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Commemorate Earth Week - Work Day at Offield Family Preserve near Harbor Springs

Offield Preserve Work Day - Saturday, April 24, 2010.Want to celebrate Earth Day/Earth Week by giving doing something for nature? Join staff and volunteers of Little Traverse Conservancy at the new 390-acre Offield Family Nature Preserve this Saturday, April 24, anytime between 9 am - 3 pm. This preserve is located between Harbor Springs and the ski resorts, just 10 minutes from Petoskey. Park at Quick Road to help with clearing trails, pulling… Continue

Added by Little Traverse Conservancy on April 22, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

New Wine Tasting List

Uncorked has just selected 29 different wines from local wineries for customers to sample.
There are 5 reds, 5 whites, 5 Rieslings, 6 cherries, 5 specialty wines, and 3 dessert style wines that you can try before purchasing a bottle.
For more information or to check out the tasting list and drink menu before stopping in, visit our website:
www.uncorkedtc.com

Added by Uncorked on March 21, 2010 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Week's catalog and Northern Michigan is blessed with resources

MyWHaT is still up and rolling...6 weeks and a lot of work but we surpassed the 1000 hit in a week mark on Friday for the first time.

Also had my first radio interview with Ron Jolly on WTCM (doesn't seemed to be archived) that went better than expected. Throwing leading edge ideas out into a community reluctant to change is a scary endeavor. Self doubt has a nasty way of creeping into the picture. However, as MyWHaT generates more readers and comments, I'm… Continue

Added by GLHowe on February 13, 2010 at 10:05am — No Comments

Back At It at the Korner Kottage Bed and Breakfast

It's a beautiful sunny day in the village of Suttons Bay, Michigan. Our month in Florida seems like a distant memory already sad to say. But we've been very productive since we've returned to winter in Michigan.

I've made good on my New Year's goals of incorporating healthy oatmeal into my breakfast routine. I'm pleasantly surprised to admit publicly that after all the years I've given it such a bad rap.....the taste and texture is actually growing on me. Of course the taste is so… Continue

Added by Linda Munro on February 11, 2010 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Just Complete the Street already...

Despite years of citizen input and requests for the need, the 2010 opportunity for Traverse City to retrofit an additional portion of Eighth Street with bike lanes may fail to pass the test.

The current design maintains the status-quo and includes two new turning lanes at Barlow and Eighth--encouraging cut-through traffic?

For a larger recap of the issue, visit… Continue

Added by GLHowe on February 2, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

MyWHaT's weekly wrap

It was a great numbers week at My Wheels are Turning (MyWHaT for short)...I was proven not to be crazy, or rather, that if I am crazy, then a whole lot of other people are crazy as well. Interest is strong for pushing for better than the-good-enough attitude and design of public space.

Posts from this week. A mix of short stimulants, how walkability/livability increase wealth, Detroit's new branding, a man rides a bus (big news) and… Continue

Added by GLHowe on January 30, 2010 at 7:33am — No Comments

Saturdays Downtown

It's a beautiful sunny day today; perfect for a stroll downtown Traverse City!

Whether you're shopping, or just getting some exercise in, Uncorked in the back of The Cherry Stop is a great place to stop in and warm up with a sample of wine for $0.50 or a half shot of some MI made spirits for $2.

Tonight we have live music brought to you by The Music Factory

Check them out on their site: http://www.themusicfactorytc.com

So Stop on in Tonight for some great drinks and some… Continue

Added by Uncorked on January 9, 2010 at 2:59pm — No Comments

John Robert Williams- The man behind the lens

Most Traverse City people know John Robert Williams as one of the guys who founded the Traverse City Film Festival and as a local photographer who has operated his photo studio in town for 30 years. His studio also shares his moniker, John Robert Williams Commercial Photography. Some know of his 22 years of creating zany laugh-out-loud floats in the National Cherry Festival’s Cherry Royale Parade.… Continue

Added by Missy Luick on September 18, 2009 at 2:09pm — No Comments

Hosts to Pure Michigan

My wife Deborah is a Michigan girl. Born and raised and proud. She's not shy about it either when talking on blogs and over the Internet. She's "smitten with the mitten," as she likes to tell her out-of-state friends. And a couple of years ago, when we were thinking of taking our vacation out east, she said,

"I don't know. I think I'd like to relax and go Up North. Besides, everything we want to do and our boys want to do is there anyway."

Except whales. And the ocean. She… Continue

Added by Darren King on July 25, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

one down, more to go

Not a day for yachting you say? Certainly not the most thrilling. Despite thick gray threatening clouds overhead, the Traverse City Yacht Club held it's Wednesday races. And despite the dead calm over Grand Traverse Bay the boats did make it back to the marina, eventually. And I was in attendance.

Inspired by the June issue of Traverse Magazine, one of the items on my summer list was to enjoy a drink on the deck at Scott's Harbor Grill while watching the Wednesday yacht races.… Continue

Added by Rachel North on June 17, 2009 at 10:52pm — 1 Comment

Parade of Homes Gives over a $250K Back to the Community

In the 20 years that the Home Builders Association of the Grand Traverse Area has produced the Parade of Homes, over $250K has been given back to the community. The HBA utilizes local non-profit organizations to host each Parade Home and then rewards the organization with a stipend as a thank you for their service. Many local non-profit organizations use this as a primary fundraiser for their group to raise money for their cause. Much of the money… Continue

Added by Home Builders Association of the Grand Traverse Area on May 25, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Parade of Homes and Developments June 20 - 28, 2009

It’s that time of the year when the Home Builders Association opens many doors to you with the 2009 Parade of Homes. Nothing is quite like the feeling of a brand new home; and I invite you to experience the 17 special homes on tour in the Grand Traverse Area. Our participating builders and trades have been working closely together to put the puzzle of these fine homes together.

As you visit this 2009 collection of homes, I’m sure that your… Continue

Added by Home Builders Association of the Grand Traverse Area on May 22, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The Cheese Throw Down Afterglow (and a Trip for Tastebud Travelers Who Missed the Party)

It’s been a few days since I’ve attended the Wisconsin Cheese Throw Down at Bowers Harbor Inn, and I apologize for the delay in the post-party blog. But you see, I’ve been in a cheese coma.

This is what happens when a cheese lover attends an event showcasing a thousand-plus chunks of fine cheese and a dozen cheese-inspired gourmet dishes, all of which is washed down with her favorite local beers and wines.

Judging by the turnout (Bowers Harbor Inn, its fabulous new outdoor… Continue

Added by Lynda Twardowski on May 11, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

I am the cheese.

Living now in Traverse City, a place I consider a food lover’s paradise, it sometimes shames me that my three favorite foods haven’t changed as I’ve become an adult. They are, exactly as they were at age six: pizza, ice cream, and cheese.

These are my deserted-island three. My last-meal trifecta. My go-to, triple-time-healer of a broken heart, bad hangover or even slightly irritable episode of P.M.S.

I eat the big three, I feel joy. It’s very simple.

They don’t… Continue

Added by Lynda Twardowski on May 5, 2009 at 8:11am — 3 Comments

The Catch

Tonight, as I walked from the main cabin to the Wee House, the wind was howling.

Hard.

It sounded like a freight train, circling around our “40″.

I stopped along my snowy trail and listened. Closing my eyes in the dark, I relied on one of my five senses to capture the full moment. My two canine companions also stopped.

I have no doubt our trilogy of horses also had their eyes fixed on us, in the dark… Continue

Added by Sherry Sutherby on March 25, 2009 at 9:47pm — No Comments

Carter Oosterhouse in Traverse City

Go ahead women of Northern Michigan, breathe my rarified air. Yep. I touched Carter Oosterhouse, the carpenter-model-star of a slew of HGTV shows (currently, Red Hot and Green and Carter Can). Want the sizzling truth? He put his arm around me. Okay, enough. I'm old enough to be his mother (he was born when I was a freshman in college—I did the math). But here is what I really want to say about Carter: He’s a really good… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Edwards on March 2, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Meeting Brandon: Traverse City Iraq Veteran Michelle Rudzitis Introduces Me

I got to know Brandon Stout this weekend. Before Saturday afternoon, he’d only been a name—a part of the backstory to the piece I wrote about Traverse City Iraq war veteran in September of 2008 Michelle Rudzitis. On January 22, 2007, Michelle had her leg blown off by a roadside bomb when she was serving in Iraq. Brandon was her driver. The blast killed him.

Since his death, Michelle has gotten to be friends… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Edwards on January 29, 2009 at 9:36am — No Comments

Kids and Cross-Country Skiing in Traverse City

When my husband and I invite kids to go cross-country skiing with us, they've been known to run and hide, or slink off and call their parents to come get them. When we ask parents to bring the family along, they usually hem and haw and say they really should get their kids out skiing—after all, it's one of the healthiest, cheapest sports around—but usually they don't go. They know their kids will whine.

Which would leave me thinking that kids and Nordic skiing just don't mix. Except… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Edwards on January 22, 2009 at 12:03pm — 3 Comments

Pilates in Traverse City

I'm 50. It's winter in Traverse City. I have a desk job.

Two years ago, when I was 48 and it was winter and I had a desk job, I looked down at the midlife crisis my body was in and asked myself if there wasn't some remedy. I think I may have found it. One ingredient to this cure is across the alley in back of my office on Front Street, around the corner and up the flight of steps next to the Omelette Shoppe on Cass. The scent of warm raisin bread with frosting follows me up the…

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Added by Elizabeth Edwards on January 8, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Help with Holiday Pie (Crust)

I spilled the beans that I can't make a good pie crust (or, to be honest, any pie crust) in the October issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Since then, I got a little help from my friend, Olida, a homemade Michigan apple pie lover transplanted to NYC, who had been experimenting all summer with her pie crust while awaiting fall apples. Now she's a pro, even mixing Gruyere cheese in the crust of her apple pies.