Darlene Vann's blog

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- I have to say I am not a fan of this bundling of items in the amendments on our recent ballot.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- The world lost a good man on Saturday. John McCain, 81, lost his long and hard fought battle with brain cancer and with it, a man who, with grace and intelligence, served his country well.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- The video parody of Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood doing the Police Lip Sync Contest is fantastic.

EDGEWATER -- I’m seeing a new trend on Facebook that I can’t say I like. People are posting that for their birthday they want their friends and family to donate to a charity they picked. Frankly, I think this is not the best idea.

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.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Today I feel like, Stop the World: I want to get off of it.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- I recently read a media report that the 118-year-old statue commemorating Stephen Foster’s “Oh, Susannah,” has been removed due to people complaining it portrays the level of the black man is below the white man.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- With President Trump having ordered military strikes against Syria in response to Assad gassing his own people, I wonder why anyone would actually think we as a people would survive all-out nuclear war should it come to that.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- This is my first Easter without my Mom.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Awhile back I was looking at the pictures of the students who walked out.