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More than 100 ringers gather every year in northern Michigan for the Bay View Week of Handbells

3 things we learned about handbell musicians, as they gather at Bay View

Ed Ronco

Every summer, more than a hundred handbell ringers from around the world travel to northern Michigan for a week of rehearsing and performing in Bay View.

U.S. Representative Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet) speaks to prominent Republican politicians and donors gathered at the Great Wolf Lodge on August 8, 2024. (Photo: Claire Keenan-Kurgan/IPR News)

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Michigan GOP gathers Up North to honor late Sen. George McManus

Claire Keenan-Kurgan

The event, hosted at the Great Wolf Lodge, doubled as a kind of pep rally for the 2026 election, when Michigan will elect a new governor and senator.

Lisa Kohler, left, and Beverly Hallfrisch are both from Traverse City and were on an open water swim team that traversed Whitefish Bay as part of the Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim in August of 2025. (Photo provided by Lisa Kohler)

Swimming across Whitefish Bay to remember the Edmund Fitzgerald

Ed Ronco

Traverse City's Lisa Kohler participated in the open water swim aimed at symbolically finishing the journey of the freighter, which sank in 1975.

Kairos Creature Club features Lena Simon (La Luz) and Glenn Van Dyke (BOYTOY). They're the last act up at this year's All Call Music Festival in Traverse City.

'All Call' returns to Traverse City this weekend with acts near and far

Ed Ronco

The one-night music festival is in its fourth year at The Little Fleet.

This screenshot from a video taken by Doug Confer of the Deckerville Fire Department shows a tornado touching down in Deckerville on Saturday. Blindspots in the state’s weather radar network meant meteorologists couldn’t warn residents before the twister struck. (Courtesy of Doug Confer)

Are you in a radar gap? Here's what that means for weather warnings

Austin Rowlader

The farther away you are from a doppler radar station, the harder it is for the radar to see low-altitude weather. What does that mean here in northern Michigan?

Interfaith vigil meant as 'balm for our souls' after Walmart attack

Ed Ronco

It’s happening at 7 p.m. at Sunset Park, on East Front Street in Traverse City, and it’s organized by SALT – Spiritual Activists Leading Together.