“People have been complaining about the airport for about a year. The director has previously said he couldn’t stop any airline that wanted to come to Key West. Now he
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Neale Vernon âBuzzyâ Rossman, window washer, water skier, golfer and well-known Key West character succumbed to a long battle with heart disease on Feb. 20, 2021, at hospice in Jacksonville. He was 76 years old.
Buzzy was born in Salem, New Jersey on May 1, 1944. âHome of the tomato,â he would proudly tell folks. Of his Garden State upbringing, he said he got the water boiling before he picked the corn.
Following a stint in Vietnam as a radio technician during the war, he ventured down to Coconut Grove and eventually Key West. In the mid 1970sâ he became the sole employee of Wistarburg Window Wipers. His office was a tall pink bicycle with a big white box on the back for the tools of his trade. His kickstand was a squeegee pole extender that ran through a fishing rod holder and slid up and down with a clamp. He kept the windows of Duval Street clean and ate free at most of his restaurant accounts. He had a knack for getting the deal, little or no rent, at t