Ukrainian refugee arrives in Michigan to meet her grandchildren
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A Moment of Joy and Happiness Amid War
Jacob Wheeler
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Ukrainian refugee arrives in Michigan to meet her grandchildren
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Read MoreSleeping Bear Gateways Council aims to help National Lakeshore
Read MoreNational Park increases water-safety awareness
Read MoreFrom 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 […]
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Read MoreWhen 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. […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
Read MoreMichigan’s first farm-based distillery opens near Thompsonville
Read MoreNew brewing and bottling plant coming to Frankfort
Read MoreNational Park tries to curtail dangerous behavior on Platte River
Read MoreQuestions & Answers with community faces
Read MoreTourism economy booms, but finding help proves elusive
Read MoreElberta Farmers’ Market welcomes Grow Benzie
Read MoreThe ins and outs of a small town
Read MoreElberta’s cultural watering hole re-opens
Read MoreProtecting bridges and saving fish on the Betsie
Read More“L’chayim, Beulah. To life!”
Read MoreSong of the Lakes releases first album in over a decade
Read MoreLast fall, Kurt and Samantha Dellicker scored their own piece of Northern Michigan heaven, right here in Benzie County.
Read More“Cadillac of sauna stoves” are made right here in Benzie
Read MoreAccording to Allen L. Blacklock’s book, History of Elberta, and records from the Benzie Area Historical Museum, the site where The Cabbage Shed now sits, on Waterfront Lots 16 and 17, was first occupied by a general merchandise store, built in 1867 by George A. Douglas. It was the first commercial building in Elberta, which […]
Read MorePopular venue that rocked Betsie Bay for three decades will continue
Read MoreHow Glen Arbor picked itself up
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