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Click here for digital edition  With brooms in hand, Mackinac Island adults team up against one another in broom ball play during Winter Festival activities Saturday, February 6, at Great Turtle Park. More ... The City of Mackinac Island is concerned that the three ferry companies serving the Island may be running inefficiently and is debating whether just one or two lines could better serve the needs of its residents. A city committee is also mulling whether it should form a Transportation Authority to bring the boat lines under tighter government control. More ... Two large rocks discovered in a sea of sand dunes on the planet Mars have been named Mackinac Island and Marquette Island. Existing worlds apart from the Michigan islands that inspired their names, the two rocks with significant and unique characteristics have been named and studied by scientists who are working on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission. More ... Each morning David Waaso can be found in the single hallway that runs the length of Mackinac Island Public School. He welcomes students arriving for class and visits with parents. More ... Episodes of the television show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe will be shown on the Discovery Channel this month featuring Upper Peninsula sites. Filmed in September and airing Tuesday, February 23, are scenes of Mr. Rowe and his crew taking on Mackinac Island job challenges. More ... A new planning consultant will take over Mackinac Island's stalled master plan update. Meeting Wednesday, February 10, the Mackinac Island City Council hired Wade Trim of Gaylord to finish the project that the city began in 2005. The switch was recommended by the Master Plan Committee, which met just before the council meeting. More ... Two newcomers will vie for one seat on the Mackinac Island school board and two City Council incumbents will face a challenger in the Tuesday, May 4, election. Margaret Doud will run unopposed for her 35th term as Island mayor. Also, city government seats of clerk, treasurer, assessor, and city supervisor will be uncontested when the polls open at 7 a.m. More ... Proposals to raise permit fees for businesses using the state park and adding a license fee for rental bicycles was tabled until March, and a lease agreement between the park commission and the Mackinac Island Yacht Club has stalled, commissioners were told at a meeting of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission in Lansing Wednesday, December 16. More ... Phil Porter, director of Mackinac State Historic Parks (MSHP), was selected to chair the Michigan Bicentennial Commission for the Commemoration of the War of 1812 Thursday, February 4, and was presented the "Presidents Award for Distinguished Service to Museums" from the Michigan Museums Association in October More ... The 12 horses working on Mackinac Island this winter are strong, calm, and good-natured. This combination of traits is necessary for the animals that help maintain daily routines on the Island, including delivering supplies and transporting residents. These horses have the ability to pull heavy loads uphill in ice and snow. More ... Operations in Mackinaw City get most of the credit for an overall increase in tourist attendance at Mackinac State Historic Parks this year, with the number of visitors there increasing between 3% and 6%, even as attendance fell 3.53% at Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island, park commissioners learned during their meeting in Lansing Wednesday, December 16. More ... A Mackinac Island woman and her sister were killed Sunday evening, February 7, when the snowmobile they were riding broke through a wooden fence and fell off the West Bluff on Mackinac Island. More ... The Mackinac Island Community Foundation is accepting spring grant applications. The deadline to file a request is Thursday, April 15. Grant recipients will be announced in June. A grant workshop is planned for Thursday, April 8, at 4 p.m. at the Community Foundation office on Hoban Street. More ... The Mackinac Island State Park Commission will meet Friday, March 26, at 1:30 p.m. in the Kellogg Center on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing. More ... The three Mackinac Island ferry companies are meeting with the City of Mackinac Island to iron out a one-year franchise and set in motion tighter city regulation over the way ferry service to the Island is operated. An open meeting set by the city for Wednesday, February 10, on the matter has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 17. More ... Several years before she died in 2000, Frances Roots Hadden of Mackinac Island and St. Ignace began a book about her father, Bishop Logan Roots, and his wife, Eliza Lydia McCook, and their lives as Christian missionaries in China during the first three decades of the 20th century. The book was to be a compilation of letters the two More ... Evening speed patrols have increased on Mackinac Island following a wave of complaints that snowmobiles are traveling too fast on city streets and in neighborhoods. Several tickets already have been issued, said Police Chief Jim Marks Thursday, January 21. He cautions drivers to slow down. More ... Wind turbines and lewd businesses do not belong on Mackinac Island, say city officials who have adopted ordinances to regulate them. More ... A one-mill tax levy for solid waste is under review by the Mackinac Island City Council, which, at its meeting Wednesday, January 27, directed a letter be sent to the Board of Public Works asking how it might be planning to spend the money this year. The tax has been levied since 2006 and, last April, the BPW anticipated it would end the fiscal year with $50,000 in the bank. More ... Top News RSS feed |
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