The Senate approved the recently scaled-down bill to explore changing the name of Donald J. Trump State Park, but the Assembly didn t put it to a vote.
New York State Team
ALBANY – New York lawmakers scaled down a bill to rename Donald J. Trump State Park in the Hudson Valley in hopes of getting it passed before the Legislature wrapped its annual session at the state Capitol.
But the effort fell short in the Assembly, where it failed to get a vote before lawmakers left town.
The state Senate on Thursday approved the new version of the legislation, which would now require the state Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation to study the legal issues related to the park s name before making a change.
The Assembly, however, gaveled out in the early morning hours Friday without taking the bill up despite some late hope the measure may get a vote.
The Senate approved the recently scaled-down bill to explore changing the name of Donald J. Trump State Park, but the Assembly didn t put it to a vote.
By Dan Armitage, host of Buckeye Sportsman, Ohio’s longest running outdoor radio show
Great news for northwest Ohio anglers: a walleye has been found in the Sandusky River upstream of the recently demolished Ballville Dam near Fremont. University of Toledo graduate student Taylor Sasak has spent the last two springs searching for signs that walleye are moving past the site of the former Ballville Dam that was removed in 2018 on the Sandusky River near Fremont, and finally struck gold.
The fish was captured in late April while electrofishing in a boat as part of Sasak’s ongoing research project. She actually caught 13 walleye near Portage Trail Park and one walleye near Wolf Creek Park above the former obstacle, the first time walleye have accessed the habitat that had been blocked for more than a century.