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Image for Craft beverage sales to benefit Michigan native fish species is of gloved hands holding a young Arctic grayling from the Oden State Fish Hatchery and below that photo is one of a pair of hands, palms up, holding a small sturgeon, ready to be released into the Manistee River below it. Photo is from the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.

Craft beverage sales to benefit Michigan native fish species

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Image for taking steps to conserve dark skies is by William Markey. The northern lights in white and green against the dark sky illuminate trees in the foreground. A beam of red light known as STEVE also appears in the photo, taken on Beaver Island.

Taking steps to conserve dark skies in Michigan

March 18, 2025 No Comments

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Local real estate agent Debie Nale wearing a brown hat and blue coat is looking at the camera from the side and in the distance is Lake Michigan photographed from the Arcadia Overlook. Photo by John Nale.

Local real estate agent to appear on HGTV

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Films to be shown image is of a schedule of individual films set against water with ripples and the words Water Film Series. World Water Day, March 22, and a logo from the Great Lakes Environmental Festival. All film segment names and descriptions are in the story.

Films to be shown ahead of World Water Day 

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Image is a compilation of old time seed catalogs showing plump ripe tomatoes. Images in the public domain.

Order your seeds now

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Photo by Carl Freeman of a snowy owl, perched on a vertical limb, wings outstretched, facing the camera. It is set against a blue sky with sunlight on its head, shoulders and body.

Spotting snowy owls: the original ‘snowbirds’

January 12, 2025 No Comments

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Image for Nonprofits we featured in 2025 is the logo of giving tuesday which is written in blue font with the v in giving as a red heart. image courtesy of giving tuesday

Nonprofits we featured in 2024

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Image for Every day's like Christmas is of tiny houses in various stages of construction outside the BARC Kaleva location. Photo by Valerie Chandler.

Every day’s like Christmas at Kaleva’s recycling-resale center

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Kaleva Art Gallery storefront on Wuoski Avenue in Kaleva. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Fridays and Sundays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.

Drawings for veterans, December marketplace

December 1, 2024 No Comments

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Image for Lifes too short is of D.J. Val at her mixing board in a Chicago nightclub. There is a giant white rat behind her ( a person in a costume) and people dancing in front of her. Her husband Patrick Harmon is behind her taking a photo with his cellphone. Photo by erikmkommer dot com.

Life’s too short: Rise up and dance!

November 28, 2024 1 Comment

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Image for Ludington to host North Country Opera screening is a scene from Jay Stielstra's opera. The setting is the fictional Buckhorn Bar in northern Michigan with a wooden bar with a Budweiser sign over it, a few wooden stools in front of it, a table with a red and white checked tablecloth and three cast members. All are singing with their hands in the air. One customer, a woman wearing a sweater over her flowered dress is seated at a barstool and in one of her hands raised over her head is a beer can. The other customer with one raised hand is wearing a white shirt and a tie beneath a black business suit coat and slacks. He is standing and his shirttail is hanging out over the front of one pant leg. The third person in the bar is the bartender. There is a fourth person with raised arms but that person cannot be seen readily behind the woman seated at the bar.

Ludington to host ‘North Country Opera’ screening

November 7, 2024 No Comments

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Image for Craft of giving is of a vendor, the author's daughter, sitting at a craft fair table with her petoskey stone and driftwood jewelry. Photo: Valerie Chandler.

Crafted for giving

November 2, 2024 No Comments

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    Gasoline ReFind Vintage advertisement is a close up of the red, white and blue sign with the store's name on the side of the store's weathered wooden siding. To the right of the image of the sign is a bright yellow box with the words Sharing Shack Always Open. Gasoline ReFind Vintage store is open May through Thanksgiving Weekend, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The store is located at Potter and Erdman roads, west of Bear Lake. Click on this ad to be taken to the website.
    Advertisement for Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy is a photo of a shallow place in Lake Michigan with green and blue water. The water is so clear the ripples in the sandy lake bottom can be seen. In the distance is the shoreline of sand with green trees above it and two sand cliffs topped by trees that could be on the Leelanau Peninsula. The message overlaid on top of the water reads: Love the land. Pass it on. click on this ad to be taken to the website.
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