United Parcel Service delivery on Mackinac Island is a reflection of the company's early operations, which began 100 years ago in Seattle, Washington, August 28, 1907. Back then, the company was called American Messenger Company, and it delivered messages by bicycle and horsedrawn carriages. Today... More...
A community stable to accommodate up to 20 horses is being planned for approximately three acres of Mackinac Island State Park land. The Mackinac Horsemen's Association will build the public facility if it can work out a lease with the Mackinac Island State Park Commission. More...
The sound of hammers clinking on iron and cheerful conversation echoed down Market Street Saturday, August 4, as 25 blacksmiths gathered at the Benjamin Blacksmith Shop for the 23rd annual Mackinac Island Blacksmith Convention. More...
A golf tournament to support the Mackinac Island Medical Center and the Moses Dialysis Unit at Mackinac Straits Hospital in St. Ignace is planned for Thursday, August 23, on Mackinac Island. Eighteen holes of golf will be played at the Woods Nine, Grand Nine, or the Wawashkamo Golf Course. More...
To the Editor: The beautiful Champs Elysees in Paris is in danger of losing its Cultural Heritage site designation. This is because of banalization by means of an onslaught of T-shirt shops, tourist traps, franchises, and the disregard for historically correct construction of businesses, accordin... More...
Cars have had high profile symbolic roles in some of Michigan's most notable political campaigns. In the 1948 campaign that launched Democratic Governor G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams toward an unprecedented six terms, it was the battered gray DeSoto convertible driven on the trail by his wife, Nancy... More...
To the Editor: The beautiful Champs Elysees in Paris is in danger of losing its Cultural Heritage site designation. This is because of banalization by means of an onslaught of T-shirt shops, tourist traps, franchises, and the disregard for historically correct construction of businesses, accordin... More...
115 Years Ago The St. Ignace News Saturday, August 6, 1892 "Tug" Wilson of Chicago, formerly of Fort Mackinac, was a caller at the St. Ignace office Wednesday. More...
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