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DeLand's WWII Tugboat Tiger Comes Home to Lake Beresford After 82 Years Afloat
A 140-ton World War II Army tugboat named Tiger is finally resting less than 600 feet from the Lake Beresford shoreline where it was built in 1944, after volunteers towed the vessel to its new spot on Oct. 31. The homecoming caps a journey that took the tug across an ocean, through decades in private hands overseas, and into a muddy stretch of the St. Johns River before it finally returned to DeLand.
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Lake Helen Weighs Hotel, 348 Apartments on Old Auto Mall Site Near I-4
Lake Helen leaders were set to vote Thursday on a mixed-use proposal that would bring a 120-room hotel, an apartment complex with 348 dwelling units, and a mix of restaurants to land near Interstate 4 and Orange Camp Road — the same property once eyed for a sprawling DeLand-area auto mall. The plan, which combines commercial and residential development, had not yet been approved heading into the meeting.