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Columnists July 29, 2006
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Michigan Politics
Yawner U.S. Senate Primary Starts to Wake Up
By George Weeks
     On occasion in recent decades, Michigan Republicans have had some spirited, high visibility U.S. Senate primaries. Not now.
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HORSE TA ES
Horsemen's Barn Tours To Be Held at Mission Hill July 30
by Candice C. Dunnigan
     July 2006 on Mackinac Island is rapidly coming to a close. Before it's over, come and celebrate with the Mackinac Horsemen's Association Sunday, July 30. There will be lemonade and barn tours in the afternoon, and for a nominal donation, you can tour the Chambers Mission Hill Barn, meet some of this
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NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE ON MACKINAC ISLAND
BY JEANNETTE DOUD
     Red, white, and blue spinnakers made a very picturesque sight early Monday morning, July 24, as boats in the Chicago-to-Mackinac fleet were eager to pass over the finish line. The day was warm and beautiful as crowds of wellwishers stood on Windermere Point to cheer them on.
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A Look at History
Front Porch Designs Were Popular Trend in Post-1840 Architecture
BY FRANK STRAUS
     Mackinac Island is an ideal place to look at the growth and development of private-sector architecture in the 1800s. The Island has a large supply of buildings built throughout this fast-changing century, especially during the fur trade boom of the first three decades and the Victorian-resort flower
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Nature Notes
Watch Out For Mackinac Chipmunks When Bicycling
By Patricia Martin
     One of the things I like about living on Mackinac is that one is never far away from the natural world. Whether it be the power of a thunderstorm and the winds on the water, Great Blue Herons flying by the bluff while you walk to the barn, Cardinals, crows, and gulls calling, young coyotes trotting
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Maintaining Your Health on Mackinac
Healthy Lifestyle Can Minimize Arthritis
By Yvan Silva, M.D.
     Arthritis is no longer considered a disease of old age. Indeed, osteoarthritis, the most common variety from a list of 100 subtypes of arthritis, may start as early as the second and third decades and continue a painless and relentless course until middle age or later, when the degenerative processe
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