By Gordon Byrd
May 12, 2021
TARPON SPRINGS Governor DeSantis made an appearance at a Tarpon Springs restaurant today to sign a flood mitigation bill and also had a lot to say about the gas pipeline situation, worker shortages and Hamas rocket attacks on Israel.
DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1954, designed to improve flood protection and issues related to sea level rise. It establishes the Resilient Florida Grant Program, in which the Department of Environmental Protection will hand out grants to local communities for flood and sea level mitigation. It also creates the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Delaware River Tubing owner, River Hot Dog Man in Hunterdon County dies due to COVID
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Gregory Crance, Hunterdon County s Famous River Hot Dog Man and owner of Delaware River Tubing, died Monday due to COVID-19 complications, according to a public Facebook post shared by his son.
Delaware River Tubing has been a popular tourist attraction for 18 years, offering tubing, rafting, canoeing and kayaking excursions from its headquarters in Milford.
Since 1987, trips with Delaware River Tubing included a complimentary meal from the Famous River Hot Dog Man, which were served from Crance from a floating food stand. Customers could eat their meal from floating picnic tables or tables on land.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Florida one of the most vulnerable places in the world to sea level rise will spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to protect against coastal flooding under a bill Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Wednesday. The new law will require the Department of Environmental […]
The bills, which include creation of a Resilient Florida Grant Program in the Department of Environmental Protection to aid local communities, came only a few years after Republican lawmakers began to openly acknowledge the impacts of climate change.