Barbara Flies has lots of reasons to dislike her new neighbor.
Cars bring visitors at all hours of the day and night, turning Flies' formerly quiet two-lane road into a pulsing artery. She now has to lock her front door and car doors. Most disturbingly, on the second day after her neighbor moved in, a visitor broke into her house, tried to steal her possessions and then drove off in her van when the thief thought he'd been spotted.
Flies, a 62-year-old retired New Buffalo native, has an unusual neighbor. Just down the street from her modest home and unfinished barn is the Four Winds Casino Resort, one of the largest gambling palaces in the Midwest.
Four Winds opened in August 2007 as the first casino developed by Lakes Entertainment Inc., the Minnesota gambling company that's backing the Nov. 4 Ohio ballot measure that would allow it to build a casino along I-71 about halfway between Columbus and Cincinnati.
While Flies may have reason to resent the teeming gambling complex just down the street, her feelings -- like those of many in New Buffalo -- are more complex.
For the complete story, please see James Nash, Casino's effects mixed for town in Michigan, The Columbus Dispatch, October 5, 2008.
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