. Starts: 10:00 a.m. Ends: 7 On Sunday, October 5, the Community Expo will start at 11AM and ArtHaus’ Street Painting Festival will end with the judges’ results. Also planned is Laser Tag and a Dance Showcase. Find more information at www.familydays.com.
PORT ORANGE, Fla. — A full review of how the city of Port Orange handled rising waters during recent heavy rains is underway. Some homeowners say it’s the city’s fault it all happened and now the city is trying to find out if a closed flood gate sent water into neighborhoods. The city spent $2…
Dear Manager Harden, My neighbor, Mrs. Nadine Francis, at 526 Powers Avenue makes a very good point in her letter to you yesterday, dated 9-30-14. Why didn’t someone from the city check on her and her sister in their homes? Flood waters were high at our Powers Avenue/Ruth Street intersection. Certainly this was known to…
Dear Manager Harden: Here are some awkward realities for Mayor Allen Green, you as our Port Orange Interim City Manager and the Port Orange City Council. A $2.9 million dollar flood mitigation project was just completed in my Ruth Street/Powers Avenue neighborhood on November 2013. It was a 9 month project designed and supervised by…
Sonya Laney Candidate Port Orange City Council You have steadfastly made your ethics and qualifications the central theme of your campaign, and while I remember a recent advertising of yours alleging “ and that’s all you need to know about Sonya ” there are a couple of more answers I believe voters need to…
.Dunlawton Avenue Closure Requires State Investigation Good morning Manager Harden, The millions of taxpayer dollars recently spent on the Dunlawton Avenue Drainage Improvement / Halifax Canal Reclaimed Water Augmentation Project are part of the larger compilation of costs that you and I have discussed previously and that I believe you have indicated are in the…
It definitely looks like Sonya Laney and Larry McKinney have decided on a course of no action at all on the Q&A section of the Candidates Forum on this blog. Soooooo…………….it’s up to us as readers and posters to fill in the blanks based on what we know about these candidates and their past behavior. …
Submitted on 2014/09/25 at 9:38 am | In reply to All Washed Up. . . Dunlawton Ave is a State Highway and has been designated by the State as a primary emergency evacuation route for coastal residents, Ponce Inlet and Daytona Beach Shores. Did anyone at city-hall notify the State about this recent cluster &%@#…
After Another $3 Million Down the Drain perhaps it is time for the City to hire State Licensed Professional Engineers as Public Works & Utilities Directors Its Time to shut down Mayor Greens Good O’l Boys hiring club.
The Ruth Street/Dunlawton area of Port Orange has flooded AGAIN! (And from what I’m hearing from people around town so have many other areas.) I hope everyone else escaped serious property damage, but our neighborhood was not so lucky. Houses flooded, cars were submerged and Dunlawton was once again closed to traffic. This occurred despite…
Submitted on 2014/09/23 at 11:13 am by Still Digging …… Sonya’s current husband was divorced in 1995 some 4 years before Sonya ….. so if there was any ‘involvement’ by a married person at the time of Sonya’s divorce it was by Sonya herself. While Sonya filed for divorce in 1999 she has never let it…
The grand Riverwalk promoter, aka the Mayor’s BUDDY is downright nasty in his business dealings. Indeed doing business with his operation has been likened to swimming in a shark tank …. With the former as dangerous to your pocket book as the latter is to your health. The attached demand letter is devoid of any…
Good afternoon Robin, As you aware Greg Kisela was a voting member of the Audit and Budget Advisory Board from May 7th 2013 through March 4th 2014. As such any communications including meetings and phone conversations Mr. Kisela may have had with other Board members outside of the properly noticed public meetings of the…
. From: Claudette Ray Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 7:13 AM Subject: The “Year of the Woman” and Single Issue Voting . As a woman who wants to see all women do well on merit, it has been interesting to observe how many female candidates won primaries outright or forced male incumbents into runoffs. Many of…
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Fellow Citizens, Please take time to read the attached PDF. Our city barely avoided loosing $92,000 of CDBG funding that our tax dollars have paid to invest back in our community. I ask that you take the time to take notice of this for two reasons. Port Orange cannot afford to let money that should…
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Some Volusia County residents will have to pay more in taxes if Halifax Health gets its way. This comes after Halifax health spent a total of $120 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit. Much of that amount was spent on legal fees. Channel 9’s Lori Brown has learned that Halifax Health…
FW: Is the Port Orange Chamber of Commerce subject to open government laws ? Good afternoon Robin and Margaret, Based on the totality of the arrangement the City has with the Port Orange Chamber including the agreements each has with the other it is clear the Chamber is acting on behalf of the…
Submitted on 2014/09/08 at 10:48 pm by Don Juan Matus . I ran into an acquaintance while shopping today who sought out my opinion about political candidates and was trying to get what he considered an inside tract on the issues and where the candidates stand from someone he considered might have more in depth knowledge than…
