Featured Stories – Page 3 – The Betsie Current Newspaper

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Then & Now

Staff Reports April 16, 2023April 16, 2023 1 comment

More than a century of the Mills Community House

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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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Rehabilitating Northern Michigan’s Wildlife

Staff Reports March 28, 2023March 28, 2023 0 comment

Sleeping Bear Wildlife Fund brings essential service to Benzie and beyond

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Radiant Love

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

The comforting warmth of wood heat

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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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Kevin Crawford: Making a Career out of Games

Aubrey Parker March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

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Seeing Red in MI Backyard

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

Show-stopping native plants

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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 […]

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Ed Carrella: Vita Bella and the Family

Aubrey Parker February 26, 2023February 26, 2023 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

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Weather or Not, It’s Still Winter

Staff Reports February 16, 2023February 16, 2023 0 comment

Where is the snow? By Ross BoissoneauCurrent Contributor It is winter, but it does not necessarily look or feel like it. And that is not likely to change for a while—maybe not at all this year. “It’s milder than normal. It may turn colder toward the end of the month [of January]” says Jeff Zoltowski, […]

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Joshua Davis & May Erlewine

Aubrey Parker December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

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Never Too Late

Staff Reports December 17, 2022December 17, 2022 0 comment

Gaining recognition for a fallen brother

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Filmmaker Rich Brauer

Kelly Ottinger December 15, 2022December 16, 2022 1 comment

Northern Michigan’s heartfelt storyteller

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Story Updates: A Lot Can Happen in a Year or Two (or a Few)

Greta Bolger December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 0 comment

Days For Girls and Grow Benzie FiberShed

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Story Updates: A Lot Can Happen in a Year or Two (or a Few)

Aubrey Parker December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 0 comment

Coastline Cycles, Cottonseed, Lost Lake Farm, and HARP Park updates

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Michelle Rodriguez: The Private Chef Lady Behind ‘Amor Comida’

Aubrey Parker October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

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The Rebirth of Spring

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

Searching for the elusive morel mushrooms

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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

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Jessica Carland: Benzie Bus

Aubrey Parker May 30, 2022May 31, 2022 1 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

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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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Rivers and Regeneration

Staff Reports May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 0 comment

Coming together for the future

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Rice Centennial Farm

Staff Reports May 25, 2022May 25, 2022 0 comment

All in the family, for more than 100 years

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Sally Rook: Dances, Dreamcatchers, and Soap Designs

Aubrey Parker May 24, 2022May 25, 2022 1 comment

Questions and Answers with community faces

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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?

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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 […]