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City clerk/administrator candidate interviews tonight

OAK HILL -- The city has received 90 applications to fill the vacant city clerk/administrator position that pays upwards of $50,000 annually, and has whittled that list down to seven to be interviewed tonight.

Deputy Clerk Laura Goodearly, who makes $35,000, is among the applicants to replace Stella McLeod, who resigned July 11. She gave no reason for leaving the job that paid her $45,000 a year. The City Commission will conduct the interviews at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.

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NSB cops: Man caught 'red-handed' stealing metal scraps from a salvage trailer

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 46-year-old Edgewater man was arrested this morning on burglary and theft charges after police said they caught him trying to take pieces of scrap metal from the back of a tractor-trailer at 1125 S. Orange St.
 
"He was caught red-handed in the act right in broad daylight," New Smyrna Beach police Sgt. Eugene Griffith said of the 7 a.m. incident.
 

13-year-old girl from New York becomes 16th shark-bite victim in NSB surf

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 13-year-old girl from New York became the 16th shark-bite victim of this swimming season when she was bitten on the back of her right leg and shin while in waist-deep water just after noon Tuesday, the Volusia County Beach Patrol Beach.

TV's WESH 2 News of Orlando reported physicians who stitched her up in the emergency room at Bert Fish Medical Center removed a partial shark's tooth from her leg.