Essays – The Betsie Current Newspaper

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Hail

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

Confessions of a once reluctant Michigan Wolverine

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Winter Swimming in Lake Michigan

Staff Reports January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 5 comment

Multi-generational group finds community and resilience in cold water

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 16 , Print Editions

When You’re In Your 80s, Why Wait?

Aubrey Parker January 17, 2024January 17, 2024 2 comment

Dodie Toman and Fred Snow make a commitment

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Beneath The Surface

Staff Reports September 21, 2023September 21, 2023 2 comment

One woman’s struggle with ACEs and CPTSD

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Travel Musings

Aubrey Parker July 2, 2023July 2, 2023 0 comment

Finding gratitude at the gate

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Chattering and Mattering

Staff Reports July 2, 2023July 2, 2023 0 comment

When gossip is good

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Big Fish Tale

Staff Reports June 26, 2023June 26, 2023 0 comment

When the one that got away isn’t a fish

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Summers in Beulah

Staff Reports June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 3 comment

A family history of Reedcraft Weavers (1940-2011)

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Incipience in Thompsonville

Staff Reports May 27, 2023May 27, 2023 1 comment

Early spring comes to Northern Michigan

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Memorial Morses

Staff Reports May 26, 2023May 26, 2023 1 comment

Local brothers take Honor Flight

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The Future Will Not Wait

Staff Reports May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 0 comment

A message for the youth, from the youth

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What’s In A Name?

Staff Reports April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 1 comment

Stories behind the names of Benzie County

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Dark and Stormy Essay Contest 2023: Second Place

Staff Reports March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 1 comment

Second-place winner of annual Stormcloud essay contest

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Dog-Gone Manifestation

Aubrey Parker March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 1 comment

Local girl writes essay about a lost dog just weeks before losing her dog

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Radiant Love

Staff Reports March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 0 comment

The comforting warmth of wood heat

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 2 , Print Editions

1906: A Summer to Remember

Staff Reports March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 0 comment

Donated historical photos bring a family to life

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Seeing Red in MI Backyard

Staff Reports March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 0 comment

Show-stopping native plants

2023 , COVID-19 Heroes , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 1 , News , Print Editions

From Pandemic Penguins in a Plague House to a Parakeet in a Parking Lot

Aubrey Parker March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 0 comment

A long and winding story about friendship and fate, perhaps… By Aubrey Ann ParkerCurrent Contributor I grew up in and around Traverse City, where both sets of my grandparents lived—Cedar, Williamsburg/Acme, and then Lake Ann/Interlochen. My best friend from college, Quinn Davis, also grew up in Traverse City, but we didn’t become friends until we […]

2022 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 5 , Nature , Print Editions

The Rebirth of Spring

Staff Reports June 12, 2022June 12, 2022 0 comment

Searching for the elusive morel mushrooms

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Preserving Family Photos

Staff Reports June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 0 comment

A window to your family’s past

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Keep It Wild

Staff Reports May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 2 comment

To see the forest in the weeds

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Receding Snow

Staff Reports May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 0 comment

How do we know if we have navigated a season well?

2022 , Businesses , Essays , Farmers , Farms , Featured Stories , Horticulture , Iconic Person , Issue 3 , Landscaping , Landscaping , News , Print Editions

Phenology

Staff Reports May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 0 comment

A farmer’s ode to the season change By Charla BurgessCurrent Contributor I have missed the afternoon ritual of hiking out to the maple bush to check the taps. Each step a dance between winter and spring; a deliberateness to this sun. It is always the trees speaking to me of my next moves. When their […]

2021 , Businesses , COVID-19 Heroes , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 16 , Print Editions

Shop Local #2

Aubrey Parker February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 0 comment

Make a difference this holiday season

2021 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 13 , Print Editions

Suicides (Not) in the Media

Aubrey Parker January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 0 comment

A journalist’s view