I've emailed local news stations to cover it, but they seem preoccupied with covering how many people got stampeded this year at wally world fighting over some chinese produced item that'll poison your kid, kill your dog, and end up in the landfill sometime within the next two years.

Update...

Dave and Carol were found in contempt of court by having an open door policy on there property. Basically the judge said that they were within the letter of the injunction but not the spirit of it.

But, he is holding off sentencing until after the zoning appeal tomorrow (Nov. 28th). Our guess is that if the zoning goes there way and it is found that they were wrongfully denied then the sentence on the contempt of court will just be a slap on the hand, if not, well...

Either way we will know more after tomorrow, but as of right now they have been told explicitly that no one but them is allowed on the land until after the zoning appeal hearing.

From how the judge explained it, the injunction they were given at the beginning of this told them to stop operating there business on the property. They took this as they couldn't charge people to come on there land. So they let people on for free.

The judge said that the injunction was meant to stop them from tearing up the land until the zoning board could decide if they could operate a off road park on the property. By still allowing people on the land he says they were in violation of the spirit of the injunction but not the word.

They are still going to fight it. One of the funnier parts was the defense was trying to make an argument on what a "friend" is considerd... Like if you don't know where someone lives or works then they are can't not be your freind.... How many of us do we consider friends but don't know where they live or work?

That, and this sets a precedent that even if you own your own land you are not allowed to do what you want with it... I understand saying they can't operate a business on the land... But not allowing them to have people out there on the land is against there civil liberties.

More to come as they are in court today for the zoning board hearing.

-- Edited by HavenSOV at 14:17, 2007-11-28

I hope it works out, if all goes well, I'd love to have a get-together some weekend there.

I'd see if the ARRA has anything to say about it, or could help in some way. As for the 'nothing getting done' isn't that what government normally does?
-Matt

http://www.arra-access.com/arra/home.html

Any phone numbers or addresses of township board members so we can make a point? I mean, without being rude or anything, but refusing to be a doormat.

muahahahahaha! don't harass these people, just call them on a daily basis at a reasonable time and let them know that people outside of their community will bring money and tourism if they let KITM live!

Remember, money talks!