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Dan Musser Resigns From Board of Public Works After 35 Years By Karen Gould 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 ... City Asks Park Commission To Set Lower Speed Limit By Karen Gould By Karen Gould The Mackinac Island State Park Commission, meeting Friday, January 27, in Lansing, told the City of Mackinac Island it has no control over the speed limits in the park, but offered to see if they could be lowered. The city has asked the Commission to lower its 35mile-per-hour speed t More ... Foundation Taking Grant Applications With approximately $104,000 available in spring grant money for nonprofit organizations, the Mackinac Island Community Foundation will make grant applications available beginning Wednesday, March 1. More ... Island City Council Rejects DNR Land Swap Proposal Council Addresses Island-wide Speed Limit Issue By Karen Gould During a brief 25-minute Mackinac Island City Council meeting Wednesday, January 18, Council unanimously denied a proposal from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to swap land at Mission Point with the city. More ...
Mackinac Island Public School celebrated Spirit Week Monday, January 30, through Friday, February 3, in team fashion with students in grades eight through 12. Activities included a dress-up day and identification of foods while blindfolded. More ... Two Island Hotels Make Top 500 Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel and Hotel Iroquois on the Beach have been listed by travel magazines among the best hotels in the world. More ...
Nathan Barr, a Los Angeles film composer whose family has a cottage on the West Bluff, has his latest work in the new horror film, “Hostel,” which was released Friday, January 6. More ... Judge Ned Fenlon Honored for 1935 Efforts Former Legislator Lauded by Police Judge Ned Fenlon, 102, was honored by the Michigan State Police Tuesday, January 3, for his work as a legislator of establishing the police agency as an independent state department in 1935. Judge Fenlon received a plaque in recognition of his efforts at the Petoskey police. More ... New Cottage Gets OK for Hubbard’s Annex By Karen Gould Construction is slated to begin this spring on a singlestory home in Hubbard’s Annex, approved by the Mackinac Island Planning Commission on January 10, pending review by the city architect, Rick Neumann of Petoskey. More ... School Senior Tyler Finkel Studies in Japan By Karen Gould “High school is pretty much the same everywhere,” said Mackinac Island senior Tyler Finkel upon his return from Japan, where he had been an exchange student for the last 10 months. More ...
The Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau has a new logo that highlights the Island’s horse culture. Board members approved the new piece after searching for months for a design that communicated the Island’s culture and history. More ... City Explores Ferry Subsidizing During a brief meeting of the city’s Transportation Committee Wednesday, February 1, Mayor Margaret Doud was directed to contact the Eastern Upper Peninsula Transportation Authority to explore the availability of funding to subsidize ferry service in the winter. More ...
By Karen Gould Experiencing their first winter on Mackinac Island, the school’s two second grade students, Octavia McClintock and Keely Johnson, skied to school Tuesday, January 10. More ...
Gap Supeechar Sapruang of Thailand Loves Daily Snowmobile Excursion By Karen Gould Home for Gap Supeechar Sapruang is Bangkok, Thailand, on the other side of the international dateline and more than 8,500 miles from Mackinac Island, where she is an exchange student. More ...
A view from behind Grand Hotel looking out into the Straits of Mackinac, still devoid of ice in late January. January ended as a record-setting month for warm temperatures here. On January 27, Sault Ste. Marie set a record warm temperature of 44 degrees, and Traverse City’s average January temperatu More ...
The 30th Annual Mackinac Island Winter Festival began with Mayor Margaret Doud crowning Snow Queen Brenda Bunker Friday, February 3. Ms. Bunker was the city’s 2005 volunteer of the year. Ms. Bunker (left) and Mayor Doud were given a ride around town in a sleigh pulled by a snowmobile driven by Johnn... More ...
The Class of 2006 is raising funds for their senior class trip to Arizona in May by raffling off a painting. Ten seniors are slated to be graduated this spring. The raffle painting is entitled “My Little Garden” and was painted by Pam Finkel, who is the Mackinac Island Public School art instructor. More ... Get Together Set for February 25 The Mackinac Associates’ winter gathering, “Great Turtle Get-together,” will be Saturday, February 25, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the new Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. The event is a fundraiser for the group. More ... Hallmark Cards To Feature Island Scenes from Mackinac Island will soon grace the front of Hallmark greeting cards, with officials from Hallmark, Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri, visiting the Island in mid-February. More ... Island Featured on ‘The View’ Mackinac Island was featured on ABC’s “The View” Wednesday, January 4, as one of the top five places to lose weight. The program is broadcast live by ABC at 11 a.m. Monday through Friday from New York City and features Barbara Walters. The show included Mackinac Island for its unique transportation More ...
By Karen Gould Exploring 19th century medicine, diseases, and injuries at Fort Mackinac is the subject of a new exhibit entitled, "Military Medicine at Mackinac.” Scheduled to open in May, the exhibit will be housed in Michigan's oldest hospital building, the 1828 Post Hospital inside Fort Mackinac on Mackinac I More ... Study Explores Integrating Ambulance, Island Medical Center To Generate Funds By Karen Gould A study is being conducted to determine if integrating the Mackinac Island Medical Center with ambulance operations on the Island will generate more money. Currently, the City of Mackinac Island owns the ambulance, but contracts with Allied EMS Systems, Inc. of Petoskey to operate the ambulance serv More ... Students To Attend Board Meeting The Mackinac Island school board will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday, February 23, to allow students to attend the meeting. Trustees hold mid-afternoon board meetings at least once a year to allow students to see how school government works and to learn about issues affecting their education. More ... Mark Gallagher Scholarship Dinner Set for February 28 The sixth annual Mark Gallagher Scholarship dinner will be Tuesday, February 28, at Community Hall at 5 p.m. and will be followed by community bingo. More ... |
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