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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Cleanup to begin at Torch Lake gasoline contamination site
This story was published in this week’s Elk Rapids News. If you’ve already read it, thanks, and we’ll see you over here tomorrow. For those of you who missed it, probably because you’re in Florida or Arizona for the winter, this is your chance to catch up. Jack Norris of Torch Lake Township has researched this issue […]
Torch Lake Views is Powered by Red
February 4, 2010
Dried cherries in my oatmeal, cherry concentrate stirred into my apple juice, cherries in chocolate. Yup, I am a cherry fanatic. Here. Have a recipe. It’s from The Wise Encyclopedia of Cookery, one of my favorite cookbooks. I bought it at an Indiana farm auction about 40 years ago. (I was, of course, merely a child. A […]
Posted in: Local foods, Recipes
White alligator
February 3, 2010
This is Bruce Laidlaw’s response to Scott Thomas’s White Challenge. There are no monsters in our summer lakes. But in the winter . . . all I can say is the bobcat better watch his step.
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Letters from the Weatherman
The yellow brick house
February 2, 2010
Sunday night I opened my weekly email from Babs Young. She wrote: This elegant simple yellow brick home is on the way to Central Lake on M88. The snow sets it off very nicely. I’d passed the house many times on my rounds, but until I looked at it through Babs’s lens I never stopped […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos, Torch Lake memories
The Challenge of White
February 2, 2010
For those of you who live here and wonder why I am posting a photo of the Whites’ sign: This is my response to Scott Thomas’s White Challenge. For those of you who are from Away, for more than 80 years the Whites have raised beef cattle in Milton Township, Antrim County, Michigan, near Grand […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Extra, extra: Babs Young, reporter, on the scene
February 1, 2010
Last night, while I was digging for some background to add to Babs Young’s regular Sunday night photo, she sent another one. This is a bonus, a true embarrassment of riches, and on top of it, I loved the photo. So here it is. Babs wrote: When we came home Friday night there was a […]
Carsten in Denmark
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