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NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. A 60-year-old bicyclist died aboard the Sheriff's One helicopter en route to Halifax Medical Center after he was struck by a motorist on Peninsula Avenue after 2 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 60-year-old bicyclist lost his life after pedaling into the path of an oncoming car on Peninsula Drive, just south of the intersection with Flagler Avenue just after 2:08 p.m. Tuesday, New Smyrna Beach police said.

Courtesy photos / Angela Carter Several hundred people march from the predomintly black Westside Community to downtown New Smyrna Beach, along the way crossing the Dr. Msarin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge in honor of MLK Day with a formal remembrance program at Old Fort Park on Sams Avenue.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Larry Chisolm was among the first generation of African Americans to attend the newly integrated Faulkner Street Elementary School in the early 1970s. Today while thousands of New Smyrna Beach residents enjoyed the extended holiday weekend, he and several hundred others marched in celebration of Martin Luther King Day.

EDGEWATER -- The Friends of the Library will have its annual winter book sale in the Edgewater Public Library auditorium from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan.28, through Saturday, Jan. 30.

Courtesy photos/Jeanette Dicara With more seasonable temperatures returning this weekend, it was back to short sleeves like Angela Dicara was sporting Saturday while sitting on a bench in front of the Space Coast Credit Union, at the south end of New Smyrna Beach on Ridgewood Avenue and 10th Street, near the Edgewater city line. The recent rains meant more water as shown in this small creek at Veterans Memorial Park on Riverside Drive in Edgewater. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Good riddance to those wind-chill days and nights. Good riddance to the rare sleet, otherwise known as freezing rain.

ORANGE CITY, Fla. -- A 51-year-old woman found dead in her home Tuesday morning has been ruled a homicide victim, and Volusia County Sheriff's investigators have named a former co-worker of hers a "person of interest" in the slaying.

Jan. 12, 2010: Connor C. McDuffie and Sharon E. Sigler, New Smyrna Beach; Joshua D. Blackburn and Cheryl A. Lantych, New Smyrna Beach; Walter D. Kemmesat and Amy R. Dorn, New Smyrna Beach; William A. Russell and Angela S. Miller, Edgewater.

Revis Gale Rhodes Jr. 78, of New Smyrna Beach, and Rumson, N.J., a former copyright and patent law
attorney who served in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant and then graduated Chicago Kent
College of Law in 1960, died Friday, Jan. 8, 2010.

Kent A. Williams, 72, of New Smyrna Beach, a retired utilities company executive, who moved from Earleville, Maryland to Ormond Beach in 1995, then to New Smyrna Beach in 2003, and enjoyed family, fishing, boating and photography, died Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.

Jacquelyn Spring Daly of West Roxbury, Mass., who grew up in New Smyrna Beach

Contributing photos. These photos (at left and below) were e-mailed to NSBNEWS.net by Jeanette DiCara, showing the early Saturday morning sleet on the plants outside her Edgewater home. Overnight Saturday temperatures are expected to plunge to the coldest levels so far this year with lows in the teens, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A casualty of the freezing rain Saturday was the weekend BalloonFest at New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport. The good news is there is no more freezing rain expected this weekend.