- Date
- 2009-04
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritagepublicationinfrastructurecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April Beacon’s “On This Date” column revisited a reported 1999 power outage and the steps that led toward Beaver Island’s standby-generator system, along with earlier St. Patrick’s contests, youth-recreation planning, poetry, harbor ice-breaking, and ferry-navigation notes.
Evidence limits
This is a retrospective newspaper compilation. It preserves the column’s reported chronology but does not independently verify the older incidents, financial figures, or administrative decisions.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2009, "On This Date."Revisits the 1999 island power outage, the backup-generator process, St. Patrick’s contests, a youth recreation proposal, local poetry, and earlier ice-breaking and ferry-navigation reports. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “The Beaver Beacon revisits earlier Beaver Island power, community, and travel notes, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-on-this-date-april-2009-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2009, "On This Date." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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