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VOLUME 14, NO. 13
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Daytona offers $2.3M for Avalon Park water rights
Ormond Beach City Commission to discuss Daytona Beach’s settlement offer in future shade meeting. PAGE 6A
Emergency department moves ahead Planning Board OKs AdventHealth project on U.S. 1. PAGE 4A INSIDE ORMOND BALLET
Seabreeze senior to perform solo during local production of ‘The Nutcracker.’ PAGE 1B
NEW CHURCH HALL
First United Methodist Church of Ormond Beach to demolish southern building. PAGE 6A
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Tomoka gifted students take part in Embry-Riddle STEM Outreach event. PAGE 8A
INDEX
Business..................... PAGE 5B Calendar..................... PAGE 2B Cops Corner................PAGE 2A Crossword.................PAGE 10B Letters........................ PAGE 9A Public Notices............ PAGE 4C Sports......................... PAGE 6B Tributes ...................... PAGE 2C Real Estate................. PAGE 4B
Tomoka Elementary School students Aaron Dye and Case DeBord play with a non-Newtonian fluid. Photo by Sierra Williams
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It’s official: Daytona Beach’s new Trader Joe’s opened on Friday, 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.
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