BY FRANK SCHNIDMAN We have already lost the Hotel Putnam. What is next? It seems that the historic buildings around the Old Jail site may be next. During the Monday night, June 5, DeLand City ...

The West Volusia Artists are excited to introduce John Walton, aka JAW, as the Artist of the Month for October. His whimsical clay piece of a dragon and an elf is titled Napping Friends. This piece is ...

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Kudos to Tracey Vondra for her update on D.R. Horton’s plans to redevelop the old Southridge (aka Sandhill) Golf Course, which was previously the City of DeLand’s unregulated dump in the 1940s and ...

BY ROBIN MIMNA Enterprise is one of the oldest communities in Central Florida and is considered an area of special interest in Volusia County. Founded in 1841, Enterprise was a major stop on St. Johns ...

BY BARBARA GIZZI Mary Ellen Birlin is the Deltona Art Club’s Artist of the Month for July. Her painting Sunrise on Stained Glass, a mixed-media/acrylic abstract painting, is hanging in the entrance of ...

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Shoestring Theatre in Lake Helen will open its 76th season with A Murder Is Announced, the classic Miss Marple mystery by Agatha Christie. Published as a novel in 1950 and adapted for the stage in ...

Editor, The Beacon: Transnational repression is happening right here in America: Would you believe that something happening on the other side of the world has a direct impact on our life in Florida?

Stetson University’s Opera Theatre begins its 2021-22 season with Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The comedic opera tells a musical story that intertwines the plots of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, ...

Editor, The Beacon: In the past few years, U.S. government representatives have enacted many laws that aim to hurt lower socioeconomic groups. These leaders and their wealthy supporters might want to ...