On a quiet dirt road outside Lake Helen city center, a new business is reviving an old idea: a country store on a working farm, where the shelves are filled with handmade goods instead of barcodes, ...

Located within a three-minute drive of one another, DeLand is home to two boxing gyms, one built off of Muhammad Ali’s legacy and relocated to Central Florida by the 2008 financial crisis, and the ...

Editor, The Beacon: I have called my congressman, Randy Fine, to deliver this message. I am deeply concerned about the direction the U.S. has taken, especially about corruption, the demolition of ...

Editor, The Beacon: The recent letter mocking President Trump’s statements about criminals being dumped into the United States is a perfect example of sneering rhetoric replacing facts. To claim there ...

I’ve written this column four times already. Got about two paragraphs in and had to delete it. Each time, I decided that I was being too negative and not honoring the life of a great young man named ...

Editor, The Beacon: Discontent with Mayor Santiago Avila Jr. is reaching a boiling point. Who will step up to challenge him? Deltona’s Mayor Santiago Avila Jr. has nearly four years in office, and his ...

Editor, The Beacon: So proud! The whole ICE experience is basically predicated on Trump’s statement that “other countries are opening their jails and dumping all their criminals on us.” It appears, ...

A stalled front — where a heat wave meets a cold snap — is over Central Florida this week as it trudges slowly south through the area. That brings intermittent rain throughout the day, posing a risk ...

On August 12, the Orange City Council presented a proclamation to retiring city attorney William E. Reischmann Jr., recognizing more than 40 years of service in municipal legal work. Reischmann ...

Small-town, mid-20th-century America was a wonderful time and place to grow up. Sure, we had the threat of world annihilation from nuclear war and a sense of bland uniformity, but it was a simple time ...

Running errands around DeLand recently, I thought how glad I am to live in a real town that has grown organically over the past 150 years. DeLand is a town of neighborhoods, with people of all ages, ...

Plans to build an industrial and commercial park near Cassadaga Road and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beltway are moving forward, but not without controversy. At the heart of the debate: the removal of ...