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Byline: Tom Henderson A longtime Silicon Valley tech executive has replaced another former longtime Silicon Valley executive as executive director of the 20Fathoms business incubator in Traverse City. Craig Wesley, [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Stephen Techtmann, a microbiologist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, and his research team have come up with an extremely tiny partial solution to a massive problem. [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson One could be forgiven for seeing a difficult future for Re'Shane Lonzo after she gave birth at age 14 while a freshman at Oak Park High School. [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The Biden administration made headlines last month with announcements about reducing the impact of so-called forever chemicals known as PFAS and having the Environmental Protection Agency cracking [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Progress is well underway on the $27.5 million Freshwater Research & Innovation Center just north of Traverse City on West Bay in Elmwood Township, just north of [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The second iteration of the 100K Ideas program had its grand opening in the Dryden Building in downtown Flint on July 18, one door down from its [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson It may not take a village to raise a beehive, but it sure helps, says Jason Bey, owner of a Flint-based honey company called My Bees Nest [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The construction of a new YMCA in downtown Flint adds to a list of major development projects either underway in the city or in the planning stages. [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Ground was broken in downtown Flint in May for a new YMCA and cement began being poured in July. The project aims to be much more than [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Call the Kingston Kitchen at the Village Inn on Mackinac Island the ultimate H-2B visa success story. Margaret Doud, the owner of the nearby Windermere Hotel and [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson James Brown billed himself as the hardest-working man in show business. He had nothing on Jason St. Onge, who ought to bill himself as the hardest-working man [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Urvana's has perhaps the most artistic and jam-packed 230 square feet of retail space on Mackinac Island. Off the lobby of the Chippewa Hotel on Main Street [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson It was an eye-catching headline on Jason St. Onge's Facebook site, Mackinac Island News & Views: 'ANCHOR MOORING BREAKS FREE, ISLAND SHIFTS 6 FEET' And then the [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson 'Carriage tours are a way of life, not just a business' -- Brad Chambers, treasurer of Mackinac Island Carriage Tours Inc., by far the largest horse-carriage business [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Some summer jobs last longer than others. You could argue that Veronica Dobrowolski's on the Mackinaw City docks has lasted for 35 years. Dobrowolski now leads Arnold [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The owner of Trattoria Stella, widely regarded as one of Traverse City's finest restaurants with perhaps the best and most expansive wine list in the state, is [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson TCNewTech represents Traverse City's image of itself as more than a place to do wine tours and hit the beaches and golf links in the summer and [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Cambium Analytica LLC, a Traverse City-based company that has rapidly built up a large cannabis-testing business, is diversifying into testing for PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals that [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson 'A lot has been written about work-life balance. That's what the Traverse City area offers: Work-life balance.' That's what Bruce Patterson said one morning in early April [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Dan Casey, the CEO of the Economic Development Alliance of St. Clair County, hopes the second time is the charm for getting bids in on a new [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson No one can accuse Larry Jones and Dan Dooley of failing to dream big when it comes to the Wrigley Center and Wrigley Hall in downtown Port [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Judges at the 11th Denver International Spirits Competition last April awarded a silver medal to the whiskey made by a fledgling Port Huron business called Renaissance Man [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson For a small city with a population of just 5,900, St. Clair has a big roster of current or just completed economic development projects. They include large [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson On Nov. 9, Traverse City converted four blocks of State Street, one of its busiest downtown streets, from a one-way to a two-way street. The conversion is [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Houghton-based Michigan Technological University and four Traverse City organizations recently embarked on phase 1 of their recently announced Freshwater Research and Innovation Center. The 60,000- to 70,000-square-foot [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The Freshwater Research and Innovation Center that Michigan Technological University is building is the latest in a series of projects involving collaborations between the Upper Peninsula-based university [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson After a long career in tech, much of it in Silicon Valley, Eric Roberts wanted to retire somewhere special. In 2019, he and his wife, Christine, visited [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The Fish Pass project to remove the last of four old dams on the Boardman River between the city of Kalkaska and West Grand Traverse Bay is [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson A few years after graduating from Oakland University with a degree in sociology, Sheena Harrison decided she was interested in a different kind of social work. She [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson In the early 20th century, an estimated 343,000 people migrated to the United States from Greece. First, they fled the economic devastation caused by Greece's 1893 bankruptcy. [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Flint's Industrial Fellowship League founded the School of Automobile Trades in 1919 to train technical and management talent for the rapidly growing auto industry. Today the school, [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Since its founding in 1919, Kettering University has focused on providing students with real-world experiences. Today, students alternate semesters of classroom instruction with semesters spent at paid [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Flint-based Kettering University's new $63 million, 105,000-square-foot Learning Commons building has no classrooms or offices. Instead, the facility is based on collaborative workspaces by Stanford's Hasso Plattner [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Northern Michigan University has launched a bachelor's degree program in indoor agriculture, two years after the successful launch of an associate degree in the field. The expansion [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson A new shoe company is calling Grand Rapids home. It's new to the area, having moved there from Portland, Ore., and opened its downtown office and showroom [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Joe Gallagher and Daniel Estrada, childhood friends who grew up on the same street in the Grand Rapids area and graduated together from East Grand Rapids High [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson BAMF Health Corp. is not a typical high-tech startup. Its official grand opening in the just-opened Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building in downtown Grand Rapids isn't until [...]

Byline: TOM HENDERSON In September 2018, Zachariah Booker and Dr. Randall Duthler co-founded Grandville-based ADHD Online LLC, which offers online diagnosis for those who think they may have attention deficit [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The biggest boom in new hotels and motels in the history of the Traverse City area has begun, with much of it on or near the beach [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Is there any better example of 20th century commerce making way for that of the 21st century than this? Orbion Space Technologies of Houghton, which has received [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Ashley Kern, a data scientist, thought there had to be a better way for colleges and universities to decide which students to accept and how much in [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson There's one hospitality niche in Munising that isn't a surprise to anyone -- providing lodging for tourists who are in town to take Pictured Rocks boat tours [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Infrastructure work is expected to start this summer on a new industrial park, Jackson Technology Park North, on a 180.5-acre site in Blackman Township. Debbie Kelly is [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Alexandra Masten and Amanda Loveland, two sisters in Jackson, run a 501(c)3 nonprofit called Michigan Tribe, which holds networking events for area women who run businesses or [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson At the beginning of the year, Ronnie Johncox correctly predicted who would make the chassis for the car that would win NASCAR's Daytona 500 on Feb. 20. [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson One of the abiding themes in Michigan cities in recent years is the dramatic revival of their downtowns. Long-shuttered movie theaters are showing first-run movies again; long-vacant [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson The Jackson Healing Clinic LLC is proof that adversity can lead to opportunity. Or in this case, two of them. In 2020, David Goolsby was the Michigan [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson Kathleen Vertin proved the naysayers wrong in 2013 when they said a 98-seat theater offering live professional entertainment in Marine City would fail. She proved them wrong [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson City and county officials are putting the marina in Marine City. Currently, there aren't any slips for boats traveling the St. Clair River to dock at in [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson A much larger, much grander business incubator is headed to Port Huron -- a 13,000-square-foot, two-story building along the St. Clair River just south of the Black [...]