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New Smyrna Beach High School students, staff, administrators and alumni alike are known for their 'Cudas football team as shown in this photo and that spirit will be magnified with the rallying cry to wear "black" Friday night at home against rival Mainland High of Daytona Beach.

By Chris Atwell

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- 'Cudas Athletic Director Jose Fernandez asks that everyone "Black Out" for the rivalry game Friday nigh at the New Smyrna Beach Stadium  with visiting Mainland High School of Daytona Beach.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The City Commission approved its $48 million budget for the new fiscal year Tuesday night with no acrimony, ensuring New Smyrna Beach ranks second to the bottom in tax rates across Volusia County during a time when taxpayers everywhere are screaming for relief.

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Councilwoman Debra Rogers said she voted to reappoint Robert Lott to the city's Economic Development Board because there was no one else.

EDGEWATER -- Robert Wayne Lott was not at Monday night's City Council meeting when he was unanimously re-appointed to the city's Economic Development Board.

EDGEWATER -- Emergency services officials in Edgewater want to assure residents and merchants alike that there is a number to call in dealing with stormwater drainage flooding with the tropical depressssion approaching.

"As Tropical Depression #16 approaches our area, Edgewater Fire Rescue would like to inform residents that during the day (Tuesday) workers assured the function of all of the stormwater drainage systems throughout the City," said Jill Danigel, spokeswoman and captain of the Edgewater Fire Rescue.

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Dr. Ian Day, chief of the medical staff at Bert Fish Medical Center is urging the public to attend tonight's 5 o'clock meeting of the Southeast Volusia Hospital Authority at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library to understand the stakes are high and that the merger with Florida Hospital is in the best interests of the greater New Smyrna Beach community served by Bert Fish. Please click the attachment to read Day's personal plea of support for the recent merger.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Retiring Volusia County Councilman Jack Hayman said tonight's 5 p.m. meeting of the Southeast Volusia Hospital Authority at the New Smyrna Beach Library to redo in the "sunshine" its discussions over the future of Bert Fish Medical Center is something that not only is important in his lifetime.

Robert Wayne Lott has had a lot of influence in public and private entities over the last half decade in greater NSB, but his financial and personal interests are being called into question by his critics, local officials and the federal government. NSBNEWS.net presents its investigative series "Lott of Influence."

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Tony Owens, 21, of New Smyrna Beach, wanted on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Cliff Dallas Baker, 26, of Oak Hill, early Saturday, was apprehended at the Wal-Mart later that night at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The 21-year-old New Smyrnan wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the early Saturday morning shooting death of an Oak Hill man in the 600 block of Greenlawn Street was apprehended without incident later that night at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach, New Smyrna Beach police said.

Tony Owens was being held without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A single-engine plane registered in New Smyrna Beach that took off from Edgewater's small airport crashed in Georgia Friday night, killing two of three people on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- I am extremely upset that the "Merchants of Flagler" are going after CRA dollars for new Christmas decorations, $42,000 to be precise. I am a merchant there.