By Sue Clark on Aug 31, 2007 in Other | Comments Off 
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A lot of times we hear of various road races for charity associated with lighthouses, such as the Beach to Beacon 10K event in Portland, Maine, which runs from Crescent Beach State Park to Portland Head Lighthouse Or the Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race on Long Island, which uses human powered seaworthy vessels to race the fourteen miles starting on the south side of Compo Beach, winding around Cockenoe Island, going around Pecks Ledge Lighthouse, then head south to Greens Ledge Lighthouse and come back along the same course to finish in front of Compo Beach. But two recent charity events this past weekend associated with lighthouses caught the eye.
By Sue Clark on Aug 27, 2007 in Opinion | Comments Off Print This Post
Last minute bids keep extending the General Surplus Administration (GSA) auction of Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse, located three miles offshore of Bowers Beach in Delaware. Bidding for this cast iron lighthouse in Delaware Bay is now at $165,000, with the latest bid placed at 13:59:06 EDT, just 54 seconds before the announced close of the auction.
By Sue Clark on Aug 25, 2007 in Opinion | Comments Off Print This Post
The oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes, Fort Gratiot, awaits transfer to the city of Port Huron, as bricks fall and endanger visitors. The lighthouse was recommended to be transferred to the city in 2005, but two years later, it hasn’t yet happened. Grant money worth $400,000 is sitting there waiting to start rehabilitation, but can’t be issued until the transfer is complete.
By Sue Clark on Aug 24, 2007 in Opinion | 2 Comments Print This Post
Seacoast Online has published a current list of the non-profit groups interested in Whaleback Ledge Lighthouse, which includes American Light Foundation (Bedminster, NJ), American Lighthouse Foundation (Rockland, ME), Beacon Preservation, Inc. (Ansonia, CT) and Lifewise Community Projects (Hampton, NH) and of course People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Lifewise, which runs a program for safe drinking water (Future Water Guardians of New Hampshire) and a dropout prevention program (Wildcat Youth Mentors) is interested in partnering with the American Lighthouse Foundation to use the lighthouse as a symbol for its new initiative, Yankee Coastal Rangers. This program will focus on public education and outreach regarding the New Hampshire Seacoast and estuaries.
By Sue Clark on Aug 23, 2007 in Opinion | Comments Off Print This Post
“I just bawled my eyes out” -Dot BlackOne would think that Maine is free from the tagging seen in urban areas. Not so for Rockland, apparently, a town of about 7,600 people on Penobscot Bay in Knox County, Maine, which also is home to the American Lighthouse Foundation and the Maine Lighthouse Museum. Dot Black, president of the Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, was awakened Tuesday (August 21, 2007) morning by a phone call informing her that somebody or somebodies had spray painted grafitti all over the lighthouse windows, brickwork and base of the lighthouse. “I just cried yesterday when the MV Island Transporter called me,” Black said Wednesday. “I just bawled my eyes out.”
