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 Pam Grassmick | Aug 22, 2020 | News
Time is running out to register for the BIA-Tip of the Mitt Watershed COuncil High Water Summit being held on Tuesday, August 25 at noon. Follow this link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HmZVNM5LQCWK15aEmYJ0qQ
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 Kevin Boyle | Dec 30, 2022 | Island Currents, News
St James Township is working with a consultant, Fleis & Vandenbrink, to update the current five year Parks and Recreation Plan with its Harbor Addendum. This updating, which will help the township gain state and federal grants, is occurring now given the...
by WVBI | Dec 2, 2022 | Island Currents, News
Most Island property owners have probably received their Winter Tax Bills by now. Included in them is an Internet Speed Survey being conducted for the townships by the Island’s Joint Townships Telecommunications Advisory Committee (JTAC). It’s all part of...
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 | Sep 20, 2022 | Island Currents, News
Wednesday morning at 10:00 there’s an ETIPP Information and Strategy meeting via Zoom with the island’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Advisor, Liz Weber. The island was the winner of an ETIPP grant and this meeting will kick off the process of working to plan...
by Kevin Boyle | Aug 2, 2022 | News
Our latest edition of Island Currents is in the email to our members. It includes articles with the latest news from BICS, an invasives update, a look at our work on housing issues and broadband, news from the Trails Association, and the latest on our Dark Sky...
by Frank D'Andria | Jul 11, 2022 | Island Currents, News
The Health Center’s is delighted to announce that Joan Matejovsky, FNP-C, a seasoned Nurse Practitioner who knows the island’s culture and Center’s service model has accepted an offer to rejoin the Health Center Medical Team as a Nurse...
by Kevin Boyle | Jul 11, 2022 | Island Currents, News
July is going to be a dream-month – or maybe a dreamless month – for island dark sky buffs. With the Thunder Supermoon, two meteor showers and a comet, there’s so much to see that there might not be time to sleep at night. The thunder super moon will rise this...
by Pam Grassmick | Jul 5, 2022 | News
The Michigan departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development recently confirmed the presence of invasive beech leaf disease in a small, private woodlot in southern St. Clair County, located in southeast Michigan. Beech leaf disease, not...
