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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The CCA (Coastal Conservation Association) Mid Coast Chapter is holding its inaugural Mid Coast Pig Roast, which is sponsored by Costa and Hell's Bay Boatworks, 6-10 p.m...Friday, May 7 at Pub 44, 1889 State Road 44.

There will be "all you can eat BBQ Pig" with the fixin's, free beer, soda, sweet tea and water, the MOB Band, a silent auction and raffles and a fun night out.

Courtesy photo.

Aerial view of the sprawling Pavilion at Port Otrange, which includes Belk, which is having a special sale Saturday.

PORT ORANGE -- Belk will hold its annual Spring Charity Sale Saturday to benefit local charities, schools and nonprofit organizations throughout the company's 16-state market area, including the local Belk at the Pavilion at Port Orange.

A $5 ticket entitles customers to merchandise discounts ranging from an extra 20 to 70 percent on items throughout the store, including special savings on rarely discounted brands. Customers will also receive $5 off their first purchase of $5 or more at the event, and Belk cardholders will receive double Rewards points (and Belk Elite cardholders triple Rewards points) for card purchases.

The first 100 customers in each store will receive free Belk gift cards, ranging in value from $5 to $100, and a chance to win one of three $1,000 Belk gift cards being awarded company-wide.

Courtesy photo/far left. NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick.

The Amtrak passenger train will zip through NSB today. Deb Denys, left, a proponent for a passenger train stop here and a Volusia County Council candidate, is thrilled with the run.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Get your lawn chairs and bring them to the lot across from Dunn Lumber this afternoon to see the Amtrak passenger train pass by on its way to Jacksonville. The train is currently scheduled to pass New Smyrna Beach between 2:20 and 2:45 pm.

Courtesy photo/POPD Jail mug of Jeffrey E. Richardson, 49, charged with lewd and lascivious conduct involving three children.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Port Orange police have arrested a 49-year-old New Smyrna Beach man on a warrant accusing him of having inappropriate sexual contact with three pre-teen children while visiting a Port Orange couple in their home.

Jeffrey Eric Richardson was charged Wednesday with lewd and lascivious conduct after a complaint was lodged against him earlier in April by the couple, Port Orange police Capt. Frank Surmaczewicz said.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick.

A 10-year-old Orlando girl was bitten on the foot by a shark in the waist-deep surf, less than two miles south of the Flagler Avenue Approach, 10:30 a.m. Saturday. The beach was packed, thanks to the warm waters with plenty of sun and surf enthusiasts as shown in these photos taken just before 5:30 p.m.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 10-year-old Orlando irl was bitten by a shark in waist-deep water this morning and was bandaged up by lifeguards before returning to playing on the beach, a Beach Patrol official said.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Jeanette DiCara.

Peter Kafura, and Kyra Crawford,  sophomores at New Smyrna Beach High School, were among dozens of Southeast Volusia residents picking up garbage from the riverbanks of the Indian River and among nearly 200 overall, lending a helping hand during Saturday's 22nd annual Halifax/Indian River Clean-Up. Kyra walks out of the woods with an armful of garbage by the river, including a shoe. A full can of garbage sits ashore by the Sea Scout's sailboat. This boat was recently a part of the Lipton Tea Rigatta near New Smyrna Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Peter Kasfura has volunteered two years in a row now to help with the annual Halifax/Indian River clean-up. Kyra Crawford was out here for the first time.  She held up an old shoe and said that this and some of the garbage did smell bad, but the New Smyrna Beach High School sophomores did it any way because it needed to be done.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick and NSBNEWS.net video by Jeanette DiCara.

Some 50 supporters of the return of Amtrak passenger service with a stop in New Smyrna Beach showed their support 2:45 p.m. Saturday with a train passing through from Miami to Jacksonville with stops in Daytona Beach and St. Augustine, along the way, with a host of state officialdom on board. In the video, Deb Denys, an organizer of the rally and a candidate for the S.E. Volusia seat on the Volusia County Council, and T.C. Wilder, whose dad worked for the rail service many years ago, talk up support.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The loud horn sound 50 train revelers heard Saturday across the street from the boarded up Dunn Lumber building at the corner of West Canal Street and U.S. 1 was an Amtrak passenger engine.  Or as these folks like to think of it: An economic engine.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.

Beradete Britz-Parker of the accounting firm James Moore and Co. said as a result of miscalculations, the city's reserve account, with everything taken into account, is closer to $2 milion than $10 million.  She outlines numerous "deficiencies" in the city budget that are troubling and recommended the city hire not only a competent finance director, but a budget director as well. Watch her presentation on our video, above, and click on the attachment, below, to read her summary reports.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- "We do have some issues," said the city's auditor of its troubled finances.

Kenneth H. Brown, 86, of New Smyrna Beach, A U.S. veteran and laborer for Eli Lilly Company, died Friday, April 30, 2010.

Julin O. Jacobson, of Edgewater, a former agriculture agent for the University of Minnesota, died Thursday, April 29, 2010.

Dorothy "Dottie" Louise Remington, 73, of Edgewater, worked at the Edgewater Winn Dixie in the Deli, and in the kitchen at the American Legion Post 17, died Thursday April, 29, 2010.

Veronica Delfino, 83, of New Smyrna Beach, a homemaker, died Wednesday, April 28, 2010.

Since taking office in November on a promise to cut spending while maintaining essential services for the residents of New Smyrna Beach, Mayor Adam Barringer, Commissioner Judy Reiker and incumbent Commissioner Jack Grasty (returned in the primary), have done just the opposite.