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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A search is under way for a 15-year-old boy who allegedly threw a stick at a passing school bus heading north in the 800 block of South Myrtle Avenue this afternoon that injured three kids on board when a window was shattered, New Smyrna Beach police said,

The incident happened at 4 p.m. just north of the New Smyrna Beach Middle School by the boy, whose name was not released by police because of his age and believed to be a middle school student.

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NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. Early Voting for the Sept. 22 primary begins 8 a.m. today at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library. Early voting will run 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day through Saturday at the library, 1001 S. Dixie Freeway.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Early Voting for the Sept. 22 primary gets under way 8 a.m. today at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, 1001 S. Dixie Freeway.

Those registered to vote in the primary can cast their vote in three races:

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NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Adam Barringer, candidate for mayor, attends the Aug. 19 City Commission meeting on the Angler's Yacht Club. Neither Barringer nor several other members of the Angler's in attendance that night addressed the commission as attorneys for both sides spoke about the repercussions of litigation should the city try and invalidate a 99-year lease the club signed with the city in 1944 for exclusive rights to prime riverfront acreage on the North Causeway for $25 annually. The commission that night voted 4-1 to negotiate with the Angler's on a revised lease.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mayoral candidate Adam Barringer makes no bones about his boating hobby: "I am an Angler. I will continue to be an Angler. "

Courtesy photo. Tara Sullivan, East Florida fundraising coordinator of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, receives a check for $11,020 from New Smyrna Beach Fire Department Lt. Chris Dymond, IAFF MDA coordinator.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The New Smyrna Beach Fire Department and Local 2271 International Association of Fire Fighters raised a record $11,020 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association during the Labor Day weekend "boot drive."

Sept. 12, 2009: Dennis J. Haycock, New Smyrna Beach, and Vinnette J. Lipe, Edgewater.

Larry E. Daum, 51, of New Smyrna Beach, a former groundskeeper for the University of Maryland, died Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.

Louise Bowen Schmidt Corey, 83, of Edgewater, a lifelong nurse who completed graduate work in nursing administration, died Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Sera Frederick. Visiting Seabreeze was too much on both sides of the ball for the 'Cudas at home Friday night in a 33-14 loss. Senior quarterback A.J. Granger handed off to running back Stephen Jackson for a first-half score and scored himself on a second half goal-line plunge, but scoring opportunities were few and far between.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Robert Tolley and Robert Rees of the Public Watch Committee will host Saturday's second and final "Peoples' Candidates Debate" leading to the Sept. 22 primary.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The second and final candidates debate in advance of the Sept. 22 primary will be held 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the United Church of Christ meeting hall, 203 Washington St.