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Omena chooses its next animal ‘mayor’ for the 15th year
Omena is campaigning for their next mayor but it’s not your usual election. Instead of voting for people you’re voting for pets!. The election began in 2009 and has been going on every 3 years since. From dogs, cats, horses, and even goats.... any animal can run for mayor in Omena! This year there are 18 mayoral candidates. Each vote is $5 and goes towards the Omena Historical Society to help with building maintenace and upkeep.
Ability Garden helps fill summer therapy gap for local kids
Tucked behind Traverse City’s main library branch, on the banks of Boardman Lake, sits the Grand Traverse Area Children’s Garden. Every Sunday, members of a program called the Ability Garden meet up at the garden’s gazebo. It’s a gardening program designed for children and teenagers with various neurological and physical disabilities. When school is out for the summer, it can be harder for kids and their families to find services like physical and occupational therapy that they usually get in their classrooms.
Microsoft outage delays airlines at Cherry Capital Airport
TRAVERSE CITY - Microsoft has experienced an outage worldwide impacting different services. One of which is flights. Cherry Capital Airport has its own experience. Kevin Klein CEO of Cherry Capital Airport says, “At 4:00 this morning, we received notification that some of the airline tenants were having some computer problems. So with that, we immediately did an inventory of all airport systems. So make sure our safety and security systems were all intact and operating fine. Our next step then was to talk with the FAA to make sure all those systems were fine. And then the TSA. So once...
Michigan songwriters Aspen Jacobsen, Isabella Gueck take top prize in New Moon contest
The pair topped the 2024 New Moon Songwriting Challenge – which required artists to collaborate – with a young Traverse City duo coming in second. Details at Local Spins. SCROLL DOWN TO LISTEN TO THE WINNING SONG AND RUNNER-UP Up-and-coming Michigan singer-songwriter Aspen Jacobsen calls it “a bittersweet...
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