Lake Helen News

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Preparing to crunch numbers - Lake Helen Commissioner Ann Robbins, pictured here at the July 17 City Commission meeting, doesn't favor any large merit-pay raises for city employees, ...

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Fence plan causes ruckus - Tie-line flags mark where Marie Pierce wants to put in a fence.

An overnight fight at an Orlando nightclub sent three patrons to the hospital with stab wounds.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Preparing to crunch numbers - Lake Helen Commissioner Ann Robbins, pictured here at the July 17 City Commission meeting, doesn't favor any large merit-pay raises for city employees, ...

COUNTY JAIL DOCKET : Mandy Lynn Fior , 31, Ormond Beach, public assistance fraud; Betty Grace Sharpe , 45, Daytona Beach, aggravated battery; Cheryl Lee Tyler , 51, DeLand, criminal use of a persons ...

One person was thrown out of a westbound pickup that rolled over Monday night after hitting a guardrail on Interstate 4 near Lake Helen, officials said.

BEACON PHOTO/AL EVERSON Full house - It was a full house at Deltona City Hall July 7 for a discussion of whether the city should form its own police department.

Orlando police now have a suspect in the vandalism that covered 23 city owned vehicles in graffiti last month.

Flagler Beach City Commissioner Ron Vath has a vision, a vision of golf carts humming along city streets, bypassing gas stations as they help bring the community together, making it more efficient to visit a ...

BEACON PHOTO/MARSHA MCLAUGHLIN Game on - Craig and Arin Maynard have fun on an inflatable jousting arena during Orange City's Fireworks Extravaganza July 5. There was a lot going on at the festival, but, ...

BEACON PHOTO/MARSHA MCLAUGHLIN Miss Lake Helen Cassadaga - Emily Miskell, 14, poses for a photo after she is crowned Miss Lake Helen Cassadaga June 28.

Gather your family, bring a chair or blanket and prepare to be dazzled by a sky full of colors.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Feeling the pain - DeBary City Finance Administrator Jimmie Seelbinder goes over financial information with DeBary City Council members June 18.

Incumbent Lake Helen City commissioners Lou Benton and Alan "Cookie" Cooke will face opposition in November's municipal election.

It may take a little longer to get through rush hour traffic in Central Florida this evening because of crashes, including three on Interstate 4 . Traffic on eastbound I-4 near Altamonte Springs was slow moving ...

BEACON PHOTO/PT HATFIELD 'It's Our Farm' - Volunteer Oscar Williams, left, and cofounders Elisha Lee and Chris Baker perform the first act of manual labor on Lake Helen's community-supported farm: putting clods ...

COUNTY JAIL DOCKET : Shawntaye L. Hayward , 18, New Smyrna Beach, criminal mischief over $1,000; Regina Marie Kelly , 39, DeLand, possession of a controlled substance; Taisa Asuntia Cotton , 28, Deltona, ...

Lake Helen's elections will remain unchanged. June 19, the Lake Helen City Commission voted unanimously to make no change to the city elections schedule.

City commissioners may give themselves an extra year in office if they move city elections to even-numbered years.

By Woody Wommack June 18, 2008 SEMINOLE COUNTY - When Michelle Thatcher first told friends and family that she was planning on trekking the entire St.