ELK RAPIDS - The Village of Elk Rapids has transformed itself over the past few years into a hot spot of boating, culture and shopping. So it's no wonder that Alison and Alonzo Knowles seized the opportunity to open their second Cali's Cottons boutique here...
Consider that most people hadn't even heard of online courses less than a decade ago.Now consider that programs like the Virtual Learning Collaborative offered by the Michigan Community College Association (MCCVLC) will offer 400 online courses this fall alone. And over 5,000 people will tap...
Employee health insurance arose as a widely-offered fringe benefit during World War II, when employers were subject to wage restraints, and were not able to pay their valued employees more in cash.This "invisible" benefit is becoming more and more visible to employers as they continue...
Imagine the grueling work of a nurse. Now combine that with a different hospital, city, apartment and route to work every 13 weeks. Welcome to the life of a traveling nurse."It's a lifestyle option," said Gina Rander, clinical recruiter at Munson Medical Center in Traverse...
TRAVERSE CITY - The most noticeable change to the University Center in Traverse City in the last year is the expansion of their third floor to include 11 new classrooms and cutting edge technology.Now, with the fall semester only days away, many of the universities...
PETOSKEY - The prognosis is good for 20-year-old VitalCare, Inc., a healthcare services organization that provides home, hospice and respiratory care, private duty nursing and home medical equipment.According to Jerry Worden, vice president of finance at Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey and a VitalCare board...
BENZIE COUNTY - They can't quite boast a million items in one store, but what small town grocery stores may lack in volume, they more than make up for in service."We quickly learned that you don't stock things based on your own tastes, you stock...
PETOSKEY - In the 40 years that Stafford and Janice Smith have been innkeepers at The Bay View Inn in Petoskey, they've collected a lot of recipes. About 10 years ago, the couple printed a pamphlet with some of the more oft-requested--like tomato pudding and...
TRAVERSE CITY - When customers of Old Kent Bank heard it was being bought out by Fifth Third Bank earlier this year, one question was on their minds: What's up with that name?There's a very simple explanation. Fifth Third started out as the Bank of...
INTERLOCHEN - We all know the wary feeling of looking over a map, pen in hand, marking the fateful route of a vacation. The town names, highway symbols and map legend do little to tell us what we'll find when we get there.All the while...
