Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel television series “Dirty Jobs,” spent four days in the Upper Peninsula last week, tackling the challenging maintenance work of the Mackinac Bridge and driving a horse-drawn slop wagon, considered by some the dirtiest job on Mackinac Island. Area residents and businesses welcomed the television crew with unparalleled hospitality, said show producer Dave Barsky. […]
Local Businesses Rated Best in State by Readers
The Detroit News Polls 105,000 for Top PicksLocal businesses are among those named best in the state by readers of The Detroit News. Results of the newspaper’s “Michigan’s Best 2007” readership poll, to which 105,000 people responded by mail, were announced Wednesday, May 23. The newspaper calls the multi-category list “a compilation of readers’ recommendations for the best the state has to offer.” St. Ignace The Mackinac […]
Welcome Center Contest Offers Bridge Tower Tour
Area visitors and residents can register to win a Mackinac Bridge tower tour this summer and fall. The contest is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Mackinac Bridge and is sponsored by the St. Ignace Welcome Center, St. Ignace Area Visitors Bureau, and the St. Ignace Chamber of Commerce. The winner and a guest will get a rare […]
Peters’ Bridge Book To Benefit Mackinaw Area Historical Society
Mary Lou Peters of Mackinaw City has published “Mackinaw Loves Its Bridge,” 17 stories of the construction of the Mackinac Bridge as told by Mackinaw City residents. The publication marks the 50th anniversary of the bridge’s construction. In addition to 17 personal stories, the book contains photographs of the storytellers along with historical photographs of construction of the bridge. “Mackinaw […]
77% Headed to University, 23% to Military or Work Force in LaSalle Class of 2007
Commencement Exercises Held May 25Acharged air of excitement pervaded the LaSalle High School commencement ceremony Friday, May 25, when 61 seniors dressed in finery passed down an aisle of decorated archways, created for them by junior members of the National Honor Society. Admired by their peers, family members, teachers, mentors, and friends, the seniors took the stage, one by one, and were graduated. In […]