To The Good Bowl eatery, which recently donated more than $7,500 to three charities after collecting $1 from each bowl purchased from July through September. The local nonprofit Food Rescue, a Goodwill of Northwest Michigan program, received $5,514. Habitat for Humanity gets $1,314 and $774 …

Democracies die behind closed doors.

This week another inmate attempted suicide in the Grand Traverse County Jail.

Reporters have many questions — but lately one question keeps bouncing back at them:

A quick survey of the nine people in the newsroom Tuesday afternoon:

To Watson Benzie Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram. Crystal Lake Elementary School recently received $990 from Watson Benzie through the Chrysler Cars 4 Classrooms fundraiser. The company contributed to the school on behalf of every test-drive participant.

Rural Michigan was thrust into Lansing’s political crossfire last week, and we’re not happy.

Oh yes. We hear it all the time. We’re the “The Most Beautiful Place in America” from Good Morning America. We’re “Sahara-Level Sand Dunes, Mediterranean Blue Water: Welcome to Michigan” according to the New York Times this September.

To the five local organizations that raised a total of $13,997.60 through the Traverse City Triathlon Charity Challenge.

There’s no beating around it — roundabouts get attention. Sometimes a soundtrack.

Volunteers help our region shine. Two bright examples of their toil appeared on recent pages of the Record-Eagle.

We Michiganders don’t need a calendar to tell us which season is upon us.

To the Grand Traverse Pavilions and its Foundation, as well as others supporting PACE North, a facility that offers health care services to chronically ill, high-risk elderly residents of seven counties. It has opened at 2325 Garfield Road.

Recognizing shortcomings and finding ways to fix them is a hallmark of great leadership.

We may all live to regret decisions like the one made by the Kalkaska County board this week.

If the school bus arrives after the starting bell, it’s late.

There are so many “days” these days.

To the Old Town Playhouse. Sixty seasons in, OTP continues to move forward in earnest. The anniversary season was to open Friday with a day-long celebration and a performance of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

We find ourselves in police stations and hospitals on the worst days of our lives.

We’ve all heard about a “cry for help.”

It’s not every day that a governmental unit says it has too much money.

We will see many photos of smoking buildings, piles of rubble, memorials and tear-stained faces today.

To the Suttons Bay Norsemen football team, which beat Bear Lake 62-8 and a week later beat the Bellaire Eagles 48-0. The team’s total of 110 points through the first two weeks of the football season are the most in school history.

Words often aren’t worth much if meaningful action doesn’t follow.

A pervasive belief exists that physicians take an oath to “first, do no harm” to their patients.

Record-Eagle readers get a taste of Amish life every Saturday through a syndicated column penned — literally — by Old-Order Amish cook Lovina Eicher.

To The Riverside Inn and Leland business community. The historic inn and upscale American-fare restaurant reopened Tuesday — 10 months and one day after a fire destroyed the kitchen and caused smoke damage throughout the rest of the building.

By late August, many northern Michiganders become a little cynical about festivals, events and visitors.

Newly christened sports teams rarely rise above established competition right out of the gate. It takes time to build the necessary momentum to slug past experienced, well-oiled teams. But there are exceptions.

To the Traverse City Pit Spitters, who capped off their inaugural campaign in dramatic fashion. The Pit Spitters beat the Eau Claire Express 3-2 with their second walk-off victory in four games of the Northwoods League’s playoffs and clinched a league championship in Friday’s Summer Collegiate World Series at Pit Spitters Park in front of 4,636 fans.

Nobody likes to be told what to do.

Most 50-year-old stories tend to be viewed through rose-colored glasses.

Last week’s news showed our inner conflict.

Farmers are tough — especially, it seems, cherry farmers. Every year they face a season of uncertainties. Year after year, they roll with the punches and come out swinging.

Every so often you’d hear it: bleep.

To those who recently gave to the Bay Community Theatre, which received $25,070 in donations in July, surpassing its goal. Actor and comedian Tim Allen, who often summers in Leelanau County, plans to match up to $15,000 of the donations.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer will visit our neck of the northwoods today. We’ve prepared for a gubernatorial visit by assembling our questions about various topics.

Shouting about 2020 elections doesn’t stop the wheels turning on the summer’s township elections set to affect local services and your tax bill in the much shorter — and in some cases, longer term.

To Traverse City Central High School (No. 1,150) and Traverse City West Senior High School (No. 1,649), which recently ranked in the top 8 percent of high schools in the nation on the Jay Mathews Challenge Index. The index takes the number of Advanced Placement, international baccalaureate or Cambridge tests given at a school each year divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year.