TRAVERSE CITY - Success doesn't happen overnight. Just in case though, Annette Marquis stayed up a few nights to see if it could. And more than a few all-nighters later, she can proudly lay claim to success.As the new Executive Director of the Board of...
TRAVERSE CITY - If you're in the market for a Rolex watch, your shopping just got easier.Federico's Design Jewelers in downtown Traverse City recently became one of less than 1,000 jewelers in the nation to be awarded the privilege of selling Rolex watches."It's been my...
"One woman has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the woman who has it for 30 years who makes a success of her life." -- Edward B. Butler (adapted)TRAVERSE CITY- After 20 years as founder and editor-in-chief of TRAVERSE, Northern...
ELMWOOD TOWNSHIP - Northporte Development Company in Traverse City is getting closer to building a three-floor, 91-unit Homewood Suites hotel across from Elmwood Township Marina on M-22, just south of Cherry Bend Road.Elmwood Township planning commissioners gave the site plan preliminary approval at their June...
TRAVERSE CITY - "We feel that all of our products must reflect the excellence, care, quality, and value that today's buyers want and deserve." Nancy Damoose, president and owner of The Jordan River Store, which opened recently in downtown Traverse City, speaks words every consumer...
TRAVERSE CITY - Your mailing options have just gotten better.Russ Davis, area owner for Mail Boxes Etc. (MBE), reports that a second Traverse City location will be opening at 801 S. Garfield, next to the Computer Haus, in June.Davis has been in the business 15...
TRAVERSE CITY - If it seems like industrial parks are popping up all over, they are. But the supply is still less than the demand."Over the next 10 years we will need to develop an additional 300 acres of environmentally-friendly, light industrial park space to...
BAY HARBOR - For years folks relied on the Old Farmer's Almanac for their weather prognostication. Many probably still do. But with technology and the computer age, a process much more sophisticated than the habits of the woolly caterpillar is what we have come to...
TRAVERSE CITY - "If a picture is worth a thousand words, the view from a helicopter is worth 10,000 words," says Kevin W. Nelson, owner of the region's only commercial turbine helicopter service.Canton is home to the only other such service in the state, and...
