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Click here for digital edition  Bicycles overloaded with baggage, small children riding in bicycle baskets, and pedestrians and cyclists just plain not paying attention to their surroundings are all causing concern for police, who want to see bike mishaps reduced on Mackinac Island. More ... Funding changes were an important subject at the Mackinac Island Public School Board of Education meeting Thursday, June 18. Saving Paradise, a state fund designed to assist geographically remote schools, from which Mackinac Island received $85,000, has been cut, and the Michigan Business Tax, which helped fund out-of-formula schools such as Mackinac Island's, was also cut. More ... Mackinac Island is not as isolated from the world as its location in northern Lake Huron might suggest. It has a large presence online that is growing. Many businesses have Web sites, providing easy access to information around the clock and around the world. More ... A woman experiencing respiratory problems was evacuated from the Island Thursday, June 25, at 4 a.m. The U.S. Coast Guard Station St. Ignace transported the Windermere Hotel guest to the mainland aboard its 25-foot response boat. More ... Hot rod historian and writer Ken Gross will be traveling to St. Ignace Wednesday, June 24, after receiving the International Automotive Media's lifetime achievement award from a group of automotive writers Tuesday at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Detroit. More ... In 1992, John Schneider, better known as "Bo Duke" from the 1980s TV hit "The Dukes of Hazzard," rode his motorcycle across the Mackinac Bridge and along the shores of Lake Michigan on US- 2, enroute to Seattle, Washington. "It was great," Mr. Schneider said. "It's rare you find an undisturbed part of blacktop history like that. It's just beautiful up there. More ... Mackinac Island is using social networking to promote itself to the online world. Here is a sampling of the programs being used. Facebook The social networking site connects people from around the world through personalized Web sites called profiles. After creating your own profile, you can become "friends" with others to view their profiles and send them messages. More ... On an island bustling with thousands of tourists and hundreds of residents, cottagers, and working horses, how one takes out the trash is vitally important. Every dumpster of trash shipped to a landfill on the mainland costs $1,100, so sorting materials that can be recycled or composted is the job of every resident and business. More ... Down Memory Lane Parade 5 p.m. Friday, June 26: Vehicles line up at the Mackinac County Airport on North State Street. No vehicles admitted after 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.: Parade proceeds down State Street from Budget Host Inn to Glen's Market. More ... Wisconsin sisters Laurie Leanna (from left) of Greenfield, Brenda Frazier of Milwaukee, and Jeanine Urben of Mequon pay tribute to their father by visiting the Island each year. More ... Kendra S. Kleber, daughter of Chuck and Marsha Kleber of Mackinac Island, has been named a federal administrative law judge in Cleveland, Ohio. She begins her new position in five weeks. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina and a law degree from the Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University. More ... In Mackinac Island Yacht Club Bridge League games for the week ending Wednesday, June 24, Elaine Hansen placed first, Ann Timmons placed second, and Beverly Benjamin placed third. More ... Saturday, July 4, will start out with the 46th annual Stone Skipping Tournament at Windermere Point at 10 a.m. The amateur division will be in the morning and professional stone skippers will compete at noon. The celebration will continue all day as Fort Mackinac celebrates with gun salutes, military demonstrations, and patriotic music. More ... Reports from the Mackinac Island Police Department for the week of June 17 to June 23: A Menominee man and a Wallace man complained of having their money stolen at a bar on Mackinac Island June 18 at 9:50 p.m. The man from Menominee said he was paying for the bill and placed $100 on the counter. More ... Ardán Academy of Irish Dance joined the 60th Annual Mackinac Island Lilac Festival for the first time this year to teach Ceili (pronounced kaylee) dancing. The group danced at Patrick Sinclair's Irish Pub Tuesday, June 9, and at Windermere Point Wednesday, June 10. John Slevin, manager of the pub, joined the dancing Tuesday. Mr. More ... The Round the Island Race, held by the Mackinac Island Yacht Club, will take place Sunday, July 5, at 2 p.m. The race is open to all boats with no entry charge. Before the race, a skippers meeting will be at 1 p.m. at the Mackinac Island Yacht Club. More ... The Eby family of St. Ignace, who own Castle Rock, is marking the 80th anniversary of the local attraction by reducing admission to climb the landmark to a dime Friday, July 3, through Sunday, July 5, and sharing information about the history of the site. More ... La Galerie, a shop on Market Street, won this year's Lilac Festival Window Contest. The window was decorated for the American Circus theme with popcorn boxes, clown dolls, stuffed elephants and lions, and old circus posters. More ... Local artist Maeve Croghan is enjoying a two week trip to Japan to showcase her work. Ms. Croghan, owner of Maeve's Arts on Market Street, is traveling with a group of artists from her off-season home of Mendocino, California, to the town's sistercity, Miasa, Japan. More ... The annual summer course on master poets of the world will begin at Grand Hotel Wednesday, July 8, in the Audubon Bar. More ... At left: Redford the pony dressed as an elephant to fit the Lilac Festival's theme of "American Circus 1793-1940." With Redford (from left) are Caitlyn McDonnell, Taylor Pare, and Phyllis Brugger. More ... The Glen Erin Pipe Band of Lansing performed Sunday, June 14, in Marquette Park before the start of the 2009 Lilac Festival Parade. Band member Alyse Redman has been coming to the parade with the Glen Erin Pipe Band for six years. She said it's a highlight of their tours. More ... Fourteen shovels will be thrust into the ground in Sault Ste. Marie Tuesday, June 30, to signify the first dirt turned on a $580 million project to build a new Soo Lock. Governor Jennifer Granholm, Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, Congressman Bart Stupak, and Sault Ste. More ... A favorite photographic scene on the Island in recent years is the gardens of Cloghaun Bed and Breakfast on Market Street. More ... There will be two new faces helping at Ste. Anne's Church starting July 1. Deacon Dean Hermann and his wife, Vicki Hermann, have moved to the Island to replace Brother Jim Boynton, who has helped at the church for 17 summers and will be leaving for a mission in Haiti. More ... The Mackinac Island Community Foundation's summer concert series is underway, with four more concerts to come. The series highlights Michigan artists and always includes a group of Island musicians, said Robin Dorman, executive director of the Mackinac Island Community Foundation. Ste. Anne's Church hosts the concerts, which are at 2 p.m. Sundays. More ... The Mackinac Island Public Library's Summer Author Series begins this year with Brian Dunnigan, author of "A Picturesque Situation: Mackinac Before Photography, 1615-1860." Friday, June 26, at 4 p.m., Mr. More ... John and Rebekah (nee Johnson) Visnaw of St. Ignace announce the birth of their daughter, Abbygale Catherine Marie Visnaw, born Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at a midwife's home in Rapid City. She weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth and measured 19.75 inches in length. More ... Unlocking the Rosa Webb room at the Mackinac Island Public Library, librarian Anne St. Onge reveals some of the library's most closely guarded treasures: The published journal of Dr. William Beaumont, a 1902 menu of the John Jacob Astor House, and a 1923 guide book from the Mackinac Island resort era. More ... |
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