Ruth Brandau opens her family's cherished vacation beach home to renters each summer, though she'd rather be there herself."When I talk about it, I want to be there," she said. Ruth and her husband Louis bought the home on Lake Michigan in Glen Arbor in...
TRAVERSE CITY-A chance meeting 11 years ago at Mardi Gras in New Orleans between an energetic Aussie and an Elk Rapids tourist sparked the founding of Michigan's largest boat and watercraft rental business. "He made it sound so good, I came to the area to...
What's the next big Michigan tourism idea? Nine hundred people will decide soon.A competition offering a $5,000 prize for a winning Michigan tourism idea will end at the upcoming Pure Michigan Governor's Conference on Tourism - an annual gathering that's seen as a must-attend event...
ELK RAPIDS - Wanted: TART Trail expansion to Elk Rapids. Needed: Direction, connections and cash.The Rotary Club of Elk Rapids has been looking at a connection to the TART Trail in Acme for years. Heading from Traverse City, the TART Trail currently ends at Bunker...
TRAVERSE CITY-There's a business in town that recently signed a lucrative contract with a multinational French corporation to produce a line of products, creating a huge buzz in the manufacturing community in northern Michigan. It's expected to create 94 sustainable jobs, utilize the skills of...
REGION - It's pretty easy being green, especially if your home is energy efficient and for sale. In fact, the Traverse Area Association of Realtors (TAAR) has made green housing easier to find, buy and sell.Four years ago, TAAR was among the first in the...
TRAVERSE CITY - Tim Burden brightens up around light-emitting diodes. And why shouldn't he? The CEO of CooLED, Inc. is in an industry that experts say is poised to explode: By 2020, 70 percent of public lighting is predicted to be LED lighting."We expect to...
The Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce kicked off its 26th class of Leadership Grand Traverse last month. These 25 leaders join the more than 750 alumni of the program. That's an extraordinary number of people exposed not only to leadership training, but also the...
More won't get us there by defaultThe only thing more expensive than good roads, aren't just bad roads, but wasteful roads that create liabilities for current and future generations. Every newly paved lane mile of highway is like a new car freshly driven off the...
★★★★Wiley, 2013 - Hardcover $19.99, Kindle $18.99"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around, you might miss it." -Ferris BuellerWe've all heard the old adage that many entrepreneurs are too busy working in the business and not on...
