Category Archives: Port Huron

5×5 Night in Grand Rapids

April 25, 2011 – 8:58 am

5 ideas, 5 minutes each, 5 slides each, 5 judges, 5,000 dollars 5×5 Night is a monthly event in Grand Rapids that allows 5 people to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges who decide how to award $5,000 on the last Tuesday night of every month. The third 5×5 happens tomorrow night at [...]

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Dig Michigan: Flint and the Tri-cities of Bay City, Saginaw & Midland

August 18, 2008 – 10:53 am

Flint/Tri-Cities is the third of Michigan’s regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away and an idea of what is going on in the region, so if [...]

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The Week for July 14-20, 2008

July 14, 2008 – 9:00 am

And so is the CSL Tadoussac by mdprovost “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” -Measure for Measure Hundreds of years later, Shakespeare still has wisdom aplenty to share. You can pick up some of that, along with a healthy dose of entertainment at [...]

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Word of the Week: Freighter

November 12, 2007 – 8:15 am

St. Mary’s Challenger by midmichphotos The word of the week is freighter, a familiar sight all along Michigan’s shores. If there’s one site that you can’t miss, it’s Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online aka “boatnerd.com”. For well over a decade, the site has been chronicling the passage of the vessels of the Great Lakes. [...]

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The Absolute Michigan channel on chime.tv

June 24, 2007 – 9:52 am

The chime.tv web site provides a very well thought out and high-powered* interface for viewing internet video. They also allow you to create a channel, so we created the Absolute Michigan channel on chime.tv. The first video we’re featuring on the channel is Scuba Diving a St. Clair River wreck. The video is from Marine [...]

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The Huron Lightship: A Lighthouse that Floats

May 3, 2007 – 7:45 am

Lightship Huron by Darryl Wattenberg Another view of the Lightship Huron Lighthouses don’t move … unless they are lightships. Lightships were used in places where it was too difficult or expensive to build a lighthouse. A lightship had a bright light at the top of the mast and carried a foghorn to alert sailors when [...]

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