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The request covers crossings on Brown Bridge, Supply and South Airport roads, with the road commission’s director calling it a long shot and county leaders pointing to April’s flooding
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Grand Traverse County leaders are taking a closer look at plans for a new jail. At a jail committee meeting Wednesday morning, discussions focused on four proposed plans. The first two plans focus on keeping the jail and courthouses together in the current location...
Downtown Traverse City is holding its final Farmers Market day of the season on Saturday, Oct. 31, alongside the annual downtown Halloween Walk. Front Street will be closed to vehicle traffic from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday to protect pedestrians during the trick-or-treating event. The seasonal transition comes as the Downtown Development Authority manages temporary locations for summer events while progressing on permanent downtown infrastructure projects. The market operated temporarily out of Rotary Square during the summer months while work proceeded on a new permanent facility. Harry Burkholder, executive director of the Downtown Development Authority, noted that Saturday’s final market runs from 7:30 a.m. to noon. The market operated temporarily at Rotary Square for the summer to maintain accessibility and parking while construction takes place on a permanent structure. Funding for the new facility includes tax increment financing. “The market is one of the oldest traditions we have in downtown Traverse City,” Burkholder said. “We’ve had a very successful summer. The weather has been super helpful. So today is our last market, our Wednesday market. And then Saturday, unfortunately, is our last market day of the year. 730 to noon.” “We are currently building the new Farmer’s Market pavilion
Status report shows riparian ordinance headed to city leaders in December while six of 11 zoning rewrite items show no progress
Deputy and school resource officer Matthew McKinley will be taking on the role of undersheriff.
Several thousand attendees are expected in downtown Traverse City Saturday for the annual Halloween Walk, where they’ll find smiling merchants handing out candy and creative costumes galore. They’ll also likely run into areas where city sidewalks are closed due to construction, which reroutes pedestrians abruptly – and for those with mobility and visual impairment issues, sometimes dangerously – away from clear pathways. The Ticker looks at how those sidewalk closures happen, how long they’ll last, and how enforcement could soon increase to better protect pedestrians.
Only two Michigan cities made WalletHub's national safety study and they landed far apart. Grand Rapids easily finished ahead of Detroit.
Road commission manager says Hammond could reopen in early November and the Beitner Road bridge should wrap up the same month
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Plans for a $25.5 million renovation of Traverse City Central High School are drawing mixed reactions, with some community members opposing the potential demolition of the school's 1958 gymnasium as the district considers new athletic facilities and accessibility improvements. Traverse City Area Public Schools...
A $105,000 Michigan coastal grant will help Arcadia Township improve public beach access and stabilize dunes at Sunset Station.
A bookstore that opens at in the morning and stays open until late at night, every single day? That alone made me sit up. Then I learned it fills three full floors of an old JC Penney building. The shelves hold roughly 100,000 titles. There are cozy fireplaces, reading nooks,...
Backed by the support of local leaders and elected representatives including U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, the Grand Traverse County Road Commission (GTCRC) is taking a big swing to address four of its crossings along the Boardman River. GTCRC has applied for more than $47 million in federal funding to replace culverts on Supply, Brown Bridge, and South Airport roads with modern bridge structures – a potential game-changing opportunity to protect against future flooding impacts along the Boardman.
Future of county seat in question as steering committee weighs downtown Traverse City campus against county land on LaFranier Road as sheriff, judge warn of transport and staffing strain
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Beitner Road bridge in Grand Traverse County is expected to reopen sometime in November, with favorable weather and construction progress giving road commission officials enough confidence to offer a reopening timeline. In a video update Tuesday, the Grand Traverse County Road Commission manager...
A missing girl and a $10,000 lawsuit settlement made Benzie County Headlines in 1926.
After nearly seven years of Bluff Road closures on Old Mission Peninsula, the Grand Traverse County Road Commission (GTCRC) is eyeing design work to stabilize the surrounding slope – key work that must be completed before the road itself can be repaired. Road commissioners discussed that and other road work Thursday, including the latest with Three Mile/Hammond and numerous projects on deck for 2027.
Find Halloween parades, trunk-or-treats, “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Woman in Black” and more in Benzie, Manistee and Mason counties.
“Sometimes the best way to understand an issue is simply to sit down together over a cup of coffee,” WUWU station manager David Beaton said.
