July 2009

NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. The nameplate for Bruce Rossmeyer's New Smyrna Harley-Davidson lights up the entranceway to the motorcycle shop on State Road 44 at night.

When my wife and I drove up to Bruce Rossmeyer's Harley-Davidson on State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach to take a photo of his business as part of the news on his untimely death, I couldn't help but notice that the "D" in Davidson was flickering among the partially burnt-out lighting. At that moment, I closed my eyes and said a prayer for his family.

New Smyrna Beach Mayor Sally Mackay said it best in describing the Harley-Davidson motorcycle mogul's "loss as New Smyrna Beach's loss."

Case#:09-23927 Date: 7/28/2009 Time: 1547 Invest Asgn:
Header: TRAFFIC Location: SR 415 AT LA STARZA NSB Business Name: ZONE:52

**JUVENILE**
D-1 FROM WINTER SPRINGS ARRESTED FOR RECKLESS DRIVING AFTER A UNIT ATTEMPTED TO STOP HIM FOR SPEEDING 80/55. D-1 ATTEMPTED TO EVADE THE DEPUTY BY GOING DOWN A SIDE DIRT ROAD. HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE AND STRUCK A FENCE POLE. D-1 CONTINUED ONTO A RESIDENTS PROPERTY AND ATTEPTED TO HIDE BEHIND HIS LARGE GARAGE. D-1 ARRESTED. VEHICLE TURNED OVER TO THE PARENTS. FHP WORKED THE CRASH. D-1 WAS RELEASED TO PARENTS PER DOJJ.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal is the classic case of why daily metro newspapers are on their way out. The News-Journal is boring, reactive and filled with inane government meeting coverage and press-release generated cop news. This is the 21st century and people want their news now.

Thankfully, we have choices in Southeast Volusia. There's NSBNEWS.net with daily around the clock online coverage, the weekly print Observer newspaper (with a web version), NSBShadow.com and WSBB radio.

Courtesy photo/NSB police mug shots. NSBNEWS.net photo (at right) by Henry Frederick. Jana Calisse Grant, 47, of New Smyrna Beach, accused in the fatal hit-and-run accident that left a 42-year-old Port Orange man dead on the side of the road on the North Causeway, has bonded out of jail. She met a friend at her Canal Street salon soon after the fatal crash instead of rendering help, according to New Smyrna Beach police investigators who carried out an exhaustive investigation that led to her arrest eight months after Glenn Scott Gagnon was left to die on the side of the North Causeway.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Jana Calisse Grant, the 47-year-old salon owner accused of striking a pedestrian and leaving him to die and then washing his blood off her vehicle at a nearby car wash, avoided a first appearance before a judge Saturday at the Volusia Branch Jail by making bail.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach (FL-24) announced today that cities in Volusia County have been allocated funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, COPS Hiring Recovery Program. The grants will fund eight police officer positions in Daytona Beach, three in Deland and one in South Daytona Beach.