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Granholm, Stupak Champions For New Super Lock in Sault
Michigan Politics By
George Weeks
     Occasionally, a Michigan governor comes up with a grandiose scheme that really clicks, but comes to pass long after the governor leaves office.
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True Spiders’ Characteristics Set Them Apart From Insects Nature Notes By
Patricia Martin
     One of the wonderful things about Mackinac Island is that you don’t have to go far to enjoy nature. The other evening I was biking along the east shore to a friend’s house and on the way saw Common Mergansers, Black Ducks, two species of gulls, Mallards, and a Snowshoe Hare (which I haven’t seen in
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News About People On Mackinac Island
By Jeannette Doud
     Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of the Labor Day holiday on Mackinac were the most beautiful days of the summer. Glorious and magnificent fail to describe how great Mother Nature was to the hundreds of guests who visited the Island, with heavenly blue skies, brilliant sunshine, and warm temperatures.
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Stories of Mackinac Island, New Orleans Closely Intertwined
A Look at History New Orleans
By Frank Straus
     If you look closely at an American flag that is woven from cloth, the threads that mark each star and each stripe cross the entire field of the flag to join the stars and stripes together.
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New Horse in Summer Riding Program is MICF-Scamper
     “Horses are something to make friends with, nice to pat, great to hug, and oh, what a joy to ride.”
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Low Back Pain Poses a Difficult Clinical Problem
Maintaining Your Health on Mackinac
By Yvan Silva, M.D.
     Chronic lower back pain ranks at the top of the misery index for most people who suffer with pain. In fact, 47,000 individuals responding to a survey ranked back pain as their most common physical complaint. After all, being that we are bipeds, being upright and facing gravity, we stress our musculo
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Surge of Creative Energy Made Up Jamaican Cultural Revolution Island to Island
by Ralston Blair
     Weather Watch After seeing the enormous category 4 damage done by Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast, and the shocking human suffering in its aftermath, we in the Caribbean can only begin to seriously wonder what could be in store for our region during the month of September, the most
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