sentences:  Further construction on the Scugog Causeway met fierce opposition from county officials, who argued that the new method had not even faced a winter season.It took until July 1878 for work to resume, when Port Perry Reeve Joshua Wright managed to manipulate the county council, convincing them "to strike out the magnificent $150 [grant for seasonal maintenance which they had offered] and stipulate that 600 feet be filled in on the east end of the bridge.