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VOLUME 13, NO. 16
Little Tomoka Village gets board’s OK Ormond Beach Planning Board approves new 31home subdivision.
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Home for Christmas Ormond Beach hosts 33rd annual Home for the Holidays parade. PAGE 3A
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Citizens for Truth and Justice and Education call for School Board to act on recent remarks by Chair Jessie Thompson. PAGE 8A
NEW LEADERSHIP
Trump Florida State Campaign director Maryann Pistilli elected to lead Volusia GOP. PAGE 5A
FUR BALL
Halifax Humane Society gala raises over half-a-million dollars for animals. PAGE 8A
DRIVE-THRU COFFEE
Ormond Beach Planning Board approves proposal for SunBros Coffee on South Yonge Street. PAGE 2A
SANTA ON PATROL Abaco Windows made sure that Santa and Mrs. Claus made it through the rain to their destination in the Home for the Holidays parade on Saturday, Dec. 14. Photo by Michele Meyers
Wreaths for 264 veterans
DAR holds Wreaths Across America event
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OBPD’s Santa on Patrol — featuring Officer Andrew Rossi as “Santa Security” is officially underway. Santa will be around town on Friday to spread holiday cheer. Photo courtesy of
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INDEX
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Olivia Chase’s hat trick leads Seabreeze to 4-1 win over rival Spruce Creek.
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Sworn to serve Two new officers sworn in at the Ormond Beach Police Department. Ormond-by-the-Sea resident Bobbie Cheh, of the Ormond-by-the-Sea Lions Club, helped the local DAR chapert lay wreaths on veterans’ graves. Photo by Suzanne McCarthy
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