Category: Fishing
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Water Monitors Need Their Funding Renewed
Links: To view a summary of Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) accomplishments, click here. To download a sample letter of support for MiCorps, and the Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program click here. Please visit www.micorps.net for more information about MiCorps, and the Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program. To view a list of Mi House and Senate Natural…
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Candidate Says Water Management, Passenger Rail, Internet Access Will Help NoMI Folks Stay and Succeed
Meet the Candidate: Lon Johnson Democrat 1st Congressional District Lon Johnson spoke at the Bayview Grille in Frankfort to a group of potential supporters on March 29 from 6 to 7 pm. Here are selections from his remarks, arranged by topic. Meet the Candidate is nonpartisan and offers any candidate…
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Benzie Emergency Management Seeks Feedback on Its Natural Hazards Draft Plan
Get back to Frank Post, our county emergency management coordinator, by email or phone asap! (fpost@benzieco.net, 231-882-0567) Read and download the draft plan here: 2015 Hazard Mitigation Plan More information is available at the Region 7 website.
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Swim for Mitch and His Favorite Places This Labor Day Sunday
By Ann Sinclair UPDATE Greetings to All! In honor of my dear friend Mitch Stevenson, who passed on August 22, 2013, I thought I would go for a swim. And since I’m still rehabbing my shoulder, I prowled around for a revised route, and have landed on crossing Little Glen…
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Crystal Lake and Cold Creek
April 15, 2014 2:30 pm Volume of water moving through outlet is reduced, shore line lowered. Sheen still present. April 14, 2014 6:25 pm Sheen oozing up from submerged shore continues to be flushed through the outlet. April 14, 2014 12:20 pm A significant amount of water was moving through…
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Preliminary DEQ Report on Cold Creek Spill
DRAFT Preliminary DEQ Report on Cold Creek Spill Audio of April 10 regular Beulah Village meeting.
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County’s Development Plans for Point Betsie—What’s Going On?
Well, this Alert writer doesn’t know. But here’s a letter to the editor of the Record-Patriot that appeared this week. We obtained it from Suz McLaughlin, who received it from the letter writer. McLaughlin said Mr. Zetterberg and his family own property near Pt. Betsie and the family created the Zetterberg…
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Council Contemplates Selling Old Library…And Much, Much More
It was another nearly three hour meeting, with lots of decisions made and some deferred. President Reggie Manville was back, after a three-meeting absence. Employee benefits were discussed and a vote was taken on Linda Manville’s proposal that employees begin contributing 20% toward their health-care premiums. This motion was voted…
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Benzie County Water Festival 2013! (Video)
UPDATE For the third year in a row, the Benzie County Water Festival convenes this coming Friday at Benzie Central High School from 3:30 pm to 9 pm. This year’s theme is: “Under The Surface,” focused on youth and lesser-understood impacts to our water resources. Once again it brings Michigan musicians, panel discussions,…
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A Tale of Two Species
By Westley Allen I stand here on this riverbank, pondering the answers to life as I watch my cold breath escape my lips, my focus on the bobber floating downstream. I am here in an attempt to clear my mind, and to catch a fish. I am pursuing a fish…