ALGONQUIN ? Students and parents at North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High School are mourning the loss of the three students who died in a Fox River boating accident early Friday morning. more...
ALGONQUIN ? Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of three Chicago teens who apparently drowned in the Fox River after taking an unauthorized paddle boat trip at Camp Algonquin. more...
ALGONQUIN- The bodies of three high school students were found 50 feet from the shore in the icy waters of Fox Lake Friday morning. Authorities are investigating the deaths of 18-year-old Jimmie Avant, 16-year-old Adrian Jones and 17-year-old Melvin Choice Junior as a boating accident. more...
Three teenage boys from a West Side high school apparently drowned after a paddleboat sank in the Fox River near northwest suburban Algonquin early Friday. more...
ALGONQUIN, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities say three Chicago high school students have drowned while paddle-boating on a river during a leadership retreat. Fire official John Greene in suburban Algonquin says chaperones likely were asleep this morning when students took four or five paddle boats into the Fox River. The students attended North Lawndale College Prep. Only one of the bodies has been ... more...
Things are getting rough for the recreational boating industry. New sales of smaller vessels, typically financed by borrowing, have contracted sharply, and sales of preowned yachts are plummeting. more...
Making lightweight canoes had long been a labor of love for Joel Flather, founder of Compass Canoes in Taunton, Mass. But last year, at age 66, Flather decided to sell his ten-year-old business to a larger boating company. The transition confronted Flather with one great unknown. "We never had a pension plan at my company," he says, "so funding the future became an important issue." more...
Making lightweight canoes had long been a labor of love for Joel Flather, founder of Compass Canoes in Taunton, Mass. But last year, at age 66, Flather decided to sell his ten-year-old business to a larger boating company. more...
