Name: Beaver Island reports airport clearing and a $203,235 Airport Commission grant
Start: 2011-01
End: 2011-01
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 2011-01
Kind: Transportation
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: transportationinfrastructuregovernanceland-use
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The January 2011 Beacon reported that tree clearing on the airport property at Angeline’s Bluff was nearly complete or complete, exposing the site’s ridges and swales. The townships also approved the Airport Commission’s acceptance of a $203,235 grant requiring a $5,081 local match.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper report of grant approval and site work. It does not establish the signed grant agreement, final land title, or completion of the terminal and other ten-year-plan projects.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, January 2011, "News from the Townships" and "Airport Clearing Complete."
Reports township approval for the Airport Commission to accept a $203,235 grant with a $5,081 local match, nearly complete tree clearing on Angeline's Bluff, and the resulting limits on terminal and ten-year-plan work while land acquisition remained unsettled. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, January 2011, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the airport grant and clearing report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island reports airport clearing and a $203,235 Airport Commission grant”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-airport-grant-and-clearing-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2011, "News from the Townships" and "Airport Clearing Complete." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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