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Ponce Inlet's finest passes on

Ponce Inlet Police Chief Wayne LurcockNSBNews.net sends its condolences to the family and friends of Ponce Inlet Police Chief Wayne Lurcock who passed away suddenly this morning. He was 60 years old.

One friend in particular is Max Binz, the department's lieutenant, who returned my call and spoke briefly since he was with Chief Lurcock's immediate family at the funeral home.

Asked to describe his relationship with Lurcock, Bin responded in a cracking voice: "He meant so much to me. It's beyond words to describe. He was my best friend."

Lurcock was hired Oct. 1, just five days shy of his one-year anniversary as Ponce Inlet's top cop. He had a long and distinguished career as a lieutenant with the Daytona Beach Police Department before that.

Working on some glitches

We have had some technical glitches related to necessary upgrades to add more pages, including crime, elections and marketing.

We will bring you the complete story on Edgewater towing situation, including nearly a dozen videos from the meeting and our exclusive weekend ride along with Myron Hammond of Edgewater Towing, who won a new two-year contract with the city of Edgewater after a heated Monday night meeting, which drew an extra large crowd due to our short advance story.

We'll also update our stories on the Hampton Inn construction, the Volusia County budget and the new salary structure for the advertising authorities.

Sera and I are very excited about the progress we're making in providing even more content.

NSBNews.net renews membership with Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce

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Volusia News Now
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Local News Now

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNews.net has renewed its annual membership with the Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce for a fourth year.

NSBNews.net provided SEV Chamber Director/Vice President Samantha Bishop with a $250 check Tuesday for the annual membership, which begins Oct. 1.

NSBnews.net's membership with the chamber has absolutely no impact on its news coverage, period.

NSBNews.net operates in New Smyrna Beach. It was launched April 7, 2008, as a 24/7 digital newspaper serving New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater and Oak Hill. In October, coverage was expanded to include all of Volusia County with a second URL label: VolusiaNews.net.

To date, NSBNews.net has amassed nearly 800,000 unique visitors and 1.3 million page views. It also has 2,500 e-mail subscribers and more than 9,100 friends/likes on Facebook. NSBNews.net's top stories and images are carried by Google News directories with unfettered and immediate placement on the world wide web.

NSBNews.net also has memberships with IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors), the National Society of Professional Journalists, the North-Central Florida chapter Society of Professional Journalists and the Florida Press Club.

NSBNews.net welcomes Dairy Queen

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Volusia News Now
Local News Now

Dairy Queen of New Smyrna BeachNEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNews.net welcomes Dairy Queen of New Smyrna Beach as our newest advertiser.

The ad will appear for one year, 24 hours a day, on the top right hand corner our home page (240 by 200 rotator) along with 600 "paste-in ads" that will appear on the bottom of our stories and blogs.

NSBNews.net is in the process of creating a Dairy Queen "web page" that you'll be able to access by clicking on the ad on the home page as well as  the ad on the stories and blogs. Dairy Queen has all that advertising for less than $2.75 a day for a whole year.

Dairy Queen has all that advertising for less than $2.75 a day for a whole year.

Although the print daily and weekly newspapers left, NSBNews.net operates right here in the heart of New Smyrna Beach. We need to work together to ride out this horrible economy and NSBNews.net can do that for you with affordable advertising that reaches far more customers than dying print media.