Lilac Parade Crowns 58th Annual Festival
      Lilac Queen Kristi Kamphuis (back, right) poses with Karlena Mosley (front right), Shayleen Mosley (front left), and Rhodene "Michi" Mullings on the Lilac Queen and Court float prior to the Grand Parade Sunday, June 17. The float resembled the pumpkin chariot from Cinderella. Its driver is Scott...
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36 Become U.S. Citizens on Porch of Grand Hotel
By Eric Fish
      It's a day that Peiying Kuo will forever remember. Originally from Taiwan, Mrs. Kuo came to the United States in 1988, was married in 1993, and was formally granted United States citizenship with 35 others on the 660-foot-long porch of the historic Grand Hotel the afternoon of Thursday, June 14.
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Straits Tourism Sites: Early Numbers Look Good
MSHP Reports Travelers to Area Peaked in 1998
By Sean Ely
      Tourism at the Straits of Mackinac peaked in 1998, reports Mackinac State Historic Parks, and dropped from about 950,000 visitors then to about 695,000 in 2006, and with a bad state economy, high gasoline prices, and thousands of travelers from southeast Michigan laid off, business managers here a...
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CBS Early Show Will Visit Island
      The CBS Early Show will make a stop on Mackinac Island Thursday, June 21 and Friday, June 22. The visit is part of the network's Summer Concert and Great American Vacation series, which will begin airing July 5, in which network weatherman Dave Price journeys to nine American cities in a motor ho...
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