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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Environment - More on the Mongo River navigability issue
Following up on earlier stories (see the 7/31/05 and 8/2/05 ILB entries), Frank Gray of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports here today:
In Mongo, they’re saying it’s a first.Friday night, the LaGrange County commissioners will hold a special session at the fire station, where they are expected to make an announcement of some sort.
For the past three weeks, Mongo residents have been pressuring the commissioners to declare the Pigeon River a navigable river. That, they say, would get the Department of Natural Resources out of their way and give them freer access to the river, which runs right by the town.
It would also let residents swim in the swimming hole they used for 100 years and give residents and tourists access to the river over Labor Day weekend and during their last festival of the summer, a week after Labor Day. * * *
What will the commissioners announce?
“That’s all I’m going to tell you,” Commissioner George Bachman said. “We’ll make an announcement at the meeting. It’s a touchy situation,” and if word leaks out early of what they intend to announce, by the time the message has been passed on 10 times, it will be all twisted, he said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 18, 2005 07:47 AM
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