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Beaver Island editor thanks the winter road crew, 1982

Also 1982 Beaver Island winter road maintenance

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TypeEvent
Dates1981-12 – 1982-03
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
1981-12 – 1982-03
Kind
Observation
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationpublic-servicecommunitycommunication
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Beaver Island

Summary

An April 1982 editor’s note thanked Beaver Island’s winter road crew for keeping roads clear and for helping free frozen mail from a mailbox.

Evidence limits

This is a community acknowledgment and anecdote, not a complete maintenance log or equipment record.

Sources

  1. Thanks the road crew for keeping roads as clear as possible through winter and recounts a crew member using an extension cord and hair dryer to free a frozen piece of mail from a mailbox. It is a published community observation, not a road-maintenance log or service record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held sixteen-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the road-crew note.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island editor thanks the winter road crew, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-winter-road-crew-report-1982/, accessed [date], citing Editor’s note, Beaver Beacon, April 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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