ACME - Most know the Traverse City area as a rest and relaxation destination, a wine and orchard country, and the culinary center of northern Michigan. People come here to play golf, eat hearty, and hang out on the beach. But if you're...
An unlikely gamefish. An ex-marketing man turned fishing guide and fly casting instructor. Put them together and what do you get? A couple great new reasons people are coming to northern Michigan to fish.Back in March, when Field & Stream-the nation's largest and most respected...
TRAVERSE CITY - There was a time in the not-too-distance past that you didn't have to pay a whole lot to get a web site up and running. All it took was a friend with just a smidgen of Internet design savvy and a little...
TRAVERSE CITY - There are an estimated 25 million golfers in America and they all share one thing-a passion for bettering their game. Enter Russell Edens, president and co-founder of DancinDogg, a 40-year-old East Lansing native and math and computer software-designing wiz. Last year,...
TRAVERSE CITY - The success of Integrated Systems Consultants (ISC), a technology services firm with more than 500 customers, has enabled its founder to seek out new frontiers for his custom software applications. In 1992 Gilbert Mosher launched Professional Medical Placement (PMP), designed to help...
TRAVERSE CITY - They're young, tanned, and pony-tailed-a couple of go-getting brothers from Old Mission Peninsula who've single-handedly put Traverse City on the shortlist of top kiteboarding destinations in the world.If you've never heard of kiteboarding, you're not alone. Twenty years ago nobody heard...
TRAVERSE CITY - Dave Leonhard has watched the business of fly fishing change a lot over the years. The owner of Streamside Orvis in downtown Traverse City, Leonhard was on the river casting a long rod even before the sport went Hollywood and made up...
