COTC - 30 Dec 2025 - Francisco’s Bayside

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Good morning, Northern Michigan.

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This is Cup of Traverse City for the

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12/30/2025,

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and it's the 2025.

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Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, as if you

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didn't already know that.

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But,

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anyway,

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let's get to the weather. Of course, it

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snowed a lot yesterday.

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Today, snow showers likely mainly after 1PM, cloudy

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with a high near 22, and

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northwest wind 10 to 15 miles

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an hour, and precipitation

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is 70%

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possible. Total daytime accumulation

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around an inch possible. I think that's mostly,

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lake effects. So, you know, your mileage may

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vary as they say.

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Tonight, snow showers, steady temperature around 20, northwest

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wind five to 10, chance precipitation

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is 90%, new snow accumulation of around two

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inches. Again, it's lake effect, so you may

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get zero and you might get a foot.

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You know how that goes.

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And, tomorrow snow showers high near 22 northwest

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wind 10 to 15 miles an hour with

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gusts as high as 30.

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Now that's gonna be blowing stuff around, but,

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new snow about an inch

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possible. But, of course, you know, in the

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drifting areas, it's, you know, is what it

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is. It's Traverse City or Northern Michigan

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or yeah. Whatever.

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Alright.

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Story I picked out today was, something I

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ran across

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just kinda accidentally.

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I'm sure you've heard of Francisco's

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market in Delhi.

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They're up at the top of Green Hill.

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Of course, people don't call it Green Hill

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anymore, but, Silver Lake Road, that big hill,

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you know, heading out of town towards,

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Long Lake.

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And

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you've got a little shopping center at the

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top of the hill there kinda where the

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there's a hardware store, kitty corner across the

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road. There's a little Mexican

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place that used to be Green Hill grocery.

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Okay. Now I'm getting into history here.

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But,

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that shopping center, the the first half of

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the building is Francisco's

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market in Deli.

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And, you know, they have all the all

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the good stuff, you know, they got a

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a deli and

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they got, you know,

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sandwiches and all the all the good stuff,

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you know, meatballs, love the meatballs.

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But, anyway, so Francisco's

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is expanding.

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They're gonna open a store on the East

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Side.

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But when I say open a store, they're

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not really opening a store. They're sort of

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taking over Bayside Market.

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That's the

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the little place there kinda near the,

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head near the state park,

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on the East Side of the state park.

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And next door is that,

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I call it a Mexican place, but it's

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not.

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Now I'm just drawing a blank, but there's

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a restaurant right next door.

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Used to be GT's Billiard Hall,

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for those of you that have been around

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here a while.

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But, anyway, Francisco's

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is expanding

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with the second location on the East Side

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Of Traverse City.

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And, you know, I don't know if it's

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a takeover or a partnership

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or what. They call it a partnership with

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two friends,

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identified as Dan and Kim. So I don't

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know who Dan and Kim are, but,

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they're gonna, you know, keep what Bayside has.

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You know, they have seafood was kind of

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their thing. You know, they have,

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you know, shrimp and

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and lobsters

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and crab legs and, you know, also kind

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of a full deli sorta menu and and,

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of course, they're a liquor store and beer

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store and all that. So

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but, anyway,

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they also,

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they're also the camp store for the state

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park, which is kinda interesting. They have one

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little section that has, you know, like RV

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stuff.

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that's,

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you know, they must have partnered with the

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with the state park. But,

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yeah. So that's gonna be interesting having, Francisco's

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on this side of town. They're just renaming

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it slightly. It's gonna be called

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Francisco's

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Bayside.

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So

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I don't know if they're doing any renovations

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just yet.

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Didn't look any different when I drove by

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there the other day. I'd because I didn't

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know anything about it.

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But,

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yeah, it's just another

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another local business doing their thing. And, you

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know, Francisco's up on the hill there

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is a pretty

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pretty nice place.

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And, you know, when I used to eat

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such things, they have really good no bake

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cookies.

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That's kind of what I would do.

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Go out

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to mom's and do, do snow blowing. And

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then on the way home, I'd stop at

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Francisco's and get a no bake cookie as

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my treat.

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But

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I'm doing better not doing that.

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Francisco's,

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I don't know if they started in interlocking

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or if

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or what the deal is, but I do

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remember them being in interlocking.

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There's that little party store, I call it

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a party store,

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that kind of looks like a pole barn

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that's just before you get to the music

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camp.

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They're in Interlochen

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on

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Matty Highway or whatever they call it, M

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137

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or I don't remember. They keep changing the

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name of that. I think it's called Matty

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Parkway or something now.

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But,

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anyway, that that has not you know, that's

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not called Francisco's

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now.

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It's,

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it's something else, but they still have the

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same sort of stuff

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in there.

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But, anyway, they opened that store on the

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on the top of the hill there probably

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ten years ago, maybe a little longer than

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that.

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And, they said now they're expanding

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on the East Side.

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I live on the East Side, so maybe

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I'll have to frequent them a little more

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frequently,

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if that's, the way to put that. Anyway,

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be safe out there. Drive carefully, and we

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will catch you tomorrow.