St. James Township addresses property, yacht dock, roads, and dump fires, 1988

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Event

Date: 1988-07-06
Kind: Meeting
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: governmentinfrastructureemergency-managementland-usecommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1988 Beaver Beacon reports the July 6 St. James Township meeting, including a property exchange, Yacht Dock repairs, road dust control, Ball Park acquisition, fire-truck overhaul, and a proposed well and sprinkler system to control recurring dump fires.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper meeting summary; signed minutes, appraisals, contracts, engineering, and completed-project records remain separate evidence.

Sources

“St. James Township Meeting Held July 6, 1988,” Beaver Beacon, July 1988.
Reports a property exchange with Gillespie Oil & Transit, Yacht Dock building and finger-pier funding, a joint dust-control truck, holiday-weekend State Police help, Ball Park acquisition efforts, fire-truck overhaul, and a proposed dump well and sprinkler system. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eighteen-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township addresses property, yacht dock, roads, and dump fires, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-township-meeting-july-1988/, accessed [date], citing “St. James Township Meeting Held July 6, 1988,” Beaver Beacon, July 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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