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This week: One year since the Gaylord tornado, school safety in Traverse City, and a pedaling the rails in Grawn.
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Allison and Alan Sehoyan have called Mackinac Island home for about 18 years. They live there year-round, and see a side of the island not readily apparent to most visitors.
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Tourism is slowly recovering in northern Michigan three years after COVID-19 rocked the industry. Hotel occupancy in the region is almost back to pre-pandemic levels.
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Speakers included figureheads in education, environment, state and local governments, and tourism.
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Some in the local tourism industry are tossing around the idea that short-term rentals, such as those booked through Airbnb, collect room fees and use the money to pay for affordable housing.
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Engineers came from all over the country to help build Boyne Mountain Resort’s newest attraction, but most of the materials came from right across the street.
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$2 million will boost tourism by enhancing the Sault Ste. Marie International 500 Raceway. $850,000 will go to Manistee's downtown riverwalk.
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During the high-spread times of the COVID-19 pandemic, patrons reacted angrily to public health masking and distancing restrictions. Those rules have largely gone away, but some people are still angry at restaurant workers in northern Michigan.
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Visits to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore have been down the last couple of months.
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Across the northwest lower region, conference and event tourism is looking strong this summer.