ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA -- A New Smyrna Beach boy was swimming with his pregnant girlfriend in an area not guarded by lifeguards when they got caught in a rip current and he went under while she was rescued by a another swimmer. Bendon Martin was just 16.
The body washed ashore early Sunday, about a mile from the reported drowning in the 1200 block of State Road A1A.
OAK HILL -- The city's $1.6 million budget for the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, will require a tax increase, despite wage freezes and no new equipment purchases.
The tax rate to support the budget, approved Monday, requires $5.79 per $1,000 of assessed property value, which is still more than a percentage point higher than the rolled-back rate of $5.72, which is considered a break-even rate by the Florida Legislature, and therefore not a tax increase because it would have generated the same amount of revenue minus new construction.
Sept. 25, 2009: Raymond L. Kuhn and Gina A. Guffanti, Edgewater; James C. Harris and Rebecca L. Ryan, Edgewater; Jess T. Adams Jr. and Tanya M. Simonds, New Smyrna Beach; Robert F. Smith and Andrea M. Walter, Edgewater.
Paul Nieves, 56, of New Smyrna Beach, a native of Tampa, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.
Bernice Scott, 86, of New Smyrna Beach, a homemaker, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.
Carl Burkhart Jr., 57, of Edgewater, a native of Pittsburgh, died Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
Lovina Reve, 75, of Edgewater, a native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, died Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
John Silva-Medeiros, 59, of Edgewater, and a native of Fall River, Mass., who enjoyed doll making, woodworking and photography, died Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.
Sept. 25, 2009: Phillip E. McLaughlin Jr. and Denise L. Poirier, Edgewater.
NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Mayoral candidate Marilee Walters said she was physically wiped out in the waning moments of primary night voting as shown in this photo outside a polling precinct on the beachside Tuesday night. Walters finished a distant third in her first try at elective office.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Former mayoral candidate Marilee Walters issued a written statement Thursday, thanking those who voted for her candidacy.
Sept. 22, 2009 -- Daniel W. Whitaker and Dawn K. Miller, Edgewater; William J. Joyce and Sheena M. Cox, Edgewater.
NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Mayor Sally Mackay (middle), and challengers Marilee Walters and Adam Barringer, are pictured here from the second of two NSB candidates debates sponsored by NSBNEWS.net and the Public Watch Committee. The three square off in today's big primary.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The city's police union pledged its support for Adam Barringer over Mayor Sally Mackay, on top of the might he gained from the firefighters' union and the Southeast Volusia Board of Realtors while the incumbent continued to tout her experience and Marilee Walters appealed to disenfranchised voters to give her the nod in today's hotly-contested primary for mayor and two city commission seats.
NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. At left, Zone 1 commission challenger Frank Dalton Jr. smiles for the camera in his beachside home with his wife, Tara, who is pregnant with their second child, and nearly 1-year-old son, Frank III. The Daltons have another child in the household, his eldest son, Cole, 16. Dalton is a self-employed floor installer and Tara Dalton is a registered nurse at Halifax Hospital.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Frank Dalton Jr. first thought about an active run for local elective office after last spring's tropical flood rains brought water into his beachside home.
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Courtesy photo. Zone 1 City Commissioner Randy Richenberg enters today's primary having again secured the police and fire union endorsements.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Zone 1 City Commissioner Randy Richenberg knows that he has two powerful allies in today's primary that he is hoping will either carry him to outright victory or at least place in the top two for a November runoff -- the endorsements of the unions for the police and fire departments.
