MUSKEGON, Mich. — Muskegon Lights volunteers took 13 ON YOUR SIDE into the Muskegon South Breakwater Lighthouse on Friday to see the damage it’s sustained since it was first built in the 1930s.

An assessment of these damages three years ago led to an $800,000 grant from the state of Michigan to help make repairs.

The Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy is now asking for the same amount in community donations to help get the restoration project finished.

“What you're looking at is a 68-foot structure, steel structure, steel and concrete structure, that has been battered and abused by mother nature through all the winters, the wind, the waves and the ice, year after year, it has battered the light into the condition it's in,” said volunteer manager Kim Lange.

Lange said that these repairs ar

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