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PONCE INLET -- For eight years, Volusia County’s Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet has cared for thousands of sick or injured sea turtles, seabirds and more.

Again this year, hundreds of citizens are expected to join the county in celebrating animal rehabilitation and raising awareness about marine life and the environment as the MSC stages its annual Turtle Day from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.today.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Police are on the lookout for a man with a handgun who tried to rob two people on North Myrtle Avenue just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Latrieka Chantel Hinson, 22, told police officer B. A. Morris that she and a friend were approached by a white man on North Myrtle near Ronnoc Lane, who displayed a handgun and demanded money from them.
Hinson told police she and her friend screamed out for help and the gunman ran off.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick.

The former New Smyrna Beach High School complex has been an eyesore for a decade now, but that's about to change with big bucks coming from the county through an ECHO grant to make way for the Mosquito Lagoon Marine Enhancement Center.

NSBNEWS.net file photo of City Commissioner Jack Grasty.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City Commissioner Jack Grasty was all smiles Friday and why not? The city received two ECHO grants from Volusia County: $600,000 for the Mosquito Lagoon Marine Enhancement Center at the former New Smyrna Beach High School, and $281,853 for the city's portion of the Cross Volusia Trail.

NSBNEWS.net videos by Sera Frederick

The video to the left shows bird rescuer Marilyn Sullivan appealing to the city to put up signs informing people not to feed pelicans because it makes them more aggressive and dependent on humans for food. The video to the right captures pelicans along the Intracoastal Waterway in New Smyrna Beach just north of Riverside Park.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Bird rescuer Marilyn Sullivan appealed to the City Commission to put up signs alerting people not to feed pelicans.

NE SMYRNA BEACH -- The Coast Guard has been searching since 2 p.m. Saturday for two people missing in a boat that sent out a distress signal about 15 miles from the New Smyrna Beach shoreline.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Coast Guard early this afternoon called off its search of a boat with two people aboard reported missing 15 miles from the New Smyrna Beach shore slightly less than 24 hours earlier.

DELAND -- The Agri-Business Inter-Relationship Committee will meet with the University of Florida/Volusia County Extension Advisory Committee at 11:30 a.m. Monday. The meeting will be in the Agricultural Center’s auditorium, 3100 E. New York Ave.

DELAND -- Volusia County’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday, in the first-floor training room of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave.

I felt special attending a dinner last month honoring Mike and Dana Thompson. Quite a few people attended the dinner held next to the golf course to recognize the well-deserving couple. Many spoke of their accomplishments, Mike as a former mayor of Oak Hill and Dana as a teacher at New Smyrna Beach Middle School.

Courtesy photo.