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...
I'm frequently asked by local small business operators what my company, Oneupweb, can do to help them with their online marketing efforts. My answer is an embarrassingly blunt, "very little." It's not that we don't provide those services, or that they don't work....
TRAVERSE CITY - Tellurex Corp. continues to roll out products wrapped around its thermoelectric technology. Last year, Tellurex was named one of the area's technology companies to watch in the Business News' annual "Tech Twelve" listing. Tellurex made waves in the automotive industry for its...
TRAVERSE CITY - The new operator of Folgarelli's Market has defaulted on its payments for the gourmet grocery store, and previous owner Donna Folgarelli has sued to get access to its financial records and control of its assets.In late November, the new owner, Newco 424...
BENZIE COUNTYA-1 TOWING, 7448C Cadillac Hwy, Benzonia, Fred E. KerbyA-T TIRE, TOWING AND STORAGE, 7454 Cadillac Hwy, Benzonia, Charles M. Thomas Jr.BENZIE INTERLOCHEN STORAGE, 19251 US-31, Interlochen, Gary LucchettiBENZIE LOCK-IN STORAGE, 19251 US-31, Interlochen, Gary LucchettiBUDS IN HONOR, 10327 Honor Hwy, Honor, John R. Rosa,...
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...
