Holly Hill News

An historic city building that's getting a major facelift funded by tax dollars appears to be losing its first prospective tenant, and a weekly public market that officials hoped would inject some life into the surrounding area is still on hold.

The 52-foot, 60,000-pound houseboat that graced Holly Hill for four months finally hit the water Wednesday morning after three tugboats yanked and yanked and yanked, and freed the vessel from its sandy perch on a tiny island off Riverside Drive.

With the first IHRA Summit Pro-Am event of 2012 in the books, some drivers are already looking ahead to an October date with the Summit Tournament of Champions at Memphis International Raceway after winning the first TOC qualifier of the year over the weekend at Immokalee Regional Raceway during the Division 2 Heat Wave season opener.

A 54-year-old man was charged with aggravated child abuse Monday after police said he swung a bicycle chain and struck a 7-year-old boy on the lower back with it.

Holly Hill Elementary School teacher Kimberly Newsome loves instructing sixth-grade students, but said the most challenging thing about teaching is "trying to find new and interesting ways to present the curriculum to keep students interested," but the best part is "all about the students and the surprising ideas they bring to the classroom." ... (more)

On Wednesday, police targeted the prostitutes and arrested eight women, most of whom were charged with solicitation to commit prostitution.

A Holly Hill woman who reported she was robbed was later arrested after officers found she was in possession of a stolen car.

A stretch of Riverside Drive is helping link a 3,000-mile trail from Maine to the Florida Keys for bicyclists and walkers who want to enjoy the outdoors.

West Volusia's community newspaper of DeLand, Orange City, Deltona, Enterprise, DeBary, Lake Helen, DeLeon Springs, Glenwood, Pierson, Cassadaga, Seville and Barberville in Florida.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT ANDREWS Overflow crowd - A crowd of folks filled the County Council Chambers to overflowing Jan.

Somehow, each survived the horror of Omaha Beach on D-Day. Few others aboard their landing crafts early on that morning June 6, 1944, came home to start careers, raise families and grow old.

An Ormond Beach firefighter sprays water on a hot spot at a home on Fernway Drive in Ormond Beach on Tuesday.