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Lines in the sand: Russian River homeowners and paddlers clash over public shore access
LAST SUMMER, paddlers who pulled their boats onto a wet strip of sand near Forestville in Sonoma County were met by private security guards and signs telling them to leave. The fight wasn’t new. It was the latest round of an old Russian River argument: where does private property end, where does the public’s right […] The post Lines in the sand: Russian River homeowners and paddlers clash over public shore access appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Lines in the sand: Russian River homeowners and paddlers clash over public shore access, LAST SUMMER, paddlers who pulled their boats onto a wet strip of sand near Forestville in Sonoma County were met by private security guards and signs telling them to leave. The fight wasn’t new. It was the latest round of an old Russian River argument: where does private property end, where does the public’s right […] The post Lines in the sand: Russian River homeowners and paddlers clash over public shore access appeared first on Local News Matters .
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