Kindergarten Enrollments Healthy This Year
Higher Numbers Harbinger of More Per-Pupil Funding for Local Districts
By Paul Gingras
     Many area schools are reporting higher numbers of kindergarten students this year, based on registrations conducted in the past several weeks. That is especially good news for those schools that receive per-pupil education funding from
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Area Firefighters Join Forces in Propane Burn
     Flames from a blazing 300-gallon propane tank shot above the roof of the Little Bear East Conference Center and Ice Arena in St. Ignace Thursday evening, August 24, alarming some residents and prompting several to call 9-1-1. The blaze, however, was part of a training session for area firefighters l
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Swim, Jim, Swim
     Marathon athlete Jim Dreyer from Byron Center plans to swim at least 31 laps across the Straits of Mackinac this week, swimming non-stop for 125 miles or more, to set a world distance record. The record-setting Great Lakes distance swimmer will once again swim unescorted.
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St. Ignace Students To Begin Classes Tuesday
     The 2006-2007 school year will get underway for St. Ignace Area Schools students and staff Tuesday, September 5.
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County To Add One Corrections Officer
By Karen Gould
     Mackinac County commissioners approved hiring an additional corrections officer and the purchase of video equipment for the Mackinac County Jail at their Thursday, August 24, meeting. Hiring one full-time corrections officer and adding video equipment to monitor the holding cell
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Noise, Campers Draw Debate at Portage Twp.
By Paul Gingras
     "You guys have to decide as a board if this is a resort town or a retirement town," said Kim Bushey, owner of Kim's Tally Ho bar in Curtis, regarding a debate over a prospective noise ordinance discussed at the Portage Township meeting Tuesday, August 15.
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