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This was the header for Debbie Boyd as a community blogger with NSBNews.net after she agreed to write it after stepping down from her post as executive director of the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Saying she was tired of the politics and the antagonism associated with unnamed persons trying to smear her reputation, former Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority Executive Director Debbie Boyd asked NSBNews.net to discontinue her community blog called "The Pelican Brief."

By HENRY FREDERICK

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mayor Adam Barringer is the scheduled guest speaker for Thursday's Southeast Volusia Republican Club luncheon at the Smyrna Yacht Club.

With a flurry of locals announcing their campaign intentions, this seems like as a good a time as any for the first-term mayor to announce what he'll do in the big 20012 election campaign. Maybe he will, and then again, maybe he won't.

Miguel Angel Frank departed this life on earth from Halifax Health Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, Edgewater Care Center, Edgewater, on October 4, 2011, and ascended into Heaven to join his beloved Cuban Family.

Here is the latest weather forecast for Greater New Smyrna Beach from the National Weather Service in Melbourne.

EDGEWATER -- City officials reported one serious motor vehicle accident from Sunday's "no name storm" as some Orlando TV meteorologists have dubbed the low pressure system that dumped several inches of rain and brought wind gusts of up to 60 mph in some Volusia County coastal communities.

Throughout the day Sunday and into the morning hours of Columbus Day, there were sporadic power outages in small pockets throughout Edgewater, Fire Services spokeswoman Capt. Jill Danigel told NSBNews.net.

Two city lift stations were being run with generator power, 323 South Riverside Drive and 4409 Maple St. in Terra Mar Village, early Monday she said.

20,000 without power across Volusia County; eatery in Edgewater damaged

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Pounding rain bands and wind gusts of up to 60 mph have forced people indoors where as many as 20,000 utility customers are without power countywide early this morning, including much of the New Smyrna Beach area., including much of the New Smyrna Beach area. 

Blackwater Music and Arts Festival Review Florida gets trash-talked a lot, especially by many of the teens and twenty-somethings who are who are living there. However, despite what the kids might say, Florida has some real gems and sparkling locales that are often overlooked or remain unknown. The Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park near Live Oak, FL is perhaps one of the greatest of these natural treasures and it is the site of numerous music festival ranging from large scale rock extravaganzas to small time folk and bluegrass jamborees. Its most recent

Barring cataclysms such as war nations, especially great nations, do not collapse overnight. Nations fall bit by painful bit, over many years, sometimes in such tiny slices that their own citizens do not realize what is happening around them. The Roman Empire’s fall took centuries. Europe collapsed between the years 1914-1945.

The surf temperature is in the low 80s. Catches of whiting and bluefish describe the past week’s activity in the surf and piers. In Ponce Inlet, there has been plenty of redfish activity and some tarpon have also been caught and released.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Sunday, Oct. 16, Is National Feral Cat Day, but Volusia County is extending it to the whole month of October. Halifax Humane Society is offering FREE cat spays and neuters along with shots every friday in October. Yes, FREE! Now there is no excuse for not spaying or neutering you cat.