Author: Interlochen Public Radio
The Week Ahead: Lots and lots of fish, music and films
Every Monday on Morning Edition, an IPR journalist brings you up to speed on what’s going on, from stories made here in our newsroom to interesting and fun things we’re seeing out in the community.
Essays by Karen Anderson: Why Not Now?
On a regular basis, I’d find an LL Bean package on my front porch with a sweater in it for me from Sara. “It’s not Christmas or Easter or Mother’s Day. Why now?” And she would always reply, “Why not now?”
Birdy Battles and Frosty Floriculture
This week on the Up North Lowdown … a walk through the garden. Yes, it is the dead of winter, but we are going to hear a little history of the Botanic Garden and a little more about its past and future at the Historic Barns Park. We will also dive into the question of Michigan’s state bird. Is the robin cutting it for us anymore? Your thoughts … in the latest episode of the Up North Lowdown, from Interlochen Public Radio. Listen at iprnews.org or wherever you get your podcasts.Stories featured this episode:- IPR’s ‘State Bird CAWcus’- A few moments in Traverse City’s Botanic Garden, despite the snow
Whitmer to deliver her second-to-last State of the State on February 26
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will deliver her seventh State of the State address to a Republican-controlled House and a Democratic-controlled Senate on February 26.
Arctic grayling are coming back to the Lower Peninsula
After more than a century, tribes will reintroduce the fish to three northern Michigan rivers later this year.