Many people are completely unaware there is a summer ban at all on the use of fertilizers loaded with nitrogen and phosphorus. Stores still sell them — and enforcement is barely existent.
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Many people are completely unaware there is a summer ban at all on the use of fertilizers loaded with nitrogen and phosphorus. Stores still sell them — and enforcement is barely existent.
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Work, health care, school — all depend on it
I’m not an attorney.
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We must tolerate street screechers who yell that we will each wind up somewhere unpleasant. Sidewalks are traditional free-speech forums, whether we agree or not. Personally, I am not planning to follow the street screechers’ travel suggestions.
Lake Helen has a completely charming, if occasionally stressful, way of derailing their City Commission meeting agendas, despite all best efforts.
Recently, I finished a crisis-management course for my MBA. We explored case studies where organizations and government entities were pushed over the edge of chaos into a genuine crisis, full of unknowns.
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Citizens can make Florida the “clean water state.”
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As America approaches its 245th birthday, people are returning to something close to normal, following the pandemic’s disruption.
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After the massacre at Pulse nightclub, the nationwide opinion of the LGBTQ+ community shifted.
Discussions about costly infrastructure needs, such as improving the road network, are never easy.
Editor’s note: The “Imagine West Volusia” trio of writers has invited two guests to add their thoughts to the topic of what we can do to enhance our West Volusia quality of life: Buz Nesbit and Chris Cloudman. Cloudman, currently a member of the DeLand City Commission, has announced he will …
DeLand isn’t the same city it used to be.
Editor’s note: We welcome West Volusia writer Ron Jones, who offers a history of our U.S. Bill of Rights, perfectly timed as we prepare for the July Fourth holiday. This is Part II; the first part of Jones’ history was published in the June 17-23, 2021, edition of The Beacon.
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SunRail has been a topic of discussion at approximately 30 County Council meetings in the past two years, making it without a doubt one of the most talked about — and challenging — issues since I’ve been on the council.
Editor’s note: The “Imagine West Volusia” trio of writers has invited two guests to add their thoughts to the topic of what we can do to enhance our West Volusia quality of life: Buz Nesbit and Chris Cloudman. Cloudman, currently a member of the DeLand City Commission, has announced he will …
Juneteenth is celebrated on the 19th of June. It’s also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day and Emancipation Day.
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Welcome to the point of no return
There’s a flaw or two in our community discussion of what led to a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old engaging in a shootout with the Sheriff’s Office.
Editor’s note: We welcome West Volusia writer Ron Jones, who offers a history of our U.S. Bill of Rights, perfectly timed as we prepare for the July Fourth holiday.
I like talking with my wife. She’s interesting and has cool things to say. A treat for us in the evening is to have a glass of wine or a beer at a table on a sidewalk in Downtown DeLand, watch people stroll by, and chat. Or to stay longer for a nice dinner and ice cream.
Juneteenth is a day that many Floridians find unfamiliar.
The rural communities of Osteen and Enterprise are fairly quiet and laid-back. They do not create a lot of trouble. They have neither riots nor city managers committing felonies. Perhaps because they are not cities, they neither do wild annexations nor rezone for urban sprawl.
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We can make a reasonable argument that our entire country is dependent on two interrelated technologies: electricity and the internal-combustion engine.
I was at a ribbon-cutting recently at the DeBary SunRail station, for a new kiosk featuring maps of bicycle trails and cultural and environmental sites.
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While Central Florida has not made the news because of racial unrest and violence, that does not mean we won’t. No community is immune. So now is the time to shore up our Kingdom commitments to witness to a biblical vision that includes “every tribe and language and people and nation” (Rev. 5:9b).
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