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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Forough Hosseini tugs on the door at the former Walter A. Hurst School just north of the Daytona Beach city limits in adjacent Holly Hill in an impoverished neighborhood that served as its elementary school for many years before its closing nearly a decade ago.

Hosseini knows all too well the strengths and weaknesses of Daytona, the Central Florida tourism hub on the East end of interstates 4 and 95, that is home to the World's Most Famous Beach®, where speed was born.

New Smyrna Beach politician endorses Ormond Beach attorney & fellow GOPer Tom Leek against Democrat Noel Bickford for Tallahassee seat 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Citing "pressing family matters," Volusia County Councilwoman Deb Denys said she has withdrawn her candidacy from the Florida House 25th district.

Denys instead will serve out the remaining two years in her district 3 Volusia County Council seat in DeLand, which is much closer to her New Smyrna Beach residence than trekking to Tallahassee.

DAYTOA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County’s Charter Review Commission will meet 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the 2nd-floor Dennis R. McGee Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport, 700 Catalina Drive. Main topic: Proposed charter amendment relating to the Volusia Growth Management Commission. Please visit www.volusia.org/countycharter.

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DELTONA, Fla. -- Watch free movies at the Deltona Regional Public Library, 2150 Eustace Ave.

April’s lineup includes these PG-13 movies:  

DELTONA, Fla. -- Starting Jnue, garbage taken to the curb on collection day must be done so in a trash bin after it is bagged. Waste Pro will pick up two garbage bins & unlimited recycling. Residents may add a second bin, from Waste Pro ($75) or from a hardware store, but it must be square with a hinged-lid & compatible with Waste Pro's automated trucks.

Cory Lancaster's last day March 29; prep sports writer Brian Linder bolting, too

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Editor Pat Rice got bummed out when up-and-coming reporter Andrew Gant, who followed him from Panma City to Daytona, got hired away by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office to crank out the steady diet of press releases the newspaper has long since come to rely on.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Nearly two dozen city parks are up for adoption as part of a new program launched by the City of New Smyrna Beach. From small, 1-acre pocket parks to larger waterfront public areas with playgrounds, individuals and groups may sign up to clean up a park for one year.

OAK HILL, Fla. -- During 2015, your city commission was very busy with many issues. The City continued free annexations. Doing so has lead to eight annexations into the City. An official zoning map was approved after 20 years without one.

Sunrise Park was purchased from the J.R. Vann Family for $125,000. Grants were obtained for the purchase by Planning Solu-tions, to off set the cost to the City.

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt -- Pay no attention to the cluster of establishment clowns behind the curtain: for all their venom against Trump, they'll never attack Obama or Hillary with the same brio. They cannot be trusted.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Michael Chitwood, the mercurial Daytona Beach polioce chief, who once called retiring Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson a "moron," will take out qualifying papers next week seeking the elected law enforcement post in the 2016 elections, accordiong to an inside source.