Rose Marie Gallagher, 79, of Edgewater, a homemaker and member of the Dolphin Club and American Legion Post #285 Auxiliary, both in Edgewater, who enjoyed fishing, clamming and shrimping in the river, died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009.

Isaiah Earl Booth, 1 day, of New Smyrna Beach, son of LaSonya Booth, died Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009.

Karen Petroni, 58, of Edgewater, a bookkeeper, died Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.

My husband and I returned to New Smyrna Beach after a week's vacation in Merida, Mexico. Driving back from Orlando, we thought we had come home to fires and were driving through smoke. But we got on the radio and learned it was fog. The closer to New Smyrna Beach, the thicker the fog became.

Then I got caught up on the New Smyrna Beach city government news.

Talk about "fog." The interim city manager, Pam Brangaccio, tried to pull a "fast one" with her bloated contract request, yet Commissioner James Hathaway did not "buy" it. Neither did Mayor Adam Barringer.

Originally Posted: Thu, 2009-02-05 07:29

Courtesy photo/Jail mug of Gary James Benben of Oak Hill.

EDGEWATER -- A 53-year-old Oak Hill man was charged with theft Jan. 29, after spending three hours at Dustin's Bar B-Q restaurant on U.S. 1, where he ate beans, two hamburgers and drank a dozen cups of coffee, before walking outside to light up a cigarette and explaining to the pursuing manager that he had no money, Edgewater police reported.

Global warming is the biggest hoax of the century.

Al Gore and others insist that the world is in serious trouble the ice is melting and the oceans are going to overflow and engulf the land mass.

Gore has found a way to make millions of dollars. If he truly believes in global warming, why is he still flying his private jet,living in his large mansion and using the amount of energy for it that could run a city like Edgewater.

Originally posted Fri, 2009-09-18 06:53

Courtesy photos/NSB mug shots.Tamera Jo-Ann Busbey, Kyle Patrick Doolin, Daniel J. Weekley, William R. Taylor and Brian Vanaller (not pictured) were all charged in connection with shooting into an occupied dwelling Sept. 16, that stemmed from a domestic dispute.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A boyfriend-girlfriend dispute is believed to be the reason for a gun being fired into a residence that has resulted in five arrests, New Smyrna Beach police said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In the category of if anyone cares any more, the lights were out overnight Saturday on the artificial Christmas tree on the easternmost end of Canal Street.

There have been previous incidents of the tree lights not fully operating as intended since the nearly $9,000 tree paid for by the New Smyrna Beach Community Redevelopment Agency was officially lit Nov. 27. The following week, it was partially out during a rainstorm and on Dec. 13, a police officer wiggled the wires to get several outed lights to come back on.

Originally posted Tue, 2009-09-29 20:05

Courtesy photo/jail mug. Tony Max Olea, 42, of Edgewater, was charged with robbing a bank in Port Orange after quickly turning himself in Sept. 28.

PORT ORANGE -- A 42-year-old Edgewater man turned himself in shortly after robbing a bank Sept. 28, Port Orange police said. Tony Max Olea was subsequently charged with bank robbery, having essentially called in his own arrest by dialing 9-1-1 .