Up top in The Briefs, what the week saw read out and crossed off. Stetson conferred 784 degrees over two days at the rebuilt Edmunds Center — its first commencement to land indoors. At the DeLand commission Monday, eleven Super Star Students were named for the last roll of the school year. The Volusia County School Board promoted DeLand's Blue Lake Elementary principal to district human resources.

The Ledger lands on Orange City this issue: twenty April sales, top at $419,000 — a 1,275-square-foot 1981 ranch on Collins Avenue — and a market that, against last month's DeLand pull, reads strikingly tight. The Almanac runs through Florida Emancipation Day at the Noble Watts amphitheater on Saturday, where the American Legion's Orange Baker Post 187 reads the Proclamation at noon, ahead of the May 20 holiday.

The Register carries two new non-profits — DeLand's Dog Pound Wrestling Booster Club and Deltona's Exit 108 Lyfe Foundation — and Orange City's only Domestic Profit Corp of the week, Porchlight Bakehouse. The Plate is Fire on the Bayou off the Town Center plaza: gumbo and jambalaya in the loudest room in 32763, with a bread pudding the consensus calls brick-sized.