TRAVERSE CITY - Thomas Singer takes great pride in promoting "the simple game of soccer."Yet, there is nothing "simple" about the economic impact that Singer and the Traverse Bay Area Youth Soccer (TBAYS) has on the Grand Traverse area."We estimate that between their two...
I like the idea of erecting the Time Myth sculpture on the Open Space along Traverse City's waterfront. This sculpture would bring a change to the Open Space, and I believe that we are ready for a change. Change is good. It brings...
REGION - You might not be as lean as you think. We're not talking waistlines and pant size here. This is about the extra pounds your company is carrying around-paper-laden office processes, workflow slowed by redundancy and customer service compromised by inefficiencies.The elimination of waste...
This article contains details about enormous, blood-filled ticks, oil pits and microorganism-filled sludge piles. If you can't handle the dirty, drippy, oozing yuck-factor...
Nod if this scene sounds familiar: You're in the grocery store, en route to the dinner party, standing in the wine aisle, wondering what to bring. If you're like most people, you don't choose on price, brand or even variety. Rather, you pick the...
The Grand Traverse region is home to scores of small, successful fruit, coffee, salsa, tea, bread, and other food entrepreneurs. TCBN publisher Luke Haase sat down with four leading foodies on a recent wintery afternoon. Included in the roundtable were:Melissa Ewing, Undercover Vegetable CompanyJeff Hughes,...
When it comes to berries, America's favorites are strawberries and blueberries, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. We also eat more bananas than any other fresh fruit, followed by apples, and oranges. The cherry - the fruit most important to Michigan -...
TRAVERSE CITY - Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but at one area museum, art is now in the hand that holds the video game controller. Walk into the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City and you'll...
TRAVERSE CITY - Technologies like email and the Internet have changed the way companies do business. As a result, the networks that deliver these services are essential to the daily operations of just about any business. An interruption in data services, even for a few...
A company's entire database was encrypted by a disgruntled employee. A ransom note read in effect: "try and break the code or pay me $1 million and I'll give you the password." The company paid the $1 million.A hacker infiltrated a well-known online shopping web...
