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We've Got Wireless!

By Lynn Torkelson Posted 07/15/2003

TORCH LAKE TOWNSHIP -- Guest columnist Lynn Torkelson describes how PastyNET's new wireless Internet service, recently installed through an inconspicuous antenna on the Quincy Mine Hoist, reaches the computers for his company, SoftMedia Artisans, Inc., located on Portage Lake, south of Dollar Bay. A single wireless transceiver serves all the computers on his local network with a connection that is 8 to 10 times faster and eliminates the expense of separate phone lines to each computer. more

The Chance of a Life Time: SAVE BETE GRISE SOUTH

Posted 07/04/2003

LAC LA BELLE -- The Save Bete Grise Fundraising Committee invites Keweenaw Peninsula residents and visitors to help preserve Bete Grise South -- identified by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the State of Michigan as the single most important estuarine Great Lakes Marsh remaining in the Upper Great Lakes. Landowner International Paper/Lake Superior Land Co. (IP/LSLC) has agreed to work with TNC and others to sell the 1000 plus acres on Keweenaw's south shore, although the area is now slated for residential development. TNC needs help in raising $100,000 by Dec. 31, 2003, in order to secure an option to purchase the land, which is expected to cost more than $1 million. IP/LSLC also provides a map showing the location of the acreage. more