A familiar ferry has a new name, as Arnold Freight Company’s former “Corsair” is now the “W.S. Woodfill.” The new moniker comes after the 70-year-old freight boat spent the last year in Escanaba being ...

Mackinac Island Class of 2025 graduate Vincent Davis is now attending Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. His performance during the first semester of classes earned him a spot on ...

They were shorthanded, but the Mackinac Island boys basketball team still had a good experience at the annual Great Lakes 4-Island Tournament on Beaver Island Friday, Dec. 12 and Saturday, Dec. 13.

The 1880s were an exceptionally prosperous decade in America’s economic history. Armed with the standardized railroad tracks of that generation, and with newly-scheduled passenger and freight trains, ...

The fall changed to winter rather abruptly this year, and the snow has covered the last of the fall flowers. The mums and the last of the roses are buried in a blanket of white. It is that time of ...

Horse-drawn carriages clatter down car-free streets. The mouth-watering smell of fudge wafts from quaint storefronts. Ferries glide across the Straits of Mackinac, carrying visitors to Michigan’s ...

Mackinac Island’s Mission Point Resort has been honored with the Professional Grounds Management Society’s prestigious Grand Award as part of its 2025 Green Star Awards program. The award honors the ...

The weather has been outstanding for the month of October. The trees on Cadotte Avenue, called “Autumn Blaze,” are a bright red and just gorgeous. It was a very busy weekend with people enjoying some ...

Mary Patay, Mackinac Island Public School Soccer, Girls' Basketball, and Golf Coach, will be retiring at the end of the 2025-26 sports season. “It was a fluke, on why I started with coaching,” Patay ...

Emma Motz, head coach of the Mackinac Island Public Schools volleyball team, was recently recognized by the Michigan Interscholastic Volleyball Coaches Association as “Coach of the Week” as a part of ...

A Texas company has run afoul of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act after operating websites Attorney General Dana Nessel said were intended to mislead consumers into believing they were purchasing ...

With patience and kindness, dance instructor Becky Miller leads Mackinac Island Public School’s littlest dancers — ages 3 through 7 — through weekly classes in the summer and early autumn. Afterwards, ...