Come fall, it’s time to put away the books and games, pull out the dock and store the chairs and water toys in an end-of-season ritual known as “closing the cottage.”
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Come fall, it’s time to put away the books and games, pull out the dock and store the chairs and water toys in an end-of-season ritual known as “closing the cottage.”
Linda Bugai knew how to treat patients with dementia. She’d been doing it for years as a nurse’s aide who specialized in geriatrics and home care. Then her husband became a dementia patient.
Longtime Traverse City resident Ardie Haughn got a birds-eye view of East Grand Traverse Bay as a gift for her 80th birthday. Ardie’s birthday was Aug. 18, but because of weather delays she soared over East Bay on Aug. 30 on her first parasailing adventure. (Plus more good news from around the region.)
The Boardman River in Traverse City wasn’t a pretty sight at the turn of the last century. It was a city sewer, and it flowed into West Bay, the source of the city’s water supply.
Human activity has greatly transformed the Beaver Island archipelago in northern Lake Michigan.
Construction bids are in for a publicly funded parking deck in Traverse City’s Old Town neighborhood, the lowest coming in about $1.6 million under the anticipated budget.
Benito Vasquez Jr. dedicated nine years of life and labor to Chris and Janet Hubbell’s fruit processing operation, Cherry Blossom LLC. His reward: The Hubbells stiffed him for four weeks’ pay and Vasquez’s bank sued when his Cherry Blossom-issued paycheck bounced.
Judge tosses portion of ex-sherrif’s lawsuit; Commission, Pavilions to retain money; Growers report mixed results for pumpkins; Ex-referee is charged for nude photos; TCAPS teachers’ union files complaint; GT County board to keep free benefits; GT Band authorizes ‘extensive’ budget cuts; Leelanau County sheriff fires sergeant; Volcanoes to blame for woeful local summer
Due to a reporter’s error, a brief in Saturday’s Record-Eagle incorrectly stated that Michigan Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kelly defeated former Chief Justice Clifford Taylor in the November election.
In July 1987, the then-wife of Michigan State Police Sgt. Melvin Holbrook turned his service weapon on him and fired two shots, an incident that preceded by two decades Holbrook’s shooting death, allegedly by another wife.