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 […]
The newly-elected Torch Lake Township Board takes office today, November 20. On Tuesday the outgoing Board moved briskly through its last agenda. At the end, the sparse audience applauded, partly because it was a mercifully short meeting, and a lot of us have sat through much longer ones, and partly because there was genuine appreciation […]
Lest you all think I’ve gone bonkers . . . This is what I put here on November 3: Please vote on Tuesday, November 4. If you’re registered in Torch Lake Township–the Antrim County one, not the UP one–your voting location is the new Township Hall/Community Services Building at 2355 N. US 31 south of […]
Tim Peterson and I don’t agree on everything, but I think he’d be a good Torch Lake Township Trustee anyway. Here’s why: He speaks plainly. The man will tell you what’s on his mind, and you will not come away confused about what he means or whether he really means it. He’s been following township […]
The most striking feature of Torch Lake Township is all that blue, blue water to the east and the west of us. It’s a magnet for tourism, development, and seasonal homeowners. Everyone wants to play on it or in it, to walk along it, to just look at it endlessly. Getting to it is the […]
Constable Norm Taube died on Sunday. He was a big guy, a Detroit cop for 20 years and a security officer at Shanty Creek and Cherry Capital airport after that. Patrolling the Township was a little quieter. When he was appointed to the job, most people didn’t expect him to actually do much. Torch Lake […]
March 19, 2009
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