Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is Cup of
Traverse City for the 12/09/2026.
I'm Mike,
and
as usual, let's get to the weather. By
the way, happy Friday, and I hope you
have your coffee handy or have had your
coffee or whatever the case may be.
So let's get to the weather. Today rain
showers mixing with snow after 11AM
and gradually ending, patchy fog before 10AM,
temperature falling to around 36 by eleven. It
It was like 50
something overnight. It was crazy.
And a lot of the snow is gone
and the slush is mostly gone, at least
where everything was plowed.
But anyway, it could be breezy with a
west wind of fifteen, twenty miles an hour
becoming northwest this morning.
Winds could gust as high as 40 miles
an hour. We are under a wind advisory,
and a chance of precipitation
is 80% with little or no snow accumulation
expected.
And tonight, mostly cloudy with a low around
26. Northwest winds five to 10 miles per
hour becoming light and variable this evening.
And tomorrow, snow showers mainly after
1PM.
High near 33. Southwest wind around five miles
an hour. Chance of precipitation
is 80%.
New snow accumulation
of around two inches. I don't know. Maybe.
We go through the weekend here,
Saturday night.
Snow showers
low around twenty four,
about three inches of new snow, they say.
Sunday, a little bit of snow in the
morning before 1PM, mostly cloudy with a high
near 29. North wind around,
what is it, around 10 miles an hour.
Not too bad with some gusts up to
30.
And, Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a low
around 23.
So,
today, I got a little,
I guess,
we'll do an update on Blair Township. I
don't know if anybody's,
knows where that is. If you live around
here, of course, you do. That's, I guess
the the most of it is Chum's Corners,
but, Grand is kind of the township seat,
the little
village there.
Mainly just a wide spot in the road
with a couple of city streets there or
village c streets,
off of 31, kinda where the railroad goes,
goes by.
And
I didn't know this, but,
back in the eighteen seventies,
Grand was
was
founded by James Blackwood,
and so the town was named Blackwood.
And
about,
I don't know, ten
ten years later or so, the railroad came
through, and it got renamed Grand after the
grandfather
of of the former governor,
William Milliken.
So interesting
how Grand got its name.
Anyway, the little town of Grand is,
you know, it's,
you know, old, I guess, would be the
right way to put it. It's not, you
know, not run down too badly. I mean,
they do have some house trailers in there
and and, you know, a lot of rentals,
in in the actual little village.
Well, there's a, a couple
that are
wanting to bring back the Blackwood name, and
they wanna redevelop.
I don't know how big of a lot,
but they wanna build,
looks like,
38
units.
Most of them are gonna be, you know,
duplex type units.
So, you know, 38 individual units and, you
know, whatever half that is is in
in buildings,
but with the
intent of making them starter houses,
you know, for one and two bedroom houses.
The one bedrooms would be little two story,
almost call them tiny houses, 500 square feet,
which, you know, I'm sitting at a 100
square feet here in my office, and I
could I could see, you know, a one
bedroom place,
you know, for a little starter home and
people would have the pride of ownership. That
would be
actually pretty cool and, you know, revitalize
at least that little part of
Grod.
You know, Grod's always been kind of an
interesting place.
When I grew up, you know, I had
friends,
at a pig farm over there, and I
was friends with the people that owned
Apple Fence. And Apple Fence is still going.
And, you know, you know, what's considered grand
is, like, you know, most of the way
to Interlochen all the way to Chum's Corners,
but, the actual little village there,
like County Road 633
and
and also Silver Lake Road and all that.
There's, you know, a few businesses there. There's
in the summer, there's that little,
hand cart thing, you know, where you can
rent a hand cart and run up and
down the railroad with it. That's kinda interesting.
And or maybe they're pedal carts. I don't
know. They put stuff on the tracks and
you can run it because they don't run
trains through there anymore
or at least they haven't in many years.
Of course, you know, the other day, I
talked about the, rail
system they wanna go. I don't know if
the train would go out that way. I
think the train would run down to Cadillac
through the,
through the other corridor. But, anyway,
yeah, check it out. I'll have the story
linked in the show notes over at cupoftraverscity.com.
Sounds like a ambitious project. It's gonna be
a, like, a condo association.
And, there's a nice picture of one of
the, one bedroom units, and
it looks rather cozy.
I think
it'd be pretty cool. It'd be neat to
see the old name Blackwood
come back and,
you know, maybe maybe they'll consider changing the
village name back to, Blackwood.
That'd be interesting.
But, oh, and and and one other thing
is there's an old barn there from the
original,
the original town.
It's, I guess, a barn. I don't know.
It looks like a clapboard shack of some
sort,
but, they wanna make that into a little
coffee shop.
So that'd be interesting if they preserve that
building and and, you know, on the property
and
yeah. I think it'd be a neat little
place.
Two story,
duplex,
one bed, one and a half bath,
that are back to back. Oh, I see
how that works. So there'd be be one
duplex, but you'd you'd live in the front
half or the back half.
And then they have a little, you know,
garage hooked to it and everything. So yeah.
Neat.
Neat. I wish them luck.
Anyway, we'll catch you next week. Everybody have
a great weekend.