The average person when encountering the word ‘bear’ would think along the lines of a grizzly, brown, black, or polar bear. Certainly only a few people would think about the water bear, which is among the most unknown and most fascinating creatures on earth.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- As I drove two of my daughters to New Smyrna Beach High School on Monday, May 9, I saw a sign on the building: "FOR SALE." I thought, "Ha! That's a good one."
It was carefully tied 20 feet above the ground. I laughed when I saw that the 2011 senior class took credit for it. Of course, this is the school prank of 2011 that seniors traditionally leave behind.
Jim Tager, principal of the high school said he doesn't know who did it. He's glad this year's prank was not anything destructive. His biggest worry was how high off the ground it was placed by someone.
It would seem that a cherry picker type of vehicle would have done it because of the slope on the roof below it and the height of the rope tied, but I don't think the school should focus on who did it.
My daughters saw rubber ducks in the school's pond one recent year. As long as no one is hurt and there is no property damage I think this is a fun way to have the school administration, students and teachers to remember each unique group of graduates.
EDGEWATER -- A barefoot man barrelled his way into a woman's home Thursday and demanded pills before he ran off with undisclosed amount property, Edgewater police said.
The victim was accosted at 10:20 a.m. in her India Palm Drive home by a stranger as she was walking inside and forced her in the rest of the way.
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Courtesy photo / Osama bin Laden, the face of evil, is no more.
In a previous blog, I gave President Obama failing grades across the board for his first 100 days in office. Mr. President, I now give you an A-plus for the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. I also give an A-plus to the intelligence ops and the Navy SEALS who carried out the brave mission across the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
May 1, 2011, will go down in history as the day the news circled around the world in an instant: The most wanted terrorist on the planet, who has killed thousands of innocence people, including Muslims, during 9/11, was dead.
OAK HILL -- I’ve been reading with interest the fiasco that Oak Hill has become. What puzzles me most is why the city doesn’t find it necessary to do background checks on all its employees.
The second annual Jammin' in the Park by the New Smyrna Beach High School Cudas band and others has come and gone, but the music and the energy continues from the April 9 fundraiser at Hawk's Park in Edgewater.
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?
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a slow-moving filter feeding shark and the largest of the living fish species. The largest confirmed shark is 41 feet long and the heaviest weighs more than 79,000 pounds. However, there are unconfirmed reports of whale sharks that are even larger.
