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VOLUME 14, NO. 5
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Using AI to keep students safe Volusia County Schools recently installed new metal detectors at Mainland High. Seabreeze is next. PAGE 3A
Tolland to run for mayor The Zone 1 Ormond Beach City Commissioner filed on Oct. 1.
Tuning in PAGE 4B 7th annual Ormond Beach Live features local bands, artists.
PAGE 4A INSIDE BIG MILESTONE
Stan Lee’s United Martial Arts to celebrate 30th anniversary. PAGE 3B
HELPING LOCALS
Light the Way volunteers help local cancer patients. PAGE 4A
PRENATAL CARE
Baby Steps establishes endowment in partnership with United Way PAGE 6A Ormond Beach-based band Sober Cafe performs at the seventh annual Ormond Beach Live music festival on Saturday, Sept. 27. Photo by Michele Meyers
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Cops Corner................PAGE 2A Crossword.................. PAGE 8B Letters........................ PAGE 9A Public Notices............ PAGE 5C Sports......................... PAGE 6B Real Estate................. PAGE 4B
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Mainland crowns its homecoming king and queen Bucs, meet your homecoming court for 2025-2026. OBSERVER STAFF
Aysia Thompson and Javon Estes were named Mainland High School’s Homecoming queen and king. Wilcox and Thompson were crowned during a halftime ceremony at the Buccaneer’s Homecoming football game on Thurs-
day, Sept. 25, at Daytona Stadium. Also on the senior Homecoming court were queen candidates Tanala Rayam and Harmonie King and king candidates Javon Estes and Bobbie Roberts. The underclass princes and princesses were: freshmen Danny Sullivan and Alaeja Lopez; sophomores Marquez Hall and Destinee Hines; and juniors Shawn Holmes and Chloe Van Leuven.
Mainland Homecoming 20252026 King and Queen Javon Estes and Aysia Thompson. Photo by Brent Woronoff