Fort de Buade To Be Focus of Public Hearing Monday
City, Historical Society Plan Details
By Ryan Schlehuber
      While the purchase agreement for Fort de Buade Museum is still being drafted, Michilimackinac Historical Society and St. Ignace city officials are preparing a lease agreement for the museum operation.
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Artist Wants To Capture Spirit of Bridge Ironworkers With Memorial Sculpture
Will Be Dedicated July 28 at St. Ignace
By Karen Gould
      Janice Trimpe says she's been called the "common man's artist" because she sculpts everyday people. This winter, however, she is creating a sculpture of a Mackinac Bridge ironworker, a subject far from common. These were men who labored for three years, working at heights up to 552 feet above the ...
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Submerged Car Pulled From Lake Huron
Police Seek Owner of Red '70s Wagon
By Ryan Schlehuber
      A late-1970s red Pontiac Catalina wagon was pulled from the bottom of Lake Huron near the U.S. Coast Guard station in St. Ignace Wednesday, April 25. It was empty, however, police are still investigating how the car got there and who the owner may be. The license plate was from 1982.
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Candidates, Millage Requests on Ballot Tues.
      Voters will determine school board candidates, City of Mackinac Island officials, school propositions, and one township proposition as polls in the county will be open Tuesday, May 8, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters will also be asked to consider an increase of 0.75 mills for three years to fund speci...
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Commissioners at Odds Over Road Work as Funds Dwindle
By Karen Gould
      Clearing and restoration work ordered by Road Commission Chairman Frank Luepnitz on a 20- acre parcel of land on Brevort Lake Road is inappropriate, says a fellow commissioner, and has raised concerns that the project could hasten the depletion of funds used for summer maintenance work in the count...
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