Mackinac Island Police say two women died when the snowmobile they were riding fell off the West Bluff. Karen Schwark, from Mackinac Island and her sister Edith Bonno from Canton went missing last night. Schwark’s husband called police when the women did not come back from going out and shooting...
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Man Dies in Antrim County Snowmobile Accident
A man died in Antrim County when he crashed into a group of trees while snowmobiling on his property. The accident happened Saturday night in Jordan Township. Deputies say 54-year old Steven James Smigulec somehow crashed into the trees and was thrown from his snowmobile. He was not wearing a...
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Snowmobiling in Michigan hit hard by state's economic woes
On more than one occasion this winter, I’ve heard the eye-popping $1 billion figure mentioned in discussions with snowmobilers about the economic impact of snowmobiling in Michigan. That’s an amazing amount of money. And it may have been the case at one time, but it no longer is so. Snowmobiling,...
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Teen injured in snowmobile crash (MI)
CADILLAC — A downstate teen was injured in a snowmobile crash in Wexford County’s Henderson Township. Emergency responders were called Saturday around 9:30 a.m. to a snowmobile trail where Russell Lowell Denker IV, 19, of Ionia, crashed. Denker missed a turn on a trail, hit a tree and was thrown...
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Woman seriously injured in snowmobile wreck
PELLSTON — A Petoskey woman was seriously injured in a snowmobile crash near Pellston Saturday. Emmet County Sheriff Pete Wallin identified the injured woman as Jamie Richie, 42. Richie was transported to Northern Michigan Regional Hospital by Allied EMS where she was listed in serious condition today, Monday. Wallin said...
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Cheboygan County man dies in snowmobile crash
INDIAN RIVER, Mich. (AP) – A 70-year-old Cheboygan County man has died in a snowmobile accident in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula. The Cheboygan County Sheriff’s Department says Donald Carver of Indiamna River lost control of his sled and struck several trees. They say he was thrown from...
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In Memory of Kristin Stowie
Kristin Stowie, 18, died 01/10/10 in a snowmobile accident. Here’s a dedication to her from YouTube:...
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Michigan Gets Year-Round Snowmobile Track
A pair of Michigan entrepreneurs is getting ready to open a state-of-the art, year-round, snowmobile drag strip on 60 acres three miles north of Mancelona. Kirt and April Helsel have created the Infinity Raceway with 500 feet of track, more than 1,700 feet of “shut down area” and a computerized...
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Man survives icy water (MI)
GLADSTONE – After going through the ice with a snowmobile early Monday, a Gladstone man made it to shore on his own and was later found by public works employees. Jamie Bergeron, 40, told Gladstone Public Safety he was riding his snowmobile on Little Bay de Noc, going around Saunders...
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2 killed In Kent County snowmobile crash
LOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Two people have died in a snowmobile crash in western Michigan’s Kent County. WXMI-TV quotes the Kent County Sheriff’s Department as saying 39-year-old William Robert Hatchett Jr. of Lowell was driving a snowmobile on a Lowell Township road about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when the sled went...
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