March 1, 1914 - Aug. 22, 2010
Funeral service for Mabel E. Kirkland, 96, of Samsula, Florida, who passed away Sunday, August 22, 2010, will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday, August 26 at Settle-Wilder's New Smyrna Beach chapel, with the Reverend Luke McKinney, First Baptist Church, New Smyrna Beach, officiating. Burial will follow at Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater. Calling hours will be 6:00-8:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 25 at Settle-Wilder.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Several thousand people descended on Flagler Avenue for Thursday's third annual NSB Shrimp and Seafood Festival and nobody had a bigger smile than Matt Clancy, of the family-owned Clancy's Restaurant and Cantina.
"Look at all of these people -- this is incredible,"Clancy said, as people rubbed elbows inside the popular Tex-Mex style eatery, with even more on the outside patio and on the front and east sides of the building.
Flagler Avenue, New Smyrna Beach's quarter mile stretch to the beach, had so many people milling around, it looked like a giant ant colony.
But several candidates or their signs could be seen in the sea of people, including Sharon Luebbers, running for School Board district 3 and Ellen Darden for County Council, district 3.
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NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick.The crowds were inside and outside. Consumption of alcoholic beverages was allowed outside for this event, but moving forward, the City Commission voted unanimously the week before to end sidewalk sales and consumption of alcohol.
Still, police reported no major issues with crowd control or drinking.
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NSBNEWS.net photos by Sera Frederick.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNEWS.net filed an incident report with the New Smyrna Beach Police Department against the NSB shadow website Friday after a copy of its breaking news story on the departure of Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce President Steve Dennis was allowed to be posted without NSBNEWS.net's written or verbal consent. A copy of the police incident report is attached to this story.
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NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick.
Steve Dennis, longtime executive director/vice president of the Southeast Volusia Chamber Commerce was fired today by the board. No reason was given in a brief press release sent out by e-mail this afternoon.
NEWSMYRNA BEACH -- The reign of Steve Dennis as executive director/vice president of the Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce came to an abrupt end today when he was dismissed after more than two decades at the helm of the organization that has seen declining enrollments in recent years.
The chamber put out a tersely-worded "press release" at 3:51 p.m. promoting the hiring of Samantha Bishop as interim head of the organization without explaining why Dennis was fired.
DAYTONA BEACH -- At 11 this morning city officials will hold a press conference to promote a gun exchange program.
It will be held at the John H. Dickerson Center, 308 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. Mayor Glenn
Ritchey, City Commissioner Cassandra Reynolds, and Police Chief Michael Chitwood will talk about
"Kicks for Guns" exchange program.
Our children are our future.That’s a fact. They will grow up, hopefully, and run this country someday. And how do we treat these future leaders of our land? Abysmally, that’s how.
DAYTONA BEACH -- More than 1,100 current and former employees of the News-Journal Corp. will have to rely on the government for their pensions after a judge refused to set aside $14.5 million from the company’s recent sale to strengthen its underfunded pension plan.
ORMOND BEACH -- A combative, 30-year-old Ormond Beach man suffered a medical episode and collapsed Wednesday morning after a Volusia County Sheriff's deputy deployed his Taser to gain control of the man, an agency spokesman said.
