Gaylord News

Drew Spanding can't say it enough. "It's great to be back home in Gaylord again!" After three years downstate, the Big Ticket Festival returns to the Alpine Village this weekend for its eighth year of Christian music and activities.

It's official: The jet bus stole the show at Wings Over Gaylord. Airport manager and air show organizer Matt Barresi said a record 8,000 people showed up to this year's event to see the planes and displays, attend one of the fun-filled theme dances and, of course, watch hours of spectacular aerial and ground demonstrations.

A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms could affect one in five Americans on Wednesday as it rumbles from Iowa to Maryland packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds.

If you're going to any air show this summer, Wings Over Gaylord is the one to see.

While $4.28 gas may have some motorists driving less, places like golf courses, trucking companies and landscaping outfits have to find creative ways to pay for the fuel necessary to keep their businesses moving.

Residents of a neighborhood in Otsego Lake Village are fearful they will losetheir beach access to Otsego Lake.

Joe Duff has added the title of interim treasurer to his long list of job duties for the City of Gaylord.

Two weeks of high-flying fun in the Gaylord area begins this weekend with the Otsego Lake Splash-In at Otsego County Park.

Merit Network Inc. announced Friday the completion of three key segments of its Round II REACH-3MC network build-out: Cadillac to Mio, Gaylord to Mackinaw City, and Grayling to Kalkaska.

Diane Pompei decided to move to the Gaylord area in 1997, because it was a nice community in which to raise children.

The doors of Hayes Grange No. 871, on the corner of Van Tyle and Estelle roads, closed three years ago.

District Saturday holds the potential to be highly lucrative for area softball teams, as Johannesburg-Lewiston and St.

Randy Plaunt is traveling to the Netherlands with his dad to visit the grave of his grandfather Grover Plaunt.

Let this week's postcard serve as a warning to all the people headed over the Mackinac Bridge this holiday weekend.

If you're sticking around Northern Michigan for Memorial Day weekend, you should be pleased to hear the weather will be dry, sunny and mild through Monday.