Volusia County Coastal Director, Jessica Fentress and County Public Works Director, Ben Bartlett, are back for part 5 of our beach recovery series. In this episode, we hone in on resiliency, sand placement, hurricane season and much more.

Our Volusia County Coastal Director, Jessica Fentress, teams up with Volusia County Public Works Director, Ben Bartlett, to deliver part 4 of the beach recovery series. This episode dives right into the current weather conditions impacting our beach and covers the latest on our coastal protection measures. Listen now and stay up to date on our long road to recovery.

It's Water Conservation Month! So, it was only fitting to invite Volusia County's aqua men to the studio, Tom Carey, Activity Project Manager, Volusia County Environmental Management, and Mike Ulrich, Director, Volusia County Water Resources & Utilities, to the Volusia Today studio, to talk about one of our most precious natural resources, WATER.

We’re feelin’ hot, hot, hot in the Volusia Today radio studio with Volusia County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief, Scott Smoak, and the Florida Forest Service Public Information Officer, Julie Allen. With a conversation sparked by recent wildfires, Scott and Julie share everything Volusia County residents need to know to stay safe and extinguish any fear surrounding fires.

Volusia County Coastal Division Director Jessica Fentress and Activity Project Manager Niles Cyzycki have so much information to share regarding Volusia County’s ongoing beach recovery efforts that we had to get them back in the studio for a part 3. In this episode, we discuss everything beach, including the giant Sargassum seaweed blob and how it may affect Volusia County. If you missed parts 1 and 2, head over to the County of Volusia YouTube channel and check them out.

Clickbait, you know, the endless attention-grabbing headlines you get overloaded with every time you open the internet. They’re created to capture your attention and get an emotional response. It is what it is, but when a media outlet publishes a story that New Smyrna Beach and Ormond Beach are some of the deadliest beaches in the US, we wanted to take a little nibble at their headline. Not only because it diminishes our coastal experience, but it’s also questionably mischaracterized.

An episode about trees? Yeah, because they're awesome. County Forester Keith Abrahamson and Environmental Specialist Todd Hannah stopped by the Volusia Today Studio and shared info about one of our most valuable natural resources.