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HOLLY HILL — The last time the city overhauled its roads, its mayor was in fourth grade.Though it's been at least 20 years since Holly Hill → Read More
Daytona is known for more than its beach and its International Speedway. The historic Bethune home is Trip Advisor's top-rated Daytona attraction. → Read More
Daytona is known for more than its beach and its International Speedway. The historic Bethune home is Trip Advisor's top-rated Daytona attraction. → Read More
DAYTONA BEACH — A new six-part documentary series will offer an inside look into the hearts and minds of local “heroes.”Not on the battlefield, or the streets; these heroes are found in the classrooms: Public school teachers at Turie T. Small Elementary in Daytona Beach, an exceptional student education classroom at Flagler Palm Coast High, and at Daytona State College’s cosmetology program.Over… → Read More
ORMOND BEACH — If City Commissioner Susan Persis gets her way, Ormond Beach could soon be straw free.Following Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ → Read More
In her first class there, Stetson University associate professor of philosophy Melinda Hall discussed whether it was wrong to lie — a likely thought-provoking choice for her audience, inmates at the Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach. As a 5-foot-2-inch woman venturing into a men’s prison to teach for the university’s community education project, Hall admitted she was a little… → Read More
Bethune-Cookman University and Stetson University honored students during spring commencement ceremonies Saturday.In what will be his last address before he is replaced as president, outgoing interim President Hubert Grimes offered the university's more than 330 graduating students words of love — and of few of warning.Meanwhile, Stetson University graduated 991 students — a new record for the… → Read More
DAYTONA BEACH — At a time when other Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students were cramming for their midterm exams, Katerina Bourova found herself scrambling to find bottles, information — the strength, really — to nurse three sick newborn kittens.Found abandoned on campus, the kittens' eyes were sealed shut, their noses runny as they lay ill with a dangerous upper respiratory infection.… → Read More
DAYTONA BEACH — At a time when other Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students were cramming for their midterm exams, Katerina Bourova found → Read More
ORMOND BEACH -- An old photo rests atop a table in Clint Lake’s Ormond Beach, Fla., home. In it, he’s young, handsome, and ready to take on the world. And he did. Lake had hair then and wasn’t bent or hard of hearing as he is now at 93. And though he can’t seem to find his medals, the World War II Navy veteran’s memory remains sharp. As a dive bomber radioman and gunner aboard the USS Intrepid,… → Read More
Standing among a heap of twisted metal and mangled wires, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University associate professor Anthony Brickhouse explained the science behind aircraft accident scene investigation. His venue: an aircraft graveyard off Clyde Morris Boulevard that houses the wreckage of four actual fatal crashes.Brickhouse, who has been in the aviation safety industry since 1998, now teaches… → Read More
ORMOND BEACH — A four-story, 124-room Extended Stay America Hotel is slated go up at 275 Interchange Blvd., west of Interstate 95.Developers Charles Lichtigman and Paul Holub own the land and are working on closing the deal, which Lichtigman said should be sometime this spring. While the timeline for the project would be up to Extended Stay, Lichtigman said it typically doesn’t take long to… → Read More
Cost-control measures at Bethune-Cookman University have reached a point that along with employee furloughs, a hiring freeze, and pay cuts, the university → Read More
Despite recommendations against the project from Ormond Beach staff, its own planning board, and an overwhelming number of people who decried it at a → Read More
For the last nine years, students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have ventured to Haiti using their scientific knowledge to help residents → Read More
DELAND — Stetson University President Wendy Libby announced Friday she would retire from the university in June 2020.Libby, who became Stetson’s ninth president in July 2009, also was the university’s first female president in its then 126-year history.“It has been a privilege to be president of an institution as fine as Stetson University,” Libby said in a press release. “I am proud of what we… → Read More
Stetson University will unveil its latest addition Thursday: a $7 million, more than 11,000-square-foot building that could be home to both scientific and → Read More
Despite a March deadline for Bethune-Cookman University to show how it will end its accreditation probation and safeguard its future, one prominent interest group believes school leaders have no real plan to do so: B-CU's National Alumni Association.In a letter based on a more than two-hour call Jan. 28 that involved the NAA's executive committee, B-CU board chair Belvin Perry, and B-CU interim… → Read More
Bethune-Cookman University interim President Hubert Grimes has been sued again as part of the school's ongoing troubles with a $306 million student housing project now under multiple federal investigations.The new complaint — which alleges fraud, negligent misrepresentation, a broken promise, and the taking of a property without permission — was filed recently in the Seventh Judicial Circuit… → Read More
Citing stability concerns, Ormond Beach commissioners have proposed a major overhaul of the city’s election process — and could ask voters → Read More