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Bulletin – Vol 9 No. 5 – September/October 2006 |
| International News - American lighthouses |
A selection of news articles that have appeared on the internet during August-October 2006 regarding American lighthouses. If you see any news about Australian lighthouses or lighthouses in other countries, please send details to the Bulletin Editor.
 Patrick Roche Eagle Harbor residents are concerned about the lack of light the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse emits after its windows were partially blacked-out with opaque paint. Photo: Dan Schneider, Daily Mining Gazette |
Dan Schneider, Daily Mining Gazette Some residents in this lakeside community are dismayed over the U.S. Coast Guard’s decision to partially darken their landmark lighthouse. Since July 12, the windows on the harbor side of the light have been rendered opaque with black paint, preventing the light from sweeping over nearby residences. Glass panes facing the village itself were blacked out previously, but the light’s sweep is now further restricted. Chief Boatswain Mate Chris Evans at Coast Guard Station/Aids to Navigation Portage said a homeowner’s complaint about light coming through a window at night prompted the Coast Guard to take another look at the lighthouse earlier this summer. They discovered it did not meet requirements outlined in the guard’s Great Lakes Light List.
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Lighthouse available for 'adoption'
Grant Welker, Herald News
30 September 2006
The Borden Flats Lighthouse is celebrating its 125th birthday this year by going up for adoption. The lighthouse, which stands off-shore where the Taunton River flows into Mount Hope Bay, is being offered by the U.S. General Services Administration to local, state or federal agencies, non-profits, or historical or preservation societies. Lighthouses like Borden Flats are offered for availability if the Coast Guard finds them unnecessary for navigational aid, said Jeff Gales, executive director of the United States Lighthouse Society, based in San Francisco.
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Lighthouse transfer nears – City hopes to control
historic site next year
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Danielle Quisenberry, Times Herald The white surface of the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse in Port Huron is spotted with red bits of brick peeking from behind the paint, serving as evidence of the 177-year-old building's deterioration. Through the years, outer chunks of bricks forming the lighthouse's tapered, vertical exterior have broken off and fallen from the structure, which is the focal point of the six-building Fort Gratiot Light Station off Omar Street at the southern tip of Lake Huron. This week, a team of engineers, historical architects and others have been scurrying about the complex, evaluating the condition of the lighthouse, built in 1829, and the buildings surrounding it. The team is preparing for when the city, after years of effort, gains ownership of the light station.
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Former Colchester Reef Lighthouse relit using solar power
Vermont Guardian
22 September 2006
The Colchester Reef Lighthouse, which protected traffic on Lake Champlain from 1871 to 1933 and is now an exhibit at Shelburne Museum, shines its light once again. Through the efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard station in Burlington and a local historian of Lake Champlain lighthouses, the light has been relit with blinking bulbs powered by solar-powered cells. It is the first time the light has shone since the lighthouse was decommissioned in 1933; the structure was moved to Shelburne Museum in 1952. There are 11 historic lighthouses remaining on or near Lake Champlain. The Colchester Reef Lighthouse is the seventh to be relit since 2000 thanks largely to the efforts of lighthouse historian George Clifford of Plattsburgh NY.
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Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette For 134 years, the Presque Isle Lighthouse has been a beacon on the north shore of the seven-mile peninsula that juts into Lake Erie. Pennsylvania's only working lighthouse, it's not open to the public, but it is still one of the most popular sites in the park that draws more than 4 million visitors a year. "There's always footprints in the sand," said Jackie Tammaro, coordinator of a historic preservation project on the lighthouse planned by a new committee, Keepers of the Erie Lights. "People are there every day." Preservationists are hoping to restore the grounds and re-create adjacent buildings as they existed between 1900 and 1925, before a road was built on the peninsula.
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Michigan lighthouses seen as beacons of heritage – Lawmakers aim for federal funds to aid preservation efforts Katherine Hutt Scott, Lansing State Journal The golden age of Michigan's storied lighthouses has passed, but the state's congressional lawmakers have a plan to keep all their lights shining on the shores of the Great Lakes. A House committee held a hearing this week on a bill backed by a bipartisan group of 10 Michigan representatives that would require the federal government to spend $500,000 to assess the condition of the state's 124 lighthouses and estimate the cost of preserving them - in the process drawing private donations and tourists.
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Nonprofit group trying to rescue lighthouse – Efforts shine light on battered beacon
Leslie Williams, The Times-Picayune
10 September 2006
Aug. 14, 2006, was among the better post-Katrina days for Anne Rheams, offering a short reprieve from the tribulations of a nearly yearlong struggle to rescue the New Canal Lighthouse. A New Orleans icon for generations, the lighthouse has represented the part of the city where urban life makes room for fishing, swimming, sailing, breezy promenades and sunsets. Just before Katrina, the circa-1890s structure had ended a 40-year stint as the area's Coast Guard station. Rheams, deputy director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, had watched with dismay as one savage beating after another rendered the lighthouse barely recognizable.
More at Times-Picayune
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Island under fire – Round Island's future up for debate
Karen Nelson, Sun Herald
18 September 2006
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Hurricane Katrina cut into Round Island and toppled the historic lighthouse base inside its protective metal wall. The storm destroyed previous preservation work done over the years by the city, county and FEMA. No one is giving up on Round Island, its beach erosion and toppled lighthouse... yet. But storm after storm has beaten down efforts, and Katrina dealt a disheartening blow by wiping out all the years of previous work by the city, county and FEMA. There's even talk about moving the lighthouse to the mainland, a 2˝-mile trip. "For now we're just going to give up," said Steve Oivanki, formerly with Compton Engineering, the company that worked on the projects for the county. "The storms are too frequent."
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Lighthouse maker grants Tionesta its shining moment
Jim Carroll, Erie Times-News
24 September 2006
There are plenty of lighthouse aficionados – people who visit lighthouses, read about them, collect replicas. Then there is Jack Sherman, someone who actually built one. The Sherman Memorial Lighthouse – Pennsylvania's newest lighthouse – recently opened to visitors. But unlike the state's three other working lighthouses, this one isn't sitting on the shores of Lake Erie. Instead, this lighthouse is on a 22.5-acre island in the Allegheny River, about 60 miles southeast of Erie. It is opening in time to help the Forest County community of Tionesta, where it is located, celebrate its 150th birthday this year.
More at Erie
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Salem-News The Coast Guard is conducting a study of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse focusing on the need for an active federal aid to navigation based on waterborne commerce, marine casualty information, port/harbor resources, emergency response plans, routine and emergency communication capabilities, and future development projects. Currently the Bureau of Land Management owns the lighthouse structure. The aid to navigation inside the cupola is a historic Fresnel lens, which currently is owned and operated by the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard would like to transfer ownership of the Fresnel lens to BLM so they can operate the aid as a Private Aid to Navigation (PATON) permitted by the Coast Guard.
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 The Coast Guard is examining the need of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse and it’s aid to navigation. |
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