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Monday, May 20, 2024
A two-story historic clapboard home on the East Bluff of Mackinac Island, overlooking the harbor and filled with a century of memories, is now gray ash and rubble. “The fire was spotted by a security guard at the Grand Hotel. He saw an orange glow,” Kathryn Kavanaugh Ledtke, of Fort Gratiot, told the […]
Spring in Northern Michigan marks the return of the maple syrup season. For many this is the first opportunity to get back into the woods after a long winter. There is a lot of debate over the origins of maple tapping, but the practice goes back to indigenous culture where […]
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, MI — Detectives from Trident have been investigating individuals involved with the smuggling of narcotics into our area. On 3-13-2022 at approximately 0322 am a traffic stop was conducted on I-75 in Chippewa County. A search warrant was also conducted. As a result of the search Detectives seized […]
DAFTER, Mich. (March 11, 2022) – Cloverland Electric Cooperative announces the candidates eligible for election to its board of directors. Candidate biographies will be published on Cloverland.com and in the May | June issue of Cloverland Connections magazine. Ballots mail April 25, 2022 and voting ends May 27, 2022. Members can vote by […]
ST. IGNACE, Mich. - Kim Nowack, Mackinac Bridge director, has been named Woman of the Year by the Michigan Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS). The award “honors a woman who is an outstanding role model and has contributed to the advancement of women and minorities in transportation.” The award was presented to […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signaled Friday she will veto Republican-sponsored legislation that would freeze Michigan’s 27-cents-per-gallon gasoline and diesel taxes for six months amid high prices at the pump. The Democratic governor has instead called on Congress to pause the federal 18-cents-a-gallon gas tax and 24-cent diesel tax. Whitmer […]
Diane Postler-Slattery, CEO and president of the University of Michigan Health-affiliated MyMichigan Health, died Tuesday evening following a plane crash in northwest Florida, the health system announced. She was 62. Postler-Slattery and her husband, Don, who also was killed, were believed to have been on board a single-engine Cessna 182 that went missing […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan authorities on Wednesday announced the first criminal charges stemming from the state’s review of child sexual abuse lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of America, charging a former troop leader before his release from a New York prison on separate crimes. Mark Chapman, 51, is accused […]
BRIMLEY – Bay Mills Community College will honor two students at commencement ceremonies in May. Crimson Lewis has been selected as the American Indian College Fund’s Student of the Year and Cole Brehm has been selected as BMCC’s Student of the Year. Both were nominated by their instructors based on […]
To keep ice fishermen around the area safe as spring moves closer, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is requesting all ice shanties be removed from the ice by midnight on March 15. The removal is due to the seasonal changing temperatures. Ice conditions will also soon change, potentially becoming dangerous. […]
