Orange City News

BEACON PHOTO/JEN HORTON Coming together - An emergency community meeting on student safety takes place Feb.

Jeff Allebach and Johnny Slaydon monitor traffic after setting up portable lighting Thursday at the corner of West Rhode Island and South Carpenter in Orange City.

I didn't watch the Super Bowl , its halftime show, its pre-show, its after-show, "The Voice," nada and nothing, but during some of that time, I did watch the movie "Warrior," and there is a Super Bowl connection of sorts.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office arrested two men Wednesday morning after finding a small, active methamphetamine lab in DeLeon Springs.

The state Department of Education and the Volusia County School District have launched separate investigations of the Reading Star Academy of Excellence K-5 charter school in Orange City.

DAYTONA BEACH: The Downtown-Ballough Road Redevelopment Area Board meets at noon in commission chambers at Daytona Beach City Hall, 301 S. Ridgewood Ave.

ORANGE CITY, Fla. - Parents in Volusia County will be holding a meeting to discuss safety and changes for children who walk to school.

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

PORT ORANGE: A Silver Sands Middle School student was hit while walking near the entrance to the school's bus loop.

The timing for the creation of a commerce park - one of several job-creation ideas floated by city leaders - isn't right, a subcommittee determined Friday.

It was a few hours past dusk last week, at the edge of a dense tract of undeveloped land near the border of Orange City and DeLand.

A Volusia County Sheriff's Deputy was injured when his patrol car was hit by another vehicle early Thursday morning in Orange City.

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

It happened around 6:00 a.m. at the intersection of Graves Avenue and Volusia Avenue in Orange City.

A bereaved mother and about a dozen friends of Hunter Perez toted signs Tuesday urging justice in his fiery car-surfing crash that resulted in his death one year ago today.

It started as a routine report Friday morning of a car that had been stolen out of the victim's driveway in Deltona.

A central Florida woman forced to take the bus when her car was stolen helped authorities capture the suspected thieves after watching her car drive past the bus.

Jeff Allebach stood outside a blue RV, greeting passers-by and directing volunteers at the Orange City Blue Spring Manatee Festival on Sunday.

People packed the boardwalk and decks at Blue Spring State Park , peering intently at the water, through the ripples, for a glimpse of its famous residents.

Taylor Kesselring thought U.S. Rep. John Mica was kidding when he called her forward Friday in front of a crowd of military brass, city leaders and school district officials.