Traverse City News and Latest Info
Thomas Swartzmiller, a second-grader at Norris Elementary, has Stage IV Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the lymph nodes. His family travels about twice a week to Grand Rapids, where Thomas, 8, receives chemotherapy treatments. Chemotherapy likely won’t end until fall, he said, and the back-and-forth travel expenses are beginning to add up.
Harry W. Armstrong battled alcoholism for most of his life, but that didn’t stop him from helping others.
The federal government approved trust status for a large land tract owned by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, but tribal officials said there’s no immediate plans to launch commercial development there.
He sunk his boat on his bachelor party, but Bryan Wyzgoski figures his bride-to-be will forgive him.
Reservations tripled over the last week for a statewide reunion of World War II veterans titled the Last Lasting Tribute.
Wayne and Lana Packman recently found themselves in a financial “stranglehold” and facing foreclosure when their monthly house payment ballooned from $600 to $800 per month. But now they’re are among a growing list of more than two dozen area homeowners whose homes and financial futures are back on track, thanks to a Foreclosure Rebound program through the nonprofit Benzie Housing Council.
Residents of Traverse City’s French Manor Inn won’t be evicted.
A former employee of Shanty Creek Resorts is charged with embezzlement.
The city’s water department will be flushing water mains through fire hydrants.