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Crowds Gather for Winterfest Contests

The Snow Is Deep, and the Chili Is Hot at Mackinaw City’s Signature Winter Event

The annual outhouse race is one highlight of Mackinaw City Winterfest. More...

Walleye Jamboree To Begin Thursday

By Josh Perttunen

Anglers at the Walleye Jamboree ice fishing contest, hosted by the Soo Area Sportsmen’s Club, will have an entire weekend to become familiar with the handwriting of organizers Tom and Carley Ball. More...

New Emphasis Put On Sewer Records

Documentation To Begin at Clark Twp.

By Josh Perttunen

Wastewater treatment manager Jim Landreville and the Clark Township board reached an understanding at the board’s meeting Thursday, January 19, regarding the type of daily, weekly, and monthly documentation expected of the manager and how it wi More...

News

Voter Registration Deadline Nears For February Presidential Primary

Voters have until Monday, January 30, to register to vote in the Tuesday, February 28, presidential primary election. The polls will be open on election day from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. More...

Les Cheneaux Schools Call On Small Teaching Staff To Accommodate Changes

By Josh Perttunen

To keep pace with state education mandates, the school board at Les Cheneaux Community Schools approved recommendations from Superintendent Amy Scott to add a full- time physical education teacher and rearrange some staff responsibilities for the 201 More...

A View of Moran Bay Ice Formation January 24

Winds over the weekend and a thunderstorm and temperatures in the low 40s Monday, January 23 moved much of the ice out of Moran Bay, as seen in this photograph taken from atop St. More...

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Sports

GIRLS BASKETBALL

By David Latva

Top Rated Saints Post Wins Against Cedarville, Cheboygan More...

Radecki, Ostman, Thurston 1st; Saints 4th at U.P. Finals

By David Latva

Senior Lou Radecki, with a 4-0 record at 152 pounds, and juniors Joe Ostman (4-0 at 215) and Galloway Thurston (3-0 at 171) finished first and the St. More...

St. Ignace Girls Host Conference Bowling; Split Matches

By David Latva

The St. Ignace girls hosted the Northern Michigan Bowling Association Conference competition at Gateway Lanes Saturday, January 21, with the Saints defeating the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils and falling to the Rogers City Hurons. More...

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Opinion

By State Representative Frank Foster

On Wednesday, January 18, I had the privilege of attending Governor Rick Snyder’s second State of the State address. More...

Mackinac Straits Health System Should Join With The VA

To the Editor: More...

For The Record

The article “Historical Village Should Seek New Funding Sources,” published in the January 19 edition of The St. More...

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Meeting Minutes

St. Ignace City Council Minutes

Council Proceedings (Unofficial) The regular meeting of the St. Ignace City Council was held on Monday, January 16, 2012 at the St. Ignace Public Library. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Mayor Grondin with the Pledge of Allegiance. More...

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Sault Tribe Plans Lansing Casino Venture

Eitrem: Revenues Will Boost Member Services

By Aebra Coe

The Sault Ste. More...

$82K Left From Franchise Funds

Ferry Fees Improve Mackinac Island

By Matt Mikus

Of the $906,565.48 in ferry franchise fees collected, $82,565 is all that remains, after the City of Mackinac Island allocated money to repave roads, purchase new street garbage cans, and pay for flower baskets that will hang off of street lamps. More...

Governor Snyder To Open I-500 Race

By Aebra Coe

Governor Rick Snyder will start the championship race of the International 500 Snowmobile Race in Sault Ste. Marie Saturday, February 4. This is the 44th running of the race and the first time a Michigan governor has attended. More...

Obituaries

Clifford Bosley

Clifford Lewis Bosley, 70, of DeTour Village, was a stone mason who did most of the stone work on the churches and other buildings in DeTour. Mr. Bosley died Saturday, January 21, 2012, in Sault Ste. Marie. He was born March 10, 1941, in Sault Ste. More...

Sharon Lindsey

Sharon Mae Lindsey, 53, of Hessel, died Wednesday, January 18, 2012, in Sault Ste. Marie. She was born June 30, 1958, in Ashland, Ohio, to Donald Frank and Freda Mae (nee Plank) Lindsey. More...

Chanda Howland

Chanda Marie Howland, 38, of Traverse City, was a nurse at Munson Medical Center on the oncology floor. Mrs. Howland passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2012, at Munson Medical Center, surrounded by her loving family. More...

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Columns

Michigan Politics

Northern Tribute For Tuskegee Airmen

By George Weeks

It is timely to note that at Fort Wayne in downtown Detroit and at the Legacy Park at Crystal Mountain Resort near Traverse City there are displays in tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, the African- American fighter group that protected World War II bom More...

Les Cheneaux

By Robert W. Smith

The Lions Club fundraiser is Saturday, March 3, not Friday, March 2, as I mentioned in last week’s column. The Pickford Pickers performed Monday, January 23, and everyone enjoyed their music. More...

Engadine-Gould City

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By Julie Freeman

Hello, everyone. It’s almost the beginning of February already. We had all four seasons last weekend, with sunshine, rain, and snow, all within a 24-hour span. More...

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