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City manager and city attorney to meet privately with Angler's club -- Commissioner Plaskett will attend, but vows to keep quiet
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The way City Commissioner William Hathaway sees it, nothing will be lost by allowing City Attorney Frank Gummey and interim City Manager Khalid Resheidat to meet next week with members of the Angler's Club before the city spends money on outside counsel to investigate the legitimacy of a longstanding lease agreement for prime public waterfront property.
"If it blows up in our face, we re-group," Hathaway said earlier tonight.
Obituaries
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Blenda J. Avignone, 92, of New Smyrna Beach, a former owner of a pharmacy, died Thursday, March 5, 2009.
Edna S. Boggess, 93, of Edgewater, a former component winder for Utrad Television Component Corp., Huntington, Ind., died Wednesday, March 4, 2009.
Lawrence Corrado Jr., 53, of New Smyrna Beach, co-owner of Beachside Hurricane Protection, died Wednesday, March 4, 2009.
Andrew B. “Andy” Davidson, Jr., 84, of Edgewater, retired from the Seneca Army Depot in Waterloo, N.Y., as deputy director of services and a supporter of Special Olympics, died Tuesday, March 3, 2009.
Party Lines political notebook: Kosmas brings home the bacon for law enforcement
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Courtesy photo. Congresswoman Susanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach, announced Friday $1.15 million in federal funding for law enforcement in Volusia County as part of a $135 million aid package to Florida.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Congresswoman Susanne Kosmas announced Friday that Volusia County was receiving $1.15 million of a $135 million federal aid package for Florida law enforcement and criminal justice entities.
NSB cops: Certainty that former FDLE attorney killed himself with a gun, but whether he suffocated his wife with a plastic bag remains a mystery
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Courtesy photos. Stephen G. Brady, 58, was found shot to death Sept. 22, a victim of suicide, but whether he suffocated his 56-year-old wife, Pamela Brady, with a plastic bag in their New Smyrna Beach home or whether she did it herself, remains a mystery. The deaths came after he abruptly resigned from his job as a lawyer with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after a confrontation wth the husband of a co-worker he was having an affair with turned violent.
Call for chefs and artists for upcoming Culinary Art Walk on Flagler Avenue
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Gallery Group of Flagler Avenue is seeking professional chefs and artists in any medium to participate in the “Culinary Arts” Art Walk” from
10 a.m.-5 p.m., March 28 in New Smyrna Beach.
Chefs are invited to present culinary demonstrations, and artists are invited to showcase culinary related art works. It will be a very special occasion.
For more information or to request a visiting chef or artist application, please call (386) 428-1770 or (386) 689-2672 or visit www.flaglergallerygroup.com.
NSB city attorney to meet with attorney for Angler's Club to discuss legality of waterfront lease
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NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera King. New Smyrna Beach City Attorney Frank Gummey told the City Commission it is his opinion that the city's 99-year lease with the Angler's Club is legally binding, regardless of whether it once had discriminatory membership policies and is not paying current fair-market value to use the municipal waterfront property.