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E v e n t s

05/24/08 - 05/25/08
Paintings with Patinas, Photos of Planets...


05/25/08
Jack Cull Memorial Concert...


06/07/08
Avian Monitoring During Migration at CMUBS...


06/12/08
Early Summer Flora of Beaver Island...


06/24/08
2008 Phragmites Eradication Plan meeting...


06/27/08 - 06/28/08
Electric Car Show on Beaver Island...


06/28/08
Beaver Island Sand Dunes...


07/01/08
The Spiders of Beaver Island...


07/01/08 - 07/03/08
Vacation Bible school...


07/04/08
Happy 4th of July...


07/14/08
Beaver Island Association Annual Meeting...


07/17/08
Miller’s Marsh and Double-bluff...


07/18/08 - 07/19/08
Beaver Island Music Festival...


07/18/08 - 07/19/08
Yankee Lady B-17 comes to Beaver Island...


07/21/08 - 07/25/08
Mad Camp...


07/21/08 - 07/26/08
Museum Week 2008...


07/23/08 - 07/25/08
Annual BIHS Art Show...


07/26/08
Beaver Island's Inland Lakes...


07/28/08 - 08/01/08
Jazz and More Kids Music Camp...


07/30/08 - 08/03/08
Baroque on Beaver! - A Festival of Classical Music...


08/02/08
Meet The Artists...


08/02/08
French Bay Field Trip...


08/04/08 - 08/08/08
Beaver Island Writers Gathering and Literary Event...


08/08/08 - 08/10/08
Homecoming...


09/12/08 - 09/13/08
Ransom Street Big Band performs...



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    • News from the Townships - Township Regular Monthly and Annual Meetings
    • A look at the Township Budgets
    • News from Our Health Center
    • The View from Five Hundred Feet
    • Crossing The Ice - Islanders take a snowmobile trip to Mackinac City over the ice bridge
    • A Fat St. Pat’s
    • The ‘Refuge’ Returns - Garden Island social club Refuge moved off garden to comply with DNR ruling
    • Camp Quality Teen Camp plans for 2008
    • Island Conservancy takes a Big Step Forward
    • Beaver Island’s Jenny Bousquet on NPR
    • Thanks for a successful Chili Cookoff and a great Grand Rapids party.
    • BI Ebay E-store Opens
    • On This Date
    • On the Horizon - Calendar of Events
    • “Jazz and More” to be explored during this summer’s Kids Music
    • Internet: TDS – Simply amazing what a phone line can do
    • A Winter Run to supply the Island with gasoline
    • Lake Lights in Ice
    • Island Ingenuity - the return trip
    • In Memory: Wendy Lynn Weidenhamer, Loretta “Loy” Loyola Malloy, Mary Minogue, Betty Welke, Shirley Gallagher
    • One Hundred Years Ago
    • Islanders Stumble at NLL Tourney; Fall at Districts
    • The Kens Take a Break - Islanders take a trip to the Caribbean Islands
    • Burning the Weed
    • A Concert Evening of Chilean Song, in Recognition of Father Pat Cawley
    • A grand Beaver Island Easter egg hunt
    • A Time to Rhyme, a Season of Meter - April is National Poetry Month
    • The bids are in on school project
    • Christmas computers now grace BIRHC
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    • News from the Townships
    • Summer Bible School
    • TDS Island broadband DSL system — a taste of the 21st century to ease the winter days
    • Artist's Market
    • The View from Five Hundred Feet: The Night of No Return
    • Citizen of the Year (deadline for nominations is March 30)
    • Thanks from ‘Little Girl’
    • Great Lakes Environmental Budget
    • Letters: Lake Levels In Decline
    • Coast Guard $37.5 million delivery order for 18 new boats to Marinette Marine Corporation.
    • Emerald Isle Technologies - music, and much, much more
    • One Hundred Years Ago
    • Northern Peering - Northern Michigan high-speed ISPs form partnership
    • On This Date
    • Snowmobile Driver Devastated by Friend’s Death
    • Mary: in her own little World
    • PABI Beaver Island Ice Classic underway; calendar of events
    • Safari to Cross Village
    • Islanders bag their limit of Eagles
    • Islanders cap cage campaign on the road
    • Shooting the moon
    • Dealing with waterfowl mortality this spring
    • BIRHC & BIEMS team up for heart-healthy February
    • In memory: Dr. Donald W. Alimenti, Rena Thorsen, Joe Favazza
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    • News from the Townships
    • Letters: Primary, Secondary, and Seasonal Road Snowplowing
    • Update on Towers
    • Letters: Economic Plan
    • Our Library Improves
    • TDS plans DSL deployment to begin in mid-February, 2008
    • BIRHC thanks Leonor Jacobson, welcomes Cook, McCafferty, and Hansz
    • Winter Sports Action: Hoopin' it up at Hannahville; Islanders take three of four from Rockets
    • Was ist Los, Fraulein?
    • Geo Bee Good
    • One Hundred Years Ago
    • Inland
    • The Art of Lois Stipp
    • Our EMS: the Year-end Report
    • An EMS Reminder: February is Heart Month
    • Welcome to our world: Matthew James Szafoni
    • Letters: Coming together - thanks to everyone who made New Years's a success
    • Irish Crosses - the last in a four part series
    • Printshop Addition Planning
    • On This Date
    • Melissa Bailey: A True Creative Force
    • Catherine “Georgie” Gatliff's 85th
    • “A Great Lakes Jewel” up for a MI Emmy
    • BICS building plans move toward completion
    • PABI Takes a Giant Step
    • In Memory: Grace Hill, Charles Allers, Sarah Higdon Drew, Roy Dale Burge, Fay Kempker
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    • News from the Townships
    • I Love to Hunt
    • A Holiday Gathering of Song
    • Thanks to Santa's Helpers
    • Blindscape, Tales from the Ted Zone
    • Beaver Island, in Gingerbread
    • One Hundred Years Ago
    • Economic Conference Wrap-up
    • BIRHC Receives Grant from Charlevoix County Community Foundation
    • School Improvement Plans Moving Forward
    • A Masterful Cantata
    • Local Singer wins Prestigious Award
    • Water Levels
    • First Snow—Time to Go
    • On This Date
    • Irish Crosses
    • Writers’ Retreat Coming
    • Good times, bad times on the court
    • A column from the Beaver Island EMS
    • A Memoir
    • Beaver Island Hospice Receives Grant
    • In Memory: John Works, Sr.
    • Adventures
    • Welcome Graicen Mae
    • Towers, a tease for the coming year
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    New EW Marine Internet/Cell Towers on Beaver Island

    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 and more in the May Beacon!

    Cutting through the ice was an amazing experience, with the force of the tug pwerful standing on the ice.

    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!

    The Ruby Ann tug is hauled, trailered, and transported to Whiskey Point for relaunch where the ice passage is not so long to reach open water and rebreak the channel previously cut by the Biscayne Bay.

    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.

    As a pile of ice chunks lays beside the dock, fished out with backhoe, the Emerald Isle nudges herself into the birth.

    Nudging the ice away - the Emerald Isle makes her way to the dock with the Biscayne Bay beside

    As onlookers watch from the dock, the Biscyane Bay coastguard cutter circles through the harbor slicing through the 16-inch blue ice

    The Biscayne Bay clearing the harbor with her side bubblers pushing ice out from the hull.

    The Biscayne Bay icebreaker cutting past Whiskey Point into the harbor

    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.

    Pinky Lee on Prairie Home Companion

    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. Listen to and vote for Pinky Lee on March 15, ~5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

    New School Plans Nearing Completion

    Plans for the new Beaver Island Community School are now nearing completion. Story, floorplan, and elevation in the February Beacon.
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    Beaver Island A Great Lakes Jewel

    Beaver Island: A Great Lakes Jewel has been nominated for a MI Emmy! If you're on a broadband connection, you can view the video online.

    Internet Towers partially erected on Island

    Internet Towers are now partially erected on the Island. Shown above is the tower at the East Side Fire Hall with the first of three sections standing, and the other two on the ground to the left.

    Irish Road Bowling - Every Tuesday at 6:30. Come to Paid een Og’s to watch or road bowl and join in the fun. Over a dozen people are already on board... what's Irish Road Bowling all about?

    Beaver Island Celtic Games - Saturday September 15 at the Bud McDonough Memorial Ball Park. A ceilidh at Donegal Danny’s and the Shamrock on the 14th and 15th.

    Live Music Benefit, Thank you to the record-number of 670 people who came out for the music benefit event at Unfinished Farms. A wonderful thing about Beaver Island: when there's a good cause, people really come through.

    Amazing Reptiles and Amphibians

    Amazing Reptiles and Amphibians with Jim Gillingham - a favorite of Museum Week for kids around the Island.

    Tour the Beaver Head Lighthouse

    Tour the historic Beaver Head Lighthouse at the Island’s south end all day during Museum Week.

    Music on the Porch

    Diving for Beaver Island History: Underwater Explorations & Discoveries with Mike and Gail Weede, Parish Hall

    Totem Pole Carving

    Totem Pole Carving with master carver Skip Duhamel.

    Music on the Porch

    Music on the Porch Some amazing talent was displayed on the porch this year!

    4th of July 2007

    The 4th of July
    celebrated in Beaver Island Style on Main Street and around the harbor...

     

     

     

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