Traverse City, MI News Roundup (8/24/25)

Portable PFAS detection tech: Traverse City’s Wave Lumina just secured a $305,000 NSF SBIR phase-one grant and joined the Activate fellowship to build handheld sensors for near-instant, on-site PFAS testing — find out how this could transform water quality monitoring.

Traverse City’s mill and pave: Kicks off today on Fourteenth Street with westbound closures from Cass to Maple for two-inch milling and three-inch paving through Sept. 12, complete with detours and maintained access — find out how to navigate them.

Global Indigenous Art Tour: Over 100 works by Native and Indigenous artists from North and South America, including Traverse City creators, fill all three floors of the Alluvion through Aug. 31 — check out the exhibition.

Therapy Corps volunteers needed: United Way of Northwest Michigan seeks credentialed mental-health pros to provide weekly therapy sessions for kids when the program launches this September — find out how to volunteer.

Celebrating a century in motion: Cone Drive is marking 100 years of innovation in precision drives and gearing up for the next century of manufacturing breakthroughs — find out.

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