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Bicycles are replaced by snowmobiles in the winter at Mackinac Island Public School. Island students can operate snowmobiles once they complete a snowmobile safety course, earn a safety permit, and reach 12 years of age. Fire Chief Dennis Bradley teaches the class. More...

The Mackinac Conservancy has been created this winter to offer Mackinac Island property owners opportunities to protect the scenic, natural, and historic value of their property, and to work with local and state government to protect important scenic and natural areas on the Island. More...

Setting a course to provide more housing for Mackinac Island’s public safety officers, City Council approved the sale of one of its Rowe House condominiums at its Wednesday, February 1, meeting, although subsequent discussion has put the matter back on the agenda for Council’s Wednesday, February 15 More...

R. Daniel Musser Jr. resigned January 1 as chairman of the Mackinac Island Board of Public Works, and the city council has appointed F. Tom Lewand to replace him. Mr. Musser, who has served as chairman of the board for 35 years, notified the city in a letter to Mayor Margaret Doud, which she read at More...
Jeannie Hosé and Robert Traxler were married Sunday, January 1, 2006, in the chapel at St. James Catholic Church in Bay City. The couple, who live at Woodbluff on Mackinac Island and in Saginaw, were united by long-time friend Father Bob DeLand. More...
Faye Marie Cheeseman of Seattle, Washington, was a former St. Ignace resident who worked as a computer technician on the information technology team at Seattle Vocational Institute. She was a member of the Little Traverse Band of Odawa Indians, and her American Indian heritage with all its tradition More...
Mackinac Island volleyball stands 9-4-4 overall and 4-3 in the Northern Lights League (NLL) and the Lakers basketball squad is 11-1 on the season and 6-0 in the NLL. More...
There will be no quiet fade for maverick Republican Justice Betty Weaver, who postponed indefinitely her announced 2005 resignation from the Michigan Supreme Court in order to press her uphill fight for term limits and other major changes affecting the court. More...
115 Years Ago February 7 to March 28, 1891 The ice between here and the Island is perfectly safe. More...