Hail

Confessions of a once reluctant Michigan Wolverine

Growing Pains

Sleeping Bear Gateways Council aims to help National Lakeshore

BREAKING: Jordan Bates Cleans His Room!

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 […]

Benzie’s Decoration Man

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. […]

From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock

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 […]