Regan Kohler

SHELL LAKE – Shell Lake’s ATV ordinance will be revisited by a committee, after the city council voted down an amendment to open almost all city streets for access Monday, June 14, in city hall.

Alderperson Josh Buckridge requested that Lake Drive and all city streets, excluding the ones in front of the hospital and primary school, be opened to ATV and unlimited all-terrain vehicles. The request asked that only people ages 16 and older, with driver’s licenses, be allowed on the streets, and a maximum speed limit of 20 mph be enforced – though this was later changed to 10 mph, after it was discovered that state law requires the speed limit as such within 150 feet of a residence, of which there are many in these areas. The access would be on a one-year trial basis.

Tattnall County Sheriff Quinton Rush has issued the following warning about operations of off-road vehicles:

Glen Creno

People may be the most dangerous animals in Arizona's forests and deserts this time of year.

Campers, partiers and people on all-terrain vehicles can all be responsible for wildfires. They often don't know they've been responsible for fires that can cost thousands of dollars to put out and cause damage that takes years to heal.

LUNENBURG -- A large metal gate at the entrance to a network of conservation trails off Pleasant Street has been forcefully opened so many times by people seeking to ride their all-terrain vehicles that it no longer latches, according to Conservation Commission Chairman Robert Verge.

"We put the gate up to prevent people from illegally taking their ATVs onto the trails," Verge said during a recent tour. "We used to put a lock on it, but people would cut the locks off. Now you can't even lock it."

The Bureau of Land Management's St. George Field Office will host four public scoping meetings to kick off the preparation of management plans for the Beaver Dam Wash and Red Cliffs National Conservation Areas and an amendment to the St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan approved in 1999.

A single Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared to support these planning efforts.

A 19-year-old Brooksville man driving an ATV on a roadway tried to outrun a sheriff's deputy, even popping a wheelie as he fled, before crashing and being arrested.

The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said Brian Carpenter of 16129 Sarasota St. was heading south on Orlando Avenue on Tuesday evening when he nearly struck a deputy's cruiser.

Dan Ring

State legislators, reacting to serious accidents in Western Massachusetts and elsewhere in the state involving all-terrain vehicles, are moving to increase the minimum age for operating one of the vehicles and impose other safety measures.

The state House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 141-12 to approve a bill that would hike the minimum age for driving an all-terrain vehicle to 14. The current minimum age is 12, according to a spokeswoman for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, which regulates the vehicles.

A Black River man is facing nine charges after he allegedly drove an all-terrain vehicle dangerously close to a Jefferson County deputy sheriff who was standing beside another ATV, according to the sheriff's office.

Roger W. Rosintoski, 18, of 22851 County Route 144, was arrested late Tuesday, and was held in the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building until bail of $750, set by Rutland Town Justice James E. Eddy, was posted. He awaits prosecution on charges of second-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving, speeding at 75 mph in a 55-mph zone, failure to reduce speed at a hazard, failure to yield right of way to a law enforcement vehicle, failure to comply with police orders, driving without a license and operating an uninsured and unregistered vehicle.

Susanne Cervenka

Vandals hit a Malabar church Sunday night, cutting power to the building and smashing a water pipe.

It was the second attack at the God's Healing Holiness Christian Church at 1690 Marie St. in a little over a week, and the fifth in the past two years.

Scott Wartman

COVINGTON - Staff from Northern Kentucky University has restored streams and wetlands all over Northern Kentucky and now hope to work on 30 acres along Banklick Creek in Latonia.

The university's Center for Applied Ecology awaits approval from the Army Corps of Engineers to create a wetland and preserve along Banklick Creek on city-owned property near the Bill Cappel Youth Sports Complex. They will also remove invasive species, such as honeysuckle.