Michigan’s fall hospital grades are in and the report card is not a good one, at least overall.  The state ranks 29th nationally for hospital safety, with just over 27% of its hospitals earning an “A” grade in the fall 2024 Leapfrog safety ratings. The report, released today, shows 22 hospitals received top marks, including […]

Island Hunters are getting ready for the opening of firearm season for deer tomorrow. D-N-R wildlife experts say they expect a strong opening to the season given that 80,000 deer have already been harvested during early archery season. That combined with some cooler temps should make for good hunting they say.   Meantime, the Beaver […]

Down in T-C, city leaders are moving to end their I-T services agreement with Grand Traverse County after a major ransomware attack this summer disrupted city and county operations. Commissioners discussed the I-T contract in a closed session and announced plans to review a city manager memo on the separation at their November 18 meeting. […]

  Winds have died done from yesterday, but not before bringing down plenty of trees on the island, what was left of the leaves and knocking out power to about 2,000 locations over on the mainland.  From reports it appears that outages on the Island were just blips here and there.  As of this morning, […]

  The Michigan Legislature returns to the Capitol this week for a post-election “lame duck” session. With Democrats soon to lose control of the House, they’re rushing to tackle key priorities before Republicans take over in January. Governor Gretchen Whitmer wants lawmakers to focus on issues like job creation, affordable housing, and protecting rights, says […]

The Little Traverse Conservancy says they are ending the option for boat storage at Barney’s Lake. They say that matches what’s been done at other lakes on the island. The racks at Barneys Lake will be taken out at the end of the year.   Over in Charlevoix, the Charlevoix Courrier reports that community leaders […]

Yesterday at our deadline, the race for the open U-S Senate seat for Michigan was still too close to call, but now the A-P says U-S Representative Elissa Slotkin has narrowly won Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, defeating Republican Mike Rogers by just 0.3%. Slotkin will replace long serving Debbie Stabenow who chose not to […]

A look at local election results. Heather Cary and Andy Stebbins will take the two open slots on the Peaine Township Board. Heather had 137 votes while Andy had 127. Also contending for the position were Bryan Doughman who had 74 votes and write-in candidate Laura Green who drew 81. There were only four candidates […]

Today is election day.  But, more than three million Michiganders have already voted with 1.2 million taking advantage of early voting in person and 1.9 million voting by absentee ballot. For those who’ve not yet voted, polls across the state including on the Island opened this morning at 7:00 and will close at 8:00 this […]

Community Calendar Report November 4, 2024 From our Langford Family Studios on America’s Emerald Isle, this is the W-V-B-I Community Calendar for Monday, November 4th, 2024. First some news…   Tomorrow is election day. Polls will be open from 7:00 in the morning until 8:00 Tuesday evening. There’s a link to sample ballots for both […]