“By the way, you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic,” – Chrissie Hynde
In the basement of our old house, there were musty boxes and drawers of old doorknobs and keys, hinges and other parts to things my dad had kept. I guess he was expecting to use them one day, but he never did.
For some reason, just holding some of these things in my hand and looking at them seemed to hold some significance to me.
These were door parts from before the Gilded Age, before the Titanic sunk.
The doorknobs were clear glass cut and fashioned to resemble diamonds. The squared door locks were heavy and made from metal. The keys were of keen interest to me. They were heavy too, with bows at the top that were often decorative.
GRAND HAVEN The remaining two J.B. Sims plant buildings on Harbor Island were imploded early Friday, marking the end of its 37-year life cycle.
A controlled implosion brought down the Unit 3 boiler house and smokestack moments apart around 8 a.m. reported the Grand Haven Tribune. The first implosion to raze the scrubber building took place two weeks earlier on Feb. 5.
The longtime landmark’s implosion time circled social media early Friday. Many interested residents braved the cold to see the demolition in person from Lynn Sherwood Waterfront Stadium.
“It was nice to see the smokestack as a landmark, so I am going to miss that,” Spring Lake resident Scott Homolka said.
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‘It is full steam ahead for us’ says Great Lakes fishing company after Michigan DNR lifts 2021 restrictions
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 19, 2021
A view of some of the whitefish that were collected during a day of commercial fishing on Lake Huron with Bay Port Fish on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, Bay Port, Mich. Rachel Ellis | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI - Whitefish fans may be in luck this year after all now that Michigan’s commercial fishermen say that they’re able to go ahead and fish as usual after the state reversed recent restrictions on their industry.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reversed a set of regulations that it had issued for 2021 related to commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. The DNR normally issues a fishing order each year to set the stage for the upcoming season, however this year’s order 243.21 was different than past years. New restrictions were implemented that sounded the alarm among the state’s commercial fisherme
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