Beaver Island Michigan

Just saw this! Thanks Andy, for introducing Arlo to a happy grooming experience as a puppy when we lived on the island. To this day he *loves* going to the groomer, even as he's now an old guy at age 12. Your kindness and gentle manner made all the difference.

Gosh, sorry to have questioned the expenditure of public funds without a thorough investigation of the business partners! I mistakenly thought the topic of this thread was "should public money be used to expand services on the island?"

With islanders having been burned once before by a wireless provider who made promises he couldn't keep, I think the townships need to go beyond studying the technical issues of whether or not a company's plan might work to studying the quality of service and customer satisfaction that company might...

For all you folks who use the Great Lakes dialup (448-2132), they plan to "decommission" our local modem pool and there will be no on-island phone number for dialup service following 12/8/09. As part of this, they'll also be closing your associated email account on 12/8/10. For more info, ...

Thanks to all who came out for the EV show and took test drives. The crowds were thinner than last year, but Jeff's right: this year there was more serious "shop talk" about EV technology by the attendees. One car was sold, and the dealers were pleased with several good sales leads. And ye...

Cars will be arriving starting today (Thursday), and we'll be parking them out front of the Shamrock and Harbour Market as they arrive. The last cars arrive tomorrow (Friday) morning along with the dealer reps. Officiaal show hours are Friday 10:45am - 6:00 pm, and Saturday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm for tes...

... or was it big government? Or did consumers really just reject the technology as unworkable.

See the movie and decide for yourself!

A reminder that the Beaver Island Electric Car Show is sponsoring a free showing of the documentary "Who Killed The Electric Car?" on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 at the Community Center. The movie was an official selection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. From the movie's website: "...

Just like to point out that there are no *rights* of passage, only *rites* of passage which may or may not be right.

Thanks much, Deputy Williams!!! Your efforts are much appreciated.

The electric car show is coming back to Beaver Island on Friday June 26 and Saturday June 27. Two dealers will be showing a dozen new and used cars from GEM , ZENN , and Miles . Jeff Connor will be showing his Dodge Dakota all-electric truck, built right here on Beaver Island. All will be available ...

We have extremely poor cellphone coverage on the island. If you need 911 in a hurry, you have to be lucky and find someone at home in a nearby house or more likely get in your car and drive to a spot where you know you'll get a cell signal. This leads to significant delays in emergency response times.

Wow ... we would be interested in regular flights to Petoskey/Harbor Springs. In fact, that would be preferable for us over flights to Charlevoix. Better shopping, more service professionals, easier access to I-75 for downstate runs, no summer bridge traffic problems ... all around better than Charl...

1. The passanger increase was based upon past history and is only an estimation and is also based on over 10 years out. That would be less than 1 passenger a day over that period. Given our economic times you may be correct that it may not happen in the near future but those figures are revisited e...

"We are not tearing down the new terminal..We have started a process by hiring an architect to try and design an expansion. No there is no plans ( thank you Mr. McBain and his "good freind Ben) We had coceptual drawings, ideas from the architects, no plans. We will have a committee to hel...

According to my news guy in Charlevoix, there are no plans for a new airport terminal building. There are plans to expand the existing building. Take a look at the specs for the "expansion." ... it will essentially be a new terminal building, regardless of whether or not they incorporate ...