Basketball Madness: ‘Floored’ By Michigan Companies
Tom Izzo surveys the basketball court in Michigan State University’s Breslin Center and still relishes what that court represents. Fifteen years earlier, Izzo led...
Legacy Along The Lake: St. Julian Wine Co.
When Mariano Meconi moved The Meconi Wine Company, founded in 1921 in Canada, to Detroit after the repeal of Prohibition in 1923, he couldn’t...
O Chrismas Tree: Michigan’s Unsuspecting Big Business
The Christmas season is bursting with joy, hope, and a healthy dose of nostalgia. We take it in through all our senses—the sight of...
Michigan Co-op Students Tour D.C.
Twenty-two high school students representing six Michigan electric co-ops recently joined more than 1,600 other youth from across the country at the National Rural...
Meet Our Deer Blind Contest Winners
From hideouts that resemble a cozy cottage (complete with area rug) to basic shelters, we received more than 60 entries in our Country Lines...
Celebrated Art May Be As Close As Your Post Office
A busy post office isn’t where you’d expect to see wall murals and other artwork, but if the building was constructed during the 1930s...
U.P. Bakers Take The Cake
Joe Heck of Huron Mountain Bakery (Marquette and Ishpeming) and Marybeth Kurtz of Midtown Bakery & Café (Negaunee) are still fresh off the airing...
Explore Cherry Point Farm & Market
Cherry Point Farm and Market in Oceana County is as deliciously tart and sweet as the cherries it produces, as imaginative and welcoming as...
Art On Ice
When she was younger, Stephanie Miller wanted a career in education—art, to be exact. She never became an art teacher, but she most definitely...
Spotlight On Co-op Entrepreneurs
Michigan Country Lines is proud to feature entrepreneurial movers and shakers from co-op territory. Click through to meet entrepreneurs from eight different businesses (listed...













