EDGEWATER -- Two people were injured in a mobile home fire just after noon today at 2450 South Ridgewood Ave., Lot 27, with reports of smoke coming from all windows and flames seen inside the structure, according to a spokeswoman with Edgewater Fire-Rescue that extinguished the fire.
NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Robert J. Rodi, shown here at a Sept. 24, 2008, New Smyrna Beach City Commission meeting, resigned Monday, effective in May.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Robert J. Rodi, CEO and General Manager of the New Smyrna Beach Utilities Commission resigned Monday during a special budget meeting of the Utlities Commission, saying his resignation takes effect in May.
Rodi did not give a specific reason in announcing his decision during the meeting, which was not attended by any media.
Several people, who asked to remain anonymous, said Rodi's decision to step down was the result of threats and intimidation, but there was not more specifics.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 22-year-old New Smyrna Beach man was treated for multiple stab wounds to his back-rib area Friday night at Bert Fish Medical Center after he was jumped by several other young men while playing basketball at Detweiler Park on the beachside, New Smyrna Beach police said.
The wounds were not-life threatening, but serious enough to necessitate staying overnight at the hospital, police Sgt, Christopher Roos said of the injuries suffered by Jawayne Tyler Santiago between 8:45 p.m. and 9:11 p.m.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 57-year-old New Smyrna Beach man was killed Friday on Interstate 95, south of Old Dixie Highway when he lost control of his 1989 Harley-Davidson while northbound in the passing lane and was ejected 50 feet from his motorcycle, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
For some unknown reason William Wells lost control of his bike, which skidded on the
right shoulder of the roadway, traveled through the grass shoulder, overturned and came to final rest in the tree line. Wells was ejected from his motorcycle, which landed 50 feet from him, the FHP reported.
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Some people upset with Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas' vote in support of President Obama's health-care bill have threatened her and her family, her press spokesman confirmed Thursday night.
The threats, sent in anonymous e-mails and in hang-up calls and messages since her vote Sunday were forwarded to the Capitol police, spokesman Marc Goldberg said.
NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. Bouchelle Island resident Bill Koleszar continues his fight to invalidate the Anglers Yacht Club lease with the city.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Not content that the City Commission earlier this month voted to spend $7,500 for an updated appraisal on prime riverfront acreage the Angler's Yacht Club has under a longstanding lease with the city, Bouchelle Island resident Bill Koleszar stood alone Tuesday, again challenging the validity of the agreement and asking the city to go to court to take back the property.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Counseling Center of New Smyrna Beach announces that
Gary Frick, M.D., a child and adult psychiatrist has joined its Practice.
NSBNEWS.net photo and video by Sera Frederick. Mayor Adam Barringer was the guest of honor at the 2010 Boy Scouts of America Southeast Volusia Golden Eagle Dinner on Saturday night at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Among the Boy Scouts were 13-year-old Symian Wesley, 11-year-old James Goines and 10-year-old Xavier Boyd, all at front of the nine-member Troop and Pack 487 Allen Chapel AME Church, along with scout masters Richard Boulton and Arthur Williams. Pictured nearest in the photo is New Smyrna Beach City Commissioner Judy Reiker and her husband, Guy Mariande, an Eagle Scout. The woman in the middle of the photo is Mary Barringer, an assistant principal at New Smyrna Beach High School and Mayor Barringer's mother who was there with her husband and the mayor's father, Ron Barringer, obscured in the photo, and Shannon Sumner, partially obscured, who is Mayor Barringer's fiancee.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mayor Adam Barringer was the guest of honor Saturday night for the annual Golden Eagle Dinner, the fundraiser for the Southeast Volusia Boy Scouts.
(Washington, DC) - Fresh off her vote in favor of President Obama's nationalized health-care plan, first-term Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna (FL-24), will hold a telephone town hall from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the issue.
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Courtesy photo. The New Smyrna Beach City Commission has asked its Parks and Recreation Advisory Park to consider naming a park in the North Beach "Grayce Barck Park" in honor of the late activist who died March 1 at the age of 82.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City Commissioner Lynne Plaskett was the last visitor to see 82-year-old Grayce Barck before she died March 1 at the Southeast Volusia Care Center of Hospice of Volusia/Flagler.
