Walloon Lake News

Singing songs still provides a bond for Mary Ellen Geist and her father, who has Alzheimer's. Mary Ellen Geist went from being an award-winning radio journalist and show host with a busy social life to writing alone in her family's northern Michigan cottage on Walloon Lake and advocating for creative caregiving.

Warning! Fake news story JACKSON, Mich. - Relax, frigid friends and chilly chums because Jackson now has an explanation for all the cold air you've noticed lately.

Finding Ernest Annual Hemingway Weekend returns to Petoskey By Kristi Kates 9/28/09 Plenty of local places in Petoskey and Northern Michigan are often noted as 'Hemingway hangouts,' including a rooming house that Hemingway stayed in in 1919 at 602 State Street in Petoskey; the Perry Hotel, also in Petoskey; the Sturgeon and Pigeon Rivers, where ...

Author Ernest Hemingway married his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, in Horton Bay in Charlevoix County on Sept.

Long ago a ' before Detroit morphed into the Motor City a ' there was just Michigan, a mitten-shaped northern frontier.

We who live here know Michigan is a great food state. We grow the greatest variety of agricultural foodstuffs in the nation and have lots of great restaurants, delis and gourmet stores.

Unemployed autoworkers, take heart. You won't have to give up your summer vacation after all.