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GWINNETT’S TOP 10 Gwinnett County has a storied history of great athletes MLB REPORT: Mariners fire their manager Seattle - John McLaren was fired Thursday as manager of the Seattle Mariners, who began the season with playoff aspirations and Article Info

HARRISVILLE, Mich. Every summer, when I tell friends that my family is bailing out of steamy Washington D.C. to head for the beach, they assume we re off to Rehoboth or Dewey in Delaware, or another one of the usual suspects on the Atlantic Article Info

North Captiva Island, Fla. A four-mile-long crescent off southwestern Florida, North Captiva Island has an exclusive feel and a simple soul. Visitors arrive hauling a week’s worth of groceries and then disappear into rented beach houses in the Article Info

With Thursday’s screening of “Unbeatable Harold” organizers of the first-ever Detroit/Windsor International Film Festival are hoping to jump-start what the Motor City has long lacked: a viable downtown film festival. “The timing is right,” says Article Info

Pass saves on Mackinac Island sights Some of the top attractions of Michigan’s Mackinac Island are offered on the Mackinac Island Experience package, a savings of about 25 percent off walk-up prices. The pass includes round-trip ferry transportation Article Info

Press Photo/Emily Zoladz Daniel Nguyen, of Grand Rapids, walks Friday with his nephew, Ethan Truong, through Riverside Park. GRAND RAPIDS — Good things happen when you take a walk. “Walking is a great way to lose weight, boost metabolism, lower Article Info

GWINNETT’S TOP 10 Gwinnett County has a storied history of great athletes MLB REPORT: Mariners fire their manager Seattle - John McLaren was fired Thursday as manager of the Seattle Mariners, who began the season with playoff aspirations and Article Info

GALENA, Ill. - This isn’t Ulysses S. Grant’s Galena. It’s not even your mother’s Galena. Whether either would like what it’s become is, well, immaterial. It is what it is. What we know for sure is this: Galena has been chosen to lead off a summer Article Info

MACKINAC ISLAND — A 22-year-old worker has been charged with arson on Mackinac Island. Japhett John-Joseph Gallagher has been jailed on a $100,000 bond. Police say he started the fire early Tuesday morning in an upstairs apartment of a building on
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More live music picks - Detroit Free Press
Bohemian National Home: Benefit for Nancy from Slows Bar BQ, 9 p.m. Thu. 3009 Tillman, Detroit. 313-737-6606. Campus Martius Park: Lexxi & Brent Stanley, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thu. Monica Blaire, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri. The Novel Citizen, 11:30 a.m
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Bridge work to take hiatus for July’s Boat Week, race - Port Huron Times-Herald
Construction on the Seventh Street Bridge will stop and equipment will be moved for Boat Week, Port Huron’s assistant city engineer said. “People will be able to walk from the 10th Street Bridge all the way to Military Street,” Dave Smith said
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Car-Free Vacations Spots Offer Peace and Quiet - ABC News
With gas prices at or near record levels, it’s time to be carefree — and car-free — on vacation this summer. Arabella Bowen, editorial director and vice president ofShermansTravel.com and editor at large of Sherman’s Travel magazine, talks with
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