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Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is Cup of

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Traverse City for the 12/09/2026.

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I'm Mike,

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and

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as usual, let's get to the weather. By

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the way, happy Friday, and I hope you

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have your coffee handy or have had your

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coffee or whatever the case may be.

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So let's get to the weather. Today rain

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showers mixing with snow after 11AM

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and gradually ending, patchy fog before 10AM,

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temperature falling to around 36 by eleven. It

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It was like 50

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something overnight. It was crazy.

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And a lot of the snow is gone

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and the slush is mostly gone, at least

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where everything was plowed.

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But anyway, it could be breezy with a

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west wind of fifteen, twenty miles an hour

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becoming northwest this morning.

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Winds could gust as high as 40 miles

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an hour. We are under a wind advisory,

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and a chance of precipitation

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is 80% with little or no snow accumulation

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expected.

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And tonight, mostly cloudy with a low around

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26. Northwest winds five to 10 miles per

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hour becoming light and variable this evening.

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And tomorrow, snow showers mainly after

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1PM.

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High near 33. Southwest wind around five miles

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an hour. Chance of precipitation

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is 80%.

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New snow accumulation

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of around two inches. I don't know. Maybe.

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We go through the weekend here,

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Saturday night.

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Snow showers

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low around twenty four,

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about three inches of new snow, they say.

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Sunday, a little bit of snow in the

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morning before 1PM, mostly cloudy with a high

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near 29. North wind around,

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what is it, around 10 miles an hour.

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Not too bad with some gusts up to

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30.

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And, Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a low

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around 23.

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So,

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today, I got a little,

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I guess,

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we'll do an update on Blair Township. I

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don't know if anybody's,

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knows where that is. If you live around

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here, of course, you do. That's, I guess

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the the most of it is Chum's Corners,

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but, Grand is kind of the township seat,

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the little

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village there.

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Mainly just a wide spot in the road

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with a couple of city streets there or

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village c streets,

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off of 31, kinda where the railroad goes,

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goes by.

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I didn't know this, but,

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back in the eighteen seventies,

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Grand was

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was

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founded by James Blackwood,

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and so the town was named Blackwood.

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about,

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I don't know, ten

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ten years later or so, the railroad came

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through, and it got renamed Grand after the

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grandfather

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of of the former governor,

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William Milliken.

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So interesting

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how Grand got its name.

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Anyway, the little town of Grand is,

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you know, it's,

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you know, old, I guess, would be the

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right way to put it. It's not, you

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know, not run down too badly. I mean,

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they do have some house trailers in there

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and and, you know, a lot of rentals,

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in in the actual little village.

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Well, there's a, a couple

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that are

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wanting to bring back the Blackwood name, and

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they wanna redevelop.

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I don't know how big of a lot,

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but they wanna build,

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looks like,

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38

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units.

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Most of them are gonna be, you know,

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duplex type units.

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So, you know, 38 individual units and, you

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know, whatever half that is is in

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in buildings,

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but with the

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intent of making them starter houses,

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you know, for one and two bedroom houses.

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The one bedrooms would be little two story,

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almost call them tiny houses, 500 square feet,

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which, you know, I'm sitting at a 100

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square feet here in my office, and I

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could I could see, you know, a one

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bedroom place,

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you know, for a little starter home and

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people would have the pride of ownership. That

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would be

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actually pretty cool and, you know, revitalize

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at least that little part of

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Grod.

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You know, Grod's always been kind of an

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interesting place.

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When I grew up, you know, I had

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friends,

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at a pig farm over there, and I

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was friends with the people that owned

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Apple Fence. And Apple Fence is still going.

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And, you know, you know, what's considered grand

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is, like, you know, most of the way

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to Interlochen all the way to Chum's Corners,

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but, the actual little village there,

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like County Road 633

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and also Silver Lake Road and all that.

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There's, you know, a few businesses there. There's

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in the summer, there's that little,

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hand cart thing, you know, where you can

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rent a hand cart and run up and

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down the railroad with it. That's kinda interesting.

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And or maybe they're pedal carts. I don't

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know. They put stuff on the tracks and

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you can run it because they don't run

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trains through there anymore

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or at least they haven't in many years.

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Of course, you know, the other day, I

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talked about the, rail

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system they wanna go. I don't know if

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the train would go out that way. I

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think the train would run down to Cadillac

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through the,

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through the other corridor. But, anyway,

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yeah, check it out. I'll have the story

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linked in the show notes over at cupoftraverscity.com.

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Sounds like a ambitious project. It's gonna be

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a, like, a condo association.

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And, there's a nice picture of one of

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the, one bedroom units, and

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it looks rather cozy.

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I think

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it'd be pretty cool. It'd be neat to

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see the old name Blackwood

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come back and,

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you know, maybe maybe they'll consider changing the

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village name back to, Blackwood.

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That'd be interesting.

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But, oh, and and and one other thing

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is there's an old barn there from the

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original,

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the original town.

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It's, I guess, a barn. I don't know.

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It looks like a clapboard shack of some

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sort,

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but, they wanna make that into a little

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coffee shop.

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So that'd be interesting if they preserve that

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building and and, you know, on the property

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and

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yeah. I think it'd be a neat little

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place.

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Two story,

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duplex,

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one bed, one and a half bath,

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that are back to back. Oh, I see

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how that works. So there'd be be one

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duplex, but you'd you'd live in the front

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half or the back half.

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And then they have a little, you know,

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garage hooked to it and everything. So yeah.

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Neat.

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Neat. I wish them luck.

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Anyway, we'll catch you next week. Everybody have

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a great weekend.