by WVBI | Nov 6, 2025 | Featured Post, Island Currents, News
Work supported by the Rural Readiness Grant awarded to your BIA continues this week with a team from Advanced Communications & Data (ACD), a Lansing-based ISP, working to finalize a plan for an Island-wide fiber to the home and business. “The grant funds...
by WVBI | Sep 16, 2025 | Island Currents, News
Scientists are weighing what they call a “Noah’s Ark” strategy to save Michigan’s collapsing whitefish populations. Once abundant in lakes Michigan and Huron, whitefish have plummeted as invasive zebra and quagga mussels have transformed the lakes. Quagga mussels now...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 19, 2025 | Dark Sky Project, Featured Post, Island Currents, News
The Beaver Island Dark Sky Project is hosting two exciting programs this week that bring the wonders of the night sky — and the importance of preserving it — into focus. 🌠 Skygawking! Night Sky Viewing From August 20–23, head out to the Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 19, 2025 | Island Currents, News
A unique hands-on sailing experience is headed to Beaver Island later this month. The Inland Seas Education Association will bring its 77-foot schooner, the Inland Seas, to Paradise Bay for two special science sails. For three hours, participants will step aboard and...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 19, 2025 | Featured Post, Island Currents, News
A Michigan circuit court judge has ruled that the state’s long-running lawsuit against Enbridge over the Line 5 pipeline can move forward, despite a related case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, Judge James Jamo denied the Canadian pipeline operator’s...
by Kevin Boyle | Jul 31, 2025 | Island Currents, News
Smoke from wildfires in Canada continues to plauge the Island and much of Michigan. The Air quality index on the island passed 240 overnight (early Thursday morning). Although it has dropped to 190 as of this morning, the AQI number is in the highest zone of the index...
