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We are four days shy of one month since our April 11 launch and with 12,000 hits, NSBNEWS.net is becoming a hit. Seemingly overnight the Web site seems to take on a life of its own. Well, that is literally what is happening with still more added features. New to the list is the atomic clock in the scrolling text; our NSB News Webcast; Everyday People, Word on the Street and an Inspiring Thought. Many of these elements are added during the overnight hours because of the intense labor and tedious detail that goes into the process.

When I returned to live in New Smyrna Beach in 1968, the state of the football program had fallen on hard times. Even the heroics of superstar Harvin Clark could not produce a winning season. The won lost record of the Barracudas was abysmal. This state of affairs caught the eyes of some real doers in who decided that something had to be done.
This group, led by Dick Weaver, decided that the best way do develop a winning team was to start a little league program that was tailored to develop players to feed into the local school system.

Rural Pennsylvanians may be bitter as portrayed by Barack Obama, but we in Southeast Volusia are clearly bitten. At least not snake bitten. Instead, try shark bitten. For the fifth time in the past several weeks, a human being has been bitten by a shark. And if man and beast can co-exist, perhaps we can learn to put our petty not-in-my-backyard squabbles aside such as with the NSB airport. They say you're more likely to get struck by lightning than by a shark. After all, some 10 million of us hit the beaches here in Volusia County.

When you look at our Home page today, no doubt you will see that we have added nine pages and dozens of elements to bring NSBNews.net to 21 pages and nearly 100 click-able items on the Home page alone. This is a tremendous undertaking considering we launched the site April 11. NSBNEWS.net is the leading news provider for Southeast Volusia where local news is emphasized 24/7 in a multi-media format (word, video and audio). News of the world is brought home to you, making this a one-stop media shop.

My mother taught me how to read and write when I was 3 years old. She raised seven of us while my father worked two jobs. She gave me the foundation for what would be a career in journalism. I lost my mother nearly five years ago, but what she instilled in me endures. For those of you who have a mother, be thankful.
I know I am, even though she's gone.

It would appear that some New Smyrna Beach residents want it both ways. First they wanted to take advantage of the depressed real estate prices that pertain to property close to the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport when they bought their property. Now, they want to do away with the airport so that nasty noise will go away and their property values will go up.
No one can blame residents if they dislike the sound of airplane engines. However, the airport was built in World War II to train the “greatest generation” how to fly to protect the country from the Japanese and Germans.

There is hardly a person who has not been hit with the desire to make a speech to a graduating class to share their infinite wisdom with the graduates. Since Sunday was the day we recognize our mothers, here is some of the wisdom I received from my mom that might be most useful -- including but not limited to the benefits and pitfalls of marriage, how to manage personal finances and how to deal with others. Plus some advice on petty thieves and whiners.
One of Mother’s pet peeves was watching a movie in which the hero saves the heroine and then they get married and live happily ever after.