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Outdoor Matters

DNR Advisory Group Helps Guide Wolf Management in Michigan
A column from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Wolves are no longer rare in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. During the 2006 wolf survey conducted by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) last winter, biologists estimated Michigan is home to more than 430 wolves. More...

Engadine Consolidated Schools

by Stu Hobbs Superintendent

Engadine Consolidated Schools has received the fall student MEAP scores for students in grades three through eight. Overall, we have seen improvement in most areas, especially in reading, mathematics, and science. More...

Brevort

By Lois Movalson 292-5581

Friday night, January 26, found Dave and I partaking of the wonderful variety of soups at LaSalle High School before the game with the Cheboygan Chiefs. More...

Engadine

By Julie Freeman 477-6959 engadinenews@sbcglobal.net

Hello, everyone. Can you believe it's the month of February already? More...

DEAL ME IN

THE BACK DO' MYSTERY

Dear Mark, Playing Jacks-or-Better on video poker, should I keep a non-winning pair and draw three cards like I have been doing, or should I be throwing it away and draw one card to fill in a four-card flush, or a four card open ended More...

Michigan Politics

Census Counts Illegals; Michigan Loses Clout
By George Weeks

There's no more vivid example of Michigan's dwindling clout on Capitol Hill than what has happened Up North in the four-plus decades that the state lost four congressmen. In 1963-64, the Upper Peninsula actually had two U.S. House members. More...

Autos Across Mackinac: 1881 Ariel Quickly Upgraded, Sent North to the Straits

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Mackinac Bridge and the end of auto ferry service across the Straits of Mackinac. In a book yet to be published, Autos Across Mackinac, author Les Bagley recounts the history of that interesting c
By Les Bagley

PART 4: THE ARIEL The wooden steamship Ariel was launched in 1882 at the foot of Detroit's Dubois Street from a shipyard owned by John Oades. More...

Les Cheneaux

By Helen Shoberg 484-2626 mink1@cedarville.net

Cleon Moss called last week to report that he saw a robin on Hessel Point. Bitter cold winter weather has now arrived. There have been many who have been sick with some type of the flu. More...

DeTour Area

By Barbara Buschbacher 297-8075 bbann@sault.com

So many of us are relieved and elated to see January end. What makes January seem like the longest month of the year? More...

Mackinac Island

By Jeannette Doud 847-3301

Jack Frost waved his mighty wand over the weekend, making everything bright and beautiful. Mackinac glistened in the brilliant sunshine, and the freshly fallen snow, so crystal white. More...

Looking Back

Compiled by Ryan Schlehuber

115 Years Ago The St. Ignace News Saturday, January 30, 1892 The recent snow storms have spoiled the skating in the bay. Four traveling retail jewelers were in town on Thursday last, all bound for the lumbering camps. More...

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