POLITICS

NSBNEWS.net file photo by Sera Frederick. CRA Director Kevin Fall submitted his resignation Wednesday, just one day after he was reprimanded by Interim City Manager Pam Brangaccio for his Nov. 14 motor vehicle stop on the beachside by New Smyrna Beach police, charging him with driving with an open container of alcohol, speeding 16 miles over the posted limit and driving without registration.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Community Redevelopment Director Kevin Fall abruptly resigned Wednesday, the day after he was reprimanded in writing for a Nov. 14 motor vehicle stop that resulted in tickets charging him with driving with an open container of alcohol, speeding and driving without registration.

Fall's resignation was confirmed Thanksgiving morning by Mayor Adam Barringer, who declined to comment. Fall has not returned previous calls for comment left with his staff and could not be reached on Thanksgiving.

NSBNEWS.net videos by Sera Frederick. Check out our post-election video coverage at campaign headquarters for Mayor-Elect Adam Barringer and Zone 1 Commissioner-Elect Judy Reiker.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Sera Frederick. At far left, Adam Barringer has his hand raised in victory as mayor-elect by campaign manager Danny Mickelbrink with Barringer fiancee Shannon Sumner. At near left, first-term incumbent Sally Mackay, with husband Richard Spangler in the middle, concedes defeat to Barringer at his campaign headquarters following the election.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH - Adam Barringer defeated incumbent Sally Mackay, 3,081 to 2969, or 50.93 percent of the vote, to become New Smyrna Beach's new mayor in the Tuesday general election.

In the other contest, Judy Reiker knocked off first-term Zone 1 City Commissioner Randy Richenberg, 3,127 to 2815, or 52.63 percent, to claim that seat.

Courtesy photo (far left) / NSBNEWS.net photo (near left) by Henry Frederick.

Here are two of four anonymous e-mails sent out to voters by a supporter of first-term Mayor Sally Mackay in the past couple of weeks under the heading of "NSB new times," all of which attack the candidacy of mayoral candidate Adam Barringer, who won the primary and received all four available public endorsements in the 2009 campaign. Mackay denied any involvement in the e-mail campaign, but added they have merit and are actually humorous.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Marilee Walters, a Flagler Avenue merchant who finished third in the Sept. 22 primary for mayor, said she's concerned about the spending practices of the New Smyrna Beach CRA.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Though she finished out of the running for mayor in last month's primary, Flagler Avenue merchant Marilee Walters said she's continuing her ant-tax message by questioning the spending practices of the city's Community Redevelopment Agency.

Courtesy photo (near right) of Zone 2 City Commissioner Jack Grasty and NSBNEWS.net photo (far right) of candidate Palmer Wilson. Even though his first try at elective office came up short, former Zone 2 commissioner-candidate Palmer Wilson pledges to continue public discussion over ways to cut down on municipal spending in his role as private citizen.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The day after the Sept. 22 primary saw Zone 2 City Commissioner Jack Grasty as the outright victory in the Sept. 22 primary, runner-up candidate Palmer Wilson, a retired Maryland police lieutenant, offered congratulations to the incumbent and pledged to continue speaking up about ways to curb what he deems excessive municipal spending.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Mayoral candidate Marilee Walters said she was physically wiped out in the waning moments of primary night voting as shown in this photo outside a polling precinct on the beachside Tuesday night. Walters finished a distant third in her first try at elective office.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Former mayoral candidate Marilee Walters issued a written statement Thursday, thanking those who voted for her candidacy.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Mayor Sally Mackay (middle), and challengers Marilee Walters and Adam Barringer, are pictured here from the second of two NSB candidates debates sponsored by NSBNEWS.net and the Public Watch Committee. The three square off in today's big primary.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The city's police union pledged its support for Adam Barringer over Mayor Sally Mackay, on top of the might he gained from the firefighters' union and the Southeast Volusia Board of Realtors while the incumbent continued to tout her experience and Marilee Walters appealed to disenfranchised voters to give her the nod in today's hotly-contested primary for mayor and two city commission seats.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. At left, Zone 1 commission challenger Frank Dalton Jr. smiles for the camera in his beachside home with his wife, Tara, who is pregnant with their second child, and nearly 1-year-old son, Frank III. The  Daltons have another child in the household, his eldest son, Cole, 16. Dalton is a self-employed floor installer and Tara Dalton is a registered nurse at Halifax Hospital.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Frank Dalton Jr. first thought about an active run for local elective office after last spring's tropical flood rains brought water into his beachside home.