Edgewater

Headline Surfer photo / Volusia County Councilwoman Barara Girtman is all supportive on the dais of the Frank J. Bruno, Jr. County Council Chambers in DeLand, Florida on Tuesday, July 29, 2022.

By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer

DELAND, Fla. -- Volusia County has always been synonymous with a need for speed.

The Volusia County Council approved a new kind of speed on Tuesday for some residents in the form of broadband infrastructure.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Dense fog and thick black smoke from a controlled burn were major causes of a horrific series of crashes overnight Thursday on both sides of I-95 between Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach resulting in three fatalities and numerous injuries, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Photos for NSBNews.net by Thomas Conroy / A mail truck caught fire Thursday in Edgewater as shown here, but the carrier saved the mail inside.

EDGEWATER -- The post office motto states: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." It doesn't say anything about the mail truck catching fire.

That is exactly what occuured in the 1400 block of Willow Oak Drive in the Florida Shores subdivision when a U.S. Postal Service carrier's mail truck caught fire while he was making his appointed rounds Thursday afternoon.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- With all the religious debate of the Muslim Faith and those who run for an office of leadership, or not, and if so, should we be concerned? On personal level, I am compelled to present the following for question, “Can one be a good Muslim and still uphold the values of being a good American?”

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- While the union for 80 city employees are in amicable talks over a new contract, one particular demand has no chance of passage: A request of 6 percent annual wage hikes.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- In every day life, we scurry here and there hoping to get where ever it is we are going. And of course, we must be on time. And sure enough, we eventually get there.