NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Are you ready for some football? Well, if you're a Cudas fan, you'll have to wait until Saturday because tonight's game against Pine Ridge is cancelled because of heavy rain over the best two days that has drenched the field at New Smyrna Beach Stadium. Instead the 7 p.m. game with Pine Ridge will be played at Pine Ridge Stadium in Deltona. In the meantime, you can enjoy highlights from New Smyrna Beach High's home opener against Astronaut of Titusville.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Local beekeeper Marlin Athearn will discuss beekeeping, honey cultivation, and the importance of healthy bees for our food supply at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 16, at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, 1001 S. Dixie Freeway.
Exclusive NSBNews.net videos and photos by Sera Frederick / Compass Construction begins work Monday on the Hampton Inn site on Flagler Avenue. NSBNews.net interviewed the site manager who estimated the outer shell would be erected in eight weeks.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- God created the Heavens and the Earth, beast and fowl and mankind, all in six days. On the seventh day, He rested. New Smyrna Beach officials and the developer with golden shovels broke ground on the Hampton Inn. They rested for 73 days before construction began anew today.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Children are invited to the inaugural New Smyrna Beach Easter Egg Hunt at noon, Saturday, April 7, at Old Fort Park, 210 Sams Ave. Nearly 6,500 plastic, colored eggs will dot the landscape, said Liz Yancey, city recreation and special events supervisor.
"This is the first Easter Egg Hunt the City has sponsored in at least 34 years," Yancey said. "Volunteers will take hours filling the eggs with candy. And if you've ever seen an egg hunt, you know it will be over in just a few minutes."
Clifford Ray Leist, age 72, of Edgewater, died Friday, June 4, 2010 at Ocean View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, New Smyrna Beach. Born in Guymon, Oklahoma, Mr. Leist, a retired Volusia County school teacher, came to this area in 2000 from Osteen, Florida.