Archive for December, 2007


Governor honors Petoskey man for his dedication to physical fitness (Mackinac island)


Petoskey News-Review - I d go to Mackinac Island and rent a bike, and I wouldn t stop riding once I started, Colburn said. After several years of intense rehabilitation, Colburn began participating in triathlons with his sister. I used to run triathlons in the Navy
Source: www.petoskeynews.com

Hairdresser to society’s elite got a start trapping muskrat
Detroit Free Press - Clients of the salon ranged from the Ford family to the Yzermans, said son Alan Sehoyan, 51, of Mackinac Island. “He really had a great clientele of more than 5,000 people,” Alan Sehoyan said. Born in Granite City, Ill., Leon Sehoyan moved to the
Source: www.freep.com

Spanning a State
US News and World Report - people and vehicles between the two halves of the split-up state. Since the 1880s, Michigan residents dreamed of a bridge that would span the 4-mile gap between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, an isthmus that limited tourism in Mackinac Island and
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Is St. John or St. Thomas our model?
Block Island Times - Top-rated in the U.S. is Mackinac Island in northern Michigan. Indeed, few sun-and-sand islands earn strong rankings. It s hard to believe that the National Geographic s tourism experts would, all things being equal, really prefer the
Source: blockislandtimes.com

Hazel W. Holm
Escanaba Daily Press - Hazel was an excellent cook and she was asked by then Governor, George Romney to be the cook at the Governors Mansion at Mackinac Island, but declined to remain in Gladstone. Hazel was an active member of the First Lutheran Church in Gladstone where
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Vision would create a town in Old Town (Mackinac island)

North County Times - On Mackinac Island, where no cars are allowed, students are employed to patrol thoroughfares and collect manure. If you want to see what’s going on, go to www.cityoftemecula.org and check out the Old Town Visioning pages. It might be you who has the Article Info

Detroit News - But can the man whose campaign was so cash-strapped that it couldn’t afford a trip to Mackinac Island be considered a serious threat in Michigan, or the rest of the country? That’s the question that hovers over the former Arkansas governor’s long Article Info

Petoskey News-Review - I d go to Mackinac Island and rent a bike, and I wouldn t stop riding once I started, Colburn said. After several years of intense rehabilitation, Colburn began participating in triathlons with his sister. I used to run triathlons in the Navy Article Info

Hairdresser to society’s elite got a start trapping muskrat (Mackinac island)

Detroit Free Press - Clients of the salon ranged from the Ford family to the Yzermans, said son Alan Sehoyan, 51, of Mackinac Island. “He really had a great clientele of more than 5,000 people,” Alan Sehoyan said. Born in Granite City, Ill., Leon Sehoyan moved to the Article Details

Detroit News - Back when an outsized earring and red Navigator SUV defined Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s administration, the two of us had a brief discussion on Mackinac Island. “These people,” I remember telling him, looking at the crowd of business leaders around us Article Details

Grand Rapids Press - The Chapmans were very active in trade with the Ojibwe in what became Michigan, notably around Mackinac Island and the Straits of Mackinac. Amos Chapman’s mother was Ojibwe, and she passed on when he was only about 8 years old. When the nature of Article Details

Escanaba Daily Press - Dec. 7-8 Mackinac Island. Jan. 4-5 Beaver Island; Jan. 11-12 at Mackinac Island; Jan. 18-19 Grand Marais; Jan. 25-26 Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter. Feb. 1-2 at Beaver Island; Feb. 8-9 at Paradise; Feb. 28 & March 1 Northern Article Details



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