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Mackinac Island, MI

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When most people think of Mackinac Island, usually fudge, bicycles, carriage rides, and the ferry come to mind, the phrase Mackinac Island Killer usually doesn't come up. I think it's pretty safe to say that Mackinac Island is one of the happiest places in the state of Michigan. No one...

Woman Killed By Mackinac Island Killer Who Was Never Caught

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The composition of the audience at Donald Trump’s speech at a non-unionized automotive parts supplier in Michigan on Wednesday is under scrutiny. According to The Detroit News, which sent at least one reporter to cover the event at Drake Enterprises, one attendee holding a “union members for Trump” sign admitted that she isn’t even in a union, and another holding an “auto workers for Trump” sign said he wasn’t an auto worker. In total, the indoor event drew about 400 to 500 Trump supporters, according to the local outlet, which noted that the company has a workforce of about 150. Trump’s speech occurred the day after President Joe Biden, at the invitation of United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, joined that union’s picket line. Fain refused to meet with Trump during his Michigan visit, criticizing the GOP candidate as someone who “serves the billionaire class” and calling his appearance at the non-unionized facility a “pathetic irony.”Read it at The Detroit NewsRead more at The Daily Beast.

Questions Arise Over Trump’s Michigan Crowd After Sign Holders’ Admissions

You should at least be prepared to say goodbye to a lot of Rite Aid locations throughout the country, including Michigan. One of the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains is closing hundreds of its stores nationwide. All of this is expected to happen very soon!. It is reported that Rite...

Which Michigan Rite Aid Stores are Closing?

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Mackinac Island....is there anything more Pure Michigan than that? The infamous island that has tourists flocking every summer to indulge in its beauty and horsedrawn carriage charm is Michigan's little piece of magic. Although a hot spot to visit, there are about 500 full-year residents of Mackinac Island. Living on...

Historic Mackinac Island Estate Is Like Owning Your Own Mini Grand Hotel

Today the fudge-filled historic Mackinac Island is famously car-free, but could you imagine a vehicle bridge to the island? It almost happened. Back in the 1920s as cars began to populate our nation's roads, crossing between Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas was one of the first things Michigan's road builders where thinking about. A plan was floated that would have connected the peninsulas by a series of bridges and causeways crossing the straits of Mackinac and placed roads on Mackinac and Bois Blanc Islands in Lake Huron. The connection would have been St. Igance to Cheboygan not Mackinaw City and would have run 25 miles.

Michigan Once Considered a Plan That Would Have Built a Bridge to Mackinac Island

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Mackinaw City, MI

Fort Fright will return to Colonial Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City Friday, October 6, and Saturday, October 7. From 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (last admission at 8:30 p.m.) visitors will be treated to a spooky – and educational – lantern-lit walk along the shore of Lake Michigan and inside the reconstructed fort. Campfires will be lit around which historic interpreters […]

State Park To Host Fort Fright

The Mackinac Island Yacht Club held its annual Change of Watch ceremony Sunday, September 3. Kelly Coates has been named commodore, Nicole Robb is vice commodore, Michael Hegarty, Jr. is rear commodore, Bart Huthwaite, Jr. is treasurer, and Darren Painter is secretary. Mackinac Island Yacht Club is operated by a board of directors elected each year by the yacht club […]

Kelly Coates Is Mackinac Island Yacht Club Commodore

The 2023 Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island is entering its final day Sunday, September 24. The conference, which has been held annual on the Island since 1943, began Friday, September 22, and continued throughout the weekend. The conference was held at Grand Hotel. The Mackinac Leadership Conference has been well attended by GOP Party leaders in the past, including […]

Mackinac Republican Conference Enters Last Day

Mackinac Island historian Phil Porter was elected to the Mackinac Island Community Foundation Board of Trustees Thursday, August 10. Mr. Porter is the emeritus director of Mackinac State Historic Parks and now serves as the historian at Wawashkamo Golf Club. Bringing with him 50 years of experience serving Mackinac Island, Mr. Porter will be a valuable asset to the board. […]

Phil Porter Joins Mackinac Island Community Foundation Board

Mackinac Island poet James Bogan, an emeritus professor of art from the Missouri University of Science & Technology, treated students at Mackinac Island Public School to a poetry workshop Tuesday, September 19. Sharing some of his poems and stories about the Island and his voyages up the Amazon River, Dr. Bogan gave the talk in conjunction with secondary English teacher […]

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