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Rep. McDowell Office Hours State Representative Gary McDowell will meet Eastern Upper Peninsula constituents Monday, July 9. From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. he will be at the Chippewa County Courthouse Annex Meeting Room, Third Floor, 300 Court Street, Sault Ste. Marie. From noon to 1 p.m. he will be at the Mackinac County Annex, 1... More ... FOR THE RECORD... On page nine of the June 28 issue of The St. Ignace News, there are incorrect captions beneath two photographs of cars. At the top of the page is a 1950 silver-and-black Ford, which has a 400-horsepower Chevy engine. More ... Repair Project to City's Cracked Water Tank Expected To Begin Monday Committee Now Seeks Paintball Course in City By Ryan Schlehuber The two-to-three-day repair project for the St. Ignace city water tank in Evergreen Shores is expected to begin Monday, July 9, said Public Works Director Les Therrian during a city council meeting Monday, July 2. More ... New Program Helps Monitor Teen Driving Parents of teenage drivers can now monitor their child's driving and young drivers can be reminded of the importance of safety with Mackinac County Sheriff's Department's new teenage driver notification system. More ... Famous Clydesdale Horses To Visit Straits Area in July The eight-horse hitch Budweiser Clydesdales will visit St. Ignace and Cedarville Tuesday, July 24, through Monday, July 30. The horses will be here as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Mackinac Bridge. More ... Music, Art Dockside Is July 15 at Hessel Municipal Marina Les Cheneaux Artisan Cooperative will present the fourth annual Music and Art Dockside Sunday, July 15, at Hessel Municipal Marina from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Musical performances, nearly 20 artists, an art auction, food vendors, and a children's craft-maki... More ... Disc Golf, Paintball Requests on Board Agenda Moran Twp. To Seek Bond for Pte. LaBarbe By Paul Gingras After extensive debate, the Moran Township Board of Trustees turned down a request by Steve DuFresne of St. Ignace, who asked for up to $10 a week of township funding to pay gasoline costs for mowing the 24-basket disc golf course at Doc Holle's Silver Mountain Ski Hill. The decision was made at t... More ...
M.J. Bishop will be featured in a Locals on the Bay concert Wednesday, July 11, at 7 p.m. at St. Ignace Marina. Ms. Bishop was born and grew up in St. Ignace, and has been writing and performing around her home in Seattle, Washington, for nine years. Ms. Bishop performs her own style of folk, coun... More ... Minimum Wage Goes Up to $7.15 More than half a million Michigan workers got a pay raise Sunday, July 1, when the minimum wage moved to $7.15 per hour, reported the office of Governor Jennifer Granholm. The minimum wage will increase again next year at this time to $7.40 an hour. As a result of the minimum wage hikes phased in... More ... Court Reports The following dispositions are from 92nd District Court in St. Ignace June 26, Judge Beth Gibson presiding. Arresting agencies are in parentheses. The court does not distinguish between jail time to be served immediately and jail sentences that are suspended. More ... 'Living With Nature' Series Will Begin Thursday at Cedarville "Living with Nature," a series of four programs about Les Cheneaux Islands ecology and outdoor activities, will debut Thursday, July 5, with Greg Wright's presentation on Lake Huron. The program will start at 10 a.m. at the Les Cheneaux Community Schools Library, at the corner of M-134 and Beach S... More ...
Gina Della-Moretta, 21, of St. Ignace, is participating in a 12- week summer internship at the St. Ignace City Recreation Department at Little Bear East Arena and Community Center. More ... Well Water Testing Starts Monday Free well water testing for nitrates, nitrites, and triazine pesticides will start Monday, July 9. Anyone with a private drinking water well can get water tested by taking samples and returning them to local collection sites by Monday, July 16, between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. More ... St. Ignace Community Pool Is Open The St. Ignace community swimming pool officially opened for the summer Monday, June 18. Swimming lessons are now underway. Lap swimming is held Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. and every Friday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. More ... DeTour Church Hosts Chicken Barbecue Sacred Heart Church in DeTour will host a chicken barbecue Sunday, July 8, from noon to 4 p.m. The barbecue will be at the church hall. The cost is $8 for adults and $5 for children. Proceeds will benefit the church. More ... Health Career Camp Offered in July Students ages 11 to 14 will be able to participate in interactive sessions to learn about various careers in health care at this year's Health Careers Exploration Camp Tuesday, July 24, through Thursday, July 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. More ...
By Ryan Schlehuber Chris Tamlyn's dream of becoming a comic book illustrator is a step closer to reality as his comic strip, "Blinds," will be featured in an anthology of short stories called "Cereal and Pajamas," to be published during the first week of August. More ... Concert Series Blue Water Ramblers To Perform July 7 at Heritage Park Music in Mackinaw will feature the Blue Water Ramblers Saturday, July 7, and the United States Air Force Band of Flight Tuesday, July 10, at 8 p.m. at Conkling Heritage Park on South Huron Avenue in Mackinaw City. The weekly summer outdoor concert series is free of charge. More ... Cedarville Bay Boat Parade Will Be Saturday Best Costumes, Light Designs To Earn Prizes The second annual Venetianstyle Lighted Boat Parade and Costume Party will be this Saturday, July 7, at 9 p.m. Parade participants will line up in Cedarville Bay and travel to the Hessel Marina. More ...
The following entries won awards at the 2007 St. Ignace Car Show: Hot Rod Magazine: Dick Bisbee, Sparta, 1939 Ford Best Flame Paint: Larry Vogel, Craton, Wisconsin, 1936 Chevy Attention to Detail: Dan and Elizabeth Lettshek, More ... Island School Board, City Council Listen to Expert on Open Meetings Act By Sean Ely Rules about making meetings open and available to the public were clarified for members of the school board and city council when attorney Don Schmidt of Kalamazoo met with the Mackinac Island elected officials Thursday, June 21. More ... Hospital Board Member Resigns Peter Della-Moretta of St. Ignace resigned from the Mackinac Straits Hospital and Health Center Board of Trustees, which was announced at a board meeting Monday, June 18. Mr. Della-Moretta, who served as the treasurer, recently moved away from the area. He has been a board member for 18 years, se... More ... Officers' Ball Planned at Fort Mackinac To Mark Milestone Honoring the nonprofit Mackinac Associates for 25 years of support of Mackinac State Historic Parks preservation efforts, a Commanding Officer's Ball will be at Fort Mackinac Friday, July 13, at 6:30 p.m. The ball is a recreation of the group's first membership event. More ... Artist of the Week Series Begins Wed. Free Demonstrations at Cedarville Museum Les Cheneaux Historical Association will start its summer Artist of the Week series Wednesday, July 11, with fiber artist Roxanne Eberts. Artist of the Week will be presented at the Les Cheneaux Historical Museum on Meridian Street from noon to 3 p.m. More ... Bike and Hike Fundraiser Will Be Sunday at Hessel The first Jim Bohn Bike and Hike fundraiser for the Cancer Research Foundation will be Sunday, July 8, at 10 a.m. in Hessel. Named in memory of Cedarville resident Jim Bohn, the event will start and end at the Islander Bar in Hessel, at 134 Pickford Avenue. Mr. Bohn succumbed to cancer at the age... More ... Clark Planning Commission Sets Schedule for Master Plan, Zoning Process By Amy Polk Clark Township Planning Commission will work on master plan and zoning ordinance updates at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month, and started June 19 with a review and critique of the township's master plan. The public can attend any of the workshops, as they are public meetings. More ... Master Plan Critique Reveals Need for Update, No Rewrite By Amy Polk Despite the age of its master plan, Clark Township will not need a new one, but must update the document to reflect modern land use issues. The township's planner, Brad Kaye of Gourdie-Fraser in Traverse City, gave Clark Township Planning Commission the firm's critique and analysis of the existin... More ...
By Ryan Schlehuber Working with a variety of colorful duct tape during a workshop at the St. Ignace Public Library Saturday, June 23, 17-year-old William Beacom of Midland showed a group of children and adults how to use the adhesive tape in an artistic way, making wallets, bookmarks, purses, and flowers. More ... Gros Cap Approves New Budget, Awards Building Contracts By Paul Gingras The Moran Township Board of Education approved its projected 2007/2008 spending plan, voted to levy 16.8734 mills to run the school and 1.75 mills to improve the building, and hired an engineer to oversee building projects at its Monday, June 18, meeting. Action followed a budget hearing. More ... Mammography Accreditation for Straits Hospital Extended 3 Years Mackinac Straits Hospital has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The hospital has offered mammography services since 2002. Karen Myers is the hospital's certified mammography technician. More ... Wytiaz Named to DRLPS Board Sandy Wytiaz will fill the director's position on the board of the DeTour Reef Light Preservation Society (DRLPS), the society decided at its May meeting. The post was left vacant by the death of Jim Charles, a founding director of DRLPS in 1998. He was also vice president and memorabilia chairper... More ... Host of Youth Art Classes To Begin at Les Cheneaux Library The "lazy, hazy" days of summer need not be idle, since a host of activities are offered in the Les Cheneaux Islands throughout the summer. Summer art classes for children will be at Les Cheneaux Community Library in Cedarville starting Tuesday, July 10 and ending Thursday, July 26. More ...
By Sean Ely Michigan tourism has been falling since 1998, according to the Michigan Travel Commission, which met at Grand Hotel Friday, June 15, to ponder the trend. More ... |
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