The Florida Keys Council of the Arts held its annual meeting on Pigeon Key last week and unveiled “Culture,” an annual magazine placed in the hotel rooms and other locations
Mar 15, 2021
GLADSTONE The Hiawatha National Forest announces that as part of the Great American Outdoors Act six local projects have been selected for fiscal year 2021. The selected projects will be the first round of improvements to address deferred maintenance on the Forest while improving our visitors’ experiences.
These projects are part of the $285 million investment made possible by the newly created National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, established in 2020 by the Great American Outdoors Act. These funds will allow the USDA Forest Service to implement more than 500 infrastructure improvement projects essential to the continued use and enjoyment of national forests and grasslands. These funds are critical in helping to reduce the Forest Service’s $5.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog and is an important step in restoring what our visitors love about national forests in the Eastern Region.
I own a lighthouse. Not the little collectible kind that sits on a shelf and collects dust, but a real shining beacon that is a 40-foot-tall, red-and-white, 3,000-square-foot structure made of steel, brick and concrete. It has an enormous beam that radiates 360° and guides mariners and pleasure boaters to safety.
Fairport Harbor West Lighthouse is my summer home. It s also a much-loved building that the federal government let sit idle for more than six decades. Ohio lighthouse Credit: Andrew Cross/A.C. Aerial Photography
Why buy a lighthouse, especially when it hadn t been on my bucket list, I wasn t going through a mid-life crisis, and I wasn t even a lifelong lighthouse lover? Somehow it fell into my lap.