MARION SELECTMEN: Harbormaster plans more slip space for town boaters
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Town boaters without a dock to call home will get a chance for summer docking privileges for a fee at two floats the town Harbormaster’s Office plans to install at Old Landing on Sippican Harbor.
Up to nine slips will become available, but slip recipients will be selected, in this first season, by lottery. Sign up for the lottery begins Monday, April 9. The lottery is only open to Marion residents. Residents must apply at the Harbormaster’s Office in Marion Town House or with Marion Town Administrator Paul Dawson. Though all of the slips were suppose to be open only to town residents, one is being proposed for a commercial boat towing service.
Marion Harbormaster Mike Cormier came before selectmen at the board’s April 3 meeting to ask them permission for the Harbormaster’s Office to install two 30-foot float slips, one on the south hand of the wharf and one on the north hand, in order to temporarily increase dock space for town residents.
Source: Wicked Local
ICSO Dive Team recover stolen vehicle from the Grand River
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Ionia County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team members gathered at a boat launch near Webber Dam on a report of a possible submerged vehicle.
On Thursday, dive team members recovered a vehicle that was stolen from the village of Lake Odessa in January.
ICSO officials on scene said that the vehicle will be handed to the Lake Odessa Police Department for further investigation. The vehicle was a green, 1998 Mercury Mountaineer.
The keys were left in the ignition, the front windows were rolled down and the vehicle was in neutral, said ICSO officials.
The vehicle was less than 40 feet off the bank, and dive team members were actually able to stand on the vehicle.
Source: Sentinel-Standard
Rocking the boat: NEYT troupers act against bullying
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BRATTLEBORO - No kid wants to feel like roadkill.
But that's how Daniel McMahon feels after being buried in an avalanche of bigger, older kids, who trample him in a schoolyard touch football game, take the ball away and call him "loser" as they leave him lying there ... like roadkill.
Fortunately, this game comes with a "Rewind" button. As the big kids celebrate their touch football success, Celia steps forward and stops them in their tracks with a disarming question: "Would you want that done to you?"
Chastened, the big kids rewind the scene, and their leader, Aja, chooses sides a little differently, mixing big kids and little kids and picking Daniel to be his quarterback. The scene
Source: Brattleboro Reformer
By JOHN MANGALONZO The search for four people missing after two jon boats collided Saturday morning on a Mississippi River slough north of Burlington will resume today, but it will mostly be a recovery effort. Authorities from the Iowa Department of
