Charlevoix News

The Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council is looking for volunteers to monitor lakes of all sizes throughout Emmet, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Antrim counties.

We'll miss being part of a terrific travel team and writing Dispatches posts. Online Travel editor Ben Abramson and other colleagues will join Jayne Clark in producing the blog going forward.

CHARLEVOIX -- Charlevoix County is a little closer this week to beginning a 10-year recycling contract with American Waste, under which recyclable materials will be hauled from county drop-off locations to a processing facility in Traverse City rather than Harbor Springs as they are now.

As May trudges on, the weather continues to consistently warm up. Currently, I'm sitting in the office with the sun beaming through the windows and right onto me.

Dana Falconberry's 2012 LP, the ornately orchestrated Leelanau , doubles as a love letter to the singer-songwriter's home state of Michigan; song titles reference locations and landmarks throughout the Great Lake state, and the album's name comes from the peninsula where Falconberry grew up.

The Peene shipyard in Germany successfully completed a new series that was part of an order obtained during insolvency.

Coast Guard Station Charlevoix, Michigan, accept delivery of the station's new 45-foot Response Boat-Medium, built by Marinette Marine, of Manitowoc, Wis.

Raised right outside of East Lansing, and a Spartan through and through, even a city with Lake Shore Drive and a buzzing metropolis will never be able to diminish my love of Michigan.

CHARLEVOIX -- The Boyne City Planning Commission revoked Kirtland Products' permit to operate in Boyne City at the end of January after more than a year of citizen complaints about noise, odor and a heavy grey plume hanging over the wood pellet factory.