Feb. 2018 / By Kurt J. Kolka GAYLORD – AnnMarie Rowland is a name well-known around Northern Michigan. Some recognize her for her newspaper feature stories i...

Nov. 2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka ELMIRA – Grayling native Sandi Johnson McIntyre has always been a do-it-yourselfer. Once she figured out how something worked, s...

Oct. 2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING -- Real estate agent, Shantina Jacobs Hatfield, has lots of interesting stories from the three years she has been doing...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka JOHANNESBURG --They were not expecting to make it this far. But they did. By just four points at regionals, the Johannesburg-Lewiston...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka LEWISTON – Many young people dream of being race car drivers someday. Very few, however, get the chance to experience it, especially w...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka ​ DETROIT – Lauren Duski held Northern Michigan spellbound as she participated on the TV program, The Voice, this spring. Becoming a...

2017 / by Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING – Today, Howard Taylor is known by many as the founder and owner of Wellington Farm U.S.A., just south of Grayling, an open ...

Feb. 2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka LOS ANGELES -- On Monday, February 27, the eyes of millions were on a young Gaylord woman as she sang before an studio audience ...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING -- “Home. I was born to be here,” says retired school teacher, Robert Woodland, as he tries to describe what Grayling mean...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka ​ GRAYLING -- When Ilene Geiss-Wilson came to Grayling in her junior year of high school, she had no idea she would become one of th...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING – Once a year, Jack VanPutten takes a walk. It's a 100 mile walk. And it's to help others. For the second year in a row, Jac...

2017 / by Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING – Animals have always been a part of Cheryl Postma’s life. Growing up in East Jordan, her family had livestock and also took...

2017 / by Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING — In May 1977, Fred and Nancy Moore moved their family to Grayling to take over an automotive business. Among their five chi...

2017 / by Kurt J. Kolka ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. – Independence Day is about celebrating our freedom as a nation. Among those who have protected our freedom for ...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka BOYNE CITY — At the recent A Higher Call Men’s Conference at Gaylord E-Free Church, artist and speaker Matt Bowman of Boyne City talk...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka ​ GRAYLING -- Many people refer to certain people as a rock in their life, but for Clarence “Curly” LaMotte, his rock might literall...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING–When people say they are dreaming about beer, rarely do they mean making it. This is not the case for one Grayling man. Al...

2017 / by Kurt J. Kolka FREDERIC -- Janelle Gates Norman of Frederic remembers the year 1970 very well. It was the year her family moved from Oscoda to Grayl...

2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka GRAYLING -- Title 9 did had a large impact for one Grayling girl in 1975. Rose Wolflin had recently moved to Grayling from Bloomingto...

Jan. 2017 / By Kurt J. Kolka GAYLORD -- Jeff Alexander believes in healing. As he sees it, sometimes God heals through doctors and sometimes God heals direct...