October 2008
NSBNEWS.net: Where community journalism counts
Posted Wed, 2008-10-01 16:05
We hope that you like our updated version of NSBNEWS.net where the emphasis is on reporting events and covering the newsmakers of greater New Smyrna Beach as news develops around the clock in a mult-media fashion that includes not only the written word, but also sight and sound.
NSB welcomes home military hero from Afghanistan battlefront
Posted Wed, 2008-10-01 17:06
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Howrah! Howrah! Ron Sachs came marching home and got a hero's welcome today after 10 months in harm's way in Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne. Sachs was met at Daytona Beach International Airport just after 1:30 p.m. by his wife, Melinda, their two children and dozens of family members and friends, along with a police motors escort back to his home on the beachside. Sachs, 40, is a New Smyrna Beach cop.
No red tide detected in Indian River
Posted Wed, 2008-10-01 22:27
No Karenia brevis, the Florida red-tide organism, was detected this week in water samples collected from the Indian River Lagoon (Brevard and Indian River counties) nor were there any evidence of Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, detected this week in water samples collected alongshore between Pinellas and Monroe counties. Offshore samples collected north of the Florida Keys also contained no K. brevis.
Jupiter man with tiny cut is record-breaking 23rd shark-bite victim in NSB surf
Posted Thu, 2008-10-02 07:28
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The surfer who holds the distinction of being the 23rd record shark-bite victim, even though he only received a slight cut and jumped right back into the waves after being bit on his heel just before noon Sunday, has been identified as 44-year-old David Logan of Jupiter, the Volusia County Beach Patrol confirmed.
Even though it was ''the weakest'' shark bite he'd ever seen, Beach Patrol Capt. spokesman Scott Petersohn said nevertheless it still counts, breaking the record 22 bite victims recorded in 2001, then dubbed "the year of the shark."
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH --Opinions divided on sprawling hotel for quaint Flagler Avenue
Posted Thu, 2008-10-02 19:34
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- More than a hundred people agreed a world-class hotel for this tourist-oriented seaside community would boost the local economy by millions, but there was sharp division whether quaint Flagler Avenue with its charming boutiques would be ruined by a towering structure with as many as 150 rooms.
Mayor Sally Mackay was able to gain a majority vote on the City Commission for approval of a hospitality land-use development that could be built as an "overlay" in a commercial district such as U.S. 1, State Road 44, East or West Canal or the causeway corridors. And yes, even historic Flagler Avenue.
School superintendent's self-imposed pay cut sends the right message
Posted Thu, 2008-10-02 23:29
By DARLENE VANN
A big Atta Girl goes out to Volusia School Superintendent Margaret Smith for her voluntarily taking a 2 percent pay cut to help balance the board’s budget.
She said she wouldn’t ask the others to take a pay cut if she didn’t take one, too.
School board chairwoman Judy Conte is quoted as saying that her doing this “is sending the wrong message.“
NSB's own pumpkin patch -- come get your batch
Posted Mon, 2008-10-06 19:39
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Like people, pumpkins come in all shapes and sizes.
Some are big. Some are small. Some are round. Others are not so round. But they all bring joy to those who receive them as presents from loved ones and friends.
These are not just from any old pumpkin match. They're from God's pumpkin patch.
The First United Methodist Church of New Smyrna Beach is selling hundreds of them at its makeshift pumpkin patch in front of the Home Depot on State Road 44.
