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Memorandum of understanding over use of Bert Fish taxes for CRA projects to be discussed tonight
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NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. Citizen Bob Tolley has been questioning the viability of tax monies from Bert Fish Medical Center being used to fund community projects, with the Community Redevelopment Agency counting on another $2.3 mliion from the hospital over the next five years. Tolley has repeatedly questioned the proper uses in public forums like the one last month before the City Commission as shown in the video.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Are hospital taxes for health care or CRA Christmas trees, holiday lights and landscaping. These are the questions city resident Bob Tolley has been asking over the last few months. His inquiries have led to more intense discussions between administrators at Bert Fish Medical Center and officials in city government and the Community Redevelopment Agency over the use of tax dollars collected from the hospital for community projects.
Vote expected Tuesday on Anglers purchase of leased waterfront property
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NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. This video of the Jan. 12 City Commission meeting shows Bouchelle Island resident Bill Koleszar pressing the elected body for action on the Anglers Club lease. Koleszar is among a small group of political insiders who insist the Anglers' 99-year lease with the city is void. The city and the Anglers are negotiating a sale that may come up for a vote Tuesday night. The 6:30 p.m. meeting is at City Hall Commission Chambers, 205 Sams Ave.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A protracted battle among political insiders as to whether the city's longstanding lease with the Anglers Club of New Smyrna Beach for prime riverfront acreage on the North Causeway is invalid could be resolved Tuesday, if a proposed sale is approved by the City Commission.
Motorcycle rally ends with four biker-related deaths
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NSBNEWS.net photo and video by Sera Frederick. Members of the "Outlaws" motorcycle gang head north on Atlantic Avenue from Daytona Beach toward Ormond Beach in this photo shot in traffic late Saturday night. The video shows the scene on Main Street in Daytona Beach, ground zero for Bike Week, as captured in this video during a drive-through on Saturday night. As a special treat, NSBNEWS.net sets the video to the music of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" and The Band's "The Weight," from the soundtrack to the movie Easy Rider.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Bike Week 2010 is over. So, too, are the lives of four bikers.
The decadence and excitement that is Bike Week was on display in its purest form Saturday night on Main Street where loud bikes, loud music, loud people and loud lights were the order of the night.
Anglers request nothing more than watered down land grab
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I hope the citizens of New Smyrna Beach realize that 90 individuals are about to try and take some very valuable property that belongs to you, your children, and your grandchildren.
The Anglers Club has offered the City $795,500 for 2 North Causeway. Plus, they want city government to finance it for 33 years with the city holding the mortgage. Can you imagine that? The city in the banking business for a group of guys with influence who have had a sweetheart deal of a lease with the city since the 1940s at $25 a year on a lease that is suspect to begin with.
The cycle of police spending and inverted pyramids
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I noted with interest recently how the Daytona Beach News-Journal ran a gushing piece of public relations trivia on the new New Smyrna Beach Police Station that included Chief Ron Pagano’s "plan" to save money.
BIKE WEEK RACES: Villopoto wins Daytona Supercross; Herrin wins the DAYTONA 200
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto put on a dominating performance leading all 20 laps on way to his first career Daytona Supercross victory on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.
Tampa-area biker killed on I-4 Saturday night near Lake Helen; helmeted rider third fatality
LAKE HELEN -- A 32-year-old Tampa-area biker was killed Saturday when he lost control of his 2000 Suzuki motorcycle on Interstate 4, smacked a guardrail and then overturned, the Florida Highway Patrol said. He's the third Bike Week-related fatality.
Intoxicated man tries to hang himself in police holding cell; transported to Halifax for psychiatric evaluation
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A man charged with being disorderly after being picked up on Flagler Avenue overnight was transported to Halifax Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation after trying to hang himself in a holding cell, police said.
Pub 44's 'Bike Bash' draws 10K bikers
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NSBNEWS.net videos by Sera Frederick. Throughout the course of the late afternoon and the overnight hours Thursday, some 10,000 bikers partied at Pub 44 for the State Road 44 bar's signature Bike Week event, the vaunted "Bike Bash," which included not only the destruction of a vintage Japanese motorcycle, in this case a rusty 1976 Honda 360, but live performances by two classic rock bands, West Palm Beach-based L3-16 and New Smyrna Beach's own "Scared Straight."
WARNING: There is some raw language in the second video.
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NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick and Sera Frederick.
At far left, Pub 44 bartender Kelly West, 40, is proud of her assets. In the middle, a Honda is sacrificed with flames. At right, Pub 44 General Manager Kevin Hannah chats with waitress Cassie Welander, 19.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Sex, fire and rock and roll. What more could you ask for after a turnout of 10,000 partying bikers? Not a thing as far as Pub 44 General Manager Kevin Hannah was concerned and all smiles as the night wore on.