Dear Volusia County Chairman Frank Bruno: Thank you for allowing public discourse on the recent ECHO grants given by the county for land purchases. As I stated at the hearing, Volusia Tax Reform has had issues with land purchases made under both the Volusia Forever and ECHO programs based primarily on the disconnect between historical taxable assessed values and final purchase prices.
OAK HILL -- The Oak Hill Library Book Club will meet at 10:30 a.m. today at the library, next to the Post Office Halifax Avenue, for this month's selection, “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt.
For more information, please call book leader Lorna Brice at 386-345-0630.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In his turn-of-the-20th-century book, The Life of Reason, philosopher George Santayana wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The 1905 quotation holds true more than a century later.
This, naturally, begs the question of what it is to be remembered so it is not repeated?
Doug Bently, who does blood and urinalysis testing at the Medical Arts Lab in New Smyrna Beach, answered: “I think we should learn to stay out of foreign wars."
Courtest photo / Dr. Carol Gaines joins the medical staff of Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center.
DAYTONA BEACH - Board-certified family medicine physician Carol Gaines, DO, has joined the medical staff at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center.
"We're extremely blessed that Dr. Gaines has joined our Florida Hospital family," said Dr. Ron Jimenez, Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center's chief medical officer.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The fourth annual New Smyrna Beach Balloon Fest takes to the skies beginning today and NSBNews.net will chronicle the festivities through the weekend as the Internet newspaper has done all along.
