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Mereté Hotel Management announced the appointment of Liz Dahlager as Executive Vice President. Ms. Dahlager will continue to oversee sales, marketing and strategic partnerships. In her new role her responsibilities will be expanded to include hotel operations and human resources.
DAYTONA BEACH — When the completely reinvented Riverfront Park opens early next year, the public green space is going to look dramatically different. One impossible-to-miss change will be fencing wrapping around the park, a $1.5 million addition to the overhaul project made to enable the park to close every night and not reopen until the sun comes up each morning. That was just one change mentioned during Wednesday night's City Commission meeting during a discussion of amendments to the lease agreement between the city and the private foundation that will run Riverfront Park. During the m...
"We're excited and delighted to be at this point," Mayor Derrick Henry said. Feacher will be Daytona Beach's first Black city manager. The first Black city manager in Volusia County was Isaac Turner, who was Ormond Beach's city manager from 2001 to 2007. Feacher's contract was approved on a 6-1 vote, with City Commissioner Quanita May casting the only no vote. May was also the only city commissioner to vote for another finalist for the city manager job during a special meeting March 27. Chisholm, who began leading the city in the summer of 2004, announced more than a year ago that he would...
âDonât give away our waterâ is letter of the month | Letters Hereâs what readers are saying in Saturdayâs letters to the editor. Â Â Divers and swimmers enjoy Ginnie Springs in High Springs in August 2016. [ GAINESVILLE SUN FILE/NEWS-JOURNAL | TNS ] Published Mar. 6 February letter of the month Yet another example of elected officials shrugging off the wishes of their constituents and doing whatever they want. This time they are literally giving away a million gallons of water a day from Floridaâs aquifer. Seven Springs and Nestle will pump, bottle and se...
Should Pinellas name courthouse after prosecutor Bernie McCabe? Residents will get the chance to weigh in at next weekâs Pinellas County Commission meeting. Â Updated Mar. 4 The debate over whether to name the criminal courthouse after the late Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bernie McCabe continued Thursday during a county commission work session. At stake in the discussion was whether the countyâs honorary naming rights policy dictates that a person must be dead for at least five years before naming a building after them. County Administrator Barry Burton said that, after resear...