Up top in The Briefs, what the week's regional news rooms surfaced. Deltona's long-delayed Elkcam Boulevard elevation came up for a vote, a road that's flooded chronically since the 2022 hurricane season. Halifax Health in Deltona cut the ribbon on a $30 million expansion and a new tie to the University of Florida's Shands system. The Office Depot on Saxon Boulevard, after years there, is closing. And a hard fire at the Central Florida Recycling Center sent a black plume across DeLand Wednesday afternoon.

The Ledger lands on DeLand this issue: ninety-five April sales, two-thirds of them in the eastern half of town where the Victoria Park subdivisions are still releasing inventory. The Almanac runs through Stetson's 140th commencement weekend, an Elvis tribute Saturday at the Athens, and the standing Wednesday-night manatee bingo at the Orange City brewery.

The Register takes its first look at the week's new LLCs and corporations — eighty-three filings across the six locales, a Louisiana kitchen in DeLand, a Colombian street-food outfit in Deltona, and Pierson's lone entry. The Plate is Cress, fifteen years on Indiana — the wine list is the consensus pick, and the kitchen, on a full Saturday, asks you to take your time.