The Call of the Wild
When you are exploring the Upper Peninsula, whether in vacation mode or simply tooling around your hometown, there is a sense that the “wild”...
Are You Up for an Amazing Adventure? Apply for Youth Tour 2023!
Applications for Youth Tour are open until February 28, 2023. If selected, you can travel to Washington, D.C., from June 14 - 18, 2023,...
Slow Down, Go Around Roadside Utility Workers
Summer travel, which lines up so neatly with utility construction and maintenance season, is just around the corner.
And Joe McElroy, safety director for the...
Suitcases Packed With Purpose
The recent Partners for Power team reached their goal to build an electric line extension in Guatemala that changed the lives of about 54 families...
Adventures For Rural Veterans – Express Interest By Feb. 28
As far as Michigan’s electric cooperatives are concerned, there should be “No Barriers” to veterans with disabilities.
That’s the name—and the idea—behind Co-Bank’s No Barriers...
Growing A Business Organically: Cultured Kombucha Co.
When Courtney Lorenz first tried her hand at brewing kombucha, an effervescent fermented drink of sweetened tea that is made from cultures of bacteria...
Michigan Co-ops Inspire Tomorrow’s Leaders Today With Youth Tour 2017
Designed to inspire the leaders of tomorrow, Youth Tour teaches the brightest students of Michigan about their past—and helps equip them with the skills...
Honoring Veterans One Cane At A Time
Guest writer: Jim Carpenter, Line Superintendent at Cherryland Electric Cooperative
The idea came about in 2004 when Jack Nitz of Tulsa, OK, watched a news...
Sunken Treasure
It was on a volunteer trip to Jamaica that Jennifer Dowker saw her first glass-bottom boat. Aside from being captivated by floating above sea...
Calling All ArtPrize Artists in Michigan!
We would like to spotlight Michigan artists who participated in 2014, or are entering the 2015 ArtPrize® competition, in the July/August issue of Country...
















