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2020, Coach, Featured Stories, Iconic Person, Issue 2, Print Editions, Question and Answers, Running, Sports

Traci & Asa Kelly: Teachers and Running Coaches

Questions & Answers with community faces

Josh Bedell is a mail carrier for the United States Postal Office. For 11 years, he worked as a substitute carrier all over the greater Northern Michigan region, including his hometown of Frankfort, pictured here. For the past two years, however, he has had his own route in Traverse City. Photo by Aubrey Ann Parker.

2019, Biking, Brewery, Distillery, Featured Stories, Iconic Person, Issue 11, Print Editions, Question and Answers

Q&A: Josh Bedell Drives on the Wrong Side

Questions & Answers with community faces

Benzie County Sheriff's Deputy Geoff Miller Benzie County Central Schools Frankfort City Police Officer Tiffany Wright Frankfort-Elberta Area Schools SRO School Resource Officer millage The Betsie Current

2019, Baseball & Softball, Coach, Featured Stories, Football, Iconic Person, Issue 10, Law Enforcement, Print Editions, Question and Answers, Sports, Volleyball

Q&A: Geoff Miller and Tiffany Wright Are School Resource Officers (SROs) at Benzie and Frankfort Schools

Questions & Answers with community faces

Dr. Dennis Pace Benzie Area Youth Soccer BAYS 4H Benzie soccer Benzonia Memorial Park Almira Township Park Scarborough Family Eye Care Center

2017, Coach, Featured Stories, Iconic Person, Print Editions, Soccer

Dennis Pace Remembered

Saying goodbye to an old friend

From left to right: Matteo, Basile, Laurits, Linus, Alessandro. Photo by Aubrey Ann Parker.

2017, Featured Stories, Issue 2, Print Editions, Question and Answers, Sports

Foreign Exchange Students: What do they think about Benzie?

Questions & Answers with community faces

Coach, Humans of Benzie County, Iconic Person, News, Volleyball

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…

The Platte River will have seen a record number of visitors at the end of July, according to predictions. Photo courtesy of Joe Lachowski/Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

2016, Businesses, Canoeing, Featured Stories, Nature, Print Editions, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Sports

Booze Cruise: Animal House on the River

National Park tries to curtail dangerous behavior on Platte River

Featured Stories, Iconic Person, News, Sports, Volleyball

Frankfort Volleyball Queen Coronated

Becky Miller is pleased to announce this year’s Volleyball Queen, senior Mackenna Kelly.

2015, Coach, Iconic Person, Print Editions, Question and Answers, Soccer

Dennis Pace, More than Meets the Eye

Questions & Answers with community faces

Coach, Events, Featured Stories, Football, History, Iconic Person, News, Sports

Perfect Football Season, 50 Years Later: 1965 Panthers Celebrate “Coach”

Celebration starts at 5pm on September 11, 2015

Where the grickle grass grows on a former cottage site on Otter Lake. Photo courtesy of Tom Stone.

2015, Nature, Print Editions, Running, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Sports

Running the Platte Plains Trails

4 Mile Out-and-Back or 4.6-Mile Loop

Dr. Jake Flynn at Crystal Lake Clinic. Photo by Aubrey Ann Parker.

2015, Businesses, Doctor, Featured Stories, Iconic Person, Print Editions, Question and Answers, Running, Sports

Dr. Jake Flynn: Running Races and Runny Noses

Questions & Answers with community faces

2015, Baseball & Softball, Events, Featured Stories, Print Editions, Sports

Field of Dreams

Community tradition connected by America’s pastime

2015, Events, Featured Stories, Nature, Print Editions, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Sports, Stand-up Paddle Boarding

From Beyond the Horizon: A jubilant Frankfort crowd greets the paddlers from Wisconsin

By Nancy Bissonnette Bordine They gathered on the shore of Frankfort Harbor, all eyes on the horizon. The breeze ruffling their hair was subtly chilled from traveling over the yet cold waters of Lake Michigan. The white silhouettes of three…