ORLANDO -- No sooner had suspected killer James Holmes gunned down a dozen innocent lives in a Colorado movie theater at the midnight showing of a "The Dark Knight Rises," than a pernicious media turned it’s stale, rebarbative eye toward the issue of guns and cinema. Bodies were still warm.
ORMOND BEACH -- Okay, we’re back to guns again. A horrible scene in New York City on Friday left two dead, including the gunman, and nine others wounded. A man, distraught because he had been laid off, brought a gun to work and shot the vice president of the company in the head right outside the Empire State Building.
EDGEWATER -- Looking at the results of the recent primary election just confirmed what I had originally thought. The population keeps moaning about how things aren’t right, then they vote the same people into one office or another and expect change.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City Commissioner Jim Hathaway has two reasons to celebrate: First, he won the Aug. 14 primary for the dist. 3 seat on the Volusia County Council. Second, his son Spencer Stratton Hathaway, celebrated his birthday.
OCALA -- When Frank Bruno takes to the podium at the Ocean Center on Monday, he'll have trekked across five Central Florida counties in just a matter of days in his dual role as the face of Volusia County government and as Democratic candidate for the newly redrawn dist. 8 seat in the State Senate.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In no national election since Goldwater vs. Johnson in 1964 or Reagan vs. Carter in 1980, has there been a clearer choice about America’s path to the future than that taking place in November.
Headline Surfer videos by Sera Frederick / Panelists Sally Gillies of Ormond Beach and Stan Escudero answer questions from moderator Henry Frederick.
Big Lots is the new anchor tenant for the NSB Regional Shopping Center, along with a new Bealls Outlet, replacing Walmart as shown here, which closed last year with the relocation of a new Walmart Supercenter further west on State Road 44. Additionally, the city is getting a Dollar General Market where the old Food Lion was on the beachside before it closed in February.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The city is getting an infusion of new stores at the NSB Regional Shopping Center with a Big Lots and Bealls Outlet and a Dollar General is moving in where the Food Lion was on the beachside.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Two key shopping centers are getting new tenants.
