St. Croix Source

The St. Croix Amateur Radio Relay League will be hosting a two-day event to practice their emergency response capabilities at Cramer’s Park Beach on Saturday, June 23 from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday, June 24 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The governing board of the V.I. Water and Power Authority granted approvals Thursday to facilitate the utility’s continued preparations for the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which runs through Nov. 30.

The Legislature has made Toya Malone its new executive director. Malone had been acting director while Iver Stridiron was out on medical leave.

Park rangers arrested Vain Charles of St. Croix on June 16 for vandalizing the bandstand by Fort Christiansvaern near the waterfront in Christiansted.

Caneel Bay hosted a meeting June 12 to allow local business owners to see the property and the damage caused by Septembers hurricanes, and to ask questions. It was the second meeting held with Engle and key Caneel staff members within six weeks.

Somebody’s 55-gallon blue metal water tank has been resting in a swale in LaGrange for no one really knows how long. Trapped further down the gut is enough sediment to grow a healthy crop of brush – an estimated 637 tons of soil clogging a 23-foot wide gully for about 325 feet.