ORMOND BEACH
Observer YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
VOLUME 11, NO. 30
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DOG DOESN’T MIND HAT 2A THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
City’s youngest tree to be fertilized daily Just 12 days old, the 1-inch celebrity seedling will be fenced to protect it from would-be tramplers. PAGE 2A
INSIDE FIRST CITY MAP?
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A historian has discovered what he claims is the first photo of a man holding a map in Ormond Beach. PAGE 2A
‘SMART’ SHOES
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Ormond Beach woman’s invention helps husband navigate Publix efficiently, emitting pleasant odor. PAGE 2A
FINDERS KEEPERS?
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Ormond forms Image Advisory Council The new board will make recommendations to the City Commission on slang usage and staff wardrobe updates, but will have no legislative authority. PAGE 2A
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An Ormond Beach man was questioned by law enforcement this week, after he posted this picture of himself at a city park, holding the takeout lunch that had been reported missing two hours earlier by one Ormond Beach Leaf Blower. PAGE 2A
NEW OMELET SHOP
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A mother-daughter duo has opened a new omelet shop, but at a bad time: The price of eggs has driven up the cost of a breakfast plate to $62.50. PAGE 2A
Neighbors alarmed by carousel proposal Little-used zoning designation allows amusement ride in Hightown Heights. DIZZE FEILING DEVELOPMENT REPORTER
Ormond Beach’s Hightown Heights neighborhood is known for being one of the sleepiest sections of town. That’s about to change. All 39.75 acres of the neighborhood are zoned Residential — except, as one businessman discovered a few weeks ago, for .04 acres right between two houses, which is zoned for Residential-AmusementCarousel 2. Munn’E. Bhags, filing under 245 Hightown Heights FunTown LLC, showed up to the neighborhood meeting wearing a rainbow-colored wig and red clown nose to entertain the crowd. No one laughed. Bhags explained to the 45 irate residents that he is jumping at the opportunity to “breathe some life” into the otherwise “really boring” neighborhood.
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Lynn Lindsey, who lives in the house next to the proposed carousel, displayed a model that she had created
of the carousel, using papiermache, clay and an old sandal. “At full speed,” Lindsey said, “the swings on this ride
will actually collide with my house here, and then again here on the rebound. Now, I don’t think that anyone here is
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