The Betsie Current Newspaper

2017 , Events , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Print Editions

The Sun Shines in Thomponsville

Aubrey Parker June 18, 2017June 19, 2017 1 comment

17th Annual SummerFest provides family fun and community resources

2017 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Nature , Print Editions , Question and Answers

Jim MacInnes: Benzie’s Renewable Energy Leader

Staff Reports June 15, 2017April 1, 2018 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

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

Foreign Exchange Students: What do they think about Benzie?

Aubrey Parker June 1, 2017September 11, 2017 0 comment

Questions & Answers with community faces

2017 , Businesses , Farms , Featured Stories , Issue 2 , Print Editions

All Aboard for Norconk Asparagus

Staff Reports June 1, 2017September 11, 2017 0 comment

Choo-choo!

2017 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Issue 2 , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

Where’s My Cheese? A Food Co-op Story

Staff Reports June 1, 2017September 11, 2017 0 comment

Still Grinning Co-op members have been rounding up healthy food and smiles since 1996

2017 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Horticulture , Iconic Person , Issue 1 , Landscaping , Landscaping , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions , Trees, Shrubs, and Grass

Growing Native in Benzie County

Staff Reports May 21, 2017September 11, 2017 0 comment

Our local gardening and native plant network

2017 , Featured Stories , Horticulture , Issue 1 , Nature , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore , Trees, Shrubs, and Grass

Baby’s Breath: One Person’s Bouquet, Another’s Nemesis

Staff Reports May 20, 2017September 11, 2017 0 comment

Removing invasive species from Elberta Beach

2017 , Art , Artists , Businesses , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 1 , Print Editions

Phoenix Furniture From The Ashes

Greta Bolger May 19, 2017September 11, 2017 0 comment

The “Wooden Bike Guy” is back in business, after quite a ride

2017 , Businesses , Culinary Artists , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Question and Answers

Cory Bissell: The Candy Man

Aubrey Parker May 18, 2017April 1, 2018 0 comment

Questions and Answers with community faces

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

BREAKING: Jordan Bates Cleans His Room!

Jacob Wheeler March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 0 comment

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 purple house near the stoplight) and he’s known for good jokes, winning at trivia, bad jokes while fishing, and […]

2016 , Author , Iconic Person , Print Editions

Northern Michigan Authors Remember Jim Harrison

Jacob Wheeler January 2, 2017 0 comment

Views on legendary Jim Harrison

2006 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Print Editions , Restaurants

Romance at The Cabbage Shed

Susan Koenig December 29, 2016December 29, 2016 0 comment

Find your mate (or someone else’s) waiting for you in Elberta

2016 , Businesses , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Print Editions , Question and Answers , Restaurants

The Cabbage Shed Revisited

Susan Koenig December 28, 2016December 29, 2016 0 comment

An interview with Jim Clapp, en route back to Elberta from Florida

2016 , Art , Artists , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Print Editions

Benzie’s Decoration Man

Jacob Wheeler December 8, 2016December 29, 2016 0 comment

When the holidays arrive, Marley’s decorations thrive. By Jacob Wheeler Current Editor Back when he was a student at Benzie Central, native son Marley Demers got the idea to place Christmas decorations in the school cafeteria. He contacted the food service director, and she approved. Ever since then, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s, and St. […]

2016 , Featured Stories , Non-profits , Print Editions

From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock

Jacob Wheeler December 6, 2016December 29, 2016 1 comment

A Benzie Thanksgiving among the Dakota Sioux to protest an oil pipeline. By Jacob Wheeler Current Editor “They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.” —Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of […]