So when will cherries be ripe? Because we had such a cold spring, cherries are running about a week behind schedule from last ...

(Editor’s Note: OMP resident George Weber says the 50-year-old ordinance for docks and hoists has never been enforced. He ...

I will be squeezing as much as possible into this update and will report back after Independence Day! The Grand Traverse ...

In 1968, children’s author Eric Carle published his first book, 1,2,3 to the Zoo. A year later, he published the childhood ...

Erickson noted that the Hidden Ridge Planned Unit Development (PUD), which was approved in 2001, originally included 120 feet ...

With more than 66 percent of U.S. households owning dogs — and most of them, it seems, coming to visit the Traverse City area ...

On Tuesday, June 17, Peninsula Township Supervisor Maura Sanders met with Grand Traverse County Road Commission Board members ...

Old Mission Sign | Jane Boursaw Photo, 2015. Old Mission Gazette is the only digital daily newspaper covering the Old Mission Peninsula, an 18-mile piece of land stretching into Lake Michigan north of ...

SUPPORT YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL NEWSPAPER: I started Old Mission Gazette in 2015 because I felt a calling to provide the Old Mission Peninsula community with local news. After decades of writing for ...

(Editor’s Note: Peninsula Township Supervisor Maura Sanders reports in with updates about short-term rentals, the new fire station, Bluff Road closure, Seven Hills, a community workshop for the ...

Old Mission Gazette is a reader-supported news magazine covering the Old Mission Peninsula, Old Mission Village, Traverse City and Northern Michigan.

Lindsay and Mark McLaughlin own Moondance Flower Farm at 2399 Kroupa Road on the Old Mission Peninsula. In 2023, they moved to the OMP with their son, Levi, and farm dog, Panda. Born and raised ...