Irresponsible Motorists Tear Up Dunes, Bird Nests for Fun
Doughnuts, retied yellow rope, and sawed-off signposts mark where dunes and piping plover nests should rest, in peace.
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Doughnuts, retied yellow rope, and sawed-off signposts mark where dunes and piping plover nests should rest, in peace.
CHARLESTOWN — An ordinance change before the Town Council would expand the yearly in-season prohibition on motor vehicles on at least one beach in Charlestown by about six weeks, if
Crews were still at work Wednesday clearing sand from around Atlantic Avenue after a storm washed out dunes along the Misquamicut coast.
“This lawsuit is about two things: property rights and abuse of government process for political gain,” Weekapaug Fire District moderator Bob McCann said of the would-be shore access path in Westerly.
Facebook group is leading the charge for access to the beach