By 1892, three railroad lines served the city: Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad; the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad; and the Manistee and Northeastern.
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By 1892, three railroad lines served the city: Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad; the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad; and the Manistee and Northeastern.
Volunteers in Traverse City brightened this Thanksgiving Day for hundreds of people by hand-delivering thanksgiving meals.
Shoppers didn’t jostle for position hours before daybreak. There weren’t any “doorbuster” specials. Nary an oversized flat panel TV was on display. And it’s just the way a small group of shoppers in downtown Suttons Bay wanted to spend a Friday morning.
Only one thing could induce Larry Crocenzi to leave his cozy bed at 4 a.m. to walk around town in his bathrobe: The annual Glen Arbor Pajama Party and Sale.
A longtime local news anchor known to thousands of northern Michigan households as Dave Walker died after a two-year battle with cancer. Eugene E. Telman II, 63, died Thursday surrounded by his wife, family and friends. He was fondly remembered as a mentor and friend through his long career at WPBN/WTOM-TV, the Traverse City-based NBC affiliate.
Garfield Township board members butted heads less than a week into their new jobs. Township officials met Nov. 21, their first gathering since being voted into office Nov. 4. The meeting featured a discussion on how to cut the township budget, and included a heated discussion about trustees’ health insurance benefits.
Area business operators are primed for the start of snowmobile season.
Lyle Reed was among more than a dozen people who voiced concerns during a Wednesday public hearing about a plan by Grand Traverse County’s Brownfield Authority to capture 99 percent of property taxes paid by the Copper Ridge development to build a parking deck for Munson.
It was mostly quiet in the kitchen at Traverse City’s Park Place Hotel at 7 a.m. Call it the calm before the storm: early Thanksgiving Day as restaurant workers shuffle in for what they knew to be a long, demanding shift.