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3 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ren Brabenec |Victor Skinner
10+ ways to see the island through fresh eyes By Matt Dursum | May 17, 2025 Visitors may know Mackinac Island for its horses, paved bike trails, Grand Hotel, and the Revolutionary War era Fort Mackinac that overlooks the harbor. But beyond the crowded gift shops and popular hotels along Lake Shore Drive is a lesser-known side to the island. We got recommendations from two experts on how to explore Mackinac like a local.
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3 weeks ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Jamie Kauffold |Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau
Capturing AAPI Month By Jamie Kauffold | May 10, 2025 Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Taro Yamasaki heads to Traverse City as the Dennos Museum Center celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month on Tuesday, May 13.
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Ellen Miller |Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau
TC Roller Derby looks back over 15 years By Ellen Miller | May 10, 2025 For the past 15 years, TC Roller Derby has been tearing up the rink and building relationships on and off the track.
Back in 2010, a group of interested potential derby players met up to discuss the possibility of forming a team. They met at public spaces downtown, including Horizon Books and Cherry Republic, before finding a place to start practicing.
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Stephen Tuttle |Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau
Spectator By Stephen Tuttle | May 10, 2025 First, we have to tear things down, demonizing both people and institutions.
Human enemies are easy enough to define—we’ll call people here illegally rapists, murderers, released prisoners, and mental patients. We’ll describe Muslims, and most anybody from a Muslim-dominant country, as terrorists.
That way, people who look a little different, speak a different language, or believe a different religion become easy targets.
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau |Ellen Miller
Bottoms Up May 10, 2025 If you’ve been watching the Bottoms Up section lately, we’ve featured Rare Bird, Modern Bird, and now Dune Bird. (Spring is birding season!) Dune Bird’s Pink Plover Rosé is a true taste of summer, with notes of strawberry and watermelon that give way to tropical flavors like mango and pineapple. All that fruit comes through thanks to a long cold fermentation.
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Abby McKiernan |Matt Dursum |Ross Boissoneau |Ellen Miller
Why backyard composting is easier, more impactful, and less stinky than you think By Abby McKiernan | May 10, 2025 Let’s be honest—composting has a bit of a PR problem. Between the fears of weird smells, raccoon invasions, and the myth that you need expensive gear, composting has earned a reputation as something only hardcore environmentalists or people with acres of land take on.
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Anna Faller |Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau
MSU Extension experts share tips for location, soil, plants, and more By Anna Faller | May 10, 2025 A pollinator garden is a habitat designed to benefit pollinators, the animals and insects that help plants reproduce, whose numbers have recently been on the decline around the world due to factors like habitat degradation, climate change, and human interference. In fact, Michigan’s bee population has dropped by more than half throughout the last 15 years.
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Cathye Williams |Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau
Guest Opinion By Cathye Williams | May 10, 2025 Trump’s first 100 days in office have been a roller-coaster ride, with a recent poll showing that majorities of voters describe the start of his term as “chaotic” and “scary” (The New York Times, April 2025). Actions appear to follow the whims of the president, and those trying to make sense of it report getting “policy whiplash”(Gina McCarthy, The Guardian, May 2025).
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ross Boissoneau |Ellen Miller
Stuff We Love May 10, 2025 Lake Michigan may still be too chilly for a dip, but our boats are brave enough to go in the water now. As you’re bringing yours out of winter storage, think twice about tossing the shrink wrap in the trash. Irish Boat Shop—which has three locations in Traverse City, Harbor Springs, and Charlevoix—is hosting their annual shrink wrap recycle day on Saturday, May 17, from 9am to 12pm.
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4 weeks ago | 
northernexpress.com | Ross Boissoneau |Matt Dursum |Abby McKiernan |Ellen Miller
Three par-3 courses to play this summer By Ross Boissoneau | May 10, 2025 There are few things more satisfying for golfers than hitting that 250-yard drive long and straight. But that won’t fly on some courses. Like at Threetops, the famed par-3 course at Treetops Resort in Gaylord. Most of the holes come in around 150 yards, and the longest is just over 200.
Welcome to the world of short courses. No par 5s here, or even par 4s. Five-hundred-yard holes? Nope, try 50.
