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VOLUME 1, NO. 8
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Daytona offers Ormond $2.3M to settle Ormond Beach City Commission to hold shade meeting to discuss offer for Avalon Park water rights. PAGE 6A
NEW DAYTONA BEACH TRADER JOE’S OPEN
BALLERINA MINDSET
Seabreeze senior Alexis Stockhammer to perform solo during Ormond Ballet’s production of ‘The Nutcracker’. PAGE 1B
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It’s official: Daytona Beach’s new Trader Joe’s opened on Nov. 14. The store hosted a grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting at 8:55 a.m., with the store opening at 9 a.m., according to a press release from Trader Joe’s. The Daytona
Beach Trader Joe’s is located at 1507 Cornerstone Blvd. in Tomoka Town Center. The store will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. More than 60 crew members were hired from the surrounding areas and transferred in
others from Trader Joe’s stores, the press release said. And, as part of the company’s longstanding Neighborhood Shares Program, the store will donate 100% of products that “go unsold but remain fit to enjoy” to local nonprofit
and community-based organizations seven days a week. It is one of two new grocery store chains opening in the area. The second is a Sprout’s Farmer’s Market that will open sometime in 2026 at the Shoppes at Williamson Crossing.
For the greater goo Embry-Riddle meets Tomoka Elementary students in STEM event.9A Tomoka Elementary School students Aaron Dye and Case DeBord play with a non-Newtonian fluid. Photo by Sierra Williams
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