Updated Internet Speed Survey
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 click...
Check the FCC Broadband Map TODAY
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, business...
St. James sets Parks & Recreation Plan review meeting
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...
JTAC conducting Internet speed survey
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 an effort to...
The Great Lakes Islands Alliance is Growing and Adapting
(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 island...
ETIPP Onboarding Meeting
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...
Summer Edition of Island Currents
Our latest edition of Island Currents is in the email to our members. If your issue hasn’t arrived, this post has a link to read it online.
Joan Matejovsky returns to Health Center as NP
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 Practitioner. Ms...
Dark Sky Happenings in July
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...
Invasive beech leaf disease found in Michigan
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...
