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The Szejbach entrepreneurial gene

June 30, 2009

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Babs Young, Cub Reporter, was having breakfast at Sonny’s one day and followed her nose to a hot tip.  Chris and Sonny’s daughter Cori was showing every sign of following in the family’s entrepreneurial footsteps.  Babs provided some mysterious visuals and left it to me to fill in the details.  Meet Cori (Szejbach) Balentine. She […]

Marketing Up North

June 11, 2009

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Bob Hicks designs and maintains websites from a home office in Torch Lake Township.  As he says on his own site (Northern Michigan Web Design) when you call him you’re using the same number his mother-in-law uses to invite them over for Sunday dinner.  Like a lot of other people up here, Bob has another […]

Garden Cafe opens at Pine Hill

May 15, 2009

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Alana Haley from Pine Hill Nursery sent a press release.  There’s a new Garden Cafe at Pine Hill Nursery, and Julie Kamp is in charge.  Plus—and this is gonna save me a lot of gas—they’re partnering with Java Jones of Elk Rapids on this enterprise.  Oh boy oh boy.  I went over there yesterday and […]

Local products, local jobs

March 24, 2009

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Someone calculated that if every household in the state spent just $10 of its weekly food budget on items grown or processed in Michigan, it would keep $37 million circulating in the state’s economy, and would help keep jobs here, too.  Makes sense to me, and made sense to Russ and Donna Abbott.  Their Eastport […]

Flea market proposed for old Township Hall property

March 19, 2009

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Greg Pardee has been a successful painting contractor for 28 years, and he’s always looking for new business opportunities. A couple of years ago he started Hill Top Pheasant Farm & Hunting Preserve, an operation that extends into both Torch Lake and Milton Townships along US 31. This winter he spent some time exploring the […]

Leaning towers of Eastport, pie, and February without Sonny’s

February 5, 2009

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So much to tell you about.  First of all, Daugherty Johnson mentioned that wind and sun had been having their way with his latest sculpture.  I could see that something was up every time I drove by, but as I was always running late (there’s a surprise) I couldn’t stop to investigate.  By the time […]

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