Monetizing hobbies can be controversial. While some argue that turning a passion into a business can cause the passion to become less enjoyable, others claim it adds to the personal fulfillment. Lynn ...

Editor, The Beacon: Hurricane season is upon us. This year’s season could be exceptionally challenging. Conditions like warm waters are favorable for an active season. While we can’t stop hurricanes, ...

The Sauls homestead survived the Civil War, mosquitoes, and merciless Florida weather — but not teenagers, time, or the tender embrace of Deltona’s development. Before the subdivisions, before the ...

Plans to build an industrial and commercial park near Cassadaga Road and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beltway are moving forward, but not without controversy. At the heart of the debate: the removal of ...

Dougherty has been city manager of Deltona for one year. He took the reins of the city in June of last year. Dougherty is the seventh person to administer the largest city in Volusia County in the ...

That does not happen. The cops clip the gold star off the corner, saying the license has an invalid address. It is invalid by definition: A homeless person does not have a home address, so they have ...

Pronounced dead at the scene of the crash at the intersection of State Road 44 and Shell Road was Bob Hallett, 74, of DeLand, according to the FHP. Hallett was a leader in the development of DeLand’s ...

In the comedy/drama Ripcord at Shoestring Theatre in Lake Helen, Abby Binder (played by Sally Daykin) resides on the sunny second floor of Bristol Place Senior Living Facility. She is a cantankerous ...

After five hours of delibrations, the jury requested a readback of Jerone Hunter and Michael Salas’s testimony from the 2006 XBox murder trial. Mid-reading of Hunter’s testimony specifically regarding ...

I’m trying to understand the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. In every speech, the leader of this movement claims the United States is a terrible place to live and he will make it better. The ...

Having just returned from a nine-week stay in a historic Mexican hill town, I was moved to write about the benefits of living in a pedestrian community, with virtually no automobiles in the central ...

This February at Shoestring Theatre in Lake Helen, love is definitely in the air as Brianna Gutierrez, Daniel Feldman, Sally Daykin, Adam Guevara, Don Liska and David Finkle transport us to the early ...