2015 will be the year of biggest change ever in the life of Cherry Republic! It’s going to be an exciting ride, and we are inviting our customers and friends to come along by sharing a peek at some of these major projects in a series of posts in the coming weeks. This first one is […]
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Setting off on the annual hike to school Somehow, the stars aligned to make the whimsical and uniting annual Sutherland family walk to school happen in the middle of winter. We hiked on Tuesday and planned to take a shortcut across Big Glen Lake. I excitedly thought we would set a new record time for this seven-mile […]
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Cherry Republic is excited to share one of the most meaningful practices of the year: Our month of giving. We did it last year. And the year before. Our donations come from our 1% Off the Top program where one cent of every dollar we make is put aside for protecting and improving the quality of […]
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Ahhh, the Great Hall is so peaceful this Wednesday morning while all that Christmas rush is happening in other parts of Cherry Republic. A brief thaw over the last week had us wondering if we’d miss out on a white Christmas this year. The snow melted, and even the ice on Little Glen – which […]
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As we have been driving back and forth between our Glen Arbor HQ and our Empire Warehouse fulfilling orders, our staff has been driving by perfect ice on Little Glen Lake. The ice has been smooth as glass and hard as diamonds across the entire lake. We knew it wouldn’t be thick, but we thought […]
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Last summer, a few of us at Cherry Republic made an exciting archeological discovery within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A day that began with young boys impersonating Indiana Jones (searching for arrowheads while keeping an eye out for the Arch of the Covenant), turned into a plot that would excite Indiana Jones himself. Just as we were preparing […]
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Fall colors surrounding the red barn at the Charles Olsen Farm in Port Oneida. It’s hard for us to pick a favorite time of year up north in the Republic. But if you forced us to, we’d have to say “fall.” It’s so peaceful. The bustling crowds of summer have returned home and life up north […]
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Breaking trail for the Bay to Bay Hiking and Kayaking Trail. Here Bob and the team hike through the dunes in Platte Bay with Empire Bluffs and Sleeping Bear Point in the distance. It’s an epic hike. From south to north across the entire Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, hiking the Bay to Bay Trail […]
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Just one of many amazing Sleeping Bear Dune National Lakeshore views that we will enjoy during the hike. A new hiking trail is coming to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It’s called the Bay to Bay Trail, and it will run the length of the park, from Platte Bay at the south end to […]
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Iceland was incredible. It’s such a beautiful place and Steph and I were thrilled to be able to bring the boys to this remarkable country. It was a little ironic though. We went to Iceland to visit the Arctic Circle, to climb on glaciers, and to hike snow-capped mountains. But in the end, we spent most […]
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Jars of Cherry Republic Montmorency Preserves Nouveau, on the shelves two days after being picked. We created this jam so fast, we outdid the labels! We needed to have them printed ahead of time and we were conservative on the hang-tag. We said picked on 8/1 and put on the store shelves on 8/6. But the actual […]
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Bob greeting guests at the 25th Anniversary Weekend. (Photo: Lowell Black) Wow, what a busy 25th anniversary weekend! I woke up early on Friday morning to go on WTCM radio with Ron Jolly in the morning. I was nervous – I don’t feel that I am a good fast-talking radio interviewee. But this station helped me […]
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