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6 days ago | 
northernexpress.com | Anna Faller |Ellen Miller |Ren Brabenec |Matt Dursum
Bottoms Up By Anna Faller | April 19, 2025 With the spring sun finally in the sky, we’re craving a sip that’s just as bright, and the 2022 Riesling Trocken from Brengman Family Wines drinks like bottled fresh air.
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Molly Cox |Art Bukowski |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
Bestselling author Leif Enger on subversion, writing, and hope By Molly Cox | April 12, 2025 In the near-future world of Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse, a few ultra-wealthy autocrats control the world, while the majority of people are indentured servants with little autonomy, living in extreme debt and poverty.
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Anna Faller |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
What do know when you’re first trying cannabis products By Anna Faller | April 12, 2025 Michigan is now home to over 1,000 cannabis dispensaries and tenfold more cannabis products. As a newbie, navigating the evolving world of weed can feel, well, hazy. Where do you start? What effects can you expect? Can cannabis really help with sleep and pain, or is it just for fun?
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
Bottoms Up April 12, 2025 It’s nearly pink drink season (come on, warmer days!), so to ease ourselves in, we’re sipping on the non-alcoholic Bubbly Rosé from Grüvi this spring. What we liked: just the right amount of bubbles, 60 calories per bottle, and that perfectly pink hue. What we loved: the sweet-meets-tart flavor profile, which first comes across as sugary strawberries then hits you with tart green apple.
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Ren Brabenec |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Anna Faller
International Affairs Forum to host event featuring NMC student leaders and guest speakers By Ren Brabenec | April 12, 2025 “It’s a physical letter to your representative,” Alex Tank says when asked to define the word “protest.” As the director of the Traverse City International Affairs Forum (IAF), Tank and a group of students on the IAF Student Leadership Team have been working together for months, studying student-led activism and protest movements from the past to the present. On April...
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
April 12, 2025 Several local groups—Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation, Charlevoix County Community Foundation, Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce, Charlevoix Area Chamber of Commerce, Northern Lakes Economic Alliance, and Venture North Funding and Development—have teamed up to form the Emergency Mini Grants program. Grants ranging from $500 to $1,500 are available to help small businesses respond to urgent needs resulting from the March ice storm.
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
April 12, 2025 We only get this one beautiful planet, so let’s show her some love! Volunteer with TART Trails for their Spring Work Bee April 19 from 10am-12pm at various locations throughout the trail network. Little Traverse Conservancy will have two work bees of their own: one on April 16 from 9am-1pm at Tanton Family Working Forest Reserve, and one on April 22 from 9am-4pm at Offield Family Viewlands.
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Anna Faller |Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec
Tastemaker By Anna Faller | April 12, 2025 If we are what we eat, then everyone should probably be feeling more joy from freshly-baked scones—in particular, the scratch-made selection at Sugar 2 Salt in Traverse City! The crumbly-golden specialty of co-owner and seasoned baker Stephanie Wiitala, these pastry nuggets are crafted by hand and portioned to share.
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
Stuff We Love April 12, 2025 If you’ve ever driven by Bier Art Gallery & Pottery Studio, just south of Charlevoix on the corner of US-31 and Ferry Road, you’ve likely seen the magnificent basswood tree towering out front. For decades, gallery visitors have picnicked under the 150-year-old tree or snapped family photos. After standing tall for so long, the tree was lost to the March ice storm.
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1 week ago | 
northernexpress.com | Art Bukowski |Molly Cox |Ren Brabenec |Anna Faller
It works for some, but one drug is not a replacement for another, counselor warns By Art Bukowski | April 12, 2025 They call it “California sober.”
Generally speaking, this term applies to folks who use marijuana but abstain from alcohol and other drugs, particularly narcotics or other highly addictive substances. People choose this lifestyle for a variety of reasons, though it’s often encountered in people who have had medical, legal, or financial problems with alcohol.
