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Ripley is making progress on securing funds for a new concrete boat dock at Freedom Park Landing. Ripley Economic Development began plans on the Ripely Freedom Park Landing Project more than two years ago, and the Village of Ripley was hopeful that it would get approved for funds from the state’s biennial capital budget distribution. But after being notified that all funds from the capital budget distribution would go toward battling the COVID pandemic, it was unlikely that Ripley would receive any capital budget grant funds for its boat dock project. It was at the beginning of the year that Ripley was notified that it will receive $425,000 from the state’s biennial capital budget to help construct a new boat dock. Well shy of what they applied for, but still very helpful toward constructing a new boat dock, a project that was estimated at $1.5mill in 2019 based on plans by K-4 Architecture and Design. The cost of the entire project has most likely increased since 2019, so vill

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