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Great Lakes Daily News: 19 December 2003
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Residents to keep fighting dock fees
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The battle continues over whether homeowners along the Chicago River's North
Branch should have to pay costly fees for the right to keep the boat docks,
decks and patios that have been built on what is technically public land.
Source: Chicago Tribune (12/19)


Coho site to be sold today
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The 540-acre Coho site along the Lake Erie shoreline in western Erie County
will have a new owner by the end of the day, the first step to making it
public land and perhaps a new state park. Source: Erie Times-News (12/19)


Officials happy with penalties imposed in ash borer case
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Officials battling the highly destructive emerald ash borer said they are
thrilled that a Michigan judge recently imposed the maximum sentence on a
landscaping firm found to be in violation of that state's quarantine for
shipping infested trees to Maryland this year. Source: The Toledo Blade
(12/19)


EDITORIAL: Preventing toxic trash
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Trash haulers in Michigan must abide by state laws before dumping their
trash in our landfills, so the same laws should apply to out-of-state trash
haulers, whether they are from Canada or any neighboring state. Source: The
Macomb Daily (12/19)


Gala to mark Christmas tree ship fate
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A celebration of the historic significance of the Christmas Tree Ship
sinking in Lake Michigan on Nov. 23, 1912 will take place this Saturday at
11:45 am. Source: Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter (12/19)


Ontario government turns tap off
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The Ontario government announced Thursday it will consider legislation that
would force companies such as bottled water producers to pay a royalty fee
on the water they use. Source: The Globe and Mail (12/18)


US Steel submits bid for Rouge Steel
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U.S. Steel Corp. said Thursday it has submitted a bid for assets of Rouge
Steel Co., a move that challenges a nonbinding letter of intent
Dearborn-based Rouge signed with Russian steelmaker Severstal. Source:
Detroit Free Press (12/18)


Niagara Falls survivor sentenced for stunt
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A Michigan man who survived an unprotected plunge over Niagara Falls was
fined $3,000 ($2,260 U.S.) Thursday and ordered to stay out of Niagara Park
for a year. Source: Detroit Free Press (12/18)


High pesticide levels wash up in Ohio waters
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Some of the nation's highest pesticide levels have turned up in streambed
sediment and fish in southwest Ohio waters, a U.S. Interior Department
official said Wednesday. Source: Dayton Daily News (12/17)

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