by Dick Mulvihill | Jan 20, 2023 | Featured Post, News
Continuing its efforts to correct the data about the island in the FCC’s National Broadband Map, the Joint Telecommunications Advisory Committee has, in cooperation with the BIA, put up a new online speed test survey. This one is automatic. All you need to do is...
by Dick Mulvihill | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured Post, News
The Island’s Joint Telecommunications Advisory Committee, formed by the townships, is urging all Island residents to check the FCC’s National Broadband Map (broadbandmap.fcc.gov) to make sure that the information in it about internet service at their home,...
by WVBI | Oct 20, 2022 | Featured Post, Island Currents, News
(Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the International Joint Commission Newsletter Great Lakes Connection. It is reprinted here with the permission of the authors.) In 2018, newsletter readers learned about an experiment to connect remote Great Lakes...
by Kevin Boyle | Jan 22, 2022 | Featured Post
The BIA organized and developed the Beaver Island Birding Trail and, with the leadership of Pam Grassmick, presents an annual Warblers on the Water Beaver Island Birding Trail Festival. The trail includes multiple locations around the island with descriptive signage...
by Bob Sramek | Sep 23, 2021 | Featured Post, News
Written by Cynthia Hector Johnson The Beaver Island Association took the Beaver Island Dark Sky Project under its wing in 2019. As members of the Dark Sky Project looked at applying for an official Dark Sky designation from the International Dark Sky Association...