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Current ArticleBy Sue Clark on May 23, 2008 in The Light Side 
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The Detroit News has an interactive slideshow on the Michigan lighthouses of the Great Lakes. Check it out, it has some great photos and info on the beautiful lights of Michigan. Special Interactive: Click Around the Lighthouses.
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Lawn Lighthouses Stolen
A retired couple in Citrus County, Florida who build lighthouses for extra income woke up Tuesday morning October 7 to find their work had been stolen. And these aren’t miniature lighthouses, either. They’re valued at $1,300. Actually they should be worth more, since they’re built with imported stone. All the way from Michigan, in fact, where they came out of a potato farmer’s field.
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An A-MAZE-ing Lighthouse
Now this is a work of art. The recently rebuilt Blackistone Lighthouse on St. Clement’s Island, Maryland, has been turned into a truly a-maze-ing creation, in which you can get lost. Bowles Farms, of Clement, MD has carved its likeness into 15 acres of cornfields for the month of October. It guarantees you will spend hours in a lighthouse.
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Lighthouse Fun Run For Breast Cancer
If you’re in New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday, October 19, get out your running shoes for the very scenic Run For Breast Cancer. The Coordinator for the event wants to see at least five runners or walkers for each breast cancer patient on the North Coast. That translates to 1000 or so participants.
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Man Must Tear Down Lighthouse
Ooops. Looks like building a lighthouse without proper permits is wrong. The Washington Post has an article about a gentleman who owns an island in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who has had a suit filed against him by the State of Maryland.Continued...
Failing Of The Light
The National Lighthouse Museum, on the St. George waterfront, was a vibrant jewel of preservation and a cornerstone of the community’s renaissance. But it never really got off the drawing board. Now the museum is at the brink of vanishing from the Staten island scene for good.Continued...
Faux Lighthouse Shines Bright Again
A lighthouse built in the center of a traffic circle in downtown Brigantine, NJ, has been restored and lit. Thanks to the efforts (and muscle) of city councilman Ralph Aversa, the faux lighthouse, once used as the police station and then as a museum, sports a new coat of paint (white and Lighthouse Red) and a revolving light magnified with a mirror.Continued...
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