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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Community Redevelopment Agency voted 6-0 at its May 13 meeting to approve up to $9,000 in spending for an artificial Christmas tree in Riverside Park.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Glenn Scott Gagnon, 42, died on the side of the roadway on the North Causeway just after 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 1. The vehicle that struck him never stopped.
Madeline Deas McLaughlin, 81, of Edgewater, a homemaker survived by her husband of 62 years, William; who enjoyed painting and playing the piano, died Thursday, July 23, 2009.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A severe thunderstorm and tornado warning from the National Weather Service proved prophetic Friday night in Port Orange with a twister destroying at least seven mobile homes there and more than a hundred others damaged while New Smyrna Beach endured thunder and lightning that caused intermittent power outages.
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Courtesy photo/Volusia Jail mug. Robert C. Young, 31, of Edgewater, a convicted felon recently released from prison, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with having unlawful sex with a child. The victim, bore his child at the age of 16, two years after Young allegedly began having sex with her. In a police report, the victim's mother states that Young knew he was the father of her teenage girl's baby, but he didn't want his name listed as the father on the birth certificate or for the young Oak Hill mother to obtain food stamps because he didn't want the authorities to know he had sex with a minor.
EDGEWATER -- Robert C. Young went to prison two years ago with a secret few others knew at the time.
Young's past caught up with him again Tuesday when he was arrested by Volusia County Sheriff's deputies on a warrant charging him with having unlawful sex with a minor.
The secret? The victim was 14 years old when she and Young began a sexual relationship, according to Sheriff's investigative reports and an arrest affidavit, that resulted in her bearing a child at the age of 16.
NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry and Sera Frederick. Marilee Walters, left, is among three announced candidates challenging incumbent first-term Mayor Sally Mackay in the municipal elections. The others, not pictured, are Adam Barringer and Ed Ellison. Qualifying ends Aug. 20.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Art Walk on Flagler Avenue will celebrate "Christmas in July" from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
This is the perfect time for art lovers to get a jump on their holiday shopping. It will be a festive day to take a fascinating stroll along Flagler
Avenue while enjoying the wonderful art on display in galleries, under canopies, and on porches. "
EDGEWATER -- A small plane piloted by a New Smyrna Beach man made an emergency landing in a grassy area near the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Edgewater Wednesday night before taking off after the Florida Highway Patrol briefly closed a stretch of the highway to enable him to take off and return to the Ne Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Blue Heron International Pictures announced today that its latest Holocaust documentary -- "Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo" -- has attracted the attention of the Polish government.
“Alex Ringer, our producer in Israel, received a congratulatory letter recently from H. E. Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, the Polish ambassador to Israel,” said Executive Producer Richard Lester, a teacher at New Smyrna Beach High School and one of the film's producers.
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Today, Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach (FL-24), a member of the fiscally responsible New Democrat Coalition, applauded the passage of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The measure, cosponsored by Congresswoman Kosmas, will turn PAYGO budget rules that have been in effect since 2007 into law with enforceable consequences.
