Transom stories

It’s a bit cliché but true: behind every tattoo lies a story. They’re points in time laid painfully down in ink, memories of love and loss, drunken dares…

Saturdays are for selling fish. On this Saturday, Ed and Cindi John aim to earn a week's income in only five hours.Cindi unfolds the tables while Ed drags…

On a sunny summer morning, Jim Munoz is on his charter boat, the Carol Dee. It's a 31-foot Tiara that Jim calls "the pride of the Great Lakes." Jim is…

Traverse City musician Jonathan Timm moved back to the area from Nashville recently. The 34-year-old northern Michigan native says he was missing out on…

On any given day, Gregg Schumaker deals with the following: beavers, badgers, rats, mice, raccoons and skunks. He runs a company called Wildlife…

Berry harvest is underway in northern Michigan, and this season’s crop forecasts are rosy. But getting those crops harvested is requiring heavier use of…

When Dan Nickels makes a mistake, he doesn’t throw it away. He keeps it. In fact, Dan puts his mistakes on display .“I hang them on the wall,” says Dan.…

Jandy and Brad Spouse raise yaks on their ranch in Maple City. The yaks are a little smaller than a dairy cow, but they don’t look like one."They have a…

Michael Coonrod has been teaching piano at Interlochen Center for the Arts for over 40 years.But after a horrible camping accident, his career was put in…

Monday afternoon people can step outside and watch the solar eclipse. From our view here in northern Michigan, only part of the sun will be blocked by the…