The Betsie Current Newspaper

2022 , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Print Editions

The Future Will Not Wait

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

A message for the youth, from the youth

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 4 , Native American Culture & History , Noah Sorenson , Print Editions

What’s In A Name?

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

Stories behind the names of Benzie County

2023 , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 4 , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions , Question and Answers

Kristin Fleetwood: Housing Community

Aubrey Parker April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

2023 , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 4 , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

Then & Now

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

More than a century of the Mills Community House

2023 , Brewery , Essays , Issue 3

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

2023 , Author , Brewery , Businesses , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 3 , Print Editions

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

2023 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 3 , Print Editions

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

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 3 , Print Editions

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

2023 , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 2 , Print Editions , Question and Answers

Kevin Crawford: Making a Career out of Games

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

Questions & Answers with community faces

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Horticulture , Issue 2 , Landscaping , Landscaping , Native American Culture & History , Nature , Print Editions , Trees, Shrubs, and Grass

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 […]

2023 , Businesses , Culinary Artists , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Question and Answers , Restaurants

Ed Carrella: Vita Bella and the Family

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

Questions & Answers with community faces

2023 , Featured Stories , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Skating , Skiing

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, […]