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Dorothy Hukill needs to make 'Heartfelt apology' for radio political ad making fun of Italian-American heritage

EDGEWATER -- I find it very offensive that dist. 8 State Senate candidate Dorothy Hukill's radio ad pointing out her difference from her opponent, Frank Bruno, was to make fun of the New York-area Italian-American accent. This is an unfortunate turn of events in the campaigns.

Medicare open enrollment program Oct. 25 at Babe James Center in New Smyrna Beach

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Babe James Community Center, New Smyrna Beach / Headline SurferNEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Need to switch providers? Unsure of your current plan? Need to sign up for Medicare? Now is the time to answer all your questions. This is open season for Medicare, don't let your questions go unanswered, now is the time to get answers.

New Smyrna Beach High School Cudas remain unbeaten with 40-0 shellacking of Titusville on the road

Cudas logoCudas QB Marcus JohnsonHeadline Surfer photo by Henry Frederick / Cudas QB Marcus Johnson, shown here from the victory over Mainland last week at home,  was 9 for 13 for 178 yards and three touchdowns in the 40-0 win Thursday at Titusville.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Cudas remain unbeaten following a 40-0 shellacking of Titusville tonight on the road to improve to 6-0, their best mark in a dozen years.

New Smyrna Beach scored 27 points in the first quarter alone enroute to the shutout of the Terriers at Al Werneke Field in Titusville in the non-district football contest, but an important win nonetheless. The Cudas face District 9A foe Seabreeze a week from Friday on the road.

Heavy volume of visitors

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- As I have been concerned for nearly two weeks now, we are experiencing far greater numbers of visitors, which has resulted in intermittent crashes -- the biggest coming during the overnight hours, which has forced us to make some significant reapairs to our database.

I am hoping and praying that the situation will improve. Let me be clear about this: The interest in our 24/7 Internet newspaper is very much appreciated. We want the traffic. With our limited budget, we can only take babysteps.

FHP: Passenger dies after driver loses control of car in a Kissimmee pond

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Gertrude BazinGertrude Bazin, 37, of Kissimmee, is in serious condition this morning at at Osceola Regional Hospital after reportedly losing control of her Nissan and driving into a retention pond. A passenger died in the Thuesday evening accident.

KISSIMMEE -- A 41-year-old Orlando man who was a passenger in a car died Thursday night after the driver lost control of the vehicle on Fairweather Way near Flack Court and landed in a retention pond, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The driver, 37-year-old Gertrude Bazin of Kissimmee, and the passenger, whose name was not released, were able to free themselves from her 2002 Nissan 4-door, but her passenger was pronounced dead at the scene of the 7:20 p.m. accident. It wasn't clear from a report whether the passenger drowned or succumbed to injury.

Poor Big Bird

DEBARY-- Big Bird has now become the center of the Obama’s re-election campaign for the simple fact that Obama has nothing else to run on. He was crushingly defeated by Romney in the debate and is now using poor Big Bird as a distraction.