U.S. Coast Guard to get new Great Lakes icebreaker
Brady Slater, Duluth News Tribune:
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives approved $8.7 billion in funding for the U.S. Coast Guard that would include money for a new Great Lakes icebreaker. The new icebreaker would be similar to the Mackinaw, the only heavy icebreaker among the Coast Guard's Great Lakes fleet that includes eight other capable but smaller vessels.
IJC comment period opens
The International Joint Commission announced the start of a public comment period on a consultant’s review of recommendations made in the 2000 IJC report, Protection of the Waters of the Great Lakes.
The consultants’ draft report analyzes the progress Great Lakes states and provinces have made over the last 10 years in defending the lakes from diversions, bulk exports and large-scale withdrawals within the basin.
Paddlers pass through Sault Ste. Marie on 7,000-kilometre journey
“We love the outdoors. We love to be in nature and canoe,” said Martin Traham, who organized the gruelling six-month voyage from Montreal to Inuvik, North West Territories.
Traham said the 7000-kilometer voyage was a dream he first had eight years ago. A recent break-up and the selling of his house gave him the opportunity to fulfill that dream.
+ 9&10 News went behind the counter at Clyde's Drive-In in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
+ From the Michigan DNR: "Angler input sought on Upper Peninsula rivers for brook trout research."
+ Duluth Shipping News on the upcoming intermodal project planned for the Duluth Seaway Port Authority's docks C and D.
+ Rick Olivo, Ashland Daily Press: "Art exhibition to mark a century of the Ashland lighthouse."
+ Jeff Labine, Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal: "Kites reign over park."