Many oppose border station

An outline and map of the site for a proposed new Customs and Border Protection station on the St. Lawrence River’s Blind Bay, near Fisher’s Landing.

FISHERS LANDING — U.S. Customs and Border Protection is looking to build a new station in Fishers Landing, to replace the aging facilities on Wellesley Island.

But local officials, environmental groups and business owners are seemingly united in their opposition to the project, which calls for a nearly 19-acre development on Blind Bay, an environmentally diverse inlet just upriver of the Thousand Islands Bridge.

Johnson Newspapers 7.1

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Eagle24

Bad idea for this location...

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