Orange City News

The hospital at Da Nang, Vietnam, where incoming wounded were treated, was outfitted for battle.

School officials have come up with a compromise attendance zone plan that will keep more DeLand and Deltona students at schools in their cities and Lake Helen students at DeLand High when a new Orange City high school opens in August.

One of the five remaining suspects of an oxycodone ring turned himself into the Volusia County Sheriff's Office this morning.

A healthcare reform discussion panel, sponsored by the Democratic Club of Southwest Volusia, will be held 7 p.m. Thursday.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Not my trees - " Clinton Van Cleef of Glenwood points to trees his grandfather planted in the Grand Avenue median in Glenwood many years ago.

Although Volusia County Schools have continued to lose students for a third consecutive year, some schools -- because of geography -- remain crowded.

The board, which meets at 4 p.m. at the DeLand Administrative Complex, 200 N. Clara Ave., DeLand is scheduled to approve improvement plans for 78 elementary, middle, high, alternative and charter schools.

After several months of uncertainty, the DeBary City Council recently approved an agreement to contract with Orange City for fire-protection services.

W ith Halloween on a Saturday this year, will the holiday scare up more consumers eager to spend lots of cash on some spooky fun? Retailers hope so, but the experts doubt it will happen, saying the doom-and-gloom economy is likely to keep wallets shut.

The effects of Volusia County's recent budget decisions became reality for county firefighters this week when a station located between DeLand and Orange City was left unmanned for roughly 10 hours.

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

A search for a new city manager is under way and the cost of replacing the city's last manager, John McCue, might be higher than anticipated.

A 10-acre brush fire this afternoon in New Smyrna Beach was contained before it could threaten homes in the vicinity, a fire official said.

Curemark LLC , a drug research and development company, has enrolled the first patients in Phase III clinical trials for its autism treatment, CM-AT, including patients at Lake Mary Pediatrics in Orange City.

Taxpayers paid more than $700,000 to settle legal claims of bodily injury and property damage during the 2005-06 fiscal year.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD No meter here - No water meter adorns this well assembly at a home in the unincorporated area of the county just east of DeLand.

Associated Press A manatee swims at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City in January 2006.

For women who have had breast cancer, or who have supported a friend with breast cancer, putting on a bra has a whole new meaning.

The death of a 15-year-old New Smyrna Beach High School student Saturday has been confirmed as swine-flu-related, officials said Wednesday.

Sophomore Sharee Botts will stay at Pine Ridge High School next year under either of the attendance rezoning plans officials have proposed, but she's looking forward to having more elbow room on campus.