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January |
15,121 |
71,800 |
February |
13,761 |
71,141 |
March |
18,389 |
93,513 |
April |
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137,426 |
May |
17,413 |
111,441 |
June |
20,038 |
105,383 |
July |
22,004 |
123,607 |
August |
21,703 |
119,128 |
September |
16,093 |
100,119 |
October |
15,906 |
88,755 |
November |
18,143 |
94,432 |
December |
15,508 |
81,735 |
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- News from the Townships
- Beaver Island Veteran's Park Groundbreaking & Build
- Let us Sing you a Story: Beaver Tales 2 - as good as it gets!
- Anybody seen ... Whiskey Island?
- Every Day is Important: the Stearman biplane circling the Island
- Par for the Course for this course
- On this Date
- Beach Cleanup set for September 11
- PT at the BIRHC
- The Glen McDonough Memorial Concert and Music Scholarship
- The Hit of the Summer: West to Donegal Bay
- One Hundred Years Ago
- Irish Tree Love
- 3 Steps to E-Step - stopping the European Swamp Thistle from taking over
- Put another nickel in ... Music, music, music
- Baroque on Beaver 2010; Meet the Artists
- Hey, hey, what’s that sound, everybody knows what’s goin’ round
- From Music on the Porch, Museum Week, the Thunder, and this year's Beaver Island Music Festival
- A U-Maryland prof connects us with . Irish immigrants and communities
- “Let me see if I’ve got this straight:” How to Build a Bridge
- Michigan Author Holds Reading at the Beaver Island Library: Freshwater Boys
- Letters: Forestry
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- News from the Townships
- Mike Myers gets his Due: BICS's Outstanding Person in Education
- No Tipping
- Let’s build Green: Beaver Island Association Meeting to feature "Green Building" Presentation
- Thoughts on the upcoming primary and Beaver Island's county representation
- Helicopter Rescues
- Pictures from the annual 2010 Beaver Island 4th of July Parade
- Health matters; Thanks to the EMTs and the BIRHC
- Par for the Course
- Letters to the Editor: About Clear Cuts, Game, and the Wilderness Experience
- Island Musicians go Baroque
- 100 years ago, or close to it
- A Poet’s Island
- Ruined by Beaver Island
- Artist Bill Byers to be shown as Montaage's 2010 featured artist
- Administrator to remain with BI School District
- The Sinking of the Tiffany
- The Island’s Resources in Good Hands (coverage of the first NRETC symposium)
- Honoring our History at Museum Week
- The Flag Retirement Ceremony
- Holy Cross 150th
- Boxes that Sing: the work of Len Chambers
- Digging up the Past: Northern Michigan University students discover the Burke Farm, Cable's Bay, and south Greenes' Bay.
- On this Date
- Leather to the pedal - the 1st Beaver Island Bike Festival, a great new early-summer event fot the Island
- In Memory: John Boatman, Dale K. Boyles
- A Heart-warming, well-stocked Food Pantry
- CMU/BIHS Nature Walks are back
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- News from the Townships
- Townships to acquire / trade / protect Whiskey Island
- Bringing "Green" to Beaver Island
- Three Beavers patrol Miller's Marsh
- A Quiet Morning
- School Election Strong Support
- Chamber Moves
- BIHS Board Seat Opens
- Senior Housing FONSI Notice
- Garden Island Cleanup
- New Library Roundabout
- A Commitment Ceremony
- One Hundred Years Ago
- Homecoming
- In Memory: Russ Green, Sarah "Sally" Delia
- The Symposium
- New C3F Director
- Which Island?
- 2010 Island Graduates
- Drug Money Discovered
- Par for the Course
- Baroque on Beaver 2010
- The Right Stuff
- Resolute round Garden's little Island
- May Apple Blossoms
- On This Date
- BIRHC Car Raffle
- Veterans' Memorial Park
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- News from the Townships
- Here they are–the big numbers in our Budgets
- Fall Turkey Hunt
- The winner of this year's Beaver Island Ice Classic
- Paradise Bay Beaver
- “We’ll dance the snakes Out of Ireland”
- If it barks like a deer, and rolls over like a deer
- Beaver Island Wildlife Club's meeting with DNR's Tim Reis and Beaver Island Conservation Club QDMA presentation with Bob DeCharme
- Living off the Grid
- Boston Revisited: A view of the Boston Marathon experience from the reminiscences of an Island summer resident written to familiarize Beacon readers with an event that is linked to the Island’s September Marathon
- Broadband Now available to 95% of Island: Beaver Island to Chicago now 25 milliseconds, round trip!
- Community Senior Housing Project
- The dear little girl who stole our hearts
- Annual School Election in May Important
- Northern Michigan Hospital Grant to help Beaver Island
- Was it A Hundred Years Ago, or just yesterday
- Fresh Air in the Movies
- Easter Eggs
- Baroque on Beaver will be "Made in Michigan"
- Islanders split in Title Tilts; District Dreams don't Come True
- Beaver Island Citizen of the Year Banquet set for April 24 at the Community Center
- We give this land – to you, and you, and YOU: Stoffregen Family Donates property to Land Trust
- Deja Vu – a symphony in five movements, each separated by a decade
- Let these trout Run Free
- In Memory: Jene Casper, Thomas M. Flynn, John Aloysius “Allie” McDonough, Vince Olach
- Joining Beaver Island Hospice
- Health & Human Services Fair set for September 16
- New CoA Head Jack Messer visits Team at Community Center
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- News from the Townships
- BICAA awards mini-grants to Community Players and the Recorder Group
- Island Students help celebrate Christmas
- On This Date
- Last Baby
- Architects Show First Museum Addition Plans
- C3F Grants towards construction of the senior housing development
- How the New Museum may look
- We get Letters (concerning the airport and in support of the town board)
- View from the End
- In Memory: Madonna McCafferty, Jim Willis
- Your Community Food Pantry
- Thank You Ken!
- Listen to the Island sing
- Got Apps? Jeffrey Powers Jr. and Vikas Reddy create amazing success with RedLaser
- Let's Build a Boat
- This is how to Fight Fires
- Welcome to the World: Norah Lynn Scheller, Ko Tidmore, Tripp Redding BeVier, and Samuel W. Fogg
- One Hundred Years Ago
- Tip Off
- This is My Story and I’m Sticking to it
- Here Came Santa, right down Santa Claus Lane
- If Only We Had Wings; wait a second, we do
- Naked Tree with Apples
- The Ban Stays
- Largest Maple
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- News from the Townships
- Beaver Island sports: Lady Islanders give their all at District Tourney; Are you ready for some basketball?
- Looking for a Painter
- BIHS Archive Balloons
- Lucky Kempker
- The night they burned Australia (A Homeland Scarred)
- Gearing up for the Holidays: Children's Lunch and Santa, Ellen Welke Memorial Toy Drive, The Cantata
- Lighthouse Schol Receives 1.1 million dollar grant for YouthBuild program; Position Available
- It’s to Laugh: the new Beaver Island Comedy Group
- Our Focal Point Joins the Red Hats (Construction work underway on the Whiskey Point boathouse)
- Protecting the Bob S from Storms
- Shake-up with the Transit Bus
- The Health Center Linkage: Not Yet
- Island Comes Together for Emma Lee
- One Hundred Years Ago
- In Memory: In Memory: Kathleen Marie (Campbell) Boyle, Larry Malloy, Bill Olson, Eleanor Mooney
- The Bucket List: Return to Garden Island
- Two Seasons
- Veterans Day on Beaver Island
- On This Very Date
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- News from the Townships
- AmVets’ plans for a new Beaver Island Veterans Memorial Park on the former Arranmore Park Site
- A Dog’s Life - Andy's Grooming and Boarding Barn provides the Island with a new service and convenience for travelers
- Boodling – it can be a Good Thing
- Ray Murray; we were honored to have known you
- View from the End - a Summer Lament
- On This Date
- Par For the Course
- September 4, 2010 Date Set For Marathon 2010 with Planning Underway
- PABI receives People Fund Grant
- Volunteerism Alive and well - "Beaver Island Volunteer Corps" formed
- Will there be an air show or fly-in in 2010?
- So Far, So Good (Governor Granholm includes Beaver Island Broadband in recommendation group of eight last-mile Michigan applicants for Federal Stimulus funding)
- News from the Port St. James Association
- Harold Lounsberry Hunters' Dinner to be held November 14
- BICAA to fund local artists’ explorations
- Remembering Harold
- Cameron, we hardly knew ye
- Native American studies at BICS
- One Hundred Years Ago
- Open Season on winning comes to a close
- Fight Like a Girl & more
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- What are they talking about – at the Townships
- Who’s Old House – and what’s Buried in the Yard?
- Fingers Crossed: both Beaver Island Broadband Inc. & Island Telephone apply for Internet stimulus funds to bring new possibilities to the Island; meanwhile, DSL roll-out delayed until Q1 2010 due to microwave upgrade problem and all local dialup set to end December 8
- Into These Hands – we Commend our Youth: New Year, New Faces at Beaver Island Community School
- Islanders run, kick, set and spike to victory
- A Long Way to Paddle, but he had the Wind at his Back
- Hey, know what happened – On This Date
- Remembering Dr. Lange: an evening of friends, family, memories, and more
- Great athletes, but none could run 26 miles
- The Beaver Island Celtic Festival: Kilts in the wind
- The First Beaver Island Marathon: The Run of their Life AND toss the caber over their head
- They came to Paint
- Letters: Blessed to have Our Beaver Island Rural Health Center
- Letters: Good Job Road Commission Employees
- An Opportunity for BIRHC: the possibility of an expanded affiliation between our Health Center and Northern Michigan Hospital
- A silver bracelet takes the Grand Tour: Lost and Found: the Good Luck of Good Neighbors
- Education on the Island
- Threads, Speak
- Return to Tara's Meadow
- Welcome to our world: Katherine Isabelle Moore
- Photos from Labor Day at Northcutt on Garden Island
- Destination Paradise Bay: ah, for a moment’s peace
- Par for the Course
- One Hundred Years Ago
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- News from the Townships
- Our First Marathon
- Beaver Island Cultural Arts Association Gifts BICS
- Vyse Honored
- On This Date
- Rhizome Swap Set
- Capturing the Island’s beauty ... with Paint
- So you missed out on this year’s Music Festival ... Observations from the Advice Booth
- LetterS: COA Continues with new Director; Emeritus recognition
- Goodbye to our Renaissance Man: Phil "Doc" Lange
- Beans – how it all began
- Meeting New Friends in High Places: Revisiting South Fox Island
- The Historical Society's Annual Meeting
- Quilt Guild's Raffle
- You're in the Air Force now!
- AmVets Award Scholarship
- The Dial-up Era's Over
- Fall sports start kicking and spiking
- Celtic Games become the Celtic Festival
- A Roundball Roundup
- Annands Celebrate 50 Years on Beaver
- Food Pantry Prepares to Restock
- Destination Paradise Bay: Here’s to the Stern
- Par for the Course
- One Hundred Years Ago
- The Municipal Airport: Grow, baby, grow
- Live Yankee–another good ship goes down
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- News from the Townships
- Stimulus for Wireless
- Meet the Artists as Claudia sings - a whirlwind summer gale of music, art, and good fun
- Anne Glendon Honored
- Letters: What is the Lighthouse Fellowship?
- Letters: Fortunate to have EMS
- Baroque on Beaver
- Eco-Tour Sightings
- Destination Paradise Bay: Island Time
- The Sounds of Island Life
- On This Date
- “View from the End”
- “Par for the Course,” with Fairway Frank
- Paddle for Food
- Museum Week
- Jazzy - rehabilitating an injured fawn
- Destination Paradise Bay: Auburn Angel
- A Coast Guard Medivac
- One Hundred Years Ago
- In Memory: Sister Marie Eugene, Aaron Ryan Anthony, Bill Conn
- Jumping for Mongolia
- The Honest Gull - New Art Studio/Gallery Opens
- While Standing on Greenes' Bay Below the McFadden Point Hills
- Testing the Deep from a floating lab
- The 4th and the 2009 Lighted Boat Parade
- The Chamber gets tough with the Dang Cormies
- Ghost Ships of High Island
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It’s once again time to purchase your tickets on the B.I. Rural Health
Center’s annual car raffle. This year’s vehicle is a very attractive
2010 Crystal Red Metallic 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt.
Beaver Island Veterans Memorial Park - "Construction started at 9:00 this morning 7/6/2010 with the ground breaking by Carl Felix. Jimmy Wojan is providing the landscaping and earthwork for the project. We'll be posting more pictures as the park progresses. Honor a vet and purchase a brick."
Lighthouse Quest -- Two days spent visiting nearby lake lighthouses and cruising around the Beaver Archipelago thanks to Bonadeo's Beaver Island Boat Charters and Lighthouse Central. If you haven't seen Waugoshance or South Fox or Squaw, or even if you have, it may be just what the doctor ordered this summer...
69 people on 6 boats took part in this year's Beaver Island Archipelago Challenge. Boats were stationed around Beaver, Garden, and High Islands to give out cards. Proceeds benefited the Beaver Island Community Center. If you didn't get a chance to take part this year, watch for the dates for next year's event.
Stearman Bi-Plane and Float Plane Rides available this month, July 2010, on Beaver Island from the Township Airport and the Harbor
Enter your boat in the 4th of July Lighted Boat Parade - Help light up Paradise Bay at Dusk on the 4th of July sixth annual Clyde Fogg Memorial Boat Parade. For info, call Mike Weede
(Home) 231.448.2708
or at the Paradise Bay Dive Shop 231.448.3195. Trophy for the best boat!
Get ready for the Beaver Island Bike Festival - June 26, 2010. See the website for details and registration information.
A Video commissioned and directed by the Charlevoix DDA of the new East Park Charlevoix.
YouTube Find: History Detectives Spoof -- The Buried Treasure of Beaver Island. Thanks to Brendan for the link!
Don't miss the reprise of the Beaver Island Comedy Group's hit show...
Christmas in July? Almost. June 30 and July 1 at the Community Center.
Baroque on Beaver - made in Michigan and featuring favorites Claudia Schmidt, Martha Guth, and more!
Don't miss the Beaver Island Music Festival July 15 - 17, 2010! Click here for this year's Festival!
Paddle for Food
Ken Bruland's 85-mile solo kayak trip to benefit the Beaver Island Food Pantry. Help Ken gear up for the trip by being one of his sponsors. And help the cause by donating to the Beaver Island Food Pantry - jars at McDonough's Market, The Station at 4-corners, and The Beaver Island Community Center.
Waugoshance! A photograph of Ken heading for Waugoshance point by Frank Solle and thanks to an Island Airways Flyover. Please consider donating to the Food Pantry / Paddle for Food so Ken's long paddle fulfills the hopes to support this good cause.
Harbor open for the season - to start April in spring-fashion, the USCG Mobile Bay returned to the Island to open the harbor so the ferry can begin her season. Photograph by Frank Solle.
Livingstone Studio's Meet the Artists will take place July 31, 2010 12 noon to 4 pm.
Shipwreck Diving - Mike and Gail Weede will present
another thrilling episode of diving
on the Island’s shipwrecks such
as the Niko.
Music on the Porch - who will perform this year? Could it be you?
The Yankee Lady B-17 touched down at the township airport.
Early experiments in near infrared photographs are becoming more promising. The Harbor
It's up - The three new 180' E.W. Marine towers, on the Font Lake side of Donegal Bay Road, at the East Side Fire Station, and at Greene's Lake, are now up. Photographs in the May Beacon!
The Return Trip - James Kenwabkisi in the Ruby Ann breaks out from the point through 16" ice to re-open the harbor for the Emerald Isle's return trip with Bud Martin on the ice ready to chainsaw when needed. Full story and photographs in the April Beacon!
In Route to Whiskey Point - You've never seen the Ruby Ann here before! On a flatbed trailer in front of the Harbor Light waiting to launch into a chainsaw cut berth in the ice.
Nudging the ice away - the Emerald Isle makes her way to the dock with the Biscayne Bay beside
The Biscayne Bay clearing the harbor with her side bubblers pushing ice out from the hull.
Passing Whiskey Point required one or two back-downs, but was in general a smooth operation after the long day reaching Charlevoix. Many pictures from Charlevoix, Beaver Island, and the air in the April Beacon.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Photographs from the cold, but great, day in the April Beacon.
9&10 News Video: Special St. Patrick's Day Tradition on Beaver Island (viewable online)
Pinky Lee on NPR - Beaver Island's Jenny Bousquet and Holly Keller have been playing music together for the past year, writing songs about family, love, and seasons with a folky, soulful style. Both women play guitar and mandolin while singing unique vocal harmonies. March 15 2008.
The Beautiful New Beaver Island Community School now complete.
Beaver Island welcomes the newest tug, the Wendy Anne. Photos and story of the tug and journey from the east coast to Beaver Island in the November Beacon. Also photographed lighting the harbor for the holidays.
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