For Van Dam Custom Boats of Boyne City, the quest to create world-class wood boats is perhaps dependent on one variable more than any other: the quality of its workers. The company doesn’t have a large work force — only 16 people are employed there...
From a single corner store, Merrie and Chris Corbett have launched a small empire — retail, restaurant, golf, and lodging — that’s taken the tiny village of Central Lake, population 952, from map dot to destination. Merrie Corbett says her lifelong love of Central Lake began when...
In 1999, Charlevoix brothers Jim, Ben, and Mark Manthei were running a heavy construction business and doing work at Bay Harbor, the luxury residential community along Lake Michigan, just south of Petoskey. The development needed a new retaining wall built. The brothers had no experience in...
Every day in small towns across America, economic development efforts are underway. Designed to build economies, drive innovation, or simply draw communities together, these efforts are the engines that stand to transform a town and its way of life. Here, the Traverse City Business News heads into...
Local personal injury lawyers for decades have heavily relied on telephone book advertising to attract clients, running multiple pages of ads and competing for the coveted back cover space. But those days are waning. “Lawyers are ending the nuclear war in the Yellow Pages,” said personal...
Every year when TVC announces the summer schedule with all the great opportunities to travel throughout the world we still receive questions inquiring why we don’t have…So I thought this would be a great time to answer the top three questions. Why don’t we have this...
Culinary medicine support. A peer-to-peer network for food service directors to share healthy food best practices and recipes. School farmers markets and vouchers for teachers to purchase produce. Farm fruit and vegetable drop-offs at purchasing worksites. Those are just a few ways that a $401,513 grant...
A recent report in a state business publication by former Traverse City-based reporter Lindsay VanHulle asked if business interests are losing their “clout” in Michigan’s state capitol. It suggested that “Lansing’s new GOP leadership is ignoring the priorities of business to pursue its own anti-tax...
As a cardiologist, James Fox spends a lot of time trying to help patients understand that the choices in their diet that they make — and have made for years — affect the cardiovascular disease that brings them to his door. But dietary changes are not...
