“His smile,” said Tamara Williams, choir director at Traverse City Central High School. “His smile and his energy.” Friends and teachers reminiscing about this Traverse City student. Drake Tester ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The music started but no one moved. All held hands and shared a circular embrace, crying while their routine’s music played in its entirety — closing the season and an era. Drake ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- A Traverse City teen who recently died unexpectedly is being honored by his classmates. Drake Tester, 16, ran track at Traverse City Central High School and now his ...

It’s a phrase now shared between students in Central High School’s choir program as students and staff struggle to make sense of a recent death that continues to rattle those closest to Drake Tester.