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NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Lifeguards keepc areful watch on swiimmers in this photo taken Sunday afternoon off the Flagler Avenue approach in New Smyrna Beach. With recent thunderstorms, Volusia County Beach Patrol officials are cautioning beachgoers to be especially wary of rip currents over the next few days. Always remember to swin parallel to shore when in a rip current.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Sherri Sandon adjusts a flag to one of the three plastic "safety boy" traffic figurines Monday at the entranceway to the Marine Discovery Center in New Smyrna Beach where she works. The MDC offers a variety of summer programs for children during the week, including the upcoming Loggerhead camp for two dozen children.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Pam Brangaccio reported for duty Monday as the new city manager for New Smyrna Beach. She caught a breather for a few minutes outside the Administrative Office Building off the North Causeway in the early afternoon with Mayor Sally Mackay, having spent all morning meeting many of the city's 280-plus employees with stops at the main City Hall, fire stations, Public Works, Police Station and the Municipal Golf Course. Today, she gets down to business refining the new fiscal budget.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla – Concerned Citizens of New Smyrna Beach announced today that it had achieved the first victory in a recently launched effort to reform its local government by virtue of a legal opinion that puts in doubt a longstanding "sweetheart" lease between the city and the Angler's Club for exclusive use of 43 boat slips .

Gordon "Buster" C. Hounsell Jr., 81, of Laconia, N.H., and formerly of Edgewater, died Friday, July 24, 2009.

Ruth Neal Jones, 73, of New Smyrna Beach, who operated a cleaning business and enjoyed sewing, quilting, fishing, golfing and spending time with her family, died Friday, July 24, 2009.

Joseph Parkinson, 79, of Edgewater, a native of Lincoln, N.H., died Friday, July 24, 2009.

July 28, 2009: Curtis L. Green and Hattie M. Laws, New Smyrna Beach; Thomas H. Dubord and Susan A. Ward, Edgewater.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach (FL-24) announced today that cities in Volusia County have been allocated funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, COPS Hiring Recovery Program. The grants will fund eight police officer positions in Daytona Beach, three in Deland and one in South Daytona Beach.

Courtesy photo/NSB police mug shots. NSBNEWS.net photo (at right) by Henry Frederick. Jana Calisse Grant, 47, of New Smyrna Beach, accused in the fatal hit-and-run accident that left a 42-year-old Port Orange man dead on the side of the road on the North Causeway, has bonded out of jail. She met a friend at her Canal Street salon soon after the fatal crash instead of rendering help, according to New Smyrna Beach police investigators who carried out an exhaustive investigation that led to her arrest eight months after Glenn Scott Gagnon was left to die on the side of the North Causeway.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Jana Calisse Grant, the 47-year-old salon owner accused of striking a pedestrian and leaving him to die and then washing his blood off her vehicle at a nearby car wash, avoided a first appearance before a judge Saturday at the Volusia Branch Jail by making bail.