Lawsuit filed to stop seawall that could protect two homes
WEST OLIVE (AP) — Some western Michigan homeowners are fighting a seawall that could prevent two houses from tumbling into Lake Michigan.
The wall will interfere with their ability to co-use the neighborhood’s shared beach area, according to some members of the Dunes Homeowners Association in West Olive.
They've asked an Ottawa County Circuit Court judge to block construction of a rock revetment wall along the lakeshore, WOOD-TV reported.
Owners of the homes in danger of falling from an eroding bluff say the wall could save their houses and would only overlap a small section of the beach area, according to court documents obtained by the television station.
Homeowners on both sides of the issue declined to comment on the lawsuit. A trial is expected to start Tuesday.
West Olive is northwest of Grand Rapids.
Flint official who gave Nazi salute loses leadership roles
FLINT (AP) — A Flint city councilman who gave a Nazi salute to the council's leader and compared her to Adolf Hitler during a public meeting has been stripped of his council leadership roles.
The Flint City Council voted 6-0 on Monday to remove Councilman Eric Mays as finance committee chair and council vice president during yet another heated meeting, The Flint Journal reported.
Mays and Council President Monica Galloway verbally clashed at a Jan. 13 council meeting and when Galloway sought to move on to another point on the agenda, Mays accused her of being rude and of acting like Hitler.
He then performed the salute.
Galloway called the gesture “inappropriate and insensitive.” Mays said he was using Hitler as “an analogy for dictatorship" and that he feels targeted by Galloway.
On Monday, Galloway ruled Mays — who has a history of outbursts at council meetings — out of order due to his behavior during another discussion.
The council then voted to have him removed from his council leadership roles.
Lawsuit: Winter wonderland is nightmare for neighbor
NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman says the operators of a seasonal attraction of ice structures failed to control runoff and flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water — and she worries it will happen again this spring.
Kelly Trinkle alleges in a lawsuit against Ice Castles that last April, snow and ice melt from the attraction pooled in her backyard in North Woodstock and flooded her basement with 16 inches of water, New Hampshire Public Radio reported Tuesday.
Trinkle is seeking $100,000 in damages but says her largest concern is not the lawsuit or the flooding, but what will happen this spring.
A lawyer for Ice Castles denied that the structures flooded Trinkle's basement, writing to NHPR that they were “largely still in ice form” when the flooding happened.
“Due to the topography of the land, the water that flooded the Trinkles’ basement came from a large watershed,” the lawyer wrote.
Trinkle claims to have a video showing her walking the path of the water from her yard to the eastern edge of the Ice Castles property. She said she plans to submit it as evidence.
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