Traverse City MI

Fruit shortage hurts everyone

By Bill O'Brien — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:14:59 +0000

Northern Michigan fruit growers in recent years pitched in a portion of their oft-thin profit margin to promote local products on a national stage.

Camp, Benishek to survey crop damage

Traverse City Record-Eagle--Region — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:14:57 +0000

Two Michigan Congressmen will get a look at the widespread crop damage in northern Michigan.

‘Bullycide’ play tells victims’ stories

BY carol south — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:14:55 +0000

Alex Harrison, 16, killed himself after being bullied by his peers. The Cadillac High School student’s story is one of 11 told in the “The Bullycide Project,” a play presented Tuesday at Lars Hockstad Auditorium in Traverse City.

City budget could be approved on Monday

By vanessa Mccray — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:14:53 +0000

The Traverse City commission will wrestle with that question Monday, when it considers approving a proposed 2012-13 budget that includes a $555,525 shortfall.

Women from Traverse City and Lake Ann killed in crash on I-96 off-ramp, say police

Traverse City News — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:21:47 +0000

A second northern Michigan woman has died following a nasty single-car rollover crash on a I-96 off-ramp in Cascade Township late Saturday morning.

Students mark schoolship’s birthday with hands-on lessons

By LORAINE ANDERSON — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:14:59 +0000

Mrs. Micinski’s sixth grade class from Platte River Elementary gathered around a cake and sang Happy Birthday to the Inland Seas after a hands-on science lesson that included everything from Great Lakes history, fish samples, zooplankton and a sailing vocabulary.

Model airplanes will take to the skies today

by Lisa Perkins — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:14:57 +0000

Pilots from across the region will fly scale-model planes and helicopters today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Thompsonville Airport, one mile east of M-115 on Lindy Road.

Warm, dry trend boosts danger of fire

By MARK URBAN — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:14:55 +0000

Tim Locker, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gaylord, said the warm temperatures experienced throughout northern Michigan on Friday will continue through Monday. A brief cool-down follows before temperatures are expected to climb again heading into Memorial Day weekend.

Warm, dry trend boosts danger of fire

By MARK URBAN — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:14:55 +0000

DDA backs bathroom plan

By vanessa Mccray — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:14:53 +0000

The board agreed Friday to pay up to $6,000 in incentives to first-floor businesses on East Front's 100 and 200 blocks to open their bathrooms to the public.