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‘I got a gig tonight!!!”
Nearly three weeks have passed since I’ve heard from my good pal Joseph Lockwood.
TRAVERSE CITY — Charlotte Little found the Great Lakes Humane Society near her home on a bike ride two years ago.
TRAVERSE CITY — For Kathy Balchunas, decking her house out for Traverse City’s Very Cherry Porch Parade was a piece of cake ... er, pie.
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I have to give you props, northern Michigan.
Ten years ago, I awoke long before sunrise, in preparation for an early morning meeting. I felt queasy from taking a new medication. It was February, piercingly cold, dark. Several inches of fresh snow covered my long wheelchair ramp and path to the driveway. Lying on my side, I wondered why…
I am cheered to learn that this newspaper, to which I offer my periodic musings, has launched a program to incorporate the voices of the Indigenous population of this area into its contemporary news coverage.
TRAVERSE CITY – It’s easy to look past a tombstone at Oakwood Cemetery as if it was no different from the rest.
MAPLE CITY — Some things apparently do go better with Coke — even barn roofs.
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The Stone Circle is located north of Elk Rapids on a narrow strip of land between Lake Michigan and Torch Lake. It’s a triple ring of 88 boulders with a fire in the center. For 37 years I’ve hosted poets, musicians and storytellers who come to share their art. The Stone Circle has been calle…
Little white lies have been told about the Black Lives Matter movement for a long time.
While I was born and grew up in the Detroit area, Traverse City has been home for a couple of decades.
NORTHPORT — Ernie Barry will be 12 years old in July. Or, if you’re a person who appreciates truth in journalism, he’ll be 77.
M-22 resurfacing to start on June 22
CADILLAC — The drive from Traverse City to Cadillac — just under 60 miles — takes travelers through the rolling hills of northern Michigan’s most picturesque and peaceful forest lands.
Road Trip is a monthly travel series by northern Michigan journalists Dave and Jeanne Barber. The series takes regional readers on easy, one-day road trips to visit Michigan museums, parks, nature sites, businesses and festivals, including many of the state's “hidden gems.”
On the north side of my house, so close I can almost open the window and reach their branches, are ancient lilacs trees.
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The pandemic has deflected or ended a lot of things we once considered normal.
For many of us sleep comes easy. Our bodies tell us when we’re tired and we effortlessly can fall into dreamland, waking up feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day.
TRAVERSE CITY — When the Traverse Area District Library began taking returns through its outside book drop this week it was a bit like the day after Christmas in a department store.
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Before Art, I’d only known diving in warm water.
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Two weeks ago, after I’d paddled down the lake in the kayak and could hardly hear myself think for the peepers on shore, I had to go looking and looking to find a poem about them. I may write one for myself, eventually, but that hasn’t happened yet. This has been a hard winter for all of us,…
Prom photo shoot at Lay Park in TC
In the spring of 2020 the world seems like a precarious place, but compared to a flight of stairs it’s a piece of graduation cake.
TRAVERSE CITY — It might take Piper Shumar three months to redeem $25 worth of cans per day.
TRAVERSE CITY — A viral YouTube video, some northern Michigan ingenuity and some sisterly assistance.
TRAVERSE CITY — It took more than a year for Bob Maynard to put his arms around his first born.
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‘In memory of my parents, who took their little girl into the voting booth, let her pull the magic curtain, and taught me to treasure my right to vote.” — Elaine Weiss, “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight To Win The Vote”
MIDLAND — History’s heroes are sometimes its caretakers.
TRAVERSE CITY — Two panes of glass separate two microphones and a miniature chalkboard nested on the dashboard of John Plough’s mobile studio, formerly known as a Chevy Equinox.
Thrift store opening June 1
We were on our way to Timberlanes when I knew my husband was the one.
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I brought a dog home six years ago.
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