Top 100 Stories

39. NSB boy, 15, dies over the weekend from swine flu; fourth such fatality countywide

Originally posted Thu, 2009-10-08 03:36

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The swine flu scare hit home with the Oct. 3 death of a 15-year-old boy who attended New Smyrna Beach High School, Volusia school district and county health officials confirmed.

Red tail hawk, beautiful raptor of prey (also, major update on red snapper ban)

Courtesy photos/Wikipedia. Far left, a red tail hawk carries a snake up to a place for a forthcoming meal. At near left, a red tail hawk looks for rodents.

Each day, as I drive the rural roads on the way home, I usually see one or more red-tailed hawks on any given day.

NSB COPS: Overnight Tuesday Police Patrols

Newspaper Section

Please read the attachment for the Overnight Tuesday police patrol reports, including motor vehicle-related traffic warnings to Jana Calisse Grant, 46, of New Smyrna Beach, who is already facing criminal charges in a hit-and-run death. A story on Grant's earlier charges will be detailed in NSBNEWS.net Top 100 stories of the year.

40. Westside wants city to address inequities

Originally posted Thu, 2009-06-25 01:54

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. Community leaders in the Westside neighborhood asked the city in June to focus more on the recreational needs of the children there and to address cracked sidewalks and overgrown tree branches.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- It's the "appearance" of two New Smyrnas that has some Westside leaders speaking up about the city's seemingly endless focus on the economics of Canal Street and Flagler Avenue, the tourist- and business-oriented parts of the city while the area west of the U.S. 1 railroad tracks, which is predominantly black, gets lesser attention.

41. Several thousand attend shrimp and seafood festival on Flagler Avenue

Originally posted Thu, 2009-08-20 23:10

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick.Several thousand people swarm Flagler Avenue on Aug. 20 for the second annual Shrimp and Seafood Festival that featured not only food samples and drinks, with prices maxed out at $5, but also displays of non-food items, lots  of music and activities  for children. Above, left two photos, people mill around. In the third photo, children play Twister. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Thursday's second annual Shrimp and Seafood Festival on Flagler Avenue drew several thousand people and that made Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce President Robert Lott a happy man.

42. NSB City Commission says 'thanks' to retiring Fire Chief Tim Hawver

Originally posted Wed, 2009-06-24 23:32

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.The New Smyrna Beach City Commission said "thanks" In June to retiring Fire Chief Tim Hawver, who received a standing ovation.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Tim Hawver, New Smyrna Beach's fire chief for 12 years and a firefighter for parts of four decades, was recognized Tuesday night by the City Commission, less than a week after announcing his retirement.

43. Edgewater teen found dead Tuesday morning in ditch in front of his family's home

Originally posted Tue, 2009-12-22 16:12

Courtesy photo/Facebook profile. Jonathan R. Novenski, 18, of Edgewater, was found dead this morning in a ditch in front of his family's home.

EDGEWATER -- An 18-year-old man was found dead in in a ditch in front of his father's Needle Palm Drive home this morning by a passerby, Edgewater police said.

The body, identified as that of Jonathan R. Novenski, was spotted by a person walking by at 7 a.m., police said.

Foul play is not suspected at this time in the teen's death who may have died as a result of an accidental overdose of some kind while at a party hours earlier, police said.

44. Oak Hill man charged with raping woman when she was 9 years old

Originally posted Tue, 2009-01-20 18:45

Courtesy photo/Jail mug.  Earl Lee Sutton Jr., 34, of Oak Hill, was charged  in January with capital sexual battery on a woman who claimed the sexual attack occurred when she was a child.

OAK HILL -- A 34-year-old Oak Hill man was arrested Monday night after a woman came forward over the weekend with allegations she was raped and sexually molested 16 years ago by the accused when she was 9 years old.