is just a day to any but to those of us who have relatives who served and perhaps were wounded and died for their country it is a very special day.
Congressman Ron DeSantis on Memorial Day: Recognizing heroism of men & women who gave ultimate sacrifice to defend freedoms we enjoy daily
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PALM COAST, Fla. -- The message for today's sacred holiday from Congressman Ron DeSantis is short, sweet and to the point: "On Memorial Day we recognize the heroism of the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice to defend the freedoms we enjoy daily."
Memorial Day: Oak hill widow pays homage to military vets in Edgewater Cemetery
Headline Surfer / YouTube download / Ignited3 video / This is a video from 2012 that Volusia County resident Jackie Brantley posted on her Facebook page to commemorate Memorial day. She also posted photos she took (above and below) while visiting the Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery, 700 S. Ridgewood Ave., Edgewater on this Memorial Day holiday.
By HENRY FREDERICK
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Far cry from monster in movie Jaws: Mount Dora fisherman bitten by 3-foot lemon shark after freeing it from hook in Ponce Inlet; boy, 12, bitten in Daytona
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PONCE INLET, Fla. -- So much for kindness: a 3-foot Lemon shark turned around and nipped a Mount Dora man on the foot after the fisherman went through the trouble of releasing it from his fishing hook on Sunday, the second of two shark-bite incidents reported over the Memorial Day weekend.
Memorial Day: Volusia County Councilwoman Billie Wheeler's unusual first name honors heroic uncle who died in Battle of the Bulge
Video by Headline Surfer / Theme song for Billie Wheeler.
By HENRY FREDERICK
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DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- For the first time since she was elected to the Volusia County Council, Billie Wheeler took to social media to explain her unusual first name and its connection to Memorial Day.
Despite Sheriff Mike Chitwood's incessant vitriol and vulgar attacks, longtime county manager Jim Dinneen & majority of elected council members have Volusia headed in the right direction
DELAND, Fla. -- Despite the acrimony of the past two weeks since the series of well-played front page stories in the Daytona Beach News-Journal on the so-called crisis in the county morgue, Sheriff Mike Chitwood has been beating the drum for the heasd of longtime County Manager Jim Dinneen on a silver platter for he is the one Chitwood has been going after since his first few weeks in office.