Traverse House Receives Coveted ICCD AccreditationTRAVERSE CITY - The International Center for Clubhouse Development (ICCD) recently granted first-time accreditation for Traverse House Clubhouse, a program under the auspices of Northern Lakes Community Mental Health (CMH), where people who have had mental illness come to rebuild...
TRAVERSE CITY - Jason Backlund, a Great Lakes Culinary Institute grad and Upper Peninsula native, just returned to TC from a six-month cooking gig in Antarctica. He was based at the McMurdo Station, a U.S. Antarctic research center operated by the National Science Foundation.Backlund, 33,...
TRAVERSE CITY - Local runner Holly Shurg isn't out to take top place in her age group, or even to run lots of races for that matter. Her goal is simple: Just keep running."I'm not a fast runner, I don't run high mileage," says Shurg,...
A look at the local franchise market, what it takes to be an owner, and how one locally based company decided franchising was the right growth strategy for them.By Lynn GeigerTRAVERSE CITY - It took more than four years from the day Josh and Deanna...
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TRAVERSE CITY - Emerald Wine System is officially available for purchase. The patent-pending computerized wine dispenser - developed by Ed O'Keefe Jr., founder of Chateau Grand Traverse winery, with Bob Kalik, long time wine industry counsel and former president of the American Vintners Association -...
REGION - Tiffany Stone's personal training business reaches far outside her home turf of Traverse City. Her client list carries some weight - it includes celebrities. And these well-known athletes and authors are talking about her, happily spreading the word.Why Stone? What is she doing...
The local building and construction market may seem sluggish to some, but for one local entrepreneur time is on his side, and his building business is flourishing.Dean Adams, the young and gregarious owner of Bay Area Contracting, in part attributes his business success to taking...
Traverse City - During the past five years, Jerry Huron, R.N., Munson Medical Center's Intensive Care Unit manager has helped provide 47 life-saving organs for transplantation and tissue grafts from 97 tissue donors. For his commitment to life-saving organ and tissue donation, Gift of Life...
REGION - Landowners who have applied to enroll their land in Michigan's PA 116 program - in which they agree to keep their land in agricultural use for 10 to 90 years in exchange for various special assessments and potential tax credits - might have...
