Mackinac Island voters supported a 7.8-mill non-homestead millage renewal to fund Mackinac Island Public School’s general operations Tuesday, November 4. More...

Following is a list of upcoming public meetings. Meeting notices are posted throughout the city, including in the message board on the outside of Community Hall and in the Mackinac Island Post Office. More...

Non-motorized watercraft rentals will be exempt from a city requirement to have 400 square feet of enclosed retail space. More...

The Mackinac Island girls basketball team will have just three returning players for Coach Mary Patay in her seventh season and Justin Gallagher, in his first season as the Lakers boys coach, will have six returning players.  More...

December  5 GB/BB at Maplewood Baptist 6 GB/BB at Maplewood  Baptist (8:30 a.m.) 12 GB/BB Hannahville 13 GB/BB Hannahville (8:30 a.m.) 16 GB/BB Ojibwe (Noon)  January   More...

In a past column, I reflected on the retirement of Democratic Senator Carl Levin, Michigan’s longest-serving senator in history, who in his 35 years, rose to be high-profile chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chairman of the Se More...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Mackinac Island. We received a lot of snow in November, but not much in December. We are hoping that Jack Frost will make the Island a winter wonderland for Christmas.  More...

“The wise old owl lived in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren’t we all like that wise old bird?”  – Anonymous  More...