Holly and Mike Real Estate

09/17/2026

What are gas prices where you are?!?

09/16/2026

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09/16/2026

Northern Michigan musician Brett Harfert earned a Josie Music Award nomination for “DO FOR YOU” and will attend the Nashville ceremony. See link below ⬇️

📸 Provided by Carla Harfert

09/15/2026

🎉 We are getting excited for our first-ever Expo at the Kick-off Party!

Join us Friday, September 18 from 2–7 PM at Ellsworth River Park for a free, family-friendly celebration of Northern Michigan's outdoor recreation, local businesses, and our incredible waterways. You don't need to be registered for the Festival to attend — everyone's welcome!

Explore the Expo, enjoy live music, grab food & drinks, and see why this community comes together every September. 🚣‍♀️🎶

A huge thank you to our incredible Expo vendors and In-kind sponsors for being part of this celebration:
👉 Fluid Fun Canoe & Kayak Sales Tiny Traveling Boutique Mr. Mocks Hammocks Grass River Natural Area Verlen Kruger Legacy CAKE Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area Antrim Conservation District King Orchards Village of Ellsworth, Michigan East Jordan Area Chamber of Commerce

📍 Ellsworth River Park, 6625 Bridge St., Ellsworth
🕑 2–7 PM | Free & open to all

See you there!

09/14/2026

A 62-degree temperature swing in two days? Michigan heard that and said, “Hold my Faygo.”

Because around here, checking the weather forecast is less about planning and more about seeing what kind of personality Michigan has decided to wake up with.

Monday: 70 degrees, sunshine, windows down, maybe fire up the grill.

Tuesday: 38 degrees, sideways rain, wind coming off the lake like it has a personal problem with you.

Wednesday morning: frost on the windshield.

Wednesday afternoon: somehow you're sweating again.

Every lifelong Michigander knows the routine. You leave the house wearing a hoodie over a T-shirt, throw a winter coat in the back seat, keep an umbrella somewhere under the grocery bags, and never remove the ice scraper from the car because that would be tempting fate.

And whatever you do, don't trust that first warm stretch.

That's how Michigan gets you.

One beautiful day arrives and suddenly everybody is putting away the snowblower, opening the cottage, dragging patio furniture outside and declaring winter officially over.

Then Mother Nature looks across Lake Michigan and says, “That's adorable.”

The funniest part is how quickly we adapt. A visitor sees a wild temperature swing and starts questioning the laws of meteorology. Michiganders just shrug, grab a different jacket and continue with their day.

We don't really have a wardrobe for each season here. We have one giant Michigan wardrobe, and every piece of it needs to remain available until further notice.

Four seasons are nice.

Michigan prefers offering the sampler platter,

09/12/2026

After you get your boot scoot and boogying in, come get some tasty vittles. We will be at Cellar 1914 today from 3pm-8pm. Line Dancing with Kay will be there too!!! Sounds like a fun Saturday to me!! We will also have hotdogs and chips and cheese :)

09/12/2026