Word: oceana
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CAMPAIGN TO STOP SEAFOOD CONTAMINATION, OCEANA...
...author, like his novelist-colleague Stephen L. Carter, is a Yale law professor. He looked a a bit out of place at a noisy BookExpo cocktail party. But his publisher is parading its high-price debut novelist, having feted him at the New York restaurant Oceana earlier this month. His historical thriller features Sigmund Freud on his sole visit to the U.S. in 1909, and a diabolical killer who is attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. "A bold page-turner," says Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, "with a driving plot." A big Pennsylvania bookseller told PW, "there...
Suffering from migraines and sick of suburban life, real estate agent Dawn Deel fled the outskirts of Detroit three years ago to build a new life in Golden Township, Oceana County, on Lake Michigan's eastern shore. Deel's new house, in an area known for the beauty of its sand-duned beaches and orchard-clad hills, overlooks a fallow field where cherry trees once grew. She hopes this bucolic vista will lure buyers to the adjacent plots she owns. Best of all, her migraines are gone. "Since I've been up here," she says, "my whole physiology has changed...
...Deel's neighbor Ron Longcore, 66, a burly, gruff orchardist and Oceana County lifer, wants to lease a sliver of his land to house some of Michigan Wind Energy's turbines. The money, he says, would help cover taxes and insurance on his orchards, averting the need to parcel off parts of the property to residential developers. "I'd rather see one or two towers sitting out there than a bunch of houses," says Longcore. "I want to preserve my way of life...
...year in compensation, says Invenergy's senior development manager, Joel Link. As for the putative threat to scenery posed by towering turbines, wind-power supporters point out that tourists often flock to wind farms. But such arguments aren't likely to defuse the growing conflict in Oceana County. "People also come to look at train wrecks," retorts Ted Cuchna, president of a local construction company. "I don't want a train wreck in my back yard." In Oceana County, the war over wind has just begun...