There might not be much in the way of snow in Mackinaw City this weekend, but the 13th annual Winterfest will go on as planned. Organizers are having to scrounge up snow from around town to have enough for the snow sculpture contest. Other than that, the other events should not be bothered [...]

Oglebay Norton Co. the company that once owned the Edmund Fitzgerald is looking for a buyer of its fleet of great lakes freighters. This would allow the company to concentrate on its mining operations as well as reduce some of its debt.
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Michigan received a B+ on it’s 264 miles of mountain biking trails. That was good enough to only rank behind Virginia, West Virginia, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. Southern Michigan is home to many great trails at Island Lake, Fort Custer, Pinckney, Brighton, and Highland recreation areas.
For more information on mountain biking trails in [...]

Due to the recent rate hike of stamps up to $.39 there has been a run on the $.02 stamps to make up the difference for those that still have $.37 stamps. I needed 16 $.02 the other day and while the clerk was digging for them commented on how she hoped they had [...]

We are to expect a high temperature today in the 50s with plenty of sunshine. It has been warm enough lately for the ground to thaw and yesterday I spotted a farmer plowing his field. We had January weather in December and now it looks like we are having March weather in January.
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Did you know that 400 trucks filled with garbage from Canada enter Michigan every day? Out of all of the Great Lakes states, Michigan has the lowest fees for dumping trash. House Democrats want to raise the fee from $.21 a ton to $7.50 per ton to discourage Canada from dumping their trash [...]

A Detroit man came within 4 1/2 hours of missing the deadline to claim his $1.5 million winnng lotto ticket. The man had purchased the winning ticket a year ago and placed it in the pocket of a jacket he didn’t care to wear. Evidently he never paid attention to the winning numbers [...]

It will be a bit easier for the U.P. Children’s Museum in Marquette to keep the lights and heat on this year. An anonymous donor gave $50,000 to the museum to use as they see fit. The money will help fund exhibits and programs throughout the year.
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The price of gas jumped $.20 in the last two weeks up to an average of $2.40 a gallon here in Michigan. That is about $.61 higher than a year ago. The national average is $2.31.
I don’t even try and guess anymore about why the price of gas goes up when the price [...]

Nearly 48,000 more people left Michigan than moved here from July 2004 to July 2005. The people leaving are no longer young people fresh out of college, but those that have been laid off or had their companies shut down.
Michigan is not the leader in having residents migrating out of the state. California, [...]