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Courtesy photos. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating 82-year-old Alfonso Milan, missing since at least Friday, who has medical needs. He may have been driving a Jeep Cherokee like this one.

PONCE INLET -- A 26-year-old Spaniard swimming off the Beach Avenue Approach off Ponce Inlet became the seventh shark-bite victim of 2009, but he did not require stitches and was treated at the scene, according to the Florida Beach Patrol.

All but two of the bites have occurred in New Smyrna Beach near the South Jetty where bait fish are the meal choice of the 4- and 5-foot sharks.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, the first-term Democrat from New Smyrna Beach, a staunch supporter of the Obama administration, is conducting a survey put out by her Washington staff on the issue of health-care reform.

Courtesy photo. A body, believed to be that of missing Deltona resident Alfonso Milian, 82, was found this afternoon in a wooded area near where his vehicle was located earlier in the day in Flagler County, said Brandon Haught, spokesman with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. The body was discovered approximately 175 feet from County Road 200 in dense underbrush.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Sera Frederick and Henry Frederick. Palmer Wilson (far right) is challenging incumbent Jack Grasty (inset) for the Zone 2 seat on the New Smyrna Beach City Commission.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Saying his top priority is to "reinvent our local government," Palmer Wilson announced today that he is running to unseat Jack Grasty as Zone 2 Commissioner in the City of New Smyrna Beach.

Courtesy photo. This is a composite sketch by the Port Orange Police Department of a flasher who exposed himself to three teenage girls at the city amphitheater.

PORT ORANGE – Police are seeking the public's help in finding a man who exposed himself to three teenage girls at the city amphitheater last week.

DEBARY -- Children in grades 2 - 5 are invited to join Volusia County’s ECHO Rangers program, a hands-on educational 10-month program featuring the county’s ecological, cultural, heritage and outdoor resources.

The program is offered from September through June at more than 40 sites including parks, museums, libraries and historical sites. Participants are asked to visit at least eight sites and participate in specially designed ECHO Ranger activities.

OAK HILL -- A precautionary boil-water notice has been lifted was lifted for residents of the Indian Harbor and Lighthouse Cove subdivisions in Oak Hill.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. Though a $9,000 purchase order has already gone through for an artificial Christmas tree for Riverside Drive with a unanimous vote in May by the Community Redevelopment Agency, the purchase was not made public until minutes of the CRA meeting were posted in July on the city's Web site. Robert Rees, a community watchdog, spoke in opposition to the purchase at Tuesday's City Commission meeting, asking a series of questions about the protocol for such purchases. He did not get any responses from the elected officials.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- For the second time in two weeks, a citizen has appeared before the City Commission to ask about the $9,000 purchase of an outdoor, artificial Christmas tree approved by the Community Redevelopment Agency in May.

Malinda Jane Bledsoe, 54, of Edgewater, a Volusia County native married with three children, died Thursday, Aug 13, 2009.