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Michigan Politics

Great Lakes Guardians Keep Dogging Prez Hopefuls
By George Weeks
It's an uphill struggle, but Great Lakes governors and lawmakers are accelerating efforts to get the dwindling band of presidential candidates to commit to funding restoration of the lakes and outlawing diversion of water. More...

Brevort

By Lois Movalson 292-5581

Super Bowl Sunday is over. Hope your team won. Now we get ready for Super Tuesday. It will be exciting. More...

DeTour Area

By Barbara Buschbacher 297-8075 bbann@sault.com

Now that the Super Bowl football game is over, we can concentrate on enjoying our favorite winter sports. Many of us look forward to attending the winter festivals held in all the towns in the area. More...

Les Cheneaux

By Helen Shoberg 484-2626 mink1@cedarville.net

After a nice trip to Florida to visit my brother and sister-in-law, I find Cedarville seems cold. I arrived at Chippewa International at 11 p.m. on the night of that terrible blizzard. More...

Pickford

By Audrey Hutchison 595-7283

"The snowmobiles are here and the trails are great," said Julie Clegg. She went on to say that with the I-500 Snowmobile Race in Sault Ste. Marie and the local snowmobiling, the town of Pickford is humming. More...

Correspondent McNeil Sees Comparison of Gould City and Former Home

By Ryan Schlehuber

This is one in a series of articles to introduce readers to correspondents covering their communities within The St. Ignace News readership area. More...

Autos Across Mackinac: Tourists Flock to See Bridge, Last Ferry Ride

PART 56: The Last Crossing
By Les Bagley

For the past year, to commemorate the opening of the Mackinac Bridge, the St. Ignace News has been serializing Les Bagley's previously unpublished manuscript, Autos Across Mackinac, A History of the Michigan State Ferries. More...

St. Ignace

By MiriamBlair 643-7994

Jack Soderquist is a patient at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, where he has undergone leg surgery after suffering a fall. Richard and Kay Stascak of Green Bay, Wisconsin, along with Terry and Sharon Smith of St. More...

DEAL ME IN

IRS Agent Looking For Advancement

Dear Mark: In your past columns you mention, "The IRS has uncompromising and, some think unscrupulous, means of determining whether a gambler without any losses has just created the appearance of loss with phony, handcrafted documents More...

Engadine Consolidated Schools

HOME OF THE EAGLES•KNOWLEDGE LETS YOU SOAR
by Stu Hobbs Superintendent

Engadine Schools has just begun its second semester for all students. Report cards were given to students a week ago. More...

Rudyard

By Kerry Fountain 495-5533 kerrymariet@yahoo.com

Ken Mills will speak about trapping and the fur market at the Rudyard Historical Society meeting Thursday, February 14, at 7 p.m. at the Rudyard Community Center. Ken is a 1961 Rudyard High School graduate and an avid outdoorsman. More...

Gould City

By Marilyn McNeil 477-6925 donmar@lighthouse.net

The Curtis Area Chamber of Commerce has announced it is now open for business at its new location on H33, just south of the Sandtown Road. Final work, such as porch construction, a new sign, and landscaping, will be done in the spring. More...

Engadine

By Julie Freeman 477-6959 engadinenews@sbcglobal.net

Condolences to the family of Eric Autterson of Newberry, who passed away Thursday, January 31, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Eric was a 2007 graduate of Newberry High School. More...

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