News – The Betsie Current Newspaper

2026 , Businesses , Essays , Featured Stories , History , Issue 1 , News , Print Editions

The Betsie Current, Still Flowing

Aubrey Parker March 26, 2026March 26, 2026 0 comment

15 years in print

2025 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 16 , News , Print Editions , Question and Answers

Victoria & Chris Mekas: Serial Entrepreneurs in Benzie County

Aubrey Parker February 22, 2026February 22, 2026 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

2025 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Fishing , Issue 16 , Nature , News , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

Doe and Dough Donations

Aubrey Parker December 16, 2025December 16, 2025 0 comment

Local and state-led initiatives to get venison into food pantries

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Have You Seen This Fish?

Aubrey Parker October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 0 comment

Help needed to locate the “40s Fish”

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The Hidden Maker

Aubrey Parker October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 0 comment

Making her own reality

2024 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Golfing , History , Horticulture , Iconic Person , Issue 11 , News , Print Editions , Sports

Crystal Downs Country Club

Staff Reports October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 0 comment

History, legacy, and community connections

2025 , Doctor , Featured Stories , Issue 5 , Nature , News , Print Editions

Anaplasmosis

Aubrey Parker October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 0 comment

A new-to-us tick-borne disease in Northern Michigan

2024 , Bakery , Businesses , Featured Stories , Hotels/Motels , Issue 12 , News , Print Editions , Restaurants

Their Luck Is Our Luck

Staff Reports October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 0 comment

ultural exchange workers help in Benzie and Leelanau counties

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Soaring High

Staff Reports October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 0 comment

Green Point Flyers sustain local tradition of motorless flight

2025 , Businesses , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue @ , News , Print Editions

The Betsie Current, Still Flowing

Aubrey Parker March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 0 comment

Tap into your inner George Bailey

2017 , Featured Stories , Issue 6 , News , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

Staying Connected

Beau Vallance March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 0 comment

Incarcerated parents read aloud from Benzie County jail

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , News , Print Editions , Swimming

One Last Ride

Aubrey Parker October 4, 2024October 4, 2024 0 comment

Or is it…?

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People of the Dune

Jim Olson July 16, 2024July 16, 2024 0 comment

Excerpt from a new local novel

2024 , Featured Stories , Horticulture , Issue 6 , Landscaping , Nature , News , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions , Trees, Shrubs, and Grass

Planting Trees and Cultivating Community

Bree McGregor July 2, 2024July 2, 2024 0 comment

Frankfort Tree Board has an eye toward the future

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

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 , Businesses , Farmers , Farms , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 5 , News , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

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

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

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 […]