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DeLand company offers home-watch service
PHOTO COURTESY PIT BULL HOME WATCH Checking the outside — Frank Johnson of Pit Bull Home Watch checks the exterior of a client’s home in Palm Coast. His company will make regularly scheduled...
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Canadian builder takes over residential development at former country club
PHOTO COURTESY MATTAMY HOMES This house is similar to the architectural styles Mattamy Homes will offer in Bentley Green, the residential portion of a mixed-use development on DeLand’s south side...
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Gateway Village parking-lot expansion nearly complete
New lot full — The 90 spaces in this newly created parking lot are nearly all taken by employees at Frontier Communications one recent afternoon. BEACON PHOTO/JOE CREWS Old lot empty — With Frontier’s...
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Longtime DeLand general practioner opens new addicition-medicine practice
New practice — General Practitioner Brent Schlapper, at left, with his employee Susan Powell, R.N. BEACON PHOTO/MARSHA McLAUGHLINPLEASE LOG IN FOR PREMIUM CONTENT Our website requires visitors to log...
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Orange City hospital’s team takes part in airport disaster drill
PHOTO COURTESY FLORIDA HOSPITAL In place — Florida Hospital Fish Memorial’s decontamination area is set up outside the emergency department March 2, as part of a full-scale emergency response drill at...
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New post office opens inside dry-cleaning business
BEACON PHOTO/JOE CREWS Postal-services providers — Sunny and Ken Patel recently opened a Contract Postal Unit inside their business, Classic Cleaners, on DeLand’s south side.PLEASE LOG IN FOR PREMIUM...
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Florida Cheese Festival set for mid-April in DeLand
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COA In-Home Services available to all, for a fee
PHOTOCOURTESYCOUNCILONAGINGWorkingforyou—COA employees can perform a number of chores for clients of COA In-Home Services, such as cooking meals, cleaning windows, and doing laundry, as shown in this...
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Cooking competition pits chefs in creating sustainable meals
Cookingupastorm—As an audience looks on, four chefs whip up dishes in last year’s Green, Sustainable and Local Food Cooking competition in Artisan Alley Garage.PLEASE LOG IN FOR PREMIUM CONTENT Our...
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McDonald’s recommits to customer service; ‘Create Your Taste’ coming to...
BEACONPHOTO/KITTYALLENLearningfromthebigguys—McDonald’s franchise owner Tyrous Ingram tells a group of DeLand-area businesspeople how the international restaurant chain rediscovered the importance of...
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Orange City builder wins big at Parade of Homes awards
PHOTO COURTESYVBIADoublewinner—This Aurora model won a pair of awards from VBIA — Top Score Home and a Grand Award for its price range.PLEASE LOG IN FOR PREMIUM CONTENT Our website requires visitors to...
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Preschool has grand reopening after renovations
BEACONPHOTO/JOECREWSGrandreopening—Director Teresa Meyers, who stands to the left of the grand-opening sign, and owner Anita Persaud, with scissors in hand, are surrounded by parents, children and...
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Downtown DeLand antiques mall gets new look
VintageDowntown—Marketplace at Rivertown, at 114 S. Woodland Blvd. in Downtown DeLand.BEACON PHOTOS/KATE KOWSHIt may cater to vintage items, but, for one Downtown DeLand antiques spot, the presentation...
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Planned assisted-living center moves toward reality
Gettingthego-ahead—Deltona city commissioners approved a plat for this proposed 48-unit Gold Choice Assisted Living Facility on North Normandy Boulevard. Construction is expected to start by the end of...
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Focus on the ‘medically fragile’: West Volusia’s first child care center for...
Playtime— Nancy Payne, a licensed practical nurse, entertains 9-month-old Madison Cooper at ChildrenFirst PPEC Medical Day Care in Deltona one recent afternoon. ChildrenFirst says it is the only day...
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Planning panel ‘renders’ to Little Caesars
AlittlesliceofRome?—The franchisee of a well-known pizza chain is eyeing this former service station at 475 S. Volusia Ave. in Orange City for a new outlet to feed legions of customers. Little Caesars...
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County backs state’s hunt for smaller TIGER grant
Endoftheline—Riders disembark from SunRail one recent evening at the DeBary station.BEACON PHOTO/JOE CREWSAsk, and ye may receive — but not as much as ye want.That is the message state transportation...
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Goodwill plans new DeLand store with employment center
Cuttingtheribbon—Goodwill staff and Daytona Beach officials celebrate the grand opening of the Daytona Beach Job Connection Center at 112 N. Nova Road last September. Goodwill plans to have a similar...
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West Volusia hospitals get high safety scores
A view of Florida Hospital DeLand, located at 701 W. Plymouth Ave.PHOTO COURTESY FLORIDA HOSPITALPLEASE LOG IN FOR PREMIUM CONTENT Our website requires visitors to log in to view the best local news...
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‘DeLand’s living room’ opens in new location
Sittingpretty—Customers occupy comfortable seating areas one recent evening at The Elusive Grape at its new location.BEACON PHOTO/JOE CREWSAfter more than four months of sweat and toil, The Elusive...
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