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Click here for digital edition  Russ Sager (from left), Mike Konicki, and Chuck Schafer watch team member Mike Robbins during the seventh annual Hickory Stick Tournament at Wawashkamo Golf Club Saturday, August 15. This team placed third for the low net team. Mr. Sager was closest to the pin on number 17 for the men's division. Mr. More ... A rare photograph taken in 1915 documents the familiar white concrete benches found in the Mackinac Island State Park as designed by landscape architect Warren G. Manning’s office and not by former Park Superintendent Frank Kenyon, as previously believed. More ... Mike North and Craig Skutt plan to water-ski, and possibly ride a tube, to Mackinac Island from St. Ignace in the wake of a Star Line ferry boat at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, August 22, to raise money for the St. Ignace Festivals and Fireworks campaign and the Pet-Fix program. More ... Claire Dunnigan and horse Ibn show off their awards during the Mackinac Island Horse Show. In her age division, Miss Dunnigan placed first in and Grooming, Bareback Equitation, English Equitation, Trail, Mary Milton Challenge, the Barrel Race, and was named 2009 English Championship Junior Rider. More ... In the summer of 1861, Henry David Thoreau took a round trip from Massachusetts to Minnesota, passing through Mackinac Island. In the summer of 2009, Corinne Smith is doing the same thing. More ... The Mackinac Island Community Foundation took advantage of its annual party Thursday, August 13, to announce it has given more than $1 million in grants to nonprofit organizations from its endowments. More ... Jim Lenfestey will host Wednesday, August 26, "An Evening with Cold Mountain," the island premier of the video, "Han-shan," and a talk about his trip to visit the sites of the great poets of ancient China. More ... Few classes taught today last five hours and include snacks and dinner parties, but few classes today are taught by Richard "Dick" Wolfgang. Mr. Wolfgang, of Paintings by Wolfgang, has taught watercolor painting for three years, and, Sunday, August 23, his students, Tim Leeper, Molly Carroll, and Diane Sprengel, will have their first show. More ... Judy Hicks (far left) and Barb Fisher accept a donation from Deacon Dean Hermann of Ste. Anne's Church during Daisy Day Thursday, August 6. Volunteers worked outside the Mackinac Island Post Office selling daisies and raffle tickets to raise funds for the Stella King Scholarship Fund. More ... The seventh annual Mark Gallagher Open golf tournament will take place Saturday, August 22, at 2 p.m. at Wawashkamo Golf Club. The tournament is a fundraiser for the Mark Gallagher scholarship, which aids students of the Mackinac Island Public School hoping to pursue a career in criminal justice. The scholarship is funded by the Mackinac Island Community Foundation. More ... The Mackinac Island Yacht Club will hold a yard sale Wednesday, August 26, from 9 a.m. to noon behind the Market Street building across from the marina. Yacht club items for sale include dishes, lamps, bedding, and paintings. Proceeds will be donated to Mackinac Associates, a support group that raises money for Mackinac State Historic Parks projects. More ... A sailor who spent much of his life under Communist rule and now enjoys American freedoms would like to sail around the world to spread a message about literacy to children in poor countries. George Partyka was at Mackinac Island recently as a crew member in the Pure Michigan Bayview Mackinac Race. More ... The annual Anne's Tablet Poetry Gathering will take place at the East Bluff landmark Thursday, August 27, at 4 p.m. The gathering is informal and all are invited to attend, say organizers Susan Allen and Jim Lenfestey. They encourage residents and visitors to bring poems they love, their own or others, to read or recite around the serene memorial to Island writer Constance Fenimore Woolson. More ... The Island horse community had the opportunity to showcase its developments Sunday, August 16, at the 39th annual Mackinac Island Horse Show. More ... Members of the Mackinac Horsemen's Association got back to the basics Monday, August 3, in a horse clinic with instructor Susan Bellinger. Mrs. Bellinger offered adult group sessions, youth group sessions, and private lessons during her two-day stay on the Island, helping riders improve their form and communication with horses. More ... Traveling 250 miles by bicycle, followed by a 20-minute ferry ride, nine Boy Scouts from Troop 65 out of Wood Dale, Illinois, reached Mackinac Island Friday, August 7. They were on their annual High Adventure Trip. More ... Five bats tucked themselves behind a "No Bikes" sign in the northern entryway of the Mackinac Island Public School for their daily sleep before roaming the night sky Monday, August 10. School secretary Barb Fisher said sometimes the brick walls outside are coated with them. More ... The boat Stryder, owned by skipper John Smulders, won overall and won its class for the Mackinac to Manitoulin International Yacht Race, called the MacMan, despite a slow start Thursday, July 23. More ... The last installment of the Mackinac Island Community Foundation's summer concert series, Summertime Notes, featured the music of five local musicians Sunday, August 9. More ... Reports from the Mackinac Island Police Department for the week of July 29 through August 4: More ... Robert "Porky" and Caroline LaPine celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at a party hosted by their children at the Community Hall Saturday, August 8. The two were both born on Mackinac Island and grew up together, Mrs. LaPine said, and got married on the Island August 6, 1949. They attended the Thomas W. Ferry School, now the Indian Dormitory. More ... In Mackinac Island Yacht Club Bridge League games for the week ending Wednesday, August 19, Buzz Waggoner placed first, Lois Largo placed second, and Toots Gillespie placed third. More ... Jim and Julie (nee Barch) Fisher of Mackinac Island announce the birth of their son, Jordan James Fisher, born Thursday, August 13, 2009, at Cheboygan Memorial Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 5.25 ounces at birth and measured 19 inches in length. He is the couple’s first child. More ... Chris and Leslie Nyland, former cottagers on the West Bluff, returned to Mackinac Island Tuesday, August 18, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. The Nylands met on the Island 27 years ago, when Mrs. More ... |
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