All trails start with a step. A thought. An idea.
It’s long past time to bring the children home.
To about 14 volunteers with the Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes who paddled and picked up trash on the Crystal River in Glen Arbor during Thursday morning’s Adopt-A-River cleanup.To Tim and Zach Croll, the father-son pair from Gaylord who are featured on the second season of the reality game …
The coronavirus pandemic hovered overhead throughout the school year, carrying disruption, delay and threat of illness.
One size simply doesn’t fit all.
Public health officials warned us — when it comes to getting a COVID-19 vaccine, it’ll be famine or feast.
Unintended or not, there are real consequences from an effort to reform Michigan’s car insurance regulations.
To Xavier Hack, a senior at Traverse City West Senior High School who is set to graduate Sunday — and is an advocate for himself and others living with autism.
The idea of paying off one debt by incurring another debt seems like the kind of maneuver just about everyone should avoid.
Last year the Record-Eagle Sports Desk was quiet — and, when it came time for the Record-Eagle/John Lober Honor Roll Track Meet, downright glum.
In just a few trips through town this weekend, we witnessed several close calls.
This task simply can’t be someone else’s job.
To the Traverse City St. Francis baseball team, which had its remarkable Lake Michigan Conference win streak snapped, but extended its LMC title run in the same doubleheader.
Bird lovers across northern Michigan should take a break from feeding their feathered friends until mid June.
Get ready, region — the first official weekend of tourist high season is upon us, and experts say pent up travelers will fling themselves our way in record numbers.
Again, state regulators seem bent on allowing the bureaucracy to defy common sense.
To the Friendly Garden Club, which planted more than 5,800 plants in this year’s Logo Garden display at the Open Space in Traverse City.To the Elk Rapids girls tennis team. The Division 4 regional on Thursday made for a special day for Elk Rapids, which qualified for the state finals for the…
There has been plenty of drab news to go around during the past year.
As parents we caution our kids, “the truth is never as bad as the lie.”
Tourist season in northern Michigan starts on Memorial Day Weekend, according to traditional wisdom. Don’t believe it. The holiday still is more than a week away but the tourists already are here.
It isn’t about the contents of a single document.
To Interlochen Public Library, which is one of 200 libraries selected to participate in the American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities: Focus on Small and Rural Libraries program.
Maintenance workers are gearing up for another season of potentially dangerous toil along Michigan’s 120,000 miles of paved highways, roads and streets.
Reporters in any medium are charged with doing the tough work of holding up a mirror to their community.
On Tuesday we learned that 70 percent of eligible adults in Leelanau County got a first dose. Grand Traverse’s numbers stretched a hair past 63 percent. Our two local counties lead the state in rates of eligible adults vaccinated against COVID-19.
To northern Michigan’s girls wrestlers, as well as their coaches and supporters. The Michigan High School Athletic Association approved a separate girls wrestling state championship tournament starting next season.
Michigan’s governor signed House Bill 4469 on Thursday, authorizing Natural Resources Trust Fund spending for another year.
A sturgeon swam into the Boardman River in Traverse City last week. That doesn’t happen every day. The last time the Record-Eagle reported such a sighting was May 2019.
Graduation addresses are meant to inspire. To plug into hope, to expand small notions, to swell the heart with possibilities.
Doing the right thing simply can’t be a temporary change of direction for state regulators.
To the people of northwest Lower Michigan. Inoculation rates in Lower Michigan’s northwest corner continue to tick upward, tracking faster than practically everywhere else in the state in the fight against the ongoing pandemic.
Kalkaska area voters go to the polls Tuesday.
Wondering why Michigan consistently ranks near the bottom in government transparency?
There is no excuse for the abuse our wild places endure at the hands of the lazy, negligent few among us.
The talk with our teens about the “birds and the bees” simply isn’t enough anymore.
To SEEDS Ecology & Education Centers, which this week received a $75,000 state grant through the Renew Michigan program to study organic materials recycling — aka composting — in an effort to optimize systems for the 10-county region.
A spring cold snap. Construction delays. COVID-19-related closures.
Swimming weather soon will return to northern Michigan. So will the water-related dangers that each year claim a hundred or more lives in the Great Lakes.
You can tell the story of a pandemic through its shortages — masks for health care workers, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, diagnostic tests, deliveries, vaccines.
Our mental health system is broken, plain and simple.
To Serra Subaru, which recently donated $22,916 to the Munson Healthcare Pediatric Infusion Clinic with proceeds from the Subaru Share the Love Event. Subaru of America provided $250 to charity for each new vehicle purchased or leased from Nov. 19 to Jan. 4. Customers chose the benefitting o…
We couldn’t bear the idea of this story ending any other way.
Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Department deputies will soon wear body cameras at work, joining a massive, nationwide upswing in their use.
We are thrilled that, after last year’s cancellation, the National Cherry Festival returns to Traverse City on July 3-10, 2021.
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
To the Bellaire girls basketball team for a remarkable season, which saw the Eagles make their first trip to a state championship game. Bellaire ended the season with a record of 18-4, adding Ski Valley Conference, district and regional titles along the way.To Patti Tibaldi, of Traverse City…
The issue: Public health officials and others receive threats in reaction to guidance
Don’t be that neighbor.
Let’s hope — if our car is on fire and we don’t know it — that someone like Derek Bissell is nearby.
They just don’t get it.
To maestro Kevin Rhodes, who is celebrating his 20th anniversary with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra.