We always have each other.
Mom’s green bean casserole, buttery mashed potatoes, sweet yams and pumpkin pie.
It seems about this time every year — give or take a few weeks — Mother Nature launches a warning shot toward northern Michigan motorists.
The virus doesn’t care.
To Newton’s Road, which plans to add STEM kits to the Interlochen Public Library and Peninsula Community Library by the end of November. People of all ages and abilities can check out a kit.To the Frey Foundation, which contributed $10,000 to the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Founda…
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday issued an emergency order putting a three-week pause on large indoor social gatherings and group activities, plus another round of restrictions on businesses with indoor services — all aimed at stalling the rapid rise of COVID-19…
Michigan’s university leaders’ self-interest is showing, and it isn’t flattering.
Hunting got a shot in the arm this year with a long-needed boost in deer licenses sold and increases in new hunters of all kinds.
It’s pretty easy to take for granted the generosity that abounds in our northern Michigan communities.
ToGlen Lake Community Schools’ new marching band. “Small and mighty” is how Glen Lake’s music director describes the Lakers’ band.First-year teacher Eli George found it wasn’t teaching music or marching techniques that was the greatest challenge, even though they had only about three weeks b…
We wouldn’t want to have to sort sick people into those who are treated, and those who go without.
Michiganders normally celebrate water. We love the stuff. We drink it and use it to make everything from soup to beer. We swim in it and sail, paddle and motor across it. We love to gaze at it when it’s roiling whitecaps just as much as when it’s glassy calm.
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many aspects of our lives throughout 2020, including the days we dedicate to honoring those who served our country.
Even on calm days, the newsroom is a hectic place. Stories that appear simple grow complicated as conflicting accounts emerge. Deadlines loom. Priorities shift as real-time realities change, and resources reshuffle — always under the constant pressure and weight that comes with the mandate t…
Voters have achieved what massive community backlash, and even a court battle hasn’t: they brought decisive change to the Traverse City Area Public Schools Board of Trustees.
To the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation and Michigan Humanities. The Gerstacker Foundation, based in Midland, recently awarded the National Writers Series a $15,000 grant to support its Raising Writers programs, including the Front Street Writers, Battle of the Books and creative writing classes.
Russ Soyring hired on as Traverse City Planning Director in January 1986 and has helped guide the city’s direction ever since. He plans to retire in February after 35 years on the job.
A lot of mixed messages came through on Tuesday and Wednesday, from all sides. Stop. Hurry up. Be patient. Fight.
It appears, during a capstone day to an extraordinarily divisive election season, many of us could agree on one thing: voting is important.
Let’s face it, we’re all pretty accustomed to instant gratification at this juncture.
Some things can wait, but not cancer screening and treatment.
To Stormcloud Brewing in Frankfort, which was one of five Michigan breweries to claim a medal at the 34th annual Great American Beer Festival Competition in Denver.
Tomorrow we will mourn the Halloween that wasn’t. Or at least one fit for 2020.
We’re noticing an uptick in COVID-19 exposures in our community. Cases, percent positivity, school exposures — it’s not just one number, all of them are creeping up.
This time of year is one for lists as we batten down the hatches against the impending elements.
We love our water as much as the next northern Michiganders, but there can be too much of a good thing.
To Traverse City’s Parallel 45 Theatre, which is celebrating its 10th birthday. It began 10 years ago with a budget of $14,000, but has since grown to have an annual budget of $750,000.
"Seek and ye shall find” seems to be the PFAS hallmark.
It’s a pretty stomach-turning feeling when positive news highlights a widespread deficiency.
When the novel coronavirus hit we were proverbial babes in the woods.
There’s nothing more frustrating than a last-minute rules change.
To the Traverse Area District Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. TADL received a $14,000 Improving Access to Information grant from the Institute. Funds support the new Student Success portal, a collaboration between TADL and Newton’s Road that provides STEM kits for s…
Unintended consequences have a knack for sneaking up on us.
From our perspective, there really isn’t such a thing as too many letters to the editor.
Truth is often stranger and more twisted than fiction.
Grand Traverse County residents can’t afford to gamble with their infrastructure debt payments.
To the Traverse City Central and Traverse City St. Francis boys tennis teams, which both continued remarkable runs this season.
Take baby steps. Eat the elephant one bite at a time. There’s no shortage of cute strategies when it comes to tackling a big, unwieldy problem.
Confusion reigned when the Michigan Supreme Court determined that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s use of executive orders was unconstitutional last week.
If 2020 has taught us anything it’s that our reality can change whiplash fast. We learned quickly that anything — our relationships with each other, our institutions, routines, livelihoods, education — are on moving ground. We can’t take anything for granted.
The illusion of transparency simply isn’t enough.
To Indigenous communities across North America, which on Tuesday marked the eighth annual Orange Shirt Day, a way to remember and honor Indigenous children who suffered and died in residential and boarding schools under U.S. and Canadian assimilation policies.
Traverse City’s quality of life long has functioned as a magnet that attracts new residents. It’s no surprise that our community looks even better when other places face problems.
We’ve heard a lot — and written a lot — about the U.S. Census this year.
Now that people can cast their ballots in early voting, the dribble of daily politics turns to a gush.
A little transparency goes a long way. A lot of transparency builds public trust.
To Phyllis Garn, who was honored for her service as a World War II veteran at Boardman Lake Glens.
Voting absentee used to be a mundane practice, kinda boring. You check the boxes, you seal and mail the envelope. No election day fanfare, no day-of “I voted” laudatory sticker — the democratic process boiled down to you and the lonely squeak of the mail flag.
There’s no place like home, especially as we age.
The schoolbell rang Monday for the first time since March in the region’s largest district.
Maybe it’s a bit old-fashioned, but we like our governments to resemble our water in northern Michigan: looking-glass transparent.