Classic Cars Ready To Shine

Antiques On The Bay at St. Ignace Marina Saturday

An entourage of antique cars will travel across Mackinac Bridge in a parade for the Antiques on the Bay show Friday, June 17, at 4:30 p.m., setting the stage for Saturday’s main show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The parade will wind around the Mackinac Straits long-term care facility in St. Ignace and through State Street, stopping at Harbor […]

Big Day for Dogs

Bark in the Park Is Saturday

Melissa Lakotish, a seaman at U.S. Coast Guard Station St. Ignace, walks dogs at the Mackinac County Animal Shelter as often as she can — or in the case of Lincoln, a Plott hound, he walks her. Seaman Lakotish is one of the volunteer dog walkers at the shelter. With Bark in the Park coming up Saturday, June 18, she […]

Collectors Head for St. Ignace

Arizona Group Among Thousands To Converge June 23 - 25

From coast-to-coast, true car collectors usually have one thing underscored on their bucket list: A trip to the St. Ignace Car Show. So when Lyall Herwig from Lake Havasu City, Arizona, attended the show for the first time last year, he naturally came back and told his two car buddies all about it, telling them he was determined to bring […]

9 Learn Skills of Traditional Boat Builders

‘From Laborer, To Craftsman, To Artist’

The luster of the 19-foot wooden sailboat on display at the graduation ceremony of the Great Lakes Boat Building School in Cedarville was exceeded only by the beaming smiles of those who had labored to produce it. Eight first-year students and one second-year student who honed their craft for nine months on projects of all shapes and sizes came to […]

Citizens Plead for Repeal of St. Ignace School Staff Cuts

Music Dept. Draws Supportive Crowd

Gathering to support the district’s music program, a large contingent of parents, teachers, and students attended the St. Ignace Area Schools Board of Education meeting Monday, June 13, after learning that LaSalle High School band instructor Jason Byma could lose his job to elementary music teacher Stephanie Terpening. Several people addressed the board in turn, speaking collectively for about 30 […]

Radford’s Art Will Grace Book Cover



Photo manipulation to combine other people’s photography to make an original piece of art has been a passion of Jennifer Radford of Moran for the past four years, but it was one of her earlier pieces, produced in the winter of 2008 when she was still ironing out her skills, that has propelled her into the world of book publishing. […]

DNR Assists Drummond Island Citizens To Develop Land Management Plans



In a citizen-led effort, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is assisting officials from Drummond Island in developing a long-term resource management plan to address pressing local concerns centered around hunting, trail use, and tourism. A public meeting attended by about 30 residents was held Wednesday, June 8, to gather ideas about concerns and the next public meeting will be […]

Mackinaw Planning Commission Approves Ordinance Changes

Mackinaw City Looks at Becoming A Dark Sky Community To Complement Park

Mackinaw City could be one of the first Dark Sky communities in the world if the community acts on a proposal that would extend the Dark Sky Park created at the Headlands last year. Mary Stewart Adams presented the concept to the Mackinaw City Planning Commission at its meeting Thursday, May 26, proposing that the use of low-intensity or shielded […]

New Assisted Living Facility To Add 20 Jobs in St. Ignace



By February, a new 38-bed assisted living facility is expected to open in St. Ignace. The 28,000- square-foot facility would employ 20 full-time people and a number of part-time positions, say developers. The St. Ignace Planning Commission approved the project, slated for South Airport Road, May 25 pending approval by City Manager Eric Dodson. Review of the project currently is […]

Michigan Politics

Local Mergers A Tough Sell

Yet another Michigan governor has called for more regional cooperation among local communities. A difference over the decades is that many other governors across the nation now are making similar calls, not only for cooperation but also for consolidations. In the mid-1970s, Governor William G. Milliken won a promise from President Gerald R. Ford for about $600 million in federal […]