Oak Hill

Headline Surfer file photo / Doug Gibson, shown seated in this photo from last Aug. 1, when he led the vote to disband the city's scandal-ridden police force under Chief Diane Young, is now running for mayor against Linda Hyatt, vice mayor and commissioner, who was opposed to the police being shut down in favor of patrols by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Both have since said they are pleased with change.

 OAK HILL -- Saying he wanted to ensure the citizens of Oak Hill get to decide who the next mayor is, Commissioner Doug Gibson filed paperwork today to run for the top elected post. Vice Mayor Linda C. Hyatt did the very same thing earlier this month.

OAK HILL -- The Oak Hill Library Book Club will meet at 10:30 a.m. today at the library, next to the Post Office Halifax Avenue, for this month's selection, “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt.

For more information, please call book leader Lorna Brice at 386-345-0630.

NSBNews.net photos by Henry Frederick / Oak Hill Commissioner Doug Gibson stands in front of the Volusia County Sheriff's Air-One helicopter behind City Hall on Thursday evening during a VCSO open house.

OAK HILL -- Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson played host to some 100 residents during an open house on the city hall grounds to commemorate six months of law enforcement service to the small city since its police force was disbanded.

PORT ORANGE -- Alcohol may have been a factor in a horrific Christmas eve crash on I-95 with an Oak Hill motorist veering into the passing lane and striking a Broward County family's car, killing one of its passengers after that car flipped over, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Patsy Anne Phillips, 56, of Oak Hill, was southbound in the right lane near the Dunlawton Avenue exit at 5:25 p.m. Saturday when she crossed into the passing lane, striking the other vehicle and causing it to flip over before her own car struck a tree, the highway patrol reported. Phillips was transported to Halifax Health Center with critical injuries.

Alcohol may have been a factor in Phillips striking the other car and charges are pending the results of a homicide investigation, Florida Highway Patrol spoksewoman Sgt. Kim Montes said.

By Linda C. Hyatt

OAK HILL -- On this Thanksgiving holiday and every day for that matter, I am thankful to be a five-year survivor of breast cancer. Because of my good health and good friends, I am thankful that I can help out my city of Oak Hill in some small way as vice mayor.

OAK HILL The Volusia County Council unanimously approved an agreement Thursday with Oak Hill to contract out the city’s law enforcement services to the Sheriff’s Office. The contract covers a 13-month period, through September of next year.