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New Smyrna Beach City Manager Pam Brangaccio has resigned after 10 years on the job, but will continue as a paid consultant until Oct. 4

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla -- After a decade on the job as New Smyrna Beach's city manager, Pamela Brangaccio has resigned, but she'll continue to receive her paycheck until Oct. 4 in her new role as a consultant until Oct. 4.

New Smyrna Beach surfer dude Kem McNair captures nighttime video of coyote roaming Isleboro neighborhood

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Longtime surfer Kem McNair posted a raw video in social media over the weekend of a coyote roaming the Isleboro community where the surfer dude lives with a cautionary message.

New Smyrna Beach surfer dude Kem McNair captures nighttime video of coyote roaming Isleboro neighborhood

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Longtime surfer Kem McNair posted a raw video in social media over the weekend of a coyote roaming the Isleboro community where the surfer dude lives with a cautionary message.

Volusia County Early Voting: Daytona, New Smyrna tied for lead in ballots cast so far

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.  -- After the first two days of Early Voting, traffic is heaviest in Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach, according to voter tallies compiled by Supervisor of Elections Lisa Lewis.

New Smyrna Beach cops: Motorist wanted on felony charges of leaving the scene of 2017 crash resulting in the death of 21-year-old Kaelee Morrell

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Jeremy Patrick Wharton: Do the right thing and turn yourself in!

That's the message family and friends of 21-year-old Kaelee Morrell are conveying to the 32-year-old Wharton, who is now wanted on felony charges of leaving the scene of a Crash involving a fatality and leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury. 

New Smyrna Beach Board of Realtors endorses Chase Herbig for NSB mayor; ex-Sheriff Ben Johnson and incumbent Deb Denys for county council seats

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- It comes as no surprise that ex-Sheriff Ben Johnson was endorsed by the Board of Realtors in his run for at the at-large seat on the Volusia County Council. Same thing with endorsing Deb Denys for re-election to her District 3 County Council seat representing New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, and Oak Hill. 

And right there in the same company is Chase Herbig, one of six first-time candidates for mayor of New Smyrna Beach with no incumbent. And so it was Herbig tabbed Friday by the New Smyrna Beach Board of Realtors as the organization's 2018 endorsement recommended to the voters as the successor to retiring Mayor Jim Hathaway, a second-generation native son whose late father also was mayor of the city by the sea in the 1970s.