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Environmentalist Urges Caution on Great Lakes Compact
Michigan Politics
      The summer ride of Dave Dempsey underscores his rising role as the Paul Revere of the Great Lakes, sounding battle cries against those who menace their waters. His lantern is the written word.
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NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE ON MACKINAC ISLAND
      Friday evening, July 25, a strange and sudden storm hit our area. High winds with fierce lightning and thunder came in the early hours of the evening.
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Looking Back
      90 Years Ago The St. Ignace News Thursday, August 1, 1918 Training ships Yantic and Essics were in port Monday with a large number of Jackies from the Great Lakes Training station, Chicago. Island natives, cottagers, tourists, and Sunday visitors received a thrill Sunday afternoon when a hydroplane with three passengers landed in the bay.
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Fibromyalgia Rapidly Gaining Focus of Medical Research
Maintaining Your Health on Mackinac
      Fibromyalgia is a chronic, musculo-skeletal pain condition. Pain is experienced all over the body, in the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Pain is associated with fatigue and abnormal sleep. FMS (Fibromyalgia Syndrome) and the previously used term for similar symptom patterns, CMS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), may be the same.
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Fur Trader Played Key Role in Formation of Cottage Community
A Look at History
      Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard A couple of days ago, I was driving down a suburban street, south of Chicago, Illinois. It was an ordinary trafficway, with a branch bank on one side and a strip mall on the other. All of a sudden, I saw a small park and a historic marker that called the street the "Dixie Highway." I like historic markers, so I came to a stop.
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Service Horse Belle Calmly Navigates Island's 'Back' Street
      Locals still refer to Mackinac Island's two major commercial thoroughfares as "Front" Street, and "Back" Street, meaning Main and Market.
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Bats Again Make Their Presence Known on Mackinac Island
Nature Notes
      To quote from "Alice in Wonderland" - "Twinkle, twinkle little bat. How I wonder where you're at. Up above the world so high, like a tea tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle little bat, how I wonder where you're at." I've been worried about our little furry, flying "mice.
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