9/4/2024

N. WISCONSIN - Team of Middle-Aged Swimmers from Northern Wisconsin Achieve A Major Accomplishment. Their goal was just to finish…the undertaking of swimming the English Channel has foiled the strongest swimmers and has tested everyone with the audacity to think they could do it…but four ‘mermaids’ from Wisconsin did it. The WisconSwim Mermaids, Pamela Toshner and Michelle DeYoung of Barnes, Lisa Weispfenning of Washburn, and Jennifer Titus of Hayward set out from Dover at 8 am on the 17th of August, cranked up their music and started swimming relay style an hour at a time until they finished the 18.2 nautical mile trip an hour and a half faster than the average time. The jellyfish they were warned about didn’t show up until the third leg of the swim, and Jennifer Titus spent the better part of her swim avoiding them. Eight other boats with groups of swimmers all went out along with the Mermaids but the middle-aged ladies from Wisconsin finished ahead of all of them.

9/4/2024

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must remain on the presidential ballot, rejecting a request from the ex-third-party candidate to remove his name. Since he suspended his campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump in August, Kennedy has sought to withdraw his name in states — like battleground Michigan — where the race could be close while making efforts to remain on the ballot in states where he is unlikely to make a difference between the major party candidates. Kennedy sued Michigan Secretary of State Friday. Court of Claims Judge Christopher P. Yates ruled against him Tuesday.

9/4/2024

ST. IGNACE, Mich - Roughly 30,000 people walked across the Mackinac Bridge during Monday’s annual Labor Day Walk.  The bridge walk has been an annual event since 1958, except for 2020 when it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.