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Up North Lowdown

Each week, you’ll hear sound-rich stories from northern Michigan, interviews with journalists and newsmakers, and a look at some of the other things making news in our state. Get the Up North Lowdown, from Interlochen Public Radio.

Latest Episodes
  • Cheering all night long was rated No. 4 on the Michigan Dreaming bucket list, which the nonprofit news organization Bridge Michigan put together with reader suggestions. Come with us to the Au Sable River Canoe Marathon.
  • In the last eight years, the number of cars traveling through Mancelona has gone up by 47 percent. And this has created some unique challenges for local police.
  • A conservation group is continues its decade-long program to clean the Au Sable River while also teaching troubled kids to value the pristine waters — through fly fishing.
  • Traverse City Police Officer Krista Fryczynski is the department’s Community Officer, a position focused on outreach to unsheltered residents in the city.
  • On July 26, a man started stabbing people inside the Walmart near Traverse City. We look at what we know and the suspect's history of mental illness.
  • What’s on your summer bucket list? The nonprofit news organization Bridge Michigan asked readers that question this spring. Here's one of them.
  • Congress rescinded federal funding already allocated to public broadcasting. For IPR, it's a $300,000 budget hit. Still, our leader says we have reasons to be optimistic.
  • In this episode, a short conversation with the author Katie Yee. She is known as a short story writer, but Yee is appearing later this month at the National Writers Series in Traverse City to talk about her debut novel. t’s called “Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar.” Ahead of her visit to town, Yee spoke with IPR’s Ed Ronco.
  • For some, the National Cherry Festival Marching Band in Traverse City is a chance to keep marching. For others, it's an opportunity to try something new. It certainly was for Cindy Monroe.