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Courtesy photo (near right) of Zone 2 City Commissioner Jack Grasty and NSBNEWS.net photo (far right) of candidate Palmer Wilson. Even though his first try at elective office came up short, former Zone 2 commissioner-candidate Palmer Wilson pledges to continue public discussion over ways to cut down on municipal spending in his role as private citizen.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The day after the Sept. 22 primary saw Zone 2 City Commissioner Jack Grasty as the outright victory in the Sept. 22 primary, runner-up candidate Palmer Wilson, a retired Maryland police lieutenant, offered congratulations to the incumbent and pledged to continue speaking up about ways to curb what he deems excessive municipal spending.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Felony charges have been forwarded to the State Attorney's Office for possible prosecution against four eighth-grade girls at New Smyrna Beach Middle School for ingesting prescription pills that resulted in all four being briefly hospitalized Monday morning after their teacher reported them to the principal for acting strangely in class.

EDGEWATER -- The motorcyclist killed Tuesday morning when the driver of a large rental truck ran a stop sign at the intersection of West Park Avenue an and Air Park Road has been identified by Edgewater police as 53-year-old Kevin Richard Nirschl of New Smyrna Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 26-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint last night by two men who came up from behind and knocked him to the ground, then put a gun to his head while taking personal belongings from his pockets, New Smyrna Beach police said.

Corey Alan Sarchiz was not injured in the robbery just after 10 p.m. outside Jessup's Pawn Shop, 121 N. Orange St., police said.

Courtesy photos. At far left, the stages at which an armadillo goes into its protective mode. Smaller photo, the typical image people have of armadillos are the dead ones run over by motorists.

To most folks, an armadillo is a small dead animal lying adjacent to or in the middle of nearly every road in the state of Florida. Of all the 20 species of armadillos only one makes the U.S. its home: The nine–banded armadillo has a range from South Carolina to Florida in the east and to the north commonly to Nebraska.

As a person who grew up being yelled at by teachers because I didn’t slant my written letters in the correct direction, I feel justified in commenting on how little the children of today are being taught about cursive writing.

Just because we have computers that doesn’t mean we don’t have to know how to write properly. Our written signatures are always something that is needed and should be legible. I have a friend whose handwriting was so bad she had her signature changed legally to a printed one. Before that time I had no clue one could do such a thing.

Courtesy photo/jail mug. Tony Max Olea, 42, of Edgewater, was charged with robbing a bank in Port Orange after quickly turning himself in early Monday morning.

PORT ORANGE -- A  42-year-old Edgewater man turned himself in shortly after robbing a bank early Monday, Port Orange police said.

Tony Max Olea was subsequently charged with bank robbery, having essentially called in his own arrest by dialing 9-1-1 .

EDGEWATER -- A motorcyclist in his 50s was killed early Monday when he collided with the side of a rental truck after that driver ran a stop sign at West Park Avenue and Air Park Road, Edgerwater police said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Volusia County Sheriff's Investigators have launched an investigation after four girls at New Smyrna Beach Middle School had to be hospitalized after one of them brought three different kinds of prescription pills to school and shared them with the others.

Courtesy photo/Jail mug. David McDonald, 35, of Port Orange, was arrested early Sunday morning by Volusia County Sheriff's deputies on charges of stealing $500 worth of copper from a cell tower outside the Edgewater city limits.

EDGEWATER -- When he came across two Volusia County Sheriff's deputies on Sunday morning, David McDonald told them he was just out for a bike ride.