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    • Bush Signs Jupiter Bill - An announcement was made today (May 9, 2008), that President Bush has signed the act designating Jupiter Inlet as an Outstanding Natural Area. Officials gathered at the lighthouse to celebrate Jupiter becoming the second in the nation lighthouse with this honor. Yaquina Head in Oregon is the only other lighthouse ... - Continued...#
    • Clare Island Light Price Drop - Clare Island Lighthouse, on the market since 2006, apparently has had no interest with a price tag of 2.1 million Euros ($3,303,912 USD). The company listing it has cut the asking price down to 500,000 Euros, or only $786,645.90 USD. Want to make an offer on it at that price? - Continued...#
    • Garnd Manan Changes Mind - The council listened to its citizens. See related article for the full update on this story. - Continued...#
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Lighthouse Group To Operate Radio Station »

Ludington, Michigan will apply for a license with the FCC to operate a 10 watt radio station, with the antenna to be placed on the city’s water treatment plant on Lake Michigan. The Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers  Association will operate the station, which will cover an area of land as far east as Memorial Medical Center as well as to boaters in Lake Michigan’s waters near Ludington.

Cape Ray Lighthouse Closes This Year »

Volunteer Shortage Is the Reason

Cape RayWith all the lighthouses opening up around now in the northern hemisphere, it was a shock to read that one won’t be providing visitors with the chance to climb to the top. Cape Ray Lighthouse, in Newfoundland, is suffering from a lack of volunteers to man the lighthouse and museum, and is being forced to close. Dennis and Bernice Tavener managed to run the museum gift shop and lighthouse tours all by themselves last year, but can’t see themselves doing it all alone again this year, according to an article in the St. John’s Telegram. The two retirees say they can’t dedicate another summer to running things without any help.

Clare Island Lighthouse - A Nice Birthday Gift »

Happy Birthday Honey, Here’s Your Gift

Lighthouse on Clare IslandClare Island Lighthouse has been sold at auction to a German doctor, who bought it for his wife as a birthday present. So, just how do you wrap up such an item? And how do you explain you spent € 1.05 million for this lighthouse on a cliff in County Mayo, Ireland? And how do you deal with the islanders who are understandably upset that a piece of their history was so blithely sold without the chance for them as a community to purchase it themselves? According to a story in The Mayo News, Clare Island businesswoman Anna Wettergren has criticized the State’s failure to buy important heritage buildings such as the lighthouse.

Canada’s Lighthouses Protected - Finally »

An Act To Protect Heritage Lighthouses Finally Passes

Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse, Nova ScotiaAfter eight years and many incarnations of the bill, Canada’s Parliament has finally empowered their communities to protect their maritime assets, their many lighthouses. Every province except Alberta and Saskatchewan has lighthouses, and they have been without any federally mandated protection since they were automated. The bill, originally sponsored by British Columbia Pat Carney and the late Nova Scotia Senator Michael Forestall, passed Parliament May 7. MP Larry Miller, whose Ontario riding (Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound) has several historic lighthouses, carried the bill through the House of Commons. It will take effect in 2010.

Turn Right At the Light? Or Left? »

A recent article in the Times Online reported on a cruise ship that had run aground, stranding 662 passengers in the Baltic Sea. Cause of the accident was the navigator was unclear whether to go right around the (unnamed) lighthouse, or around to the left. He obviously chose the wrong direction, stranding the mostly elderly German passengers. All were evacuated from the stuck ship safely.

Bush Signs Jupiter Bill »

An announcement was made today (May 9, 2008), that President Bush has signed the act designating Jupiter Inlet as an Outstanding Natural Area. Officials gathered at the lighthouse to celebrate Jupiter becoming the second in the nation lighthouse with this honor. Yaquina Head in Oregon is the only other lighthouse so named. Lighthouse News is still awaiting word on Piedras Blancas’ designation.