Now, here’s a look at what’s happening on your island…   Here’s your meeting planner for the week: No more left.  Details for meetings next week are in the calendar entries online.   On the fun front today, Thursday, gets going with Pickleball outdoors on the Township Courts. There’s Women’s Bible Study at 10:00 at […]

Over in Antrim County both sides have rested their cases in the trila bout the failed plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. The jury will hear closing arguments today and, after alternates are excused, they will begin deliberations. They will decide if the defendants, twin brothers Bill and Mike Null and Eric Molitor are guilty of […]

On Friday, Pellston Public Schools made a historic trip across the Mackinac Bridge driving the first electric school bus to cross the bridge into the U-P. The bus is one of four purchased with an almost one point six million dollar grant from the E-P-A. The new busses replace all but one of the busses […]

    Another Irish Feile is in the books and, with more than 100 visitors from Arainn Mohr it is sure to be remembered as a special one. Our Irish sister Island’s pipe band was here and performed multiple times to excitement every time.  There were cultural presentations, an ceremony inducting new members of the […]

  Another Irish Feile is in the books and, with more than 100 visitors from Arainn Mohr it is sure to be remembered as a special one. Our Irish sister Islan’s pipe band was here and performed multiple times to excitement every time.  There were cultural presentations, an ceremony inducting new member’s of the Island’s […]

Another attempt by Jim “The Shark” Dreyer to swim across Lake Michigan has failed. He made a go of it yesterday from Milwaukee, but after getting 23 miles into the 82 mile trip, the attempt had to be called due to strong currents and worsening weather. Unlike his early attempt this summer when he swam […]

WVBI Community Calendar September 4, 2023 From our Langford Family Studios on America’s Emerald Isle, this is the W-V-B-I. First some news…   …from Ireland where the national radio service has a story today about islanders from Árainn Mhór heading to the pier this morning to begin their trek to Beaver Island for the Emerald […]

With the Labor Day weekend here comes the end of the summer vacation season, but increasingly the season is ending early as more and more schools start a week or more before the holiday. Michigan K-12 schools need a waiver to start before Labor Day, but this year 75% of them had waivers to start […]

Lots of folks turned out yesterday for the 2:00 session on Critical Dunes Permitting, and several more folks came to the 7:00 session. DEQ and township officials went over the rules that apply to permits in the critical sand dunes areas on the island. A different set of rules apply depending on when a lot […]

After a week of fall-like temps across much of northern Michigan, M-Live forecasters say summer like temps are on the way back for next week. The island could see temps in the 80s as soon as this Sunday and places downstate and even up north could reach 100 or more. 104 in Alpena?  That’s what […]