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Week of March 1 Property deeds for Southeast Volusia of $100K or more (from Volusia County Clerk of the Court)

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Moneytree Financial Services Inc. to George G. and Shirley A. Bennett, lots 3, 4, block 2, River Edge Acres, $245,000. Bayview Loan Servicing LLC to United Storage of America LLC, lots 6833-6838, block 223, Florida Shores, $190,000. William L. and Sylvia A. Bartholomew to Janet Lee Enslin, lot 5, block B, East Wind, $144,000. Donald E. Andrews and Cheryl S. Balombini to Crystal M. and Richard F. Paczkowski Jr., lot 15390, 15391, block 500, Florida Shores, $110,000.

Foreclosures week of March 15, 2010, at the Volusia County Courthouse in DeLand:

WELLS FARGO BANK vs. SANDA T GUTU 2810 NORDMAN AVENUE NEW SMYRNA BEACH FL 32168 Judge Robert K. Rouse, Jr. 03/15/2010

WELLS FARGO BANK vs. CHARLES M JORDAN 307 THREE OAKS DRIVE EDGEWATER FL 32141 Judge John V. Doyle 03/15/2010

HSBC BANK USA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION vs. JASON GREENE 251 WILDWOOD DR NEW SMYRNA BEACH FL 32168 Judge Robert K. Rouse, Jr. 03/15/2010

WELLS FARGO BANK vs. PATRICIA A LANIER 830 E 11TH AVENUE NEW SMYRNA BEACH FL 32169 Judge John V. Doyle 03/15/2010

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. Bouchelle Island resident Bill Koleszar continues his fight to invalidate the Anglers Yacht Club lease with the city.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Not content that the City Commission earlier this month voted to spend $7,500 for an updated appraisal on prime riverfront acreage the Angler's Yacht Club has under a longstanding lease with the city, Bouchelle Island resident Bill Koleszar stood alone Tuesday, again challenging the validity of the agreement and asking the city to go to court to take back the property.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Ocean Properties and Management, Inc. has joined the National Federation of Independent Business.

"We are encouraging other small businesses to join," said Bill Roe, president of Ocean Properties.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Counseling Center of New Smyrna Beach announces that
Gary Frick, M.D., a child and adult psychiatrist has joined its Practice.

DELAND -- A 64-year-old DeLand parachute diver was killed Friday when his main shoot failed to open over the DeLand Municipal Airport, DeLand police confirmed Monday.

We all know what anger is, and we’ve all felt it: whether as a fleeting annoyance or as full-fledged rage. Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems—problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life. And it can make you feel as though you’re at the mercy of an unpredictable and powerful emotion.

NSBNEWS.net photo and video by Sera Frederick. Mayor Adam Barringer was the guest of honor at the 2010 Boy Scouts of America Southeast Volusia Golden Eagle Dinner on Saturday night at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Among the Boy Scouts were 13-year-old Symian Wesley, 11-year-old James Goines and 10-year-old Xavier Boyd, all at front of the nine-member Troop and Pack 487 Allen Chapel AME Church, along with scout masters Richard Boulton and Arthur Williams. Pictured nearest in the photo is New Smyrna Beach City Commissioner Judy Reiker and her husband, Guy Mariande, an Eagle Scout. The woman in the middle of the photo is  Mary Barringer, an assistant principal at New Smyrna Beach High School and Mayor Barringer's mother who was there with her husband and the mayor's father, Ron Barringer, obscured in the photo, and Shannon Sumner, partially obscured, who is Mayor Barringer's fiancee.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mayor Adam Barringer was the guest of honor Saturday night for the annual Golden Eagle Dinner, the fundraiser for the Southeast Volusia Boy Scouts. 

(Washington, DC) - Fresh off her vote in favor of President Obama's nationalized health-care plan, first-term Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna (FL-24), will hold a telephone town hall from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday  to discuss the issue.

Courtesy photo. The New Smyrna Beach City Commission has asked its Parks and Recreation Advisory Park to consider naming a park in the North Beach "Grayce Barck Park" in honor of the late activist who died March 1 at the age of 82.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City Commissioner Lynne Plaskett was the last visitor to see 82-year-old Grayce Barck before she died March 1 at the Southeast Volusia Care Center of Hospice of Volusia/Flagler.