Originally posted Fri, 2009-10-30 23:24
SAMSULA -- A New Smyrna Beach biker was killed when he was struck by a young motorist while pushing his stalled motorcycle on the northbound edge of the road on Samsula Drive the night of Oct. 29, the Florida Highway Patrol and Volusia County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport increased 12 percent in November 2009 compared with November 2008. The traffic increased from 29,300 to 32,853 passengers.
November’s traffic increase reflects the first month of passenger growth since June 2008, and may be an indicator of increased demand for commercial air transportation in the new year, according to airport officials.
Additionally, passenger loads were strong in November. Delta Air Lines filled 92 percent of available seats and US Airways filled 84 percent.
DELAND -- Volusia County’s 15 public libraries will close at 5 p.m. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve and remain closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
Patrons will be able to visit the library system online at www.volusialibrary.org during the holiday closings.
Joseph W. Grimes, 80, of Edgewater, an Air Force veteran of the Korean Conflict and a building contractor and owner of Joe Grimes Contracting, New Smyrna Beach, died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009.
Robert Matthew Seymour, 90, of Edgewater, an Air Force veteran of World War II and a retired office manager for Putman & Hawley Building Materials in Potsdam, N.Y., died Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009.
William Ilersich, 92, of Strongsville, Ohio, a part-time Edgewater resident, died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009.
Originally posted Tue, 2009-09-29 20:05
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Courtesy photo/jail mug. Tony Max Olea, 42, of Edgewater, was charged with robbing a bank in Port Orange after quickly turning himself in Sept. 28.
PORT ORANGE -- A 42-year-old Edgewater man turned himself in shortly after robbing a bank Sept. 28, Port Orange police said. Tony Max Olea was subsequently charged with bank robbery, having essentially called in his own arrest by dialing 9-1-1 .
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In the category of if anyone cares any more, the lights were out overnight Saturday on the artificial Christmas tree on the easternmost end of Canal Street.
There have been previous incidents of the tree lights not fully operating as intended since the nearly $9,000 tree paid for by the New Smyrna Beach Community Redevelopment Agency was officially lit Nov. 27. The following week, it was partially out during a rainstorm and on Dec. 13, a police officer wiggled the wires to get several outed lights to come back on.
Originally posted Fri, 2009-09-18 06:53
Courtesy photos/NSB mug shots.Tamera Jo-Ann Busbey, Kyle Patrick Doolin, Daniel J. Weekley, William R. Taylor and Brian Vanaller (not pictured) were all charged in connection with shooting into an occupied dwelling Sept. 16, that stemmed from a domestic dispute.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A boyfriend-girlfriend dispute is believed to be the reason for a gun being fired into a residence that has resulted in five arrests, New Smyrna Beach police said.
Global warming is the biggest hoax of the century.
Al Gore and others insist that the world is in serious trouble the ice is melting and the oceans are going to overflow and engulf the land mass.
Gore has found a way to make millions of dollars. If he truly believes in global warming, why is he still flying his private jet,living in his large mansion and using the amount of energy for it that could run a city like Edgewater.
Originally Posted: Thu, 2009-02-05 07:29
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Courtesy photo/Jail mug of Gary James Benben of Oak Hill.
EDGEWATER -- A 53-year-old Oak Hill man was charged with theft Jan. 29, after spending three hours at Dustin's Bar B-Q restaurant on U.S. 1, where he ate beans, two hamburgers and drank a dozen cups of coffee, before walking outside to light up a cigarette and explaining to the pursuing manager that he had no money, Edgewater police reported.
My husband and I returned to New Smyrna Beach after a week's vacation in Merida, Mexico. Driving back from Orlando, we thought we had come home to fires and were driving through smoke. But we got on the radio and learned it was fog. The closer to New Smyrna Beach, the thicker the fog became.
Then I got caught up on the New Smyrna Beach city government news.
Talk about "fog." The interim city manager, Pam Brangaccio, tried to pull a "fast one" with her bloated contract request, yet Commissioner James Hathaway did not "buy" it. Neither did Mayor Adam Barringer.
