Atwood the Adorable has New York Cakes but Eastport the Exquisite has the pastry chefs

March 9, 2008

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Early in February Eastport residents Bill and Dianne Warner opened a pastry shop in a former grocery store in Atwood, and quickly built a loyal following.  (I, for example, would follow them anywhere for a peach and cream cheese bear claw.)  This in itself is remarkable enough in these times, but wait – there’s more.  […]

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TLT in the ERN

March 7, 2008

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This week’s issue of the Elk Rapids News  will be on news-stands and in your mailbox today – unless you’re reading this from Florida or Baja or other points south with warmer weather.  Or even Detroit or the UK or Australia, come to think of it.  Anyway, there are lots of stories about Torch Lake Township.  […]

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Monday, Monday

March 4, 2008

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You think you had a bad day on Monday?  You think your drive to work was lousy?  Consider how it went for Chris Hubble.  He had to call his dad and say “I slid into the ditch.”  Ah, you are not sympathetic.  Many of us slid into the ditch on Monday.  Of course, most of […]

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Babs Young’s weekly photos to appear in Torch Lake Views

March 2, 2008

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Babs Young’s neighbors close up their houses and go away just when things are getting interesting.  They’d really rather be here with us, watching the lake freeze over, monitoring the progress of Ryan and Andrea Romeyn’s new barn, tracing the patterns ice crystals form on the windows as the LP tank empties.  Babs is a kind […]

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Spinach and poetry

February 29, 2008

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People say there are signs of spring all around us.  People say lots of things. I say spinach. This is pretty much what it looks like from my deck just now.  I didn’t take this picture today.  It’s too cold to go out there and take a picture today, and I’m too whiny.   But it […]

Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views

Naked People Stealing Firewood and Other Myths of the North Country

February 28, 2008

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I’m alert to the odder nooks and crannies of Torch Lake Township lore, so you can imagine my excitement when I found this on the internet (that paragon of accurate information): WJML News – Monday, April 23, 2007.  Naked People Stealing Firewood.  Sounds like it might be the title for a book, right? It’s actually […]

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