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Henry Frederick is an award-winning journalist who has covered news in Volusia County since July 1996. He was a a reporter for 8 1/2 years with the Daytona Beach News-Journal before serving as a city editor for nearly two years with the Taunton (Mass.) Daily Gazette, while still residing in Central Florida and coming home on set weekends. He was briefly managing editor of the Port Orange and New Smyrna Beach weekly editions of Hometown News, editor in 2007 of former daily New Smyrna Beach Observer and was the city reporter for the Palatka Daily News. Frederick has written literally thousands of stories for daily newspapers in Florida, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Frederick created and launched NSBNEWS.net on April 7, 2008, with assistance from friend, Peter Mallory. NSBNEWS.net has grown from a small Web site with a couple hundred hits daily to a continuously updated media source for Southeast Volusia with 1,200 hits daily and several thousand page views. Frederick has amassed a small army of volunteer bloggers. He writes most of the Web site's stories, sells advertising to support the Web site and works tirelessly every day to ensure round the clock media coverage for greater New Smyrna Beach. Frederick and his wife, Sera, are fixtures at New Smyrna Beach City Commission meetings where they videotape highlights and they have amassed a video catalogue with more than 300 videos of community events and breaking news. Frederick was instrumental in organizing three successful candidate debates. He posted the Top 100 stories of 2008, and recently established a new investigative series: Show Me The Money." Frederick's Web site has grown to the point where its Web traffic is recognized and monitored by Google. NSBNEWS.net also has more than 2,500 e-mail subscribers who receive breaking news alerts.

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By Stan Escudero

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- In the past week Mitt Romney won big in Nevada, where he took 50% of the vote (55% in 2008) and Rick Santorum swept the three beauty contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.

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DAYTONA BEACH -- The Junior League of Daytona Beach hosted over 700 attendees at its 10th annual Sweetheart's Ball on Saturday night at the Hilton Daytona Beach Resort.

The father/daughter formal dinner dance is a signature fundraiser for the Junior League, with proceeds benefitting community projects that directly impact the lives of families in need, expectant and new mothers, students struggling to succeed, and children dealing with the loss of a loved one.

Serafina Frederick is multimedia editor for NSBNews.net. She graduated magna cum laude from Ana G. Mendez University System of Puerto Rico (Orlando campus) with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a major in computer information systems. She has previously worked in office/bookkeeping and merchandising. She lives in New Smyrna Beach with her husband, Henry Frederick, editor/publisher/CEO of NSBNews.net.

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By Pavlina Osta

PORT ORANGE -- I talked with multi-talented star, Boo Boo Stewart in Orlando recently, and if you are familiar with the Twilight saga, you'll know him from his most popular role; he plays the character, Seth Clearwater.