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Click here for digital edition  More than 1,500 walkers and runners stopped traffic on Main Street as they set out on the 38th annual Mackinac Island Eight Mile Run and Walk Saturday, September 6. "Just eight more miles to go!" was a common cheer heard as throngs of runners and walkers took off through town. More ... Just having begun preliminary steps in reinforcing Mackinac Island's National Historic Landmark status, the city faces its first dilemma as developer Ira Green wants to build a new three-story hotel and bicycle rental business downtown on the waterfront, across the street from McNally Cottage. More ... Marta Olson (left) accepts the Xeno Award of Merit from Candi Dunnigan (right), who created it in memory of her horse to honor a person or horse who exemplifies the values of service and devotion in Mackinac's equestrian programs. More ... Islamic terrorists interpret Muslim teachings differently than most practicing Muslims, and tensions in the Middle East may be exacerbated because religion there is more closely tied to government than in the United States, Zuhdi Jasser told a small group of Island residents and visitors Friday, August 29. More ... Mackinac County is preparing to switch its emergency dispatch system from the Michigan State Police-operated Negaunee Regional Dispatch Center to the Chippewa County system in Sault Ste. Marie sometime after mid-September. More ... Reports from the Mackinac Island Police Department, between August 27 and September 2: A woman called police after discovering a man passed out at her apartment at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, August 27. The man allegedly kicked the door in and apparently attempted to steal food from the apartment, as a backpack was found with food that the woman identified as hers. More ... Resurfacing work on the Mackinac Bridge causeway south of the toll plaza will begin Monday, September 15, and is expected to be completed by Friday, October 10. Two-way traffic will be maintained on the bridge during the road work. On weekends, all four lanes will be open to traffic. More ... Mackinac Island may soon have a new ordinance that will assist the city in protecting its historic structures and landmarks that are threatened by redevelopment. The ordinance is one of the beginning stages in strengthening the Island's National Historic Landmark status, which is under watch by the National Park Service. More ... Mariah Horn treated her children, Savannah and Joseph, to a rare trip to the top of Round Island Lighthouse during a July 12 open house hosted by Boy Scout Troop 323 from Freeland. The children are related to a long line of Round Island Lighthouse keepers. More ... Mackinac Island's Festival of the Falling Leaves Moon, known as Binaakwe-giizis in Ojibwa, celebrates fall. The festival first took place in 2006, to introduce a new event to fill the weekend occupied in alternating years by the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. More ... Wawashkamo Golf Club held its second annual fundraiser Sunday, July 13, at The Inn at Stonecliffe and raised more than $20,000 from two auctions. Money from the auctions. The money will be spent on landscaping and beautification around the club house and golf course entrance, Wawashkamo President Steve Rilenge said. More ... Daily during the summer, Mackinac Island sees more than 4,000 bicycles on the road, more than 500 horses pulling drays and carriages, and many visitors on foot. Even though accidents are sometimes the result, most of those can be prevented, emergency room doctors say. More ... The Island's health fair, dubbed "Health: A Fair," took place Saturday, September 6, at City Hall. At the event, people heard speakers on several topics, including smoking cessation and nutrition. Visitors also had the opportunity to browse several informative booths geared toward maintaining good health. More ... The mysticism of Mackinac Island is the theme represented by rock music poster designer Mark Arminski in a series of posters, commissioned for the past three Music Festivals, featuring a turtle with two musical clefs for a shell set on a backdrop of dark, twisting trees similar to those one might encounter on a walk through the Island's woods. More ... More than 1,500 walkers and runners stopped traffic on Main Street as they set out on the 38th annual Mackinac Island Eight Mile Run and Walk Saturday, September 6. The race departed from Mission Point, continued clockwise around the Island's perimeter, and concluded along Mission Point's shoreline trail. The event was organized by Gault Race Management. More ... As a family vacation destination, Mackinac Island offers many activities for children, including horseback riding, bicycling, and swimming. Many of the Island's attractions are educational as well as entertaining. Fort Mackinac provides an opportunity to learn about the history of the area. More ... Bats of various species were presented when the Mackinac Island Public Library hosted a program with Dawn Vezina of the Organization for Bat Conservation August 6. Ms. Vezina was accompanied by bats from the Cranbrook Institute of Science's Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills. More ... Janice Armstrong of Birmingham has been coming to Mackinac Island with her family since 1960. Her brother, Tom Armstrong, of Troy, and his twin sister, Lisa Carpentier, of Grand Rapids, celebrated their 50th birthday Thursday, July 17, at The Chippewa Hotel Waterfront. The family stayed on the Island for three days before heading to a larger family reunion in Grand Haven. More ... Barbara Burkhardt discussed her book, "William Maxwell: A Literary Life," at the Mackinac Island Public Library Friday, August 8, the final lecture in the library's author series this summer. More ... A children's Halloween party will be hosted Friday, October 31, by the City Recreation Department. Time and location have yet to be determined. Call Leanne Brodeur at 847-3853 for more information. More ... In Mackinac Island Yacht Club Bridge League games for the week ending Wednesday, September 10, Nancy Keogh placed first, Ann Timmons placed second, and Kay Berke placed third. More ... Minette Lefkiades of the American Red Cross prepares to draw a unit of blood from volunteer Pete McCreary during Mackinac Island's fifth annual blood drive at Community Hall Wednesday, August 27. Mr. McCreary has been a blood drive volunteer since 1988. More ... Editor's Note: After Labor Day, a reminder of Mackinac summer fun is reflected in this piece submitted by British Landing resident, poet, filmmaker, and professor James Bogan. More ... Wednesday, September 3, marked the first lesson in a series of hip-hop and modern dance classes offered at Mackinac Island Public School. More ... When Children's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky visited Mackinac Island this summer, he asked his hosts, John and Penny Barr, why Mackinac is pronounced differently than it is spelled. Mr. Barr suggested he write a poem about the anomaly. He did, and recited it the next day at his presentation July 13 at the Little Stone Church. More ... The class of 2011 will be the first to receive their diplomas after a new set of state-wide academic standards is enacted, including a final proficiency examination in each of four key subjects, according to the Eastern Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District (ISD). More ... Former Michigan Department of Community Health Director Jim Haveman (second from right) was recognized for his help in obtaining funding and support for the new Mackinac Straits Hospital at a Grand Hotel luncheon Friday, August 15. More ... Grand Hotel decorator Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper and Company of New York, addresses guests at the Carleton Varney Antique and Design Fall Festival Saturday, September 6. More ... Denise Erickson, animal control officer for Luce County, will be conducting an obedience and agility class for dogs from noon to 2 p.m. at Mackinac Island's Windermere Point Sunday, September 14. All dogs are welcome. More ... Volunteers for the last time this summer cleaned headstones at the city's two cemeteries Sunday, August 31. The project will continue next May. The project, spearheaded by American Legion 299, began as a monthly project last May and cleaned 100 headstones. More ... Reectors from the 16th Michigan Company B of the Civil War and the 1822 Stanton Guard 3rd U.S. Infantry will encamp at Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14. More ... The Lakers lost the first two matches at Brimley Tuesday, August 26, (20-25 and 18-25) before defeating the Bays 25- 18, 25-18, and 15-9. No individual statistics were available at press time. More ... Mackinac Straits Hospital Long Term Care residents from St. Ignace spent a day on Mackinac Island Thursday, August 14. After a picnic lunch, the group enjoyed a carriage tour, stopping for fudge before heading back to St. Ignace. More ... Several Island residents gathered on Market Street for the first Jamie Bynoe Street Hockey Game, named after the hockey enthusiast who came up with the idea for the event, Sunday, September 7. More ... Author Mike Fornes started his Friday, July 25 lecture about the Mackinac Bridge at the Mackinac Island Public Library by asking the crowd where they were from, and if they had ever crossed the Mackinac Bridge. When several members of the crowd admitted they were not from Michigan and had never crossed the bridge, Mr. More ... Mackinac Associates plans to expand its membership, which will include drawing in younger people, develop new programs, and continue its support of Mackinac State Historic Parks in a new five-year plan adopted this summer. The plan was endorsed by its board of directors August 9 after more than a year of preparation. More ... Jeri and Larry Cooney of Auburn, Indiana, spent a week in September on Mackinac Island as part of their 40th wedding anniversary celebration. More ... An Experiential Retailing and Marketing Workshop is designed to benefit all retail business owners Monday, September 15, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the St. Ignace Public Library. The cost is $40 per person. "Experiential retailing" means providing a rich experience for customers using an approach that involves both emotional and rational triggers, organizers report. More ... |
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