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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.

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. 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.

NSBNEWS.net photo and video by Sera Frederick. Members of the "Outlaws" motorcycle gang head north on Atlantic Avenue from Daytona Beach towAard 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WARNING: Some might find content in this video less than savory.

NSBNEWS.net photo and video by Sera Frederick. Heather Spears, of Samsula, walks away victorious from the Cabbage Patch wrestling coleslaw pit to keep her four-year winning streak alive. The raunch-fest drew 15,000 bikers, according to Ron Luzner, owner of Sopotnick's Cabbage Patch.

SAMSULA -- This was raunchier than World Wrestling Entertainment's "Monday Night Raw," with Samsula's own Heather Spears laying the smackdown on her opponents in the coleslaw Cabbage Patch pit to the delight of 15,000 bikers.

Welcome to Bike Week's underbelly where mother lodes are worshiped as divas of the reeking oil-drenched cabbage that slides off along with what little hey have on to begin with, though some in the crowd actually preferred they'd keep it on.

Courtesy photo / Volusia County. A Votran bus heads west on Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach in this photo. The county is looking at possible route cuts for New Smyrna Beach and Pierson to overcome o $2.6 million shortfall in revenue.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The great thing about living in sleepy New Smyrna Beach is the escape from the sprawl of the more urban Daytona Beach. The payoff may be tougher to swallow, though for residents here like a young man named "Rich" who is is on disability and relies on the public transportation of Votran buses to get around the county.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 28-year-old Michigan biker was arrested Wednesday night on a charge of reckless driving after he and three others on sport bikes were "clocked at a high rate of speed" on State Road 415 near S.R. 44, according to an online District 5 Sheriff's report summary.

Jeremy Jamula was stopped at 11:53 p.m. after the group split up and fled on State Road 415 near State Road 44, according to the report. The others apparently got away. Jamula was transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach. The Sheriff's summary report did not indicate his rate of speed.

Courtesy photo. Calling hours are planned today and a funeral service tomorrow in Conneaut, Ohio, for Linda M. Lockwood, 46, who was killed Sunday in a Bike Week-related motorcycle accident in New Smyrna Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Calling hours are planned today in the small Ohio community of Conneaut for Linda M. Lockwood, Bike Week's first fatality last Sunday when she was thrown from the back of a friend's Harley-Davidson when two motorcycles going in the same direction touched in the 1500 block of South Atlantic Avenue near 5th Avenue on the beachside.