Interlochen News

The Marshall Rotary Foundation has announced the creation of a new scholarship fund to help talented young musicians in the Marshall area get the specialized training they need to reach their musical goals.

Plans are revving up for a new bus route between Traverse City and Frankfort. Bay Area Transportation Authority and Benzie Transportation Authority will jointly investigate the possibility of establishing a fixed route from Frankfort to Traverse City, through Interlochen.

An Interlochen man on parole for a theft-related conviction is back in jail and faces two new felonies for allegedly stealing a pistol from a friend's home.

Smoking isn't much of an issue at The Flying Bowl. Customers at the East Bay Township restaurant generally don't discuss the subject, and they never light up.

The Thrill of Death-Defying Flight Without the Agony of, Um, Death By Anne Stanton 6/15/09 If you have an intense love for remote control airplanes, here's your chance to take it to a new altitude.

Saturday, Zachary Niedzwiecki boarded a plane with his mind on the future. A senior next fall at Traverse City West Senior High School, Niedzwiecki was heading to a rigorous, pre-college program at Oklahoma City University.

Staggering, drunken men invited themselves into two city residences in unrelated incidents early Saturday, police said.

At the core of dance is movement -- forward and back, side-to-side, fast, slow, soaring, melting.

Andrew's Hall Jonas Brothers release 'Lines, Vines and Trying Times' Boz Scaggs at Sound Board at MotorCity Casino Hotel X at Majestic Theatre Tower of Power with Cold Blood at the Michigan Theater India.Arie at Chene Park Amphitheatre GM River Days on the Detroit Riverfront.

Something didn't look quite right to Ken Walton. Walton, of the Karlin area, was driving back home from running his dogs shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday when he noticed a van about 30 feet up a private drive on South Betsie River Road.

A Northern Lower Michigan man spent 11 hours pinned beneath his full-size van. Bradley Allen Herzfeld of Interlochen was being treated Thursday at a Traverse City hospital.

The National FFA organization awarded a $1,000 Church & Dwight Co. scholarship to graduating senior Jenn Krultz, a member of the Greenwood High School FFA.

Two students from the Battle Creek Youth Orchestra have plans to attend the Interlochen Center for the Arts as a result of camp awards given by the Battle Creek Morning Musical Club.

Eminem performs at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, 9 p.m. MTV Dave Matthews Band releases 'Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King' Coldplay with Pete Yorn and Howling Bells at DTE Energy Music Theatre 'Law & Order' season finale, 10 p.m., NBC Marcia Ball at the Ark 'Land of the Lost' in theaters BravoBravo! 2009 at the Detroit Opera House Yanni ...

A downstate man faces felony charges for a break-in and theft from a Subway restaurant in Interlochen.

The Department of Natural Resources is planning an official 90th anniversary celebration for Michigan state parks on Saturday, June 20, with activities at more than 70 state parks and recreation areas being planned, including an official, simultaneous cake-cutting ceremony at 4 p.m. "All of the parks have been working very hard to plan special ...

Doug Stanton: The Making of a Bestseller By Rick Coates 5/25/09 After nearly a month on the road promoting his new book Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan, bestselling author Doug Stanton returns to his native Traverse City to conclude his nationwide book tour.

Carson F. Williams, a seventh grader at Hayes Middle School in the Grand Ledge School District, has been accepted to study at Interlochen Center for the Arts located in northern Michigan.

Battle Creek Youth Orchestra students will perform at St. Thomas Episcopal Church at 10 a.m. today.

Monday, May 11, 2009 at 11:59 a.m. Chances are if you have driven along US -31 between Chums Corner and Interlochen you have seen them; those shiny silver railway cars.