When the weather authorities tell us, “it’s dry,” we relate it to our own lives: Our lawns that crunch like potato chips. Our thirsty tomatoes…
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Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, 167,284 were still alive last year, but we are losing them at at a rate of about 180 a…
The price that has been paid to preserve America’s precious freedoms can be counted in the lives of those in military service who fought and d…
- To Court Administrator Dawn Wagoner, who is retiring after 29 years with 86th District Court. She was hired by Grand Traverse County in 1994…
The silly season carries many definitions, depending on where you’re from.
To continue as a fully activated military base, Selfridge Air National Guard Base needs a future fighting mission. It’s not enough to just mak…
Words matter — and they are also interpreted differently from person to person.
If we’re reading the tea leaves correctly, attrition is going to be a big problem for Traverse City — if it isn’t already.
- To those who participated in the 2023 Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Summit last week at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. More th…
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Perhaps we should think of potholes as gifts from our government.
In a clever move, apparently to deflect attention away from itself and its responsibilities …
Wonder lumbered into the Central Neighborhood this weekend in the form of a 350-pound black bear.
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook so people could use it to post pictures of Harvard co-eds a…
- To the amazing showing by Traverse City Central Varsity Girls Tennis players who won the B…
When it comes to “best-foot forward” marketing campaigns, Traverse City is dialed in.
In his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot tells us that the world will end, “not with a …
The map’s color that jumps out first isn’t the fire-engine red checkerboard of Africa, nor t…
The votes are in and it’s confirmed: The Great Lakes State flunks transparency.
- To Sarah Sergent and the roughly 200 students expected to graduate from Northwestern Michi…
Dear Michigan Department of Natural Resources people:
Who wants to swim in a lake full of human septic, um, matter?
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