Pelican board makes enhanced wake boat ordinance official, opens road project bids

A round of applause from a near-roomful of residents rewarded the Pelican town board at its meeting on May 4. There, the board completed what it had begun at its Feb. 9 meeting, when it had agreed to take the first step toward enacting an ordinance to prevent enhanced wake boating on the town’s 59-acre Buck Lake, 71-acre Fish Lake, 58-acre Hixon Lake, 443-acre Lake George and 401-acre Lake Thompson by submitting a draft ordinance and condition report to local government recreation administrator-conservation warden Robert Kneeland.

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• By Ardith Carlton
• May 8, 2026