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Daytona Beach News-Journal Managing Editor Cory Lancaster calling it quits
Today last day; prep sports writer Brian Linder bolting, too
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School Board unanimously approves sale of Hurst School for Daytona-area homeless familes with kids & teens on their own
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First of a 10-Part Series that takes the public into the plight of homeless families with children and teens living on their own with no place to call home in greater Daytona Beach and throughout Volusia County and three leaders who did something about it -- Mark Geallis, executive director of the Halifax Urban Ministries; Forough Hosseini, vice president of ICI Homes and a community entrepreneur and Volusia County Manager Jim Dinneen. These are their stories...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Forough Hosseini tugs on the door at the former Walter A. Hurst School just north of the Daytona Beach city limits in adjacent Holly Hill in an impoverished neighborhood that served as its elementary school for many years before its closing nearly a decade ago.
Hosseini knows all too well the strengths and weaknesses of Daytona, the Central Florida tourism hub on the East end of interstates 4 and 95, that is home to the World's Most Famous Beach®, where speed was born.
Citing 'pressing family issues,' Deb Denys drops out of Fla HD 25 race, but staying with county council
New Smyrna Beach politician endorses Ormond Beach attorney & fellow GOPer Tom Leek against Democrat Noel Bickford for Tallahassee seat
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Citing "pressing family matters," Volusia County Councilwoman Deb Denys said she has withdrawn her candidacy from the Florida House 25th district.
Denys instead will serve out the remaining two years in her district 3 Volusia County Council seat in DeLand, which is much closer to her New Smyrna Beach residence than trekking to Tallahassee.
Charter Review to meet at Daytona Beach Int'l Airport
DAYTOA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County’s Charter Review Commission will meet 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the 2nd-floor Dennis R. McGee Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport, 700 Catalina Drive. Main topic: Proposed charter amendment relating to the Volusia Growth Management Commission. Please visit www.volusia.org/countycharter.
Watch free movies at Deltona Regional Public Libary
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Photo for Headline Surfer® / Three free movies will be shown during the month of April, including a James Bond flick.
DELTONA, Fla. -- Watch free movies at the Deltona Regional Public Library, 2150 Eustace Ave.
April’s lineup includes these PG-13 movies:
• “Bridge of Spies," 11 a.m. Monday, April 4.
Tom Hanks stars as an American lawyer who defends a Soviet spy and then helps the CIA exchange him for U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. 142 minutes.
Deltona news brief
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DELTONA, Fla. -- Starting Jnue, garbage taken to the curb on collection day must be done so in a trash bin after it is bagged. Waste Pro will pick up two garbage bins & unlimited recycling. Residents may add a second bin, from Waste Pro ($75) or from a hardware store, but it must be square with a hinged-lid & compatible with Waste Pro's automated trucks.
Big Fish Leaving Small Pond: Daytona Beach News-Journal's managing editor callng it quits
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Cory Lancaster's last day March 29; prep sports writer Brian Linder bolting, too
Photos for Headline Surfer® / Cory Lancaster, longtime managing editor of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, and well known in Central Florida for two decades before that as a senior metro reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, shown at left with News-Journal Editor Editor Pat Rice, is quitting the print newspaper later this month, as is Brian Linder, high school sports prep writer.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Editor Pat Rice got bummed out when up-and-coming reporter Andrew Gant, who followed him from Panma City to Daytona, got hired away by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office to crank out the steady diet of press releases the newspaper has long since come to rely on.
Adopt a park in New Smyrna Beach and get signage
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Photo for Headline Surfer® / Ester Street Park on the beachside is among nearly two dozen scenic parks in New Smyrna Beach that are available for adoption in terms of keeping clean and allowing for signage recognizing the commitment.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Nearly two dozen city parks are up for adoption as part of a new program launched by the City of New Smyrna Beach. From small, 1-acre pocket parks to larger waterfront public areas with playgrounds, individuals and groups may sign up to clean up a park for one year.
Oak Hill State of the City: 'busy with many issues'
OAK HILL, Fla. -- During 2015, your city commission was very busy with many issues. The City continued free annexations. Doing so has lead to eight annexations into the City. An official zoning map was approved after 20 years without one.
Sunrise Park was purchased from the J.R. Vann Family for $125,000. Grants were obtained for the purchase by Planning Solu-tions, to off set the cost to the City.