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marmar

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Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:06 AM 13 hrs ago

Up North tourist attraction slated for demolition




(Detroit Free Press) OSCODA TOWNSHIP No matter how hopeless things looked to everyone else, she refused to accept that it might be over.

“Even my own family who have been a part of this look at me like, ‘Why don’t you just let it go?’" Laurie Rice said. “Because they can see what it’s doing to me. But I can’t. I just can’t walk away from it.”

The 64-year-old was standing on the shore by her boat, the AuSable River Queen, a longtime tourist attraction that spent six decades taking people on cruises up and down the river for which it was named. It saw weddings and family reunions and school field trips, and hosted thousands of passengers every season.

Then, one night in March, the boat suddenly sank.

....(snip)....

Last week, a judge finally told her it was over. She was given two weeks to move it or lose it. Unless she finds a way to take it with her, the township will break the boat into pieces at the end of the month and scrap it all — the faded wood railings, the rusty hull, the memories, the history. ...............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/john-carlisle/2025/07/22/up-north-au-sable-river-queen-boat-demolition/85307253007/




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