Broadband Presentation
Your BIA joined with the Townships Joint Telecommunications Advisory Committee to provide an update on efforts to improve internet service on the Island at a meeting last evening. The presentation prepared for the meeting is available here. Attendees were asked to complete a survey. You can print that out from this link. Please complete it and submit it to the BIA by mail (PO Box 390) or droop it by the BIC Center Front Desk.
St. James Township Job Posting – Planning Assistant
ST JAMES TOWNSHIP JOB POSTINGTOWNSHIP PLANNING ASSISTANT St James Township, Beaver Island, is seeking an individual to support the work of its planning commission. The successful applicant will help the Township and planning commission implement master plan and...
Tips on Year-end Charitable Giving
Your help is needed...Please keep the Beaver Island Association in mind when doing your year end charitable giving.The work of the BIA is crucial to issues that affect the fundamental character and beauty of Beaver Island.To say that 2020 has not been a good year is...
New Peaine Board holds first meeting
Peaine Township held its first township board meeting with its newly elected members last evening. Amidst largely routine action the board thanked its recently departed members for their many year of service. Former chair Bill Kohls had served for eight years. Larry...
Time to check trees for hemlock woolly adelgid
Michigan Department of Natural Resources sent this bulletin at 12/01/2020 09:49 AM EST The recent discovery of hemlock woolly adelgid as far north as Ludington State Park in Mason County is a reminder of the importance of checking hemlock trees for signs of the...
Transfer Station to reopen on Tuesday
Beaver Island’s Waste Management Committee announced this afternoon that the Transfer Station will reopen tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. It had been closed after some of the staff tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement is below. Beaver Island Transfer...
BIRHC reports another positive test while state reports 17,000+ new cases
The Health Center has updated its COVID-19 status chart to show another positive test this (Saturday) morning. That along with six more negative results and four new tests bring the tallies for this outbreak to: 73 tests with 16 positive results, 59 negative and...
Health Center reports two more positive tests bring total active cases to 15
Health Center updated its report this morning to show another two positive COVID-19 test results and 8 more as negative. No new tests have been run. They are waiting on results for 10 tests. Tallies for this outbreak are: 69 tests with 15 positive...
McDonough’s Market shifting to curb-side service only
McDonough’s market announced Sunday evening that they are moving to curb-side pickup only. Shoppers will need to email orders in and give the staff time to gather the items before dropping by to pick them up. It’s back to the way the market was operating...
Health Center reports 7 additional positive tests for a total of 9 active island cases; BICS goes all online
The Beaver Island Rural Health Center has updated the data on their site this afternoon to report seven additional positive COVID-19 tests. That brings to nine the number of positive tests in the last week and presumably represents none active cases on the...
BICS Moves to remote learning for pre-K to 8th grade
In an email to parents, Wil Cwikiel has announced BICS’s decision to move pre-K to 8th grade students to online learning for at least the two days they would have been in school this coming week. High school students began online instruction last Wednesday in...
