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Volume 83 No. 39
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City council passes resolution regarding impact of Lake Crescent Road project
The annual Forks Elementary School first-grade field trip to the Forks fire station took place last Friday. Multiple classes of students took a ride in the 1939 Holabird fire truck and learned fire safety tips at the fire station. More photos are on page 8. Photo Christi Baron
The Forks City Council passed a resolution calling on Olympic National Park to restrict West End impacts from a project to improve U.S. Highway 101 along Lake Crescent. The council voted 4-0 on Tuesday, May 26, with Michael Breidenbach absent, to approve the resolution and submit it to the National Park Service by the comment deadline of June 7, said Rod Fleck, city attorney and planner. The resolution states that the city does not support any option that includes closing the heavily traveled route for more than a few days and that the Park Service must find RESOLUTION, page 2
A blatant act of disrespect and vandalism — that is what is wrong with this picture. For the second time since these posts were installed on the Thomas lot on Main Street, located between Bogachiel Way and “C” streets, the posts have been plowed down. For more on this activity, see page 4 commentary. Photo Christi Baron
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