NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla – Concerned Citizens of New Smyrna Beach announced today that it had achieved the first victory in a recently launched effort to reform its local government by virtue of a legal opinion that puts in doubt a longstanding "sweetheart" lease between the city and the Angler's Club for exclusive use of 43 boat slips .
NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Pam Brangaccio reported for duty Monday as the new city manager for New Smyrna Beach. She caught a breather for a few minutes outside the Administrative Office Building off the North Causeway in the early afternoon with Mayor Sally Mackay, having spent all morning meeting many of the city's 280-plus employees with stops at the main City Hall, fire stations, Public Works, Police Station and the Municipal Golf Course. Today, she gets down to business refining the new fiscal budget.
NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Sherri Sandon adjusts a flag to one of the three plastic "safety boy" traffic figurines Monday at the entranceway to the Marine Discovery Center in New Smyrna Beach where she works. The MDC offers a variety of summer programs for children during the week, including the upcoming Loggerhead camp for two dozen children.
NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Lifeguards keepc areful watch on swiimmers in this photo taken Sunday afternoon off the Flagler Avenue approach in New Smyrna Beach. With recent thunderstorms, Volusia County Beach Patrol officials are cautioning beachgoers to be especially wary of rip currents over the next few days. Always remember to swin parallel to shore when in a rip current.
Courtesy photos. CartTech is now housed at the former Kister Kayat Manufacturing facility across from Boston Whaler. Below is a photo of the central office.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Ocean Properties & Management, Inc. recently sold the former Kister Kayat manufacturing facility located on U.S. 1, adjacent to Boston Whaler in Edgewater.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Community Redevelopment Agency voted 6-0 at its May 13 meeting to approve up to $9,000 in spending for an artificial Christmas tree in Riverside Park.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Glenn Scott Gagnon, 42, died on the side of the roadway on the North Causeway just after 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 1. The vehicle that struck him never stopped.
Madeline Deas McLaughlin, 81, of Edgewater, a homemaker survived by her husband of 62 years, William; who enjoyed painting and playing the piano, died Thursday, July 23, 2009.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A severe thunderstorm and tornado warning from the National Weather Service proved prophetic Friday night in Port Orange with a twister destroying at least seven mobile homes there and more than a hundred others damaged while New Smyrna Beach endured thunder and lightning that caused intermittent power outages.
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Courtesy photo/Volusia Jail mug. Robert C. Young, 31, of Edgewater, a convicted felon recently released from prison, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with having unlawful sex with a child. The victim, bore his child at the age of 16, two years after Young allegedly began having sex with her. In a police report, the victim's mother states that Young knew he was the father of her teenage girl's baby, but he didn't want his name listed as the father on the birth certificate or for the young Oak Hill mother to obtain food stamps because he didn't want the authorities to know he had sex with a minor.
EDGEWATER -- Robert C. Young went to prison two years ago with a secret few others knew at the time.
Young's past caught up with him again Tuesday when he was arrested by Volusia County Sheriff's deputies on a warrant charging him with having unlawful sex with a minor.
The secret? The victim was 14 years old when she and Young began a sexual relationship, according to Sheriff's investigative reports and an arrest affidavit, that resulted in her bearing a child at the age of 16.
