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Tuesday, July 12, 2011  The Chesaning Showboat Festival is going on this week.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011  Port Austin is right at the tip of the thumb and is named one of the hottest places to visit in Michigan. Right now waterfront area in Port Austin, including the Port Austin State Docks are in an extensive waterfront redevelopment project.

Thursday, June 23, 2011  As we showed you on Tuesday Sandusky is the home of the Thumb Festival, and one interesting sight you can check out when you visit is Artistry of Wildlife.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011  Chamber Vice President Sandy Miller was not shy as she gushed about her town.  "It just has a real community feel to it here," she said, "everyone is so community spirited."

Thursday, June 16, 2011  Leaving from marina in Tawas it was a fabulous day for a boat trip aboard Charity Island Boat Tours.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011  Traveling mid-Michigan photojournalist Brett Dickie and Kevin Usealman happened to stop at Davison's Abernathy park

Thursday, June 09, 2011  This weekend thousands will be downtown Bad Axe for the annual Bad Axe Hatchet Festival! It's an event not only the people in the community look forward to each year, but also people from all over the region look forward to.

Tuesday, June 07, 2011  While driving the down the road we could not help but stop at The Flower Farm. Cute name right? We learned very quickly how unique this nursery actually is. We met the owner, Joshua Roggenbuck right away. He was actually born and raised in the Bad Axe area on a farm and says he cannot imagine living anywhere else.

Thursday, June 02, 2011  On Tuesday we took you to the beautiful Shiawassee Art Center in Owosso and previewed their event, "Art in the Park" which will be just a very small part of the Curwood festival this weekend.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011  Thursday kicks of the annual Curwood Festival in Owosso.  Named for a famous author the festival always has a distinctive literary, arsty and historic feel.

Thursday, May 26, 2011  In downtown Alma you can find many things that have changed, but one thing that has stayed the same for over 50 years is Pizza Sam's.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011  The slogan for Tom Billig's Flowers and Gifts in Alma is "Dream, Imagine and Create", it features interesting trinkets and many seasonal gifts including decorative gollashes for spring, bright colored parasols and designor hummingbird feeders.

Thursday, May 19, 2011  The beautiful Dow Gardens is already blooming with color with 25,000 tulips planted throughout the entire garden. It is just gorgeous there! It was my very first time to the Dow Gardens and I could have spent the entire day there. I can hardly wait to go back and take my daughter. She is going to just love running around the garden looking at all the different colors and all the little critters running around.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011  The MATRIX:MIDLAND Festival kicks off in Midland May25th through Friday June 24th.

Thursday, May 12, 2011  We're traveling Mid-Michigan in Linden and part one of our story showed you some of the amazing history of this town.  Today in part two, we take you in to three businesses located in the over 100 year old downtown strip that burned in 1903.