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TRAVERSE CITY — Does a library need to have books to be a library? Although historically a simple answer, libraries in the Traverse City region are offering an alternative. The Norte Clubhouse is a nonprofit organization that operates a bike library, where kids can borrow and ride bikes. Tyler Wituszynski is the bike librarian. He said that the library has more than 900 bikes checked out to the community.

TRAVERSE CITY — False distress calls, usually unintentional, can stress rescue systems. The U.S. Coast Guard has received 187 false distress calls since October 2025, with three confirmed to be intentionally fake, according to a USCG statement. The penalty for making an intentional false call can be up to 10 years in prison or a fine Gregory Grubbs works in the Great Lakes region for the US Coast Guard. Grubbs prefaced that false calls in general weren’t bad or malicious.