PAW PAW, Mich. — After several years of planning and construction, Paw Paw has revitalized one of its biggest summer destinations.
Around 100 residents walked across the new bridge at Maple Lake on Saturday, the first time it’s been replaced since the Great Depression.
They told News Channel 3 Maple Island isn’t just a park, it’s a place where warm-weather memories have been made for 90 years.
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The 200-foot timber bridge connects M-40 to Maple Island with wider platforms for fishing, and replaces a span built in the 1930s by unemployed laborers…