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NSBNEWS.net video and photo by Sera Frederick.

Bob Tolley, a critic of CRA spending, is not pleased that Bert Fish paid $787,000 to the agency, especially since the money comes from indigent care tax money through the hospital district. Tolley is incensed that Community Redevelopment Agency monies are being spent on landscaping and pet projects for a small group of Canal Street merchants such as the nearly $27,000 spent on "Christmas on Canal." Our video shows the installation of a $9,000 artificial Christmas tree last fall at Canal and Riverside Drive. Click the attachment to read the CRA expenditures for Christmas on Canal.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An outspoken critic of CRA spending said he doesn't believe Bert Fish Medical Center should have to pay any further taxes towards the Community Redevelopment Agency and shouldn't have paid up last year's owed $787,000 that was paid Tuesday.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. 

Mayor Adam Barringer speaks exclusively to NSBNEWS.net Tuesday night following City Commission-approval to settle two of three lawsuits out of court with litigants who sued the city.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Issues or decisions that weren't done on his watch will be cleaned up on his watch, first-term Mayor Adam Barringer pledged in an exclusive video interview with NSBNEWS.net Tuesday night after the City Commission voted to settle with three litigants who sued the city rather than face far-potentially more expensive damages in court.

WASHINGTON D.C.-- Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna (FL-24), joined her House colleagues Wednesday in introducing legislation that would ensure oil companies are held accountable for paying economic damages resulting from spills.

 NSBNEWS.net by Henry Frederick. NSBNEWS.net audio of 911 call by Sera Frederick.

Oak Hill police officer Brandy Sutherin, at left in the photo, fills out a report while Oak Hill Police Chief Diane Young greets his wife, Christina, Saturday night, April 24, in a gas station parking lot  across from the New Smyrna Speedway, after the couple told troopers they were victims of a road-rage incident that began on I-95 and continued onto S.R. 44, resulting in the off-duty cop shooting his gun at the other motorist's vehicle. Listen to the 9-1-1 call, NSBNEWS.net was first to report the story. He has since left the police force.

OAK HILL -- The Oak Hill cop who shot at a pick-up truck during a road rage incident that started on Interstate 95 and spilled onto State Road 44 has resigned from the police force.

DELAND -- The May 21 workshop scheduled for the Volusia County Council and St. Johns River Water Management District has been canceled.

It seems that our City is a magnet for lawsuits.

We have the Judge (Nahum) Litt's lawsuit for "freedom of information act", the Alexander "building suit", the Volusia County "Homebuilders suit" and the suit of the contractor on the 3rd Ave. new fire station.

Are there any more out there? Let me know if I missed any, O.K.?

Now the big problem: We have a City Attorney in Frank Gummey who makes what a federal judge makes and has a $500,000 buyout.

DAYTONA BEACH -- One hundred World War II veterans and their escorts will board a US Airways’ Airbus charter plane at Daytona Beach International Airport bound for Washington, D.C., at 6:26 a.m. Saturday. The group is the fifth from Central Florida to travel to the nation’s capital through the Volusia Honor Air program, which is organized by the Rotary Clubs in DeLand.

DELAND -- The River of Lakes Heritage Corridor Scenic Highway Corridor Management Entity will meet at 8:30 a.m. Monday, in the first-floor training rooms of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave.

DAYTONA BEACH Youths between 9 and 15 who are looking for sun, fun and education might find an end to summertime boredom in the Junior Lifeguard Program. Professional lifeguards will teach water safety and first aid techniques during week-long camps in June and July. Junior lifeguards also will participate in daily team relays involving surfboard paddling, swimming, running and beach flags.

DELAND -- Determined seems to be the key word to describe the men and women of the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office who earned the honor of being named Employees of the 1st Quarter of 2010 Tuesday morning. Every one of them demonstrated a passion for their jobs, including a deputy who makes sure the Sheriff’s Office’s communications center is always running efficiently, and an investigator who never forgets to take care of crime’s victims. Also getting awards from Sheriff Ben Johnson at the Deputy Stephen Saboda Training Center in Daytona Beach were an inventory control specialist, a telecommunicator, and a volunteer.