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Originally posted Tue, 2009-04-28 01:11

NSBNEWS.net photos by Sera Frederick. New Smyrna Beach Mayor Sally Mackay said a $5,200 raise request for City Clerk Johnny Bledsoe, below, will be taken off tonight's agenda because "the time is not right" with economic conditions and a tough budget season approaching.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mayor Sally Mackay  said she will pull the agenda item from tonight's City Commission meeting that seeks a raise for City Clerk Johnny Bledsoe, saying in part, "now is not the time to be raising salaries with the budget coming up."

Originally posted Sat, 2009-03-07 01:46

Courtesy photos. Stephen G. Brady, 58, was found shot to death Sept. 22, 2008, 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 with the husband of a co-worker he was having an affair with turned violent. New Smyrna Beach police concluded their investigation in March.

Originally posted Sun, 2009-11-15 10:19

Dec. 25, 2009: Kevin G. Scheel and Elizabeth J. Stock, Edgewater.

Courtesy photo. Gov. Charlie Crist's Christmas message includes being thankful for the blessings of friends and family and safe haven for Florida servicemen and women in harm's way.

During this season of peace and giving, I want to wish all Floridians a Merry Christmas.

Theodore Scott Douglas, III "Ted", 59, a native of New Smyrna Beach, who worked for Carter Electric for many years and enjoyed fishing, hunting and spending time with his grandchildren, died Monday, Dec. 21, 2009.

Dec. 24, 2009: Dean A. Weber and Amanda K. Hooker, Edgewater; Ahmed F. Gad, Daytona Beach, and Crystal L. Conlee, New Smyrna Beach; Frank Bonomo and Nancy R. Jeppe, Edgewater.

Originally posted Mon, 2009-11-09 18:59

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Two brothers, ages 10 and 7, with severe burns on their faces, chests and arms, are hospitalized in critical condition and their motherc ommited under the state's Baker Act, for psychiatric evaluation, New Smyrna Beach police said of the early Monday incident at a duplex in the 400 block of 10th Street.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. The towering electronic Christmas tree is lit up above Bert Fish Medical Center during the 20th annual Lights of Love ceremony Tuesday night, far left photo. In the second photo, Doug Hodson, board member of the Community Redevelopment Agency and the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority, sits on the curb with friends. Pictured in the third photo are Sue Williams, incoming president of the Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce, and her husband, Tom, also a member of the CRA. Speaking on stage in the fourth photo is Garry Mac, spokesman for Bert Fish. Pictured in the sixth photo are the Beu Sisters.

Originally posted Sun, 2009-02-01 03:14

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A moment of silence was observed Tuesday at the start of the New Smyrna Beach City Commission in honor of Ed Cooper who died Jan. 23. He was 85.