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Swearing-in ceremony on Nov. 14
Staff Reports- Daytona Beach’s newly elected city commissioners will take the oath of office at a swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, November 14, beginning at 6 p.m., in City Commission Chambers at City Hall, 301 S. Ridgewood Ave. in Daytona Beach. The Honorable Herbert L. Grimes, a circuit court judge, will administer the oath of office [...]
Town hall meeting today on Scarlett Golden Center
A Town Hall Meeting on the construction and progress of the Yvonne Scarlett Golden Cultural and Educational Center, located in the Derbyshire Community of Daytona Beach, will be held at 7:30 p.m. today, Nov. 12 at Hope Fellowship Church, 869 Derbyshire Rd. Community leaders as well as city officials will be on hand to talk [...]
Wildcats win MEAC
ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES Bethune-Cookman routed Savannah State for a 49-7 in Savannah, Georgia today. With the win and Florida A&M’s victory over North Carolina, B-CU won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title and earned an automatic berth to the Football Championship Series (FCS) playoffs. It’s the second time in three seasons that the Wildcats earned [...]
Atlantic hoops phenom, Ronni Williams to be a Florida Gator
BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES Local high school girl’s basketball phenom Ronni Williams announced that she will play her college ball at the University of Florida in Gainesville next season. Williams picked the Gators over Florida State and Georgia. She also could have went to defending national champion Baylor or the storied program Tennessee. Williams had [...]
Henry, Reed among Daytona Beach winners
By Ashley Thomas, DAYTONA TIMES – Derrick Henry, the former Daytona Beach City Commissioner who promised to “listen, before I ask to be heard” handily won the Daytona Beach mayoral race last night with a 10 percent edge over candidate Edith Shelley, the current zone 1 city commissioner. Unofficial results from the Volusia Supervisor of [...]
Long night ahead for vote count in Volusia County
BY ASHLEY THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES Volusia County votes are coming in slowly this Election Day as Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall explained to a room of about a dozen people that issues with 19 polling locations are calling for a long night. “We had 400 absentee ballots come in just tonight,” said McFall, referring [...]
Update: Election Day continues in Daytona Beach
Ashley Thomas, Daytona Times – As of the publishing of this article, Volusians have just over an hour left to get to the polls if they wish to cast their ballots in this year’s election. In Daytona Beach, various polling locations have had voters standing in lines for upwards of two hours with lines in [...]
Election Day in Daytona Beach
Ashley Thomas, Daytona Times – Voters in Volusia County began casting their ballots Election Day morning meeting a chill in the air and bouts of precipitation. At one Daytona Beach location, the John H. Dickerson Community Center, 293 voters had already cast their ballot by 10 a.m. and hundreds more stood in the line which [...]
Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree stumps for Obama in Florida
BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com Not many people can say they are a confidant of the president of the United States of America. Harvard Professor Dr. Charles Ogletree is in that elite group and was in Daytona Beach last Friday stomping for President Barack Obama, whom he taught as a student in the late [...]
Help for South Daytona residents to get to polls
SOUTH DAYTONA – The South Daytona Fire Department will help City residents who need assistance in getting to the polls on Tuesday Nov. 6. For information please call Sandi Smitherman at 322-3033 or Jeanne Willard at 322-3026.