Al Everson

Will Deltona soon have yet another Amazon fulfillment center? Word of a possible Amazon receiving and shipping facility came May 4, when the City Commission learned there is talk about a third high-cube warehouse that may be developed in or close to the I-4 Logistics Park along North Normandy Boulevard. So far, nothing in writing has been submitted to city

Thanks to federal assistance, a road that connects Deltona’s east and west sides will be safeguarded against future flooding, but the fix will not be immediate. “We were awarded a grant,” Deltona Deputy Public Works Director Phyllis Wallace said, referring to the $881,522 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The federal funds flowed through the Florida Division of Emergency […]

In the run-up to Memorial Day, and with the desire to be on the road again in the spring and summer, American Legionnaires from around the Sunshine State known as Post Riders banded together to call attention to a threat to the lives and well-being of their comrades-in-arms. The Post Riders revved up their engines April 24 and traveled to […]

April 24 was a special day in Deltona. By proclamation and custom, the fourth Friday of April is Arbor Day in Deltona, and the city celebrates by giving free trees to people who live there. On that day each year, the city invites in-city residents to pick up trees and promise to plant them and help green up and spruce […]

A well-known DeLand-based private agency for people in dire need of help is planning to ask Volusia County for some federal funds for its humanitarian work to stock up its food supply. “We’re applying for $81,000,” Savannah Jane Griffin, The Neighborhood Center of West Volusia’s chief executive officer said, adding the funds, if awarded, will help meet the food pantry’s […]

Call them the wordy half dozen. When they go to the polls Nov. 3 — or sooner, as in early voting — or when they mark an absentee ballot, the voters will see and decide on six propositions to change Volusia County’s 55-year-old home-rule charter. Five of those would-be changes in the charter were reported out of the 2025-26 Charter […]

Upward continues the trend in Volusia County’s property values. County Property Appraiser Larry Bartlett has released the 2026 pre-preliminary tax roll that shows that both the market worth of land, homes, buildings and other improvements, as well as the tax base, have increased yet again. “I think the county is doing fine. It’s a hidden gem, and people are finding […]

Volusia County’s leaders have, by all accounts, resigned themselves to having to work with a leaner budget this year — and possibly even leaner ones for the years to come. Talk of tax reform from the Florida Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis — the real possibility of drastic cuts in revenues — is sending shock waves through city halls and […]

The daughter of a Deltona woman who says her mother lost her Medicare insurance because of alleged consent to a clever and fast sales pitch is still seeking help and reform for the graying generations. You may recall Carol Hickerson’s story that was published previously in The Beacon. Hickerson is trying to coax state and federal lawmakers to crack down […]

It’s official: Amazon does indeed intend to build a third distribution center in the northwest part of Deltona. Confirmation of the plan for another 1-million-square-foot shipping and receiving facility — almost within shouting distance of the two Amazons already operating — came during the grand opening of the newer of the high-cube warehouses, located at 2501 N. Normandy Blvd. “We’re […]