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I recently watched the documentary “Safe Haven, The Warsaw Zoo,” produced by New Smyrna Beach High School teacher Richard Lester with his son Gary (as director) and Edgewater resident Charlie Carlson. If you never heard of it or haven’t seen it, I suggest you go to www.IDBM.com and watch it. The film is not long but tells a riveting tale of the Warsaw Jews when the Germans took over Poland.

David A. Saltsman, 60, of Edgewater, a paramedic and Vietnam war veteran, died Sunday, July 19, 2009.

Courtesy photo/NSB PD. A man found shot to death early this morning in an SUV behind an Edgewater bar has been identified by New Smyrna Beach police as 25-year-old Jeremy M. Markley of Eustis. His killer remains at large.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. In her twice monthly video interview with NSBNEWS.net, New Smyrna Beach Mayor Sally Mackay talks about the proposed municipal budget and the hiring of a new city manager in this segment on Canal Street.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The discovery of a fatal gunshot victim early this morning slumped in an SUV behind an Edgewater bar is believed to be from an earlier incident in which shots were reported fired in the 1400-1600 blocks of Palmetto Street, New Smyrna Beach police said.

James F. Russell, 87, of Oak Hill, a timber harvester and owner of R & R Logging in Volusia County for 20 years, died Friday, July 17, 2009.

July 17, 2009: Douglas B. Coleman, Edgewater, and Leanne B. Wagner, Port Orange; Lecory C. Miles and Trenika N. Darby, Edgewater.

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- Two Edgewater residents have died this week.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An outside counsel hired by the city to review the longstanding lease of prime riverfront land to the New Smyrna Yacht Club has concluded the lease signed in 1944 is not valid because the city didn't have the legal authority to enter into such an agreement at the time.

The city didn't have jurisdiction to do so for another 13 years, concluded Scott Glass of the Orlando law firm of Shutts and Bowen, and by then, the city did not ratify the earlier 99-year agreement, making it null and void at that point.

Stephanie Lynne Bell, 38, of New Smyrna Beach, an Orlando native who enjoyed boating and country music and is survived by a son, died Thursday, July 16, 2009.