Columns | www.stignacenews.com

August 2, 2007 / Columns

Michigan Politics

Michigan High Court Cripples and Ridicules State Environment Act

By George Weeks

Environmental champion Joan Wolfe was not crying wolf when she warned that the legal showdown over Nestle's Ice Mountain bottling operation in Mecosta County put the landmark 1970 Michigan Environmental Protection Act in jeopardy. More...

Rexton-Garnet

By Linda Livermore 595-7283

With the weekend festivities of the Mackinac Bridge anniversary behind us, it will be a pleasant one to recall. More...

Gould City

By Marilyn McNeil 477-6925 donmar@lighthouse.net

A spaghetti dinner is being held Sunday, August 26, at Little Bear West Arena in Manistique. Dinner starts at 3 p.m. More...

Brevort

By Lois Movalson 292-5581

Front porch visitors this week were Jack Gearing and an old friend, Bill Triner, from Massillon, Ohio. Sally Conklin and I enjoyed the front porch. More...

Engadine

By Julie Freeman 477-6959 engadinenews@sbcglobal.net

What a busy past weekend it was all around the area, from the Tahquamenon Valley Cruisers Car Show in downtown Newberry, the wine and cheese tasting and auction fundraiser at Chamberlin's Ole Forest Inn in Curtis, to the Mackinac Bridge 50th annive More...

DeTour Area

By Barbara Buschbacher 297-8075 bbann@sault.com

What can be more beautiful than the picture-perfect weather we have been having? Of course: the team of Budweiser Clydesdale horses that visited Cedarville last week. It was certainly a thrill to see them march down M-134. More...

Looking Back

Compiled by Ryan Schlehuber

115 Years Ago The St. Ignace News Saturday, July 30, 1892 The Democrats of Mackinac County will assemble in convention at the City Hall in the city of St. More...

Autos Across Mackinac: Ferry Traffic Decreases With Start of WWII

PART 30: WWII Problems Come Home to the Straits

By Les Bagley

This year the St. Ignace News is serializing Les Bagley's unpublished manuscript on the history of Michigan State Ferries, the only link between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas before the Mackinac Bridge was completed 50 More...

Mackinac Island

By Jeannette Doud 847-3301

The magnificent Budweiser Clydesdales, sponsored by Griffin Beverage of St. Ignace, visited Mackinac Island Tuesday, July 24. More...

DEAL ME IN

Multiple Ways of Losing Monstrous Amounts of Money

Mark Pilarski

Dear Mark: Do Triple Play machines use just one, or multiple decks on the draw? Are the odds of each of the three hands the same? Will I get more royal flushes playing Triple Play than playing on a standard machine? More...

St. Ignace

By Miriam Blair 643-7994

Summer weather means everyone is surely having fun at the Sand Dunes and other local beaches. Margaret Leonard of Holt will mark her 97th birthday in St. Ignace Friday, August 3. A longtime visitor to the Straits area, Mrs. More...

Les Cheneaux

By Helen Shoberg 484-2626 mink1@cedarville.net

The weather is beautiful. There are lots of people around, fishing is good, kayaks and canoes are paddling throughout the islands, and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. What more could one ask of a summer in the Les Cheneaux Islands? More...