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Click here for digital edition  For 10 hours, firefighters battled a relentless blaze that destroyed a three-story downtown St. Ignace retail and apartment building Wednesday, January 6. St. Ignace firefighters rescued a woman from a second floor window. A tenant in a separate second floor apartment reported the fire and had safely escaped the building before firefighters arrived. More ... Taste-testing chili recipes and watching outhouse sled racers slide by are among many events to be offered at the Mackinaw City Winterfest Thursday, January 14, through Saturday, January 16. Many of the events throughout the three-day festival are free with the purchase of a $2 Winterfest button from the Mackinaw City Chamber of Commerce and the Candy Cor- ner Windjammer Gifts store. More ... The future is in question for one of the oldest annual events in St. Ignace, the Arts Dockside art and craft festival, as a result of the resignation of the Arts Dockside committee, a group of volunteers who organized and ran the festival. More ... School districts around the state and across the nation scrambled last week to set up special board meetings and consider signing a memorandum of understanding tied to federal Race to the Top funding. More ... The City of St. Ignace is considering three proposals from area waste haulers to provide contracted trash and recycling services to city residents, and the city's Solid Waste committee plans to meet at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 13, in City Hall to meet with all three companies that provided proposals and discuss which option to accept. More ... Ken Harrington, chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, and Vice Chair Dexter McNamara introduced themselves to the Mackinaw City Village Council, discussed the status of Bell's Fishery, and supported the expansion of a waterfront walkway through tribal property Tuesday, January 7. Mr. Harrington replaced Frank Ettawageshik, while Mr. More ... Concerned off-road vehicle (ORV) riders plan to meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, January 14, at the St. Ignace Public Library to discuss closures of trails formerly open to off-road vehicles. The closures are being executed by the U.S. Forest Service across the Hiawatha National Forest. More ... Three episodes of the television show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe will be shown on the Discovery Channel featuring the Upper Peninsula, including the Soo Locks, Mackinac Island, and an interview with two of his Michigan fans on Mackinac Island. The Soo Locks episode will air Tuesday, January 26. More ... |
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