Up North Lowdown
Nine minutes of northern Michigan, every weekday.
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Maple season is in full swing here at Hidden Acres Sugar Bush in Gaylord, a business run by Jennifer RiChard and her husband. But it wasn’t so long ago that none of this seemed possible. A look at how the sugar bush is recovering a year after an ice storm devastated tens of millions of trees across northern Michigan, including many sugar maples.
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A group in Emmet and Charlevoix counties is starting a community investment fund — with a focus on housing — that would let community members invest in housing in their home towns. And we hear about a school in Mesick that's taking screens out of elementary classrooms. -
A review of court documents shows a disturbing trend — contractors taking money without performing any work. Some of them rack up complaint after complaint but continue to "work." -
Listen in on emergency calls coming out of the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin. Also, a holdup in Lansing threatened the medical licenses of thousands of Michigan doctors. -
Today, we look at government transparency with a primer on how to access your local government, and how adept Up North governments are at keeping in touch with their constituents. Also, an Olympian returns home and the latest on the storm. -
New national data show that extreme weather and climate change are leading insurers to raise rates. We'll hear about the situation in Michigan. Plus, the latest from the storm. -
We check in again with the National Weather Service and hear from two businesses — one in Traverse City, one in Kalkaska County — about how they fared Monday. -
A serious winter storm has dragged its way across northern Michigan, fouling up roads and taking out power to more than 100,000 utility customers. Even the IPR news team is stuck.
