Jacob Wheeler

2025 , Doctor , Featured Stories , Issue 5 , Medical , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions , Teachers

Funding Shortfalls and Low Vax Rates

Jacob Wheeler October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 0 comment

Health Department faces federal funding cuts and low measles vaccination rates

2025 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Real Estate

Dollar General Targets Maple City Again

Jacob Wheeler February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 1 comment

Leelanau remains only county in Michigan without discount chain store

2024 , Businesses , Canoeing , Featured Stories , History , Issue 6 , Maritime History , Nature , News , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore , Stand-up Paddle Boarding , Swimming

Riverside Canoes Celebrates 60 Years

Jacob Wheeler July 1, 2024July 1, 2024 0 comment

And wins National Park lawsuit, again

2024 , Bakery , Businesses , Farms , Featured Stories , Issue 5 , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Their Land or Our Land?

Jacob Wheeler June 2, 2024June 2, 2024 0 comment

Can we coexist with black bears?

2024 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 2 , Print Editions

Twin Flames Universe

Jacob Wheeler February 24, 2024February 24, 2024 0 comment

A Suttons Bay inferno of controversy

2024 , Essays , Featured Stories , Football , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Sports

Hail

Jacob Wheeler February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 0 comment

Confessions of a once reluctant Michigan Wolverine

2023 , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 8 , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

Independence, At A Cost

Jacob Wheeler July 19, 2023July 19, 2023 0 comment

Nicaraguan political prisoners take refuge in Empire

2022 , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 5 , News , Print Editions

A Moment of Joy and Happiness Amid War

Jacob Wheeler June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 0 comment

Ukrainian refugee arrives in Michigan to meet her grandchildren

2021 , COVID-19 Heroes , Featured Stories , Issue 4 , Medical , Non-profits , Print Editions

A Year into the Pandemic

Jacob Wheeler April 28, 2021June 3, 2021 0 comment

Meet the public health workers protecting our community from COVID-19

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Late Summer Swoon

Jacob Wheeler October 14, 2019 0 comment

Man swims to North Manitou Island

2019 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Issue 9 , Nature , Noah Sorenson , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Growing Pains

Jacob Wheeler September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 0 comment

Sleeping Bear Gateways Council aims to help National Lakeshore

2017 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 4 , Maritime History , Nature , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Preventing Drowning Deaths

Jacob Wheeler April 3, 2018 0 comment

National Park increases water-safety awareness

Coach , Humans of Benzie County , Iconic Person , News , Volleyball

BREAKING: Jordan Bates Cleans His Room!

Jacob Wheeler March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 0 comment

From staff reports There’s breaking news in downtown Frankfort, Michigan, tonight. Jordan Bates has cleaned his room! The Betsie Current co-editor and all-around-town cheery good guy has lived almost his entire life in Frankfort (in the purple house near the stoplight) and he’s known for good jokes, winning at trivia, bad jokes while fishing, and […]

2016 , Author , Iconic Person , Print Editions

Northern Michigan Authors Remember Jim Harrison

Jacob Wheeler January 2, 2017 0 comment

Views on legendary Jim Harrison

2016 , Art , Artists , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Print Editions

Benzie’s Decoration Man

Jacob Wheeler December 8, 2016December 29, 2016 0 comment

When the holidays arrive, Marley’s decorations thrive. By Jacob Wheeler Current Editor Back when he was a student at Benzie Central, native son Marley Demers got the idea to place Christmas decorations in the school cafeteria. He contacted the food service director, and she approved. Ever since then, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s, and St. […]

2016 , Featured Stories , Non-profits , Print Editions

From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock

Jacob Wheeler December 6, 2016December 29, 2016 1 comment

A Benzie Thanksgiving among the Dakota Sioux to protest an oil pipeline. By Jacob Wheeler Current Editor “They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.” —Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of […]