Ollie Boynton Named St. Ignace Ambassador of Year
By Mark Tower
      John Oliver "Ollie" Boynton, a 77-year resident of St. Ignace, was awarded the 2009 St. Ignace Ambassador of the Year Award Wednesday, May 13, for his many years of government service, volunteerism, and historic preservation in the community.
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Les Cheneaux Channel Dredging Gets Funding
By Jonathan Eppley
      Lobbying by the Les Cheneaux Islands Waterways Restoration Group to get the Les Cheneaux channels dredged will soon pay off. Included in $6.1 million allocated for various waterways projects around the Great Lakes is dredging the Les Cheneaux channels, considered a "priority project," Wayne Schloop of the U.S.
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Memorial Day Services Announced
      Memorial Day, a holiday to commemorate those who died in military service to the United States, will be celebrated in local communities Saturday, May 23, Sunday, May 24, and Monday, May 25. The traditional holiday is the last Monday in May. Services will be in St. Ignace, Mackinac Island, Mackinaw City, Cedarville, Pickford, and Engadine. No services are planned in DeTour.
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Mackinaw City To Host Pageant, Parade
Fireworks, Community Dance This Saturday Are Part of Traditional Memorial Day Weekend
By Jonathan Eppley
      Hundreds of Mackinaw City residents and visiting historical reenactors will portray Native Americans and French and British soldiers when they present the traditional Memorial Day pageant depicting the taking of Fort Michilimackinac by Native American forces in 1763 this weekend in Mackinaw City.
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Motorcycles Roll Into Town Sunday for Show's 2nd Year
St. Ignace City Marina
By Mark Tower
      The second annual Yooper Motorcycle Show will roar into the St. Ignace city marina Sunday, May 24. Admission is free for spectators, and motorcycle entries can sign up that day, or in advance. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and an award ceremony will be at 3:30 p.m.
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City To Ask Voters To OK Charter Change
Council: Requirement To Publish Too Costly
By Mark Tower
      Voters will be asked to decide if the St. Ignace City Charter should be amended, the city council decided Monday, May 18, after the city auditors said the city must publish the entire audit or none of it. The charter now stipulates that the city must publish the audit in a local newspaper, and council members say the city cannot afford to publish the whole thing.
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State Marina Upgrade Almost Finished at Mackinaw City
By Jonathan Eppley
      Work on the final two phases of construction on the new marina at Mackinaw State Harbor in Mackinaw City is nearing completion. The $15 million project is expected to be finished by July 1, said Tom Paquin, parks and recreation manager for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) field office in Cheboygan.
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Trojans Boys, Bays Girls Defend Track Titles
By David Latva
      The Brimley Bays girls track and field team and the Cedarville Trojans boys team raced in the Division III track and field championships with victories in Pickford Friday, May 15, with the top four individual winners and first two relay teams qualifying for the Upper Peninsula Finals at Kingsford Saturday, May 30.
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Work Underway on Mackinac Island Coal Dock
Makes Room for Cruise Ships, But Customs Rules Must Be Cleared First
By Karen Gould
      Work on Mackinac Island's Coal Dock, more than a century old, is underway to replace lumber planking with concrete so freight operations can be moved to that dock.
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