For many of us, winter brings what is sometimes called the “winter blues” or “cabin fever.”
TRAVERSE CITY — The soaring flames of a five-story-high torch lit up the city’s early morning hours.
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Learning lab open Jan. 27
TRAVERSE CITY — Matt Drost teaches science at Grand Traverse Academy in Traverse City, where he long ago found a way to connect his personal life to science lessons.
Diary of January 15, 2020
I was newly married when we moved to Hong Kong for a two-year assignment. My husband worked for a San Francisco law firm; they wanted to have a presence in Hong Kong before the lease by the Chinese to the British was to expire. We arrived in 1983. I was 26 years old.
NORTHPORT — Wine gets its distinctive characteristics from the terroir — the environmental factors such as soil, climate and sunlight in which the grapes are raised.
Food drive slated
Every once in a while, a play really moves me. Not often these days, because I am too critical of what I am seeing.
GRAND TRAVERSE
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Hard to believe it has been almost two months since the publication of the Afghanistan Papers, the confidential reports obtained by the Washington Post that described, in stunning new detail, the mismanagement of a war that has now spanned three decades and three U.S. administrations.
HARBOR SPRINGS — As singer and guitarist Tai Jaxx Drury puts it, The Marsupials revel in a sound that’s “refreshingly free-form and uncompromising, yet classic and familiar in the best possible way.”
BELLAIRE — Valentiger is so impassioned about its music — as well as the tantalizing covers that it plays — that it’s willing to play eight straight hours without a break.
GLEN ARBOR — Sleuths are invited to help solve a murder at the Homestead Resort this weekend.
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Grand Traverse Academy Secondary Principal Michelle Floering recorded this video of students giving a pair of color-corrective glasses to their biology teacher Matt Drost.
One of the hottest trends in panfish angling for ice fishermen is micro-plastic baits — tiny jig tails that are often whisker-thin that you can’t possibly hold still as they move with every breath you take. One of the more prominent manufacturers of these baits is Roadside Minnows out of Ced…
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HASTINGS — George Cullers makes his way from his pickup truck to the edge of a pond, carrying a small woven basket with an ax in it. He pushes through the cattails on to the ice, sets down his basket, chops through the ice with the ax, then, wearing rubber gloves that extend almost to his sh…
The Bigfoot 5K and 10K Snowshoe Race begins at 9 a.m. Jan. 25 at Timber Ridge. Entry is $25 until noon Jan. 23 and $30 until race day.
TRAVERSE CITY — I spoke to a friend about an outdoor outing we had planned on a foggy morning earlier this winter — the fog we hadn’t anticipated when the date was set.
A collection of columns from Record-Eagle Outdoors Columnist Mike Terrell:
Southeast Michigan still had open water fishing for walleye and perch. With the cold temperatures, the inland lakes were starting to freeze but the southern sections of the Lower Peninsula did not have safe ice for the most part. Ice jams were causing some problems on a few rivers.
FIFE LAKE — It’s a game of cardboard, duct tape and glue versus the 2.6 quadrillion snowflakes — or thereabouts — in each square mile of 5-inch-deep snow.
Winter may or may not be here to stay but another year of the Vasa Ski Club’s Nordic Flyers is underway.
Audubon club meeting
Thanks to a perfectly good television set being sidelined by incompatibility with Netflix, we took a trip to the television aisle of a local store.
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Viral internet posts might have a shelf-life, but they never truly go away.
INTERLOCHEN — The average 8-year-old child weighs about 57 pounds — Chaz weighs roughly 170.
TRAVERSE CITY — Maria Heiman knew being part of an exchange program would give her a chance to explore the history and geography of another country.
Women’s Retreat set for March 20-22
When I was in eighth grade a controversy swept through our school. The English teacher, who was a closet beatnik, had assigned her classes to read “Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger.
After the holidays have packed up and gone winter seems to settle in with a gentle melancholy.
TRAVERSE CITY — Soon Hagerty wants to teach her 7-year-old daughter the importance of what she calls “global citizenship,” raising awareness about issues worldwide.
A new year, a new decade lies before us. What does it hold for us? Only God knows. A new year always seems like a fresh start or new beginning to break some old habits or make new resolutions.
Spire & Ice Festival
A walk to the library. Sidestepping on Fifth Avenue on a day of frigid cutting brine air typical of New York City. Past the great marble lions named Patience and Fortitude by redoubtable Mayor Laguardia during the Great Depression.
GRAND TRAVERSE
New releases
When accepting the best foreign-language film award for “Parasite” earlier this month at the Golden Globes, the Korean director Bong Joon-ho said through an interpreter: “Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.”
TRAVERSE CITY — Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream – and so do the children of Traverse City.
ELK RAPIDS — Most would associate weaving with thread of some sort, but not jewelry artist Cathy Brown.
Teen dance slated
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